Friday, January 10, 2003

- Are you in line?

- Are you in line?

- No, I’m just watching.

- It’s incredible, isn’t it.

- This is probably what modern culture means to most of them.

- Makes you wonder if it was worth it.

- Ask them; they’d say it was.

- And I came down here just to watch them, for my own amusement.  On purpose.  So I must have decided that this was worth it for me as well.

- Was it voyeurism that compelled you?

- No, I don’t think so.  I don’t feel titillated.  I feeel dirty, but prideful.  Maybe I came to feed a sense of superiority.

- How’s that working for you?

- Now that I’ve articulated it, not so well.  It’s starting to feel like the satisfaction I derive from watching people I feel superior to, is inversely proportional to the developmental distance I perceive between myself and them.

- “...to whom I feel superior.”

- That was a clause, not a sentence; you can end a clause with a preposition.  My point, if you can see it through your syntax, is that the greater the chasm between me and them, the less I think of myself for revelling in it.

- “...between them and myself.”

- Are you even listening to me?

- Yeah, you’re saying you came here to diminish yourself in your own eyes by deriding those you assume to be lesser than yourself, but you seem challenged to express the idea using proper grammar.  Really, it verges on comedy.

- Your suggestions regarding my usage are specious and suggest a cursory and inadequate education.  You can keep them to yourself.

- Hey, you like sounding like an idiot, don’t let me stop you.  Goes well with the slack jaw and prognathic brow.

- “Prognathic” refers specifically to mandibular characteristics, you dillhole.

- I’ll mandibular characteristics you, goddamn bitchwhacker.

- Bitchwhacker isn’t even a curse, you - hey, get your hands off me, I’ll break your arm - ouch - how dare you -

- Yeah, go on, tell me bitchwhacker isn’t a word you bitchwhacker, now don’t - oh damnit -

~ Heah lookit, them dudes are kicken each others’s asses, poor guys, they don’t even know what they’re at do they, whatta buncha sissy fighters - they’ll be at it all night - let’s watchum, better’n pay-per-view…

MORAL: Everybody’s stupid, but that won’t stop any of us from making fun of each other.