Wednesday, April 13, 2005
How I Got My Screen Name
So, my friend Candice and I ran around all the time calling each other "Tools." Some nice good innocent fun. Until one day my parents sat me down, and we had a 'talk.' :( 'Talks' with the 'rents are scary. Very scary. This particular 'talk' involved my usage of the word "Tool."
Apparently a Tool is a very bad thing, involving body parts that should not be bandied about in public. Especially distressing to my parents is the fact that saying "Tool" came as naturally to me as saying "The" does.
Now please let me defend myself and Candice here. Candice and I were under the impression that "Tool" meant stupid. Okay, so that sounds pretty bad too, but mostly we were referring to ourselves. I promise. So we had reached the upper echelons of "Tooldom," but my parents put the brakes on that.
Fast forward to my trip to South Africa. (Yes, I went to SA, it was awesome, maybe I will talk about it some other time.) Anyway, I was speaking with one SA'er, and the topic of "Tools" came up. He was unfamiliar with the meaning of this term, so I happily filled him in on our interpretation of it. (Not my parents', they have such dirty minds! ;) ) He said "oh, you mean "Planks"? Planks?????
Apparently, this is how the SA culture refers to "Tool"-like people. So, to appease my parents, and to throw everyone else off (in the US anyway), Candice and I now refer to ourselves as "Planks." And I am the Plankiest!
1 Comments:
Dad,
You're such a plank.
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