I’ve slackassed Terri’s meme up until now, so by now everyone I know has already been tagged. But here’s my quote-unquote contribution. I hope it’s not cheating that two of them are NPR-related.
- Whenever I hear business correspondent Jack Speer’s name mentioned, I automatically think, “Jack Speer, kick in the rear.”
- And every time I hear the “Morning Edition” anchor mention Capitol Hill reporter Brian Naylor’s name, I can’t prevent the voice in my head from exhorting, “Nail her, Brian, nail her!”
- I prefer to sleep with a fan on, even in the winter.
- For something like a decade, when I shaved under my arms each morning, I imagined the razor slipping and slicing open my eyeball.
- In sixth grade, my best friend and I built an Amityville Horror Dollhouse diorama, complete with little plastic flies on the walls.
- I’ve been hit on by clowns not once, but twice in my life. The first was an attempted pick-up at the Garment District, thwarted by my favorite Villain. The second was far creepier: a drunk clown with peeling face paint and foul breath accosted me at The Middle East while I was waiting in line for the restroom during the Central Square World’s Fair. He told me he had a daughter about my age, then asked if I’d like to have a drink with him at his place.
Terri says:
January 26th, 2007 at 8:38 am ESTVisit Terri
Scary!!! Next time I’m with you and I see a clown I’m going to throw myself between you and said clown!!
NPR related: I always call it the Nipper.
Janet says:
January 26th, 2007 at 9:18 pm ESTVisit Janet
Maybe it’s weird or maybe it’s just TMI or both, but I will fess to never having even considered shaving my underarms daily. And a good thing too, I guess - eyeball slicing is really, really gross and I don’t need to be contemplating it in the morning.
Ezra says:
January 26th, 2007 at 10:05 pm ESTVisit Ezra
Eyeball slicing: too much Un Chien Andalou for you.
Editrix says:
January 26th, 2007 at 11:37 pm ESTVisit Editrix
I’m sure that seeing that Buñuel in a film-studies class in college probably had more of a lasting impact than I’d care to admit. I certainly never aspired to growing up to be a debaser, but I’m also strangely subject to some oddball brain-mandated thoughts that have punctuated my life, however much they vex me.
I considered mentioning the first conscious thought that accompanied my alarm-clock-prompted awakening for at least a couple of years, back when I lived in Princeton: “Welcome to the rat race.” If I’d been more clever, I might have thought “What fresh hell is this?” when I heard the alarm blare, but a grudging, cynical acceptance of my unhappy life followed by unwelcome fantasies of eyeball slashage were the order of the day.
2fs says:
January 27th, 2007 at 7:38 pm ESTVisit 2fs
So what kind of guy thinks “I have a daughter about your age” is an effective pickup line? Ah - wait, you’ve already answered that.
Paula says:
February 5th, 2007 at 12:17 pm ESTVisit Paula
This post has done nothing to alleviate my dislike of clowns.