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January 06, 2006
you want funny?
Ferry across the Wisconsin River
As I travelled around the blogoshere this morning waiting for my students to arrive in their usual delightful mood, my mathematical mind unconsciously began to sort the blogs I found into some sort of esoteric and barely understandable table. The kind that only real eggheads with years of math science education padding their resume are able to read. This is what I came up:
1. funny 2. not funny
I don’t do funny. If you want funny try this one. Don’t get me wrong, I like funny but it’s not my style. Funny is for younger guys. They are still rebelling against the “man”, full of righteous indignation with fire in their bellies. Young Turks that can still remember when they were dragged into the principal’s office and forced to apologize for a school newspaper article that was dripping with sarcasm and critical of the principal’s stupid rules. Yes Steven John, I am talking about you.
I lost my biting sarcasm a long time ago or most of it anyway. It peaked at thirty five during my mid-life crisis when I bought a Honda 750 and nearly killed myself. It has been dwindling ever since. Now nothing surprises or shocks me except the wrinkled old man that keeps staring back at me in the morning. Now I live to embarrass my children. It is something I am very good at - a natural.
Posted by roadapples at January 6, 2006 02:07 PM
But this is funny in its own non-funny way.
Posted by: colleen at January 9, 2006 12:17 PM
Or if not funny, at least a wry observation...
Posted by: Jennifer at January 9, 2006 05:04 PM
you know, embarassing their children is a talent of most parents. or maybe its a joy.
the words are probably interchangeable.
Posted by: Lily at February 12, 2006 09:26 PM
