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Ever get the feeling you're misunderstood?
Posted by Joe R on 12 March 2010 - 2:04pm.
At work earlier today, someone asked "what's your favourite animal?" and the question went round the office. In amongst the responses of 'sheep', 'elephant' and 'labrador', I answered 'Eric Burdon'.
And not one single person had a clue what I was on about. I had to explain myself to stop the confused looks.
Bloody philistines...
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Out of time
perhaps. By a couple of decades. Good answer though. I might have said Alan Price.
Constantly
Especially round here.
Pearls...
before swine.
Hilton Valentine
Obviously.
Still find it hard to believe Jimi Hendrix owed a vast amount of his success to a big bulky bloke who sounds (sounded?) like me. Chas Chandler, I mean.
I do wonder what they're early conversations could have sounded like.
"How, Jimi man. Fancy a bit stotty cyek wi' pease pudden like?"
"Er.. far out, I mean why aye, maaan?'
You think that's bad?
Recently, in response to, "Whose your favourite Beatle" we did actually get, "Who are The Beatles?" The said delinquent was a teenage schoolchild on some kind of experience thingummy but all the same...
I get that all the time
just today I asked our art desk for a proof of page 61 - only I pronounced it sixty-WhUNN! in homage both to Dylan and to Tom Hanks' nod to Bob in the film Dragnet. In my mind these things are universally accepted cultural pillars.
The twenty-something kid I was talking to looked at me like I was having a stroke or something. Who can blame him? I must stop doing things like this.
Could have been worse
You could have dug a deeper hole by carrying on with the lyrics in the vain hope that he would catch on.
'Well Mack the Finger said to Louie the King
I got forty red, white and blue shoestrings'
What?
'And a thousand telephones that don’t ring'
Stop it, Captain Underpants. You're scaring me.
'Do you know where I can get rid of these things'
Security!?
I would have done the same
.. and I'm about to be 53 - never could stand Dylan, so wouldn't have known what you meant.
My workmate, aged 32, asked me last week 'Who's Brian Eno?' when I was telling him and Interesting Fact about BE.
I must admit
to feeling like I am that person around here sometimes. I can mention The Jam or The Smiths at work and get that "Phew he knows his music" reaction. Here I feel like that every day. Frantically looks up Teenage Fan Club.........