On Wed, 19 May 1999, KIRWAN LOUISE EMMA wrote:
Don't you hate when you hear a really good joke off a friend/telly/whatever and when you try and relate it to others it just dies? This has been happening to me lately - i get half way through, see the inevitable mess i'm going to make, go red, and shut my mouth. Of course, by then people want to know the end of the joke. And then, with my hands over my face, i *have* to tell them. And they *never* laugh, unless it's a nervous "haha" to pacify me. I think it's the horrible silence between the joke ending and conversation starting that always gets me the most. Or when your friend, being the good person they are, tries to comfort you, " that was...ummm..that was nice" or worse, " yes, well emmm..how are you?".
That's happened to me once too often as well. Or else it happens when one is attempting to recount an interesting story and then messes up all the details of the story so it only makes sense to that person! Some people have a knack for that, though. This reminds me of something I was thinking the other day. Is the fine art of storytelling dying? What I mean by that is oral storytelling. Right now I'm attempting to memorize a short story so that I can recount it to my friends without messing up at all... As for lower case: To those people who sign their names in lower case, try capitalizing it. It's a nice a change. :) (And, yes, I know my name in the FROM field is lowercase.) Allen -- "Long afloat on shipless oceans I did all my best to smile Till your singing eyes and fingers Drew me loving to your isle." -- Song to the Siren, Tim Buckley. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+