I've joined the ranks of the babes over at Outside the Beltway.
Thanks for the nomination, Bill!
It's good to be in the company of all the other techno-"chicks"!
My friend Pat McCurdy, a very successful musician in Milwaukee and Chicago, has a song called, "Lookin' at Chicks" - a ridiculous song, hilarious in its implications, with a rather bluesy jazzy beat. You can see the lyrics over here. Anyway, he says during his shows, "And remember, ladies, if there are any feminists out there - I spell chicks with a Y."
CHYX.
HAHA. Meanwhile, the song itself would be deemed so offensive to any rigid humorless feminist worthy of the name (I'm not one of those people, obviously) - The song is about a man's addiction to pornography, basically, and staring at women, all day long, every day - but then, as a PANDER to "feminists", Pat spells "chicks" - already considered offensive by certain groups who have no sense of humor - with a Y!!
I don't know - that's my kind of sense of humor. It makes no sense in an etiological way whatsoever.
The man made me laugh, I'll tell ya. I heard him say that stupid joke 50 times probably, and it made me laugh every time.
But then again, I'm simple-minded and relatively easy to please.
Anyway:
Nice to be one of the Blog Chyx. Thanks!
Additional comment: Oh, and I'm the jackass who Trackbacked the post on Outside the Beltway 5,000 times. I didn't mean to.
You know what? I *use* that joke all the time! I'll occasionally say, 'so there was this chyck yadda yadda yadda' and then as I catch myself using the word, excuse myself by saying that I spell it with a 'y'.
Confession: I don't give credit to Pat. I'm hopeful that he just considers it, you know, public domain at this point. It's really disappointing when someone *doesn't* get it though. It's sort of a litmus test for me, actually. :-)
Ann Marie
"lookin' at chyx" is DEFinitely "public domain".
Posted by: red at October 28, 2003 2:15 PM