Monday, October 10, 2005

concerning our new pull-up bar

"No, you've got a prop. That's not mime. This is mime." [mimics swinging along, exaggerating all hand movements to demonstrate either 'I'm grabbing a bar' or 'I think you're a moron'--maybe both.]
"Purist. Who knew you'd be a purist about mime?"
"Dude, how long have you been with me? Three years? Long enough to know I'm a purist about everything."
"I know, but--dear god, woman, mime! Surely you draw the line somewhere, and I would have thought it was this side of mime!"

It's funny, he doesn't usually get so worked up about things.

9 comments:

Adam said...

Often when navigating a difficult conversation in a relationship, one has to be careful about stepping on a proverbial landmime.

Anonymous said...

i was coming by to give you a link to a blog i like. and i run into mime. man, i don't even know what to say.

mime. you're miming mime in order to win an argument. purity is only more important than mime in the sense that it separates us from mime.

and adam's awful pun. unclean.

i think i need to go perform some ablutions.

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

mr. pixie

pol said...

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pol said...

i just mimed giving adam the finger....

and al...ummm...dude i don't know what to say...if she starts to swing a mime bat/axe/lead pipe - i'd still duck...

pol said...

she can be scary

Anonymous said...

http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?dude0001.wav=dude

Main Entry: dude
Pronunciation: 'düd also 'dyüd
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
1 : a man extremely fastidious in dress and manner : DANDY
2 : a city dweller unfamiliar with life on the range; especially : an Easterner in the West
3 : FELLOW, GUY
- dud·ish /'d(y)üd-ish/ adjective
- dud·ish·ly adverb

Main Entry: dude
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): dud·ed; dud·ing
: DRESS UP -- usually used with up

from http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary


Dude:
1883, "fastidious man," New York City slang of unknown origin. The vogue word of 1883, originally used in ref. to the devotees of the "aesthetic" craze, later applied to city slickers, especially Easterners vacationing in the West (dude ranch first recorded 1921). Surfer slang application to any male is first recorded c.1970. Female form dudine (1883) has precedence over dudess (1885).

from http://www.etymonline.com

'col said...

my work here is done.

pol said...

i don't get it...

Adam said...

celebrate the new gender-free, virtually meaningless definition of "dude", dude.