Little book retired
Cats: blogs, words|Another little book has reached its last page.
I carry these leather-bound notebooks around everywhere to record mental ephemera of every description.
My little book contains grocery lists, movie recommendations, phone numbers, notes taken from interesting radio documentaries, jokes told to me, music recommendations, books I should (but probably won’t) read, strange thoughts, profound thoughts of others (Einstein, Goethe, Newton, my brother) and words that strike me funny or interesting.
As part of the 100-things meme challenge issued by Bad Tempered Zombie, here are a few of the things I found in my 2007 little book. Long-time GT readers may have seen some of these before.
1. ZomCom – comedy movie with zombies (for you BTZ)
2. Setjetters - people who go places to see where the movie was made.
3. Mancation – holiday for the boys
4. To be Plutoed – to be downgraded or demoted as Pluto was when it ceased to be a proper planet.
5. Euphemism of the year – extraordinary rendition, which is a nice way of saying “outsourcing torture.”
6. Overused words - core values, robust, community, faith
7. Stupid things – Size 0 in Women’s clothing
8. Musical about rock group Queen – Bohemian Crapsody. And it truly was crap. See my review.
9. My brother’s description for skinny girls – “she’s two pounds over organ failure.”
10.My brother’s description of his partner’s grey mini van - the “iron lung”
11. My brother’s observation of Sound of Music Mother Superior’s accent when she is speaking to Maria about her conflict between her vows to the church and her love for Von Trapp: “What is it you can’t face?” sounds like “What is it you cunt face?”
12. Gunt- a hybrid word describing the belly roll below the belt.
13. Toronto 401 freeway lingo - A buck twenty won’t even buy you the middle lane any more.
14. My brother’s partner’s description of someone we know – She can beat the shit out of a junk yard dog and go for lunch afterwords
15. A little joke: A bear walks into a bar and goes up to the bartender:
Bear: “I’ll have a ………………………………….. beer.”
Bartender: “Sure by why the long pause”
16. Description of someone who thinks they are too good: “That’s someone who thinks their shit don’t stink”
17. Another little joke: A duck walks into a bar and asks for a beer
Bartender: How do you want to pay for that?
Duck: Just put it on my bill
18. My brother’s philosophy on a girl’s “girlfriends”: Who needs sistas when you can have gay men.
19. More overused words - dot, freedom, entitlement.
20. Another little joke: A horse goes into a bar and asks the bartender for a drink
Bartender: Sure, but why the long face.
BTZ 100-things count = 20
BTZ 100-things total = 35
January 31st, 2008 at 7:29 am
I have a wee book too. But I can never find it, because I take it out to write something down, or look something up, and then never put it back. And, my entries are not as interesting as yours. Mostly athletic shoes I want to try on at the sporting good store, recepies I’ll probably never cook, and books that I won’t read.
January 31st, 2008 at 8:51 am
THAT is why I love your little book! Got a great laugh from reading that post. I had forgotten the one about Sista’s and Gay men! We will have after school drinks when said brother comes home next month and break in your new book!
Nanc
January 31st, 2008 at 9:54 am
Hey GT,
So fun!!! I had forgotten about some of these. You’ll have to come to the annual Blueberry Gunt weekend again this summer so we can break in that new book. I will get the missus working on few new ones as well.
Did I tell you about the public pool we swam in? It was busy, the water was hot and smelly and I was elbowed in the head three time before I even made it past my waist. It’s how I imagined swimming in Calcutta!
Over and out!
AB
January 31st, 2008 at 10:21 am
Mother Superior saying: “What is it, you cuntface?” was actually the greeting on my home phone for a couple of years!
January 31st, 2008 at 11:13 am
MdG, my little book has all that stuff in it too. And I lose mine occasionally too.
Nanc, yes drinks and please be thinking of more things for my new little book.
BTW, everyone, Anne Boone is the alias of the brother and source of so much-little book content. We’ll call the weekend Blueberry Gunt II
Jacy, I wish I’d phoned you when that was your message. I wish I’d known you when that was your message.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:23 pm
You have to WARN me before you go posting things like # 11! Don’t you know how much it hurts to shoot coffee out of your nose? Thank christ I wasn’t eating carrots.
Awww, and bless you for ZomCom. I actually use RomZomCom quite a bit myself (a romantic comedy, with zombies).
January 31st, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I’m glad you weren’t eating watermelons BB.
Funnily enough RomCom was the next one down in my little book… didn’t think to combine them.
January 31st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I need a little book. I think it’s a wonderful idea.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I think I need a little book. I have a bad habit of writing things down on tiny little post-its then having little piles of post-its everywhere. I tried to be all high tech and bought a cheap PDA, but it eats batteries like crazy and if the batteries die you lose everything in there. Low tech is the way to go.
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:03 am
H n P, you could always post your post-it notes in a little book. I’ve done that.
Chelene, it’s a great way to record the stuff that you probably wouldn’t remember otherwise. Then look back.
February 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 am
Number 11 will forever be etched in the notebook of my brain. Hilarious. Because I’m 12.