Monday, November 23, 2009

What am I Thinking?

So I was surfing the web the other day when I wondered if people still say "surfing the web." Seems more like the kind of new age lingo that would have gone bust with the dot-coms in 2000. Anymore people say stuff like "stumbling"or "Facebooking" when referring to their cyber-based activities. Just then, Joey Shababado, my roommate, waltzed into the living room.

"Whatcha doing?" he asked.
"Scuttering on the internet."
"What?"
"Stumbling."
"Oh. That's cool" he emphatically responded. "Today in class I sat next to Rachael, not for any real reason but blah blah blah and blah. Also blah blah."

Hugely is a funny word. Something can be "hugely important" in substitute of "very important." But "huge" means "big." Something can't be "bigly important." Or maybe it can. The English language changes so much I doubt anybody even says "bigly" anymore. Oh wait, Joey Shababado was still talking.

"Yeah?" I muster.
"Yeah," he confirms before continuing. "It's like that movie 'Boat Trip,' you ever see that?"
"Hell no."
"Well... in the movie two guys blah blah, blah blah, blah blah. Then Cuba Gooding, Jr., throws up on Vivica A. Fox and all blah blah blah. "

And what's the deal with that one statue? I think it's called "St. Wenceslas Riding a Dead Horse." That monument, or whatever, doesn't make any sense. Jeez. Europe sure has a lot of problems. I should just tell people I've been to Europe, it's not like they can prove I haven't been there. And pictures aren't bigly important. Everybody wins. Uh oh. Joey Shababado stopped talking.

"That's life for you, isn't it?" I suggest.
"Yeah. No kidding. Say, thanks for listening to me."
"Yeah, no problem."
"Talk to you later, man."

He went back into his room. I stayed on the computer, exuttering the internet. I have to stop making up these ornate, epigrammatic and latantent words.

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