Not quite sure how to take this...not nearly as online as most, and the words on the screen don't always unfailingly convey the true meaning behind them, as I suspect some folks would say of some of the things I post. Seriousness sometimes comes off as sarcasm and vice versa, as happens occasionally in real life face to face conservation…
Not quite sure how to take this...not nearly as online as most, and the words on the screen don't always unfailingly convey the true meaning behind them, as I suspect some folks would say of some of the things I post. Seriousness sometimes comes off as sarcasm and vice versa, as happens occasionally in real life face to face conservations as well.
For example, when my boss at the part time job I started about 3 months ago ( a guy about 20+ years younger than me, with a sense of humor similar to my own ) recently asked at the end of my last day of the week if I'd be able to finish up the parts I was currently working on when I returned the following Tuesday ( so they could be shipped before the end of that day ), I felt comfortable enough to crack a little wise and reply "Sure. If I'm here on Tuesday", then proceeded to head for the exit.
A moment later he was at my shoulder as I walked down the aisle, asking rather seriously if there was a chance I wouldn't be in as scheduled.
It was a joke, I replied. Well, you're kinda' hard to read sometimes, he responded. Well, so are you, I told him. Which was true from my perspective.
We both got a good laugh out of it, since it wasn't the first time it had happened.
So for clarity's sake, you can put me on record that, having read some of your other posts, I can confidently say that we need a whole lot more folks like you around here, where ever they may come from.
Along with a whole lot less of the likes of Lyin', AR-Fryin' Ted.
Heh, yeah. I meant it in the spirit of you're not really blaming Canada for Flyin' Ted. I don't really think we should blame the fact his father was from Cuba for his ardent loserishness either.
Not quite sure how to take this...not nearly as online as most, and the words on the screen don't always unfailingly convey the true meaning behind them, as I suspect some folks would say of some of the things I post. Seriousness sometimes comes off as sarcasm and vice versa, as happens occasionally in real life face to face conservations as well.
For example, when my boss at the part time job I started about 3 months ago ( a guy about 20+ years younger than me, with a sense of humor similar to my own ) recently asked at the end of my last day of the week if I'd be able to finish up the parts I was currently working on when I returned the following Tuesday ( so they could be shipped before the end of that day ), I felt comfortable enough to crack a little wise and reply "Sure. If I'm here on Tuesday", then proceeded to head for the exit.
A moment later he was at my shoulder as I walked down the aisle, asking rather seriously if there was a chance I wouldn't be in as scheduled.
It was a joke, I replied. Well, you're kinda' hard to read sometimes, he responded. Well, so are you, I told him. Which was true from my perspective.
We both got a good laugh out of it, since it wasn't the first time it had happened.
So for clarity's sake, you can put me on record that, having read some of your other posts, I can confidently say that we need a whole lot more folks like you around here, where ever they may come from.
Along with a whole lot less of the likes of Lyin', AR-Fryin' Ted.
Heh, yeah. I meant it in the spirit of you're not really blaming Canada for Flyin' Ted. I don't really think we should blame the fact his father was from Cuba for his ardent loserishness either.
Also, thank you for your kind words.
Cool. I forgot about the Cuba connection. And you're right.
Ardent loserishness. I like it.
I love language and the ways people use it so inventively sometimes. Losericious, loserism, loserific, loseritis....loserishness.
Not in Webster or Oxford, but all there in the Urban. Never would have thought to attach "ardent" to it. Props.
And you're welcome.