Another fun day at school with just the adults has passed. On Monday we get started with the real reason we're there - the KIDS!!! Looking over the class rosters today made me feel excited to get started.
After school I went to Lancaster to pick up Destiny. She'll be here till Sunday, and my heart is at rest.
I noticed on my Yahoo homepage that Noriega has made the headlines again. It reminds me of a funny story:
Back in the late 80's when he was in the news all the time we did not yet have a TV in our home. I got all the news from the radio and the newspaper. I would hear his name on the radio, but I never really thought about how it was spelled. At the same time I was constantly seeing his name in the newspaper headlines, but I was too busy to read the articles. In my hurried glances at the headlines I would just think it was the name of a country pronounced Nor-ee-ga. I kept thinking to myself, "I wonder where that is. I've got to look that up." But I would never remember to do it. Finally one morning I asked Dick, "WHERE IS Nor-ee-ga, anyway?" He had no idea what I was talking about. Pointing to the headline I said, "Here. It's in the paper every single day and I don't even know where it is." He looked and said, "You mean Nor-yay-ga? That's a person, not a country." It suddenly dawned on me that that word was the same one I was hearing on the radio all the time! Well, I just cracked up! And it still cracks me up every time I think about it. Sometimes even great minds just can't grasp it all!!!
5 comments:
I know you're excited to have Destiny with you. Enjoy!
Hugs!
Kat
That is hilarious!
Now I have to tell on myself...
About 5 or 6 years ago I was really into selling alot of stuff on Ebay and one day Gary and I were running errands which included a stop by the Post Office. I had a package in my hand and Gary said, "where is that one going?" and I replied...
"some place called TuCson" but I pronounced the "c" sound.
He was laughing so hard I thought he was going to drive off the road!
He still laughs about that...
Have a great weekend!
Much love!
Tracey
Oh, Tracey, that's great. I have so many of those stories, sometimes I wonder about myself. Maybe I'll have to do an entire Story Saturday sometime about them!
Long, long ago I used to pronounce chihuahua, chi-hooy-hooy, but the funny thing about that is, I know that I heard other people pronouncing it that way! LOL!
This reminds me of a good joke:
A Polish immigrant went to the DMV to apply for a driver's license.
First, of course, he had to take an eye sight test. The optician showed him a card with the letters:
'C Z W I X N O S T A C Z.'
"Can you read this?" the optician asked.
"Read it?" the Polish guy replied, "I know the guy."
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