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My brother and I used to get a kick out of watching “Sesame Street” (pronouced ZEE-SOME Shtraass-A) in German when we lived over there as kids. There was this one skit, I don’t even remember what it was about, where one of the characters just kept nodding their head and saying “Genau, genau” (“exactly, exactly,,,”) and we were literally in stitches. Even to this day we can make faces at each other and say “genau…genau” and we’ll both be in tears. It’s so stupid, but I don’t care.
“Genau, genau…”
HA!!!!!
Sheila,
And it has to be said in just the precise way…”GA-now. GA-now.” With the faceless Muppet saying it while he knods his head wearing a mysteriously long jacket. I don’t even know if that memory is correct. But it’s damn sure fun.
//mysteriously long jacket// HA!!!
ZEE-SOME Shtraass-A
love it! It’s universal!
The next time I see you in person, the first words I am going to say to you are “ZEE-SOME Shtraass-A.”
Zink of ze way Werner Herzog voold haf sed it wiss zat accent you remember from ze Grizzly Mann film.
when do i get to meet Emily in person????????????????????
The moment I have the pleasure of meeting mitchell in person!
Ze Grizzly Man film haunts me to zis day.
When you two meet (as really someday you must), please do as Maria and Luis suggest and “just say HOLA … you just say HOLA …”
I almost wore my Cookie Monster T-shirt to school today, then I remembered I have a HUGE meeting with a bunch of really grown up people about placement for next year for a child in my class. Can’t you just see it? (Me in a Cookie Monster shirt) “As you can see, the data supports your child continuing on to first grade next year, but support services are surely going to be continued…”
Umm…maybe Cookie will have to wait until Monday.
PS I have that shirt to support his Cookie habit vs. Vegetables. We have this inane “Healthy Schools” policy which absolutely flips out if practically mention SUGAR (like we are giving the kids crack cocaine) and we can’t do cupcakes at birthdays. There isn’t even soda in the teacher’s room!!!
Beth – hahahahaha you giving a serious speech in the Cookie Monster Tshirt … hahaha!
Kinda like you bitching out those obnoxious guys at the Halloween party – and you were in full clown makeup.
Beth – so what do you do for birthdays? Little bowls of salad?
Jayne – just the thought of that makes me want to cry. Not that I like cake, you understand … it’s just the principle of the thing!
You don’t like cake!!??
I know! It’s a BIRTHDAY! There SHOULD be sugar!! This happens with everything – the pendulum swings WAY too far to one side, and so instead of just eating healthy the majority of the time and having a cupcake or whatever as a TREAT, now it’s just NO SUGAR FOR YOU! It’s crazy. And it will spark a rebellion. There’ll be kids huddled together by the see-saw, trading pokemon cards for ziploc bags of twinkies and ring dings…desperate healthy children trying to sell their tabbouleh salads so they can buy a measley chocolate chip cookie. I’m telling you. This is just wrong.
Sorry. Didn’t mean to get all worked up. I just haven’t had my donut yet this morning and I’m a bit edgy. :)
David – HA!!!
The neverending refrain.
Jayne:
//desperate healthy children trying to sell their tabbouleh salads so they can buy a measley chocolate chip cookie.//
hahahahaha Please write a short story about this apocalyptic situation. No needles in the teeth though, please.
Also, Jayne – I love that you’re edgy because you haven’t had your sugar. In this context, it’s hysterical. So you’re railing about children secretly swapping rice cakes for ding-dongs – because you basically need your donut. I love it. Get some sugar in you, woman!!
I think I’m past the needles in the teeth phase. Just the ban on sugar is horror enough, I think.
Sheila – hahahahaha – sugar and caffeine – the elixers of life!
Absolutely!
No, there is no birthday salad. There is just supposed to be “stickers” or “pencils” or other such nonsense, if people so choose. Which I think is RIDICULOUS, because that is WAY more expensive than a cake mix and a can of frosting. And BORING! We are supposed to be swaying the parents from food, and encouraging non-food celebrations. One of my mom’s made homemade pretzels that spelled “Happy Birthday”, and another brought in cut up pieces of watermelon. So there. I LIKE celebrating with food! And I will wear Cookie Monster next week, and sing C is for COOKIE. Cookies with SUGAR! ReFINED WHITE SUGAR and BLEACHED FLOUR!!! OH YEA!!