bethb's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i laugh at others to make myself feel better Ok, so here are some things that have been annoying me lately: 1. That office depot commercial. I don't know if this thing is national or not (although, a friend in upstate NY has seen it, so it's at least regional....huh...i forgot to ask her if the girl says "arlington elem" in that one too.) If you haven't seen it, it's a woman and man ("stephen")(ostensibly they're married) sitting in their apartment, and judging by the windows and bookcases, i'd say they're in a city. They're crunching numbers when stephen let's the old 'about this supply thing' argument begin to fly again, when the dewey eyed teacher knocks him to his knees with the old 'i DIDN'T become a teacher for the money STEPHEN' retort. maybe it's steven. he looks more like a steven kinda guy... Steven lowers his head and limps away with his tail between his legs. Or at least that's what's inferred. So the next shot is the dewey eyed teacher sidling up to the Office depot counter, to ring up her purchases of crayola markers and poster paint when she tells the woman at the register that she would prefer that 5% of her purchase go to "arlington elementry" when she looks 2 registers over, and holy cow! there's steven, buying just about the exact same stuff, and she tearfully mouths 'thank you' at him and steven returns a nonchalant "ehh.....whateveah" shrug. My question to you is, why didn't steven and the dewey eyed teacher bump into one another in the poster paint aisle? Who made this commercial? The mentos advertising company? Does the dewey eyed teacher say "arlington elementry" across the country, or is it just here? i think i'm fixating too much upon this commercial. I should be reading the rhinoceros. i got the script thursday from jenny. we had a little meeting thursday night in the hechinger building. i had to miss most of the 30 cent theives and edie sedgwick for it, but i did get to catch no lie relaxor. they kick ass! everyone cross your fingers for a rain free monday. ft. reno's last show and all....plus, those nice Q and not U boys are playing. And the All-Scars. And Calibos. Whom i don't know anything about. Know what else i don't know anything about? the proper usage of 'who' and 'whom'. I bet that drives people nuts. probably as much as the improper usage of "they're", "there" and "their" gets to me. i don't know why, just does. At my undergrad (i'm certain that this happens everywhere) the sororities would write all over everything that didn't move in chalk trying to get people to come out for their rushes or whatever that whole deal is called. And i remember seeing "Alpha Something Whatever- their hot!" and i thought....their hot....OVENS? Their hot....HOT POTS? fortunately, it didn't rain for a while so it remained there for quite some time. i hope their enrollment went down that fall. they're dumb. See how easy that was? Also, along the lines of pointing stupid things out to make me feel better...and this one is a classic- My undergrad was called "IUP". Some monkey had the BRAIN CHILD to form some kind of diplomatic all-greek council to i guess keep relations friendly amongst the different chapters but i think it was open to the whole campus, i never really investigated because some moron made up signs that said "I-U-PEACE" but instead of the peace symbol, there was what? oh yes- the Mercedes symbol. Uh huh. xoxo beth b. ps. ok, so i thought maybe i'd try to archive some stuff, and ended up fucking everything up. now you can laugh at me. If someone can help me un-archive this stuff and just put it back, i'd really apprechiate it. xoxo 13:18:03 - 2000-08-13 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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