{"id":1448,"date":"2015-06-13T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2015-06-16T16:18:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T23:18:32","slug":"in-junior-high-we-called-it-dippin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/13\/in-junior-high-we-called-it-dippin\/","title":{"rendered":"In Junior High We Called It “Dippin.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postaday for June 13th:\u00a0Hear No Evil<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>Tell us about a conversation you couldn\u2019t help but overhear and wish you hadn\u2019t.<\/em><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have a memory for that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

I used to frequent Overheard in New York<\/a>, which was funny before it got kind of trolly and judgmental. But, it\u2019s been a while\u2014 maybe it\u2019s good again? Itself spawned Overheard at The Beach, Overheard in the Office, Celebrity Wit, and, I just discovered on a recent visit to make sure it\u2019s still there, Overheard Everywhere. So that\u2019s those places covered.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s Kids Say the Darndest Things<\/em>, and Shit My Dad Says, and a number of subreddits dedicated to people saying stupid stuff. TumblrInAction and ThatHappened, for example, getting back to the trolly and judgemental.<\/p>\n

The truth is, no one will ever top the Lewis Black joke which includes the line he allegedly overheard: \u201cIf it wasn’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.\u201d Having done some stand-up myself, I know there\u2019s nothing sacred and that things don\u2019t have to be true to be funny. I also know that sometimes you can\u2019t beat the truth. Whichever the case, Lewis Black wins, when it comes to overhearing something insane.<\/p>\n

But like I said, I never remember that kind of thing. I would have been a terrible landlord on Three\u2019s Company<\/em>. I would not have overheard any conversations, would not have misinterpreted them, not jumped to any conclusions, and there would have been no ensuing hilarity based on that awkward misunderstanding. The show would have flopped in a matter of weeks. Jack Tripper might not have ever gotten that bistro started. And that would be a shame because, the way I hear it, Jack made a mean cassoulet.<\/p>\n

Man, I do love a good cassoulet.<\/p>\n

On the other side if things, I can be a little hyper-aware of other people around me when I\u2019m talking about something controversial, and I find I add too much mitigating language. You know, so as not to offend someone who may have strong opinions about proto-feminist evolutionary jargonism in Super Mario Bros 2. (I drink a lot; sue me).<\/p>\n

Maybe I should go the opposite way. Maybe I should have fascinatingly stupid conversations with people, just so that folks who overhear it can go tell their friends, or blog about it, or best of all, start a whole website.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m sitting in this bar drinking a Lime Ricky, and not loving it at all\u00a0<\/em>because they used Hayman\u2019s instead of Monkey 47, I mean, for the love of Krist Novoselic, do we live in Seattle, or is this the Pearl District. Anysquare, I\u2019m trying to get through my drink, when my phone dies\u2014 so much for the Daily Bugle<\/em> podcast I was listening to. Just when I was thinking I should get up and go browse the car repair store across the street\u2014 you know, to make an ironic blog post about it\u2014 I overhear these two people behind me talking about chess, if you can believe it. And one guy\u2019s like, You know, in the Spanish Opening<\/em>, and the other guy\u2019s like, You mean the Ruy Lopez?<\/em> And the first one\u2019s all, No one calls it that.<\/em> And the other one says, Well, Spanish Opening sounds racist to me.<\/em> And the first one\u2019s all, Then what do you call d4 Nf6 c4 g6?<\/em> And he goes, I would never play that.<\/em> And the first guy\u2019s like, Why, because \u2018King\u2019s Indian\u2019 sounds racist too?<\/em> And the guy goes, No, because Bobby Fischer played it, and he\u2019s an anti-semite<\/em>, and the first guy\u2019s getting mad, and he says, But you played the Scotch Game through five tournaments!<\/em> And the other guy goes So?<\/em> And he\u2019s all like, That was Kasparov\u2019s favorite opening!<\/em> And the other guy goes So?<\/em> And he\u2019s all, Kasparov is from Azerbaijan! They\u2019ve been charged with human rights violations out the ying-yang!<\/em> And it was all I could do not to turn around and scream at the guy for using \u2018ying-yang, I mean, talk about racism, why not channel a Chinese version of Rachel Dolezal, ya Nazi?\u201d<\/p>\n

Meh. Probably never happen. No one I know knows that much about chess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Postaday for June 13th:\u00a0Hear No Evil.\u00a0Tell us about a conversation you couldn\u2019t help but overhear and wish you hadn\u2019t. I don\u2019t have a memory for that sort of thing. I used to frequent Overheard in New York, which was funny before it got kind of trolly and judgmental. But, it\u2019s been a while\u2014 maybe it\u2019s … <\/p>\n

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