Comments on: In Praise of the Inappropriate http://powazek.com/posts/500 It's pronounced poe-WAH-zek. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:26:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Petrina http://powazek.com/posts/500/comment-page-1#comment-177 Petrina Fri, 04 May 2007 10:37:38 +0000 http://powazek.com/posts/500#comment-177 Admitting the truth - another Aussie with foot in mouth disease too!! Admitting the truth – another Aussie with foot in mouth disease too!!

]]> By: Summer http://powazek.com/posts/500/comment-page-1#comment-60 Summer Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:31:34 +0000 http://powazek.com/posts/500#comment-60 I wish I knew more people like that. Life is so much more exciting around this kind of unpredictability! I wish I knew more people like that. Life is so much more exciting around this kind of unpredictability!

]]> By: Linda Noble http://powazek.com/posts/500/comment-page-1#comment-49 Linda Noble Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:09:53 +0000 http://powazek.com/posts/500#comment-49 My mother is the QUEEN! During my 30th birthday surprise party, in front of a live audience of my friends, she read 30 "funny" stories about me, one for each year I had been alive. It was when she got to the one where I was 12 and the 15 year old boy at the lake "touched me" and I yelled as loud as I could for him not to touch me like that, that the blood drained from my face. Apparently, the way I had told her (when I was 12) about how I handled it all was funny. See for me, there was really no humor in her recounting my near-molestation experience as a humorous anecdote. Yeah, my mother. The QUEEN of the inappropriate comment. My mother is the QUEEN! During my 30th birthday surprise party, in front of a live audience of my friends, she read 30 “funny” stories about me, one for each year I had been alive. It was when she got to the one where I was 12 and the 15 year old boy at the lake “touched me” and I yelled as loud as I could for him not to touch me like that, that the blood drained from my face. Apparently, the way I had told her (when I was 12) about how I handled it all was funny.

See for me, there was really no humor in her recounting my near-molestation experience as a humorous anecdote.

Yeah, my mother. The QUEEN of the inappropriate comment.

]]> By: Renee http://powazek.com/posts/500/comment-page-1#comment-45 Renee Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:52:42 +0000 http://powazek.com/posts/500#comment-45 I have it. And just when I think I have it under control, I manage to prove myself wrong. Like the time about a year after my dad committed suicide and my mother-in-law asked me how my parents were doing, and I said, "Mom's doing ok; Dad's still dead." I am also the person most likely to be loudly saying something embarrassing like "yeast infection" just as the party conversation hits a lull. I have it. And just when I think I have it under control, I manage to prove myself wrong. Like the time about a year after my dad committed suicide and my mother-in-law asked me how my parents were doing, and I said, “Mom’s doing ok; Dad’s still dead.”

I am also the person most likely to be loudly saying something embarrassing like “yeast infection” just as the party conversation hits a lull.

]]> By: Be http://powazek.com/posts/500/comment-page-1#comment-44 Be Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:22:53 +0000 http://powazek.com/posts/500#comment-44 My son has it. In spades. To my bleach blonde mother in law he says "yeah-but when I remembered that your hair was normal colored." There was also the lesson on Martin Luther King Day gone horribly wrong when he yelled "I didn't know McDonald's had SLAVES." and of course the times we have noticed fat people too loudly...really its a wonder I haven't been beaten to a pulp by now. My son has it. In spades. To my bleach blonde mother in law he says “yeah-but when I remembered that your hair was normal colored.” There was also the lesson on Martin Luther King Day gone horribly wrong when he yelled “I didn’t know McDonald’s had SLAVES.” and of course the times we have noticed fat people too loudly…really its a wonder I haven’t been beaten to a pulp by now.

]]> By: theresa http://powazek.com/posts/500/comment-page-1#comment-42 theresa Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:08:51 +0000 http://powazek.com/posts/500#comment-42 My grandma was the same way...once we were at the mall walking by a couple with a baby, and she said, "Did you see that ugly baby? I bet they're going to go leave it in a store, under a pile of clothes. It looked like Elmer Fudd." My grandma was the same way…once we were at the mall walking by a couple with a baby, and she said, “Did you see that ugly baby? I bet they’re going to go leave it in a store, under a pile of clothes. It looked like Elmer Fudd.”

]]> By: Papa http://powazek.com/posts/500/comment-page-1#comment-41 Papa Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:18:47 +0000 http://powazek.com/posts/500#comment-41 Great discussion. Inherited the gene from dear old Dad who loved to shock and embarrass others in equal parts. My question would be where do actions take over from the oral? Does stupid-is-as-stupid does enter this debate? Advanced degrees from university do NOTHING to ameliorate this dubious inheritance. Now retired I go directly to edit before I speak although you'd think my advancing age would allow me some slippage with foot-in-mouth disease. It doesn't. Great discussion. Inherited the gene from dear old Dad who loved to shock and embarrass others in equal parts. My question would be where do actions take over from the oral? Does stupid-is-as-stupid does enter this debate? Advanced degrees from university do NOTHING to ameliorate this dubious inheritance. Now retired I go directly to edit before I speak although you’d think my advancing age would allow me some slippage with foot-in-mouth disease. It doesn’t.

]]> By: Fatbrat http://powazek.com/posts/500/comment-page-1#comment-40 Fatbrat Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:37:47 +0000 http://powazek.com/posts/500#comment-40 I have this gene also and it's damn inconvient when you live in the south! I have a very sweet, very southern, very PC softspoken friend that would never say anything like I sometimes blurt out. (We all know everyone's thinking it, I'm just the one that says it) We've come up with a way to ease the shock value. She now just pats me on the shoulder and tells shocked bystanders "The pharmacy was out of her turrets medication today but they assure us it will be in by the end of the week." She deals so well with me because her mom is just like me. Her mom assures me A wouldn't be so sweet if she hadn't had brain surgery some years back. We assume they did a sneaky lobotomy while they were in there and installed extra filters. :) I have this gene also and it’s damn inconvient when you live in the south! I have a very sweet, very southern, very PC softspoken friend that would never say anything like I sometimes blurt out. (We all know everyone’s thinking it, I’m just the one that says it) We’ve come up with a way to ease the shock value. She now just pats me on the shoulder and tells shocked bystanders “The pharmacy was out of her turrets medication today but they assure us it will be in by the end of the week.” She deals so well with me because her mom is just like me. Her mom assures me A wouldn’t be so sweet if she hadn’t had brain surgery some years back. We assume they did a sneaky lobotomy while they were in there and installed extra filters. :)

]]> By: Mom http://powazek.com/posts/500/comment-page-1#comment-39 Mom Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:47:46 +0000 http://powazek.com/posts/500#comment-39 And I have NO recollection of the slut/girlfriend! Was it really Cindy?? As I get older, my desire to filter is definitely becoming weaker and weaker... I apologize in advance! :-) And I have NO recollection of the slut/girlfriend! Was it really Cindy??
As I get older, my desire to filter is definitely becoming weaker and weaker…
I apologize in advance! :-)

]]> By: Saffrongal http://powazek.com/posts/500/comment-page-1#comment-38 Saffrongal Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:18:19 +0000 http://powazek.com/posts/500#comment-38 While I tend to be dominated more by my edit function, I find those who lack the gene extremely entertaining. Unless, of course, it comes at my expense. Years ago, I was moritified by my wanna-be cowboy father at a stuffy judicial reception after I had been sworn into the state bar. One of the judges for whom I was clerking attempted to strike up conversation with him and asked, "Are you a member of the bar?" To which my dad replied, "I'm a member of any bar that'll have me." While I tend to be dominated more by my edit function, I find those who lack the gene extremely entertaining. Unless, of course, it comes at my expense. Years ago, I was moritified by my wanna-be cowboy father at a stuffy judicial reception after I had been sworn into the state bar. One of the judges for whom I was clerking attempted to strike up conversation with him and asked, “Are you a member of the bar?” To which my dad replied, “I’m a member of any bar that’ll have me.”

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