Friday, August 25, 2006
Mean streak!
One of my co-workers had a birthday this week. I went to the 99 cent store to find gag gifts for him. I got some party poppers. Everyone was coming over to pop poppers. Some people were scared to make a loud noise. One of my co-workers is a pacifist from Hong Kong. We had to really twist his arm to get him to pull a popper. Once he did it though he smelled the gun powder and became a convert. He was savoring the delicious smell of the gun powder. So I told him it was in his blood, since the Chinese invented gun powder. It was a racial memory. Then my other co-worker, the fratty, self admitted male chauvinist pig type of co-worker, who is of British and Norwegian ancestry, said, "Yes, the Chinese invented gun powder, but it took my ancestors to put the mean streak in any invention."
You awakened the Chinese guy's inner warrior-does this mean he's no longer a pacifist? If smelling gunpowder can convert people, then maybe Starbucks should do a blind smell test with ground coffee beans in one corner and gunpowder in another. I can dream, can't I?
ReplyDeleteBTW, I went to BlameBush via your blogroll. Please tell me that it's satire. It's too good to be legitimately leftist. Sorry, I'm kinda dense when it comes to spotting fakes. I was never any good at those goddamned "Where's Waldo" books either.
I meant 'blindfolded' in the first paragraph. Sorry, my bad.
ReplyDeleteYes Noah he is doing satire! I think he is the funniest guy alive! He does get a lot of hate mail from conservatives who misunderstand him.
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