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Nobody ever wants to study Canadian.
File this under "Kids Say the Darndest Things":
On the final day of the NKU World Languages Camp, we had a pageant day in which all of the language groups got to give a presentation to all of the other language groups. This year we had a grand total of four different Spanish groups, which was twice as many groups as the other languages had.
There was on particular student in my Japanese group who was only ten years old and prone to often saying completely awesome things right out of the blue. On the pageant day he did not disappoint. Halfway through the presentation from the third Spanish group, he turned to me and asked, "Why are there so many Spanish groups?"
"That's because a lot of people wanted to study Spanish this year," I told him.
He pondered this for a moment, then said to me, "That makes sense, I guess. Since nobody ever wants to study Canadian and Spanish is the next closest country to us."
Bless his heart. I'm going to miss this kid so much.
Next, file this under "Dads Say the Darndest Things":
So my dad is not a native English speaker, which means that he is still occasionally prone to mixing up his English idioms when he speaks. We still make fun of him for this one time that, after a particularly gluttonous meal, he declared to me and my sister, "I'm stuffed like a pork!" For many years I thought that nothing could ever top "I'm stuffed like a pork". Well, until yesterday, that is.
My dad and my stepmom came to visit me, and while we were having lunch together, my dad decided to tell me a story about his latest and greatest harrowing adventure being mistreated by United Airlines employees at O'Hare International. Halfway through this story, in order to convey that he had been getting angrier and angrier, my dad said, "And by that time I had really got my mustard up--"
My stepmom and I started laughing. So he stopped and said, "What?"
"Dander," my stepmom corrected him. "You mean they got your dander up."
"Oh, okay," my Dad said. Then literally two minutes later, he said again: "And I didn't mean to be rude, but they kept raising my mustard so I wasn't about to back down, you know?"
And then I just started laughing again. I mean, I can understand exactly where I'm stuffed like a pork came from, as that's a very common mistake for non-native speakers to make. But where on Earth is this mustard thing coming from, and how did it even get into my dad's vocabulary in the first place?! It's a total mystery to me.
Next, file this under "Things I Wish I Had Paid More Attention To When I Was A Little Girl":
Recently I've been on an 80's music video binge. And I know that the art of the music video really didn't start to take off until the late 80's, but I had forgotten how often the best music videos of the early 80's often had absolutely nothing to do with the songs that they were made for. (Unless you believe that "Total Eclipse of the Heart" actually is a song about a sexually frustrated pedophile teacher who wants to diddle Catholic school boys, I guess.) But this weekend I had the joy of rediscovering what is absolutely my all-time favorite 80's music video that in no way shape or form even remotely comes close to matching the song that it's made for:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66aqcOsnP2E
Okay, so embedding is disabled for that particular video, but just in case you can't see it and/or don't want to click: That is the music video in which PAT BENATAR FIGHTS NAZIS.
Yes, really.
So flist, do you have any favorite epic music videos in which the video doesn't particularly match the song?
On the final day of the NKU World Languages Camp, we had a pageant day in which all of the language groups got to give a presentation to all of the other language groups. This year we had a grand total of four different Spanish groups, which was twice as many groups as the other languages had.
There was on particular student in my Japanese group who was only ten years old and prone to often saying completely awesome things right out of the blue. On the pageant day he did not disappoint. Halfway through the presentation from the third Spanish group, he turned to me and asked, "Why are there so many Spanish groups?"
"That's because a lot of people wanted to study Spanish this year," I told him.
He pondered this for a moment, then said to me, "That makes sense, I guess. Since nobody ever wants to study Canadian and Spanish is the next closest country to us."
Bless his heart. I'm going to miss this kid so much.
Next, file this under "Dads Say the Darndest Things":
So my dad is not a native English speaker, which means that he is still occasionally prone to mixing up his English idioms when he speaks. We still make fun of him for this one time that, after a particularly gluttonous meal, he declared to me and my sister, "I'm stuffed like a pork!" For many years I thought that nothing could ever top "I'm stuffed like a pork". Well, until yesterday, that is.
My dad and my stepmom came to visit me, and while we were having lunch together, my dad decided to tell me a story about his latest and greatest harrowing adventure being mistreated by United Airlines employees at O'Hare International. Halfway through this story, in order to convey that he had been getting angrier and angrier, my dad said, "And by that time I had really got my mustard up--"
My stepmom and I started laughing. So he stopped and said, "What?"
"Dander," my stepmom corrected him. "You mean they got your dander up."
"Oh, okay," my Dad said. Then literally two minutes later, he said again: "And I didn't mean to be rude, but they kept raising my mustard so I wasn't about to back down, you know?"
And then I just started laughing again. I mean, I can understand exactly where I'm stuffed like a pork came from, as that's a very common mistake for non-native speakers to make. But where on Earth is this mustard thing coming from, and how did it even get into my dad's vocabulary in the first place?! It's a total mystery to me.
Next, file this under "Things I Wish I Had Paid More Attention To When I Was A Little Girl":
Recently I've been on an 80's music video binge. And I know that the art of the music video really didn't start to take off until the late 80's, but I had forgotten how often the best music videos of the early 80's often had absolutely nothing to do with the songs that they were made for. (Unless you believe that "Total Eclipse of the Heart" actually is a song about a sexually frustrated pedophile teacher who wants to diddle Catholic school boys, I guess.) But this weekend I had the joy of rediscovering what is absolutely my all-time favorite 80's music video that in no way shape or form even remotely comes close to matching the song that it's made for:
Okay, so embedding is disabled for that particular video, but just in case you can't see it and/or don't want to click: That is the music video in which PAT BENATAR FIGHTS NAZIS.
Yes, really.
So flist, do you have any favorite epic music videos in which the video doesn't particularly match the song?