Facebook has a feature called Status. There's a little box that says "I am [blank]" and you fill in the [blank], and then all your friends can see a little message that says "Trevor is [blank]."
I suppose it was created with prepositional phrases like "in the library" in mind, but we quickly moved on to other parts of speech. I had my most vivid oh-my-gods-I'm-really-in-law-school moment last week when my companions at lunch had the following exchange:
A: "I really love your facebook status, B. 'B is a gerund.' Hot."
B: "Yeah, I guess I should probably change that to 'present participle.'"
A: "Oh. I thought you had it wrong on purpose, and that was a joke."
Me, I just changed my [blank] to "going to defer to experience, and stop ascribing your mom's description of him as a 'sex god' to hyperbole," because I'm fourteen and I like your mom jokes.
Also, I like your mom.
In bed.
I'll stop now.
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