October 30, 2006
I Have a Dream
Had a dream, that is. Last night. I dreamt I was dating a midget (what is the PC term for midget?), and we went out to lunch and enjoyed the privacy of a booth under a hollowed-out, upside-down pumpkin.
All seemed to be going well, until we were back at his place and listening to Bon Jovi music. He said he still wanted to get closer to me, but that he felt differently about me since learning my house wasn't a mansion and that I dared to challenge the curriculum of one of my classes. Which, by the way, wasn't even one of my real-life classes, but was Aristotle's interpretation of what education should be. My retort was that a book on farming was useless if it didn't tell you how to plant and harvest a field. And then I woke up.
Who knew I was such a detractor of the liberal arts?
Who knew midgets were such snobs?
Posted by Jenelle at October 30, 2006 01:38 PM | TrackBackYour house may not be a mansion, but at least you're not living out of a goddamn gord! The nerve of those (little) people.
Posted by: shank at October 30, 2006 01:42 PMThe PC term for a dwarf is "little person." I always found that bizarrely un-PC for a PC term.
I'm not sure if there is a PC term for midget. Technically, they are just short.
Posted by: Jordan at October 30, 2006 02:05 PMVertically challenged?
Posted by: Pete at October 31, 2006 12:50 PMI'm not sure what the "official" PC term for midgets is. Is a midget smaller than a dwarf? If so I guess the term would be "littler people". Or "least people"?
It's all academic though. The only thing you really need to remember is that they can't be tossed. Something to do with the aerodynamics.
Posted by: Jim at November 2, 2006 07:09 AMI'm pretty sure the PC term is 'Card-Carrying Member of the Lollipop Guild'.
Posted by: shank at November 2, 2006 12:13 PMIf he acts like that, "asshole" is always appropriate.
Posted by: Ted at November 3, 2006 05:43 PM