A time-honored, yet unspoken, tradition of comedians is to steal others' material. And though I am no comedian, I am also no different. Many of the silly little phrases I use on this site, as well as practice in actual conversations, are things I have picked up on from my favorite radio stationThe Ticket.
A common way for me to close out my entries is with the phrase "Have good and get give." That was taken from The Ticket's funnyman Gordon Keith. Packaging, tiredhead, babyarm, grenis, Captain Doo Doo, "panic"... all examples of stolen Ticket schtick. But now the tables have been turned.
Less than two weeks ago I mentioned on this very site my theory of "Wal-Mart pretty" and "McDonald's pretty". If you missed it, my contention is that people who work in those institutions judge the women who work there by the other co-workers rather than society as a whole. So a semi-cute girl at Wal-Mart suddenly gets thrust into "hot" status when, in reality, she would not get a second look in the "outside world".
Now, it is going to seem like I'm getting off track here, when in reality I am setting up the story.
This past week, The Ticket hosted its second annual Compound. That is when a house, at an undisclosed location, is chosen and all the on-air talent moves in on Sunday night and none of them can leave until Friday evening. No trips to the store, no jogs in the neighborhood... nothing. Ten guys sharing five bedrooms.
But it is great radio. They all sit in on each others' shows, and they even break out the random late night shows. (My favorite this year was Dan's all-request disco show. Effin genius.) But the biggest problem for them is the fact that there are ten guys in one house - with no women.
So on one morning during Compound week, Gordon mentioned the phrase "Compound hot". He defined it as anyone who was better looking than George, one of the guys he works with every morning. When I heard him say that, I stopped all activity. (Which, truth be told, wasn't a whole lot at the time. Eh, it was early.)
I looked over at Dawn and said, "Holy shit. That's my bit!"
And that is when she told me that she emailed Gordon the link to my blog, along with a copy/paste of her two favorite entries. One was Tales From My Video Rental Store (which I have to admit is one of my faves, too) and the other was about my first sexual encounter - which contained my above mentioned theory.
However, skeptical me still chalked up "Compound hot" to mere coincidence. That is, until Dawn emailed Gordon and called him on his thievery. His reply began "Boom goes the dynamite."
I used a variation of that phrase ("boom went the dynamite") in that very entry.
Well sonofabitch. He got me back, I guess. Until I close with this...
Bloody pants says "I love you."
Scoreboard!
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- Leemer | 04.15.07 | 4:38 pm
Ali: Under advisement. However, understand that I always have a hard time spending money on myself. One of these days, perhaps, I will be comfortable shelling it out.
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