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cultural understanding, Dennys, Feds, fun with foreigners, fun with stereotypes, homosexuality, Joey Park, racism, South Korea, Tardsie's True-Ass Tales
By Tardsie
In which we strive for greater cross-cultural understanding.
Disclaimer: This video contains a slur, uttered without any venom. It also contains several words from a foreign language depicted as meaning something other than what they actually do, and that’s probably racist. You’ve been warned.
If you haven’t already, check out Part I.
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Yeah, Maybe Joey Knew EXACTLY What He Was Saying…
Promethean Times 
You winding people up? That might be the greatest understatement of the day…
When I was younger, I didn’t know how to be liked on my own terms. It seems like such an easy or obvious thing, but I had a difficult time maintaining the balance between being a dick and being funny. I like to think I’m a lot better about that now.
I have no doubt you are. You know I’m yanking your chain.
I do. I’m not sure what it is about my replies (it’s not just with you) that makes me sound like I’m butt-hurt, but I’m not.
Maybe you need to start using smileys and winkies. I know how much you like them. 😉 🙂 (Those are the only two I know how to make. Oh wait, this one too:
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You joke, but I find myself more and more tempted to use the “devil’s alphabet” (and admittedly, there’s an adorable emoji on FB of a dog shaking his fist, if you haven’t seen it, check it out; it makes me smile). It’s hard sometimes to communicate my sense of humor, which is often simultaneously deadpan and absurd. Particularly, when people don’t know me well, they think I’m angry or hurt, which not only makes me feel like a pussy (when visiting your blog I have to sully that word with asterisks, if I use it at all, which, and I realize this is a digression, is kinda silly, because that use of “pussy” derives, I believe ((and this isn’t something I’ve ever actually researched, so don’t take it as gospel)) from pussy cats, which are said to be timid; it may or may not surprise you to know that in most instances I prefer not to use the word in the anatomical sense), but also guarantees that they will continue to misconstrue my response, believing it to be coming from a place altogether different than its actual origin.
That last sentence, in all its turgid glory, reminds me why I love Faulkner so much.
I hear you. I use the common emojis even though I feel like a silly school girl doing so.
As for using astericks on my blog, I appreciate when you do that. It’s only because once I got reported as having ‘inappropriate content.’ I never knew why, but it kicked me out of people’s reader. WordPress fixed it for me, but now I’m cautious.
But I did use the word ‘pussyfooting’ in my last post, so I guess I’m a hypocrite.
Awww . Cliffhanger.
No more cliffhangers.
You wind people up? Why, that’s a surprise! I have found that at times, the most tumultuous relationships iron themselves out to be some of the best in our lives. I like the idea of you guys in suits at Denny’s and I hope the hostess/waitress had a good sense of humor. What did all the truckers do when Joey yelled that out in the parking lot? Sideway glances, propositions? I’m glad you youngsters got the heck out of there, unscathed. And, I applaud you for using the word “turgid” and Faulkner in the same sentence. That takes some talent, yo.
Thanks, Brigitte! You know, when I tell this story, people always ask what the truckers did, and it makes me wish I’d slowed down a little and noticed. But we were so shocked by what he had said (not for the same reason people would be shocked today) that it was mad scramble to reach the car and get out of there.
Years later, a broken and abandoned Joey reinvented himself as Kim Jong-un.
Ha! Joey couldn’t let himself get that fat, though, or he’d have nothing to tease me about.
Encourage Joey to get the Kim haircut, though. He can’t go wrong!
I think that haircut is like a tuxedo–you can’t NOT look good in it!
Says the guy without that haircut. I got mine, already. It’s your turn.
But you’re slender and dashing. Were I to get that haircut I’d look like an anemic, double-sized version of the real thing!