Monday, July 19, 2010

Meta-Misunderstanding

After my 2,000-word thesis yesterday, I’ll give you something short and light to read today.

When Brandt gets sleepy, he tends to talk about very random things.  On Saturday night, well past midnight, he started randomly talking about someone, but I didn’t recognize the name (he was Earless; my excuse is a lifetime of misunderstandings caused by chronic ear infections as a kid).  The conversation went like this:

Me: “…Who on earth is ‘Biekel Burkett’?!”
Brandt: “‘Eagle Bucket’?!”
Me: “Wait, what name did you say?!”
Brandt: “WHOOPI GOLDBERG.”
Me: “Ooooh Whoopi Goldberg!  Yeah, that’s not what I heard at all!”
Brandt: “I don’t know who ‘Beagle Bartlett’ is…”

It was a misunderstanding of a misunderstanding of a misunderstanding.  That’s got to be a new record!

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