First Thing:
Since Donald doesn't make as many little mistakes with English as he did when I first met him (and those were more often mispronunciations than anything else-- "necktie" sounded like "necktee", for instance), the occasional little slip-up is all the more treasured. ;o) This time, it was him using the word "philandering" when what he meant was "meandering". Hey, that's a pretty impressive vocabulary for a non-native speaker! But I'll still laugh (lovingly) at you when you refer to someone "philandering" through the woods (or however it was he was using the word). (g)
Second Thing:
Last weekend, we happened to catch a little Saturday Night Live. Inevitably, the conversation turned to the topic of how unfunny most of it was-- and how they rarely fail to take a mediocre joke/gag (something that might elicit a tepid, murmured "heh" the first time 'round), then repeat it over and over again, beating the proverbial dead horse down to the molecular level... and then hitting it one more time, just to be sure.
Before, we've wondered if this level of "humor" is adopted because it's Saturday night and much of the target audience will have been drinking heavily and won't require anything that's actually, you know, funny to make them giddy or at least content to sit (passed out?) through the entire program...
But I think we've now come up with a better theory: SNL is basically "Teletubbies" for adults. Are you one of the lucky few who've never been subjected to "The Teletubbies"? One of the most annoying things about that old kids' show is that they'll show a video clip (on one of the characters' tummy-TVs, of course)... and once it's finally over, you'll hear a chorus of children's voices-- or is the 'Tubsters themselves?-- demanding "Again! Again!" And here's the worst part: They show the whole boring video clip again. (Or something like that. Forgive me if I've gotten it slightly wrong. One of my goals in life is to watch as little "Teletubbies" as possible, so I may have missed some of its subtler nuances.)
...Anyway... This SNL thing of taking the same sad little scrap of a joke and playing it over and over and OVER again is pretty much just like that. It's "Teletubbies" for adults. Only... is there anyone out there who's honestly shouting, "Again! Again!" at his TV set? Seriously? For stuff like this?
Yes, I watch things over again, myself. I reread favorite books, play the same song two or three times in a row... I like repeating favorite things
...I'm beginning to think that Saturday Night Live isn't aimed at people like me! ;o)
