"Who are you? Fuckin' Einstein?"

[Danmel]

Just a recollection I thought I'd share:

Back when the movie "The Last Waltz" was released, I went to a movie theater in Brooklyn, New York, where I was born and raised, to see it. I was in college at the time and was a political science major (shocking, huh?) and an English and COmmunications minor.

At one point in the film Levon Helm recites the "Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales which begins thusly:

Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth.........

So the kid sitting in back of me hears this and says "What the Fuck was that?"

SO I told him "That was the Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales"

To which he responded "And who are you? Fuckin' Einstein?"



(btw- spell check had a lot of fun with this one!)

[Kraklen]

1. Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury What?

Stinking elitists.

[sui generis]

2. I just remembered the X Rated Canterbury Tales

(I think that's the title)

the only bit I recall is the part about stress on cloth doth virtu have, referring to straining bosomsis.

Or I may have dreamed it all up; I did just doze off here. :shrug:

[Danmel]

3. They're quite bawdy really

even in the Olde English

[lapfog_1]

4. I hope you replied "If you didn't want an answer, don't ask the question!"

[snickersnee]

5. einstein would have observed...

that the question was relative.

[MsUnderstood]

6. If I could share my stories of stupid youth questions

I went to Washington D.C. and visited the Hope Diamond at the Smithsonian Museum.

Behind me some 8th or 9th grades were asking questions (instead of reading the notes posted about the display):

Why is this so important (one of the oldest gems in the world, idjit!)

Why is it blue (it is rare form of diamond)?

Don't you think it is ugly (then get the hell outta here and let others crowd around it!)?

Children--so annoying yet so necessary to pay my social security later in life. . .

[Kraklen]

7. Those all sound like valid questions to me.

:shrug:

[MsUnderstood]

9. yes they would be. if they didn't have the information available to read

I know the snottyness that accompanied the questions doesn't come across. But when you go to a museum you know that you have to read about the items you see and there is a certain amount of respect you need to show for the people around you trying to enjoy the exhibit.

[Kraklen]

10. Are those answers in quotations your answers?

I sure hope you didn't get them from the notes, because don't aren't the correct answers.

[MsUnderstood]

11. I am fool of misinformation in this post

No those are my annoyance thoughts--you know the bubbles that pop above your head when someone you are near says something incredibly stupid.

For example, In a company meeting one republican turned to anotehr and said very sarcasticly "Get ready for President Hilary!" and I have no idea what it was about but I wanted to snap "Better Than King George the IV you mindless cow".

Instead I said...ummm I think you have to say "President Clinton" . . .and laughed while another Democrat piped in "That would be President Rodham-Clinton".

Annoyance Bubbles save my life.

[redqueen]

8. Ah... gotta love the indignation of the ingorant.

Always so resentful of anyone trying to share information. :eyes: