Sunday, January 19, 2014

Making a note in my phrase book...

I am going to change the expression I use for describing bemused, uncomprehending wonderment from "like monkeys staring at a monolith" to "like Cletii staring at a clearing barrel."
"I hate to interrupt your smoke break there, Jasper, but I need to use that there sand barrel in yore sittin' bench so's I can gas up my heater."
Fortunately it was too cold at this show to need to shoo any loiterers off the clearing barrels, at least on Saturday.
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7 comments:

  1. TBeck7:28 PM, January 19, 2014

    Technically, they were apes, not monkeys.

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  2. Tam7:37 PM, January 19, 2014

    Alliteration afore accuracy.

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  3. Steve Skubinna7:39 PM, January 19, 2014

    Probably a more apt term would be "hominids."

    Sorry Tam, what was that you muttered about your Indian name?

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  4. The Jack8:49 PM, January 19, 2014

    I dunno about folk usin' it as a bench, but when I came in on this Sunday morn' I fount it stuffed with pop bottles and a couple coffee cups stacked on it.

    Still used it as a safe direction. Not like that crap would have hurt the sand.

    But I do pity the maintainer.

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  5. Kristophr10:21 PM, January 19, 2014

    ( Stamps one foot on ground while squatting and howling in fear, then reaches out to touch the mysterious barrel ... )

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  6. Old NFO12:26 AM, January 20, 2014

    Ouch... :-)

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  7. leaddog9:54 AM, January 20, 2014

    Oh, with all the sand and what not, I thought it was a large ashtray. My bad. ;P

    (ducks and runs)

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