Funny Words
Jul. 18th, 2011 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
woodwardiocom(Yes, I'm posty today.)
On this morning's commute,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
buxom_bey and I were briefly caught behind a cement mixer. She noticed that it had a green scrubby bush wedged in among all the other equipment festooning its stern.
Me: What's that for? I mean, seriously, what kind of cement accident is best cleaned up by a green scrubby brush?
She: [giggle]
Me: It's not like it's pudding. Concrete is a rock-filled slurry.
She: [snicker]
Me: Yes, dear, "slurry" is a funny word. Like "weasel".
She: [laugh]
Me: "...Oh my god, there's a weasel in the slurry!"
She: [more laughing]
And that's how, "There's a weasel in the slurry," entered our little book of Woodward phrases.
On this morning's commute,
buxom_bey and I were briefly caught behind a cement mixer. She noticed that it had a green scrubby bush wedged in among all the other equipment festooning its stern.Me: What's that for? I mean, seriously, what kind of cement accident is best cleaned up by a green scrubby brush?
She: [giggle]
Me: It's not like it's pudding. Concrete is a rock-filled slurry.
She: [snicker]
Me: Yes, dear, "slurry" is a funny word. Like "weasel".
She: [laugh]
Me: "...Oh my god, there's a weasel in the slurry!"
She: [more laughing]
And that's how, "There's a weasel in the slurry," entered our little book of Woodward phrases.
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Date: 2011-07-18 05:51 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, the weasel is now confounded in the slough.
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Date: 2011-07-18 05:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-07-20 06:56 pm (UTC)