Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme meme
Hugo has the meme of the day: list ten things you’ve done that your readers probably haven’t. Here are mine:
- In 1979, I nearly earned myself a Darwin Award by getting my head stuck in a hole underwater in a pool where one would normally install a light.
- I have not resided in a single county for more than three consecutive years since 1981.
- Between 1981 and 1990, I lived a year a apiece in three foreign countries and mastered three foreign languages.
- In 1985, as a D.J. on a college radio station, I played “Eat the Rich” by Krokus, only to get chewed out by a moron listener who thought the song was encouraging listeners to “beat the bitch.”
- In 1987, 1988 and 1989, I repeatedly smuggled contraband across what was then the East German border.
- I chipped a few pieces of the Berlin Wall three days after it fell.
- From 1990 to 1993, I worked as both a school teacher and a drug trafficker.
- In 1992, I ran for State Assembly, garnering 6.1% of the vote, holding the balance of power, and therefore indirectly helping this guy get a job as a legislative assistant. [OK, I know at least one of my occasional readers has done that, although I doubt many more have.]
- In 2003, I was the subject of a SigAlert.
- In 2004, I cut myself brushing my teeth.
March 8th, 2005 at 7:19 am
Well, in 1989, I was part of a sig-alert — but you’ve got me on the rest of them. Have you ever written about that assembly run? I’d like to hear more about it.
March 8th, 2005 at 11:51 am
Of course, eating the rich is both legally and morally worse than beating the bitch, as surely as murder is worse than assault. Unless the rich you are eating died of natural causes. I’m sure you explained all this to your listener.
March 8th, 2005 at 12:11 pm
The song was about eating rich food. What did you think it was about? Cannibalism or something? Yuck.