Comments on: I Associated with Your Mom Last Night http://blog.4d2.org/2009/01/12/i-associated-with-your-mom-last-night/ Because everyone else already has one Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:21:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stephen Proctor http://blog.4d2.org/2009/01/12/i-associated-with-your-mom-last-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2748 Stephen Proctor Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:09:05 +0000 http://blog.4d2.org/?p=803#comment-2748 Those Amish people get right to the point. Is Extremities near Intercourse, PA? (Sorry, Grandpa made me watch Beavis & Butthead over the holidays) Those Amish people get right to the point. Is Extremities near Intercourse, PA? (Sorry, Grandpa made me watch Beavis & Butthead over the holidays)

]]> By: Michael http://blog.4d2.org/2009/01/12/i-associated-with-your-mom-last-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2741 Michael Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:08:07 +0000 http://blog.4d2.org/?p=803#comment-2741 I don't know why it would be when you can drive a few minutes north into Pennsylvania and visit massage parlors with names like "Extremities." (Kara and I actually saw that one advertised on a billboard.) I don’t know why it would be when you can drive a few minutes north into Pennsylvania and visit massage parlors with names like “Extremities.” (Kara and I actually saw that one advertised on a billboard.)

]]> By: Dad http://blog.4d2.org/2009/01/12/i-associated-with-your-mom-last-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2740 Dad Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:02:11 +0000 http://blog.4d2.org/?p=803#comment-2740 Oh, I see. Much more better. Maybe urologist is a cover term in Frederickland. "I'm off to visit the urologist (nudge nudge, wink wink)." Oh, I see. Much more better.

Maybe urologist is a cover term in Frederickland. “I’m off to visit the urologist (nudge nudge, wink wink).”

]]> By: Michael http://blog.4d2.org/2009/01/12/i-associated-with-your-mom-last-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2739 Michael Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:42:22 +0000 http://blog.4d2.org/?p=803#comment-2739 See, this is how it's supposed to be done. This one sounds much less sleazy to me: <img src="http://blog.4d2.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/urology2-300x239.png" alt="" title="urology2" width="300" height="239" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-810" /> There sure are a lot of urology ads in our newspaper. See, this is how it’s supposed to be done. This one sounds much less sleazy to me:

There sure are a lot of urology ads in our newspaper.

]]> By: Stephen Proctor http://blog.4d2.org/2009/01/12/i-associated-with-your-mom-last-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2737 Stephen Proctor Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:26:19 +0000 http://blog.4d2.org/?p=803#comment-2737 Well crap, now I feel like one of those jerks that makes you explain the punchline. Sorry. Well crap, now I feel like one of those jerks that makes you explain the punchline. Sorry.

]]> By: Michael http://blog.4d2.org/2009/01/12/i-associated-with-your-mom-last-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2734 Michael Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:28:32 +0000 http://blog.4d2.org/?p=803#comment-2734 Well, after talking to Kara and discovering that we thought it was funny for two entirely different reasons, I'm not entirely sure that it <em>is</em> funny anymore. Kara thought it was funny because the doctor is a urologist and his name is Crouch. I thought it was funny because: - The ad was intermingled with little "News Brief" and "Police Blotter" boxes, so "Urology" read like a topic heading. - The word "association", in the absence of any further details, seems almost intentionally vague. In my mind, these combined to make the blurb read: "In urology news today, Dr. Crouch would like to announce that he has 'associated' with Susan such-and-such." Even though there's a concrete medical meaning here, I feel like the brevity and particular wording set up "association" as some kind of really vague euphemism. Well, after talking to Kara and discovering that we thought it was funny for two entirely different reasons, I’m not entirely sure that it is funny anymore.

Kara thought it was funny because the doctor is a urologist and his name is Crouch.

I thought it was funny because:
- The ad was intermingled with little “News Brief” and “Police Blotter” boxes, so “Urology” read like a topic heading.
- The word “association”, in the absence of any further details, seems almost intentionally vague.

In my mind, these combined to make the blurb read: “In urology news today, Dr. Crouch would like to announce that he has ‘associated’ with Susan such-and-such.”

Even though there’s a concrete medical meaning here, I feel like the brevity and particular wording set up “association” as some kind of really vague euphemism.

]]> By: Dad http://blog.4d2.org/2009/01/12/i-associated-with-your-mom-last-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2731 Dad Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:19:03 +0000 http://blog.4d2.org/?p=803#comment-2731 I don't get it. 'Splain it to me Lucy. I don’t get it. ‘Splain it to me Lucy.

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