Tuesday, September 16, 2003
So, today I was walking out of my Step 40/30/10 (although it was actually Step 40/25 for I had to leave early but that is another story and shall be told another time) and there was a girl wearing a Navy (as in anchors aweigh, my boys and girls, not the color) t-shirt and navy running shorts (as in the color, my boys and girls, not anchors aweigh). This in itself is not remarkable, for the ROTC office is right next door to the Pyramid room where I have my class and I often see Navy folks coming back from a run.
What struck me as odd here, was the fact that the back of her shirt was covered in mud, while her shorts, legs, and shoes were completely DEVOID of mud. And though it nawed at my mind, I could not figure out why UNTIL I was trudging back up the hill to the CO-OP and saw a guy in the same mud-caked navy t-shirt and lily-white legs. The thought thundered in my head: "What could they have possibly been doing that would make their shirts muddy, but their short, legs, and shoes decidedly un-muddy."
Mayhap my armed-services-enlightened relatives (ahem, Laura, ahem) could explain this to me, for an explanation has completely escaped me.
On a slightly tangential subject, what in the heck kind of word is "so?" One might say, "I am so hungry." In which it sort of has the meaning of "very." Or one might say, "I am so very hungry." In which case it extends the meaning of "very." Or I might even begin, "So, today I was walking of of Step 40/30/10..." In which case it is...um...nevermind! The point is, Mickey's a mouse, Donald's a duck, Pluto's a dog: what in the heck is Goofy? (Note: Please read Goofy as "so")
What struck me as odd here, was the fact that the back of her shirt was covered in mud, while her shorts, legs, and shoes were completely DEVOID of mud. And though it nawed at my mind, I could not figure out why UNTIL I was trudging back up the hill to the CO-OP and saw a guy in the same mud-caked navy t-shirt and lily-white legs. The thought thundered in my head: "What could they have possibly been doing that would make their shirts muddy, but their short, legs, and shoes decidedly un-muddy."
Mayhap my armed-services-enlightened relatives (ahem, Laura, ahem) could explain this to me, for an explanation has completely escaped me.
On a slightly tangential subject, what in the heck kind of word is "so?" One might say, "I am so hungry." In which it sort of has the meaning of "very." Or one might say, "I am so very hungry." In which case it extends the meaning of "very." Or I might even begin, "So, today I was walking of of Step 40/30/10..." In which case it is...um...nevermind! The point is, Mickey's a mouse, Donald's a duck, Pluto's a dog: what in the heck is Goofy? (Note: Please read Goofy as "so")
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