Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Again X 4---(Will it NEVER end?)

Anyhoo, I guess there are still things swimming around in my brain like Koi picking at the tasty bits of plankton and rushing toward the shadows of the people who come to see their pretty colors. How good of you to enjoy the fish in the pond to errant thoughts in my brain simile!! You must be highly educated and possibly even erudite!! If one can't use similes and big words in one's own BLOG, where can one?
I got to thinking about this strangely old fashioned manner of referring to "Oneself" and the Koi came to life at this shadow that might mean brainfood!!! Could it be that we humans have a problem referring to ourselves in a straightforward way that may seem too "ME-ISH" to others, or we may suspect it thus, and take a verbal step back (or a mere flip of a fin---so as not to loose the wonderful fish simile) and use a somewhat lesser form of "ME--NESS."
This MAY be why people who want to be liked as "just one of the boys" will often use the term Myself rather than the tougher style word "I". We've all heard commentators on TV--who really deep down know they are a LOT smarter than their listeners who probably don't understand what the heck is really being said get into this self deprecating "Myself" business.
It is EXTREMELY IRRITATING TO WE LISTENERS WHO ACTUALLY DO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON AND TRULY "KNOW THE SCORE". Now
I have to stop and try to explain about the use of WE in the previous (or foregoing, if you'd rather) sentence. "It ALL depends on position." said the Missionary. "Some positions are Godly and correct and others are Pagan and therefore dirty and must be stamped out and the perpertrators of same (Thank God, Myself is not one of these!!!) must be either prayed over or burned at the stake or both until they come to their senses!!"
But I digress (Not two ways of getting out of a situation--see P.T.
Barnum's famous sign in his Museum directing people toward the exit which in those days was spelled EGRESS--This will be explained in a later posting.
Now to undigress---IF THE PRONOUN US WERE USED IN THE AFOREMENTIONED AND ALL IN CAPS SENTENCE RATHER THAN THE CORRECT PRONOUN, WE, IT WOULD CAUSE DEEP EMBARRASSMENT AND BLUSHING OF THE MISSIONARIES AS THE POSITIONING WOULD BE ALL WRONG. WE IS CORRECT BECAUSE WE KNOW THE SCORE. Do you get the idea?? Can I make it any clearer or am myself on top in this educational position?? More later when I have finished digesting this plankton. By the way did you know that fish sticks are cut up fish planks??

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Some publisher should ABSOLUTELY JUMP ON THIS GUY. He writes great stuff and I personally would be happy to pay real money to get his stuff!!!!!!!!
No!!! Myself did NOT write this note to self agrandize---