Wednesday 8 May 2013

The Art of Sarcasm, Loosing Ones Mojo . . . . . And Wasps


As I said yesterday I have lost my wit and humour, folk have tried to reassure me that I am still witty and write in a way that only I can write (well me and the Ghost Writer) due to a unique skill in being able to string total rubbish together in such a way that as a whole it is total rubbish (the whole greater that the parts so to speak). I know that’s true,, that very nice Steven Spielberg has told me many times that he finds it hard to believe anyone could write such total rubbish. It is words like that that make me realize I am indeed unique and thanks to such encouragement I will persevere with my tale (not tail as I don’t have one of those).




It was a strange morning because I woke up to grey skies and the wind blowing all the blossom off the tree in the front garden, that and the as yet still small young leaves on the trees made it look and feel just like autumn. I told everyone in school it was autumn and that summer is now over, and one or two folk thought this was slightly amusing, this I put down to the possible sarcasm of the remark, so I pursued  this idea further as a way of recovering my mojo (wit). So I explained that summer really was over (enforcing the sarcasm) and that their lives were entirely futile and that in the great scheme of things they are meanly ants, small insignificant ants. I appeared to get a bit of nervous laughter from one or two pupils so thought I would push the point a bit further, so having told most of the girls they were merely girls destined for a life of drudgery, babies and fighting in the aisles of the supermarket, while there partners get drunk in the pub and fight and get locked in a cell for the evening. I thought I would go for the jugular and told the headmaster he was rubbish and that his sense of dress was worse that that of a Japanese Elvis impersonator wearing a giraffe outfit and a straw hat.

It appears sarcasm is trickier that I thought as I spent much of the day tied to a tree covered in honey below a wasps nest with a tub of itching power poured on my head. It is a difficult decision between staying perfectly still and not being stung or having a good scratch and getting attacked by wasps. I don’t think telling the wasps they were rubbish and had a pathetic buzz that was not worthy of grannies door bell with flat batteries fitted helped much,  apparently wasps don’t do sarcasm and have no sense of humour what so ever.

I noticed that on my return home Sooty the Cat was practising sarcasm by lying perfectly still on the bed and not being stung by wasps.

Mum said I am an IDIOT, but agreed about the headmasters dress sense.

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9 comments:

  1. Wonderful picture of the cat. and yes the wit is there.

    Yvonne.

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    1. He is a very chilled cat, although he does eat rather a lot.

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  2. I was reading earlier about Quentin Tarantino, and he took a break to Amsterdam in order to write Pulp Fiction. Have you been to Amsterdam? I just tried to imagine a dam made out of hamsters. It works only if the hamsters can truly cooperate and hold their breath. Then one of the realizes, "Hey! We should be facing away from the water." WeLL, it is almost 9 PM here, so it is almost time for Cooper's cheese, so I must go feed him his treat.

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    1. Oh, MY! S-Trapped to a tree wearing honey ...

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  3. Your sarcasm needs a bit of work, but your wit is definitely there. I don't think your wit gland needs a transplant just yet.

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    1. I have am image of myself telling my doctor that I have been told I need a wit gland transplant by a man on the internet.

      It would be a good test of his doctoring skills, firstly to find my wit gland and then tell me why I should leave well alone.

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  4. After contemplating the physical beauty of the word Sarcasm in your title totaLLy ignoring the meaning of the word, I came to the conclusion that if the letter "W" is caLLed double U, then the letter "m" should be caLLed "double N" or possibly a merged r n sounds, "arn' which people with poor vision or computer monitors wiLL see as "am" which totaLLy defeats my whole paragraph. Oh, wait, that was a single sentence disguised as a paragraph. That was probably the first time in my entire life that I have done that. That previous sentence started and ended with a that. Oh, I did that that thing twice. Now that previous sentence has two that's in a row. And that one had two separated with a now and a row which because of the ability to turn an m into an r and an n just means the now and row could simply be like conjoined twins of mow separated surgicaLLy and then forced by government decree to live at opposite ends of a sentence. How sad.

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    1. I got Visual Studio 2008 Express running on my computer early this morning, so played with that while cooking gumbo. I think my alternator went bad on my truck, so I am working on that today unless it rains. It is acting like winter again with my head and ears hurting rather terribly yesterday. Making chicken noodle soup a little later.

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    2. Hello Mr ESB I think yo may be reading too much between the lines as the old saying goes. Reading between the lines I find very hard, I usually get all confused.

      And interestingly I have noted that Sarcasm has a very different feel between Britain and the USA, I feel we tend to be more gentle and sporting about it (well we used to be) and I have noticed in the past on FB and the like, that Americans are more grab the concept by the throat and give the recipient a bit of a grilling.

      I hope your truck is back and working again soon, and winter has returned her today with wind rain and a drop in temperature.

      Chicken noodle soup sounds good too. I am having homemade cheesy leek and mushroom pie for tea. (dinner)

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