One of my favorite things to do, whenever I worked with a junior high youth group during my summer at the Boston Project, was to tell the youths that we were not to have any talk of poop and pee at the dinner table while saying the words poop and pee as many times as possible. I can't help it, these are funny words.
I gave you that introduction to prepare you for the line that has made me laugh all day. Though perhaps I should be paving my ground in other ways, and remind you that I am a doctoral student, a serious thinker, a sophisticated poet, a responsible teaching assistant, and loving daughter. The class I am TA'ing this term has the acronym "AHSPO." It's a lot shorter and more convenient than spelling out the whole course title, but it makes for an unfortunate pronunciation. No matter how I try, it inevitably rhymes with a**hole (or a**hole with a British accent). Writing a poll for the class today, I decided to tack on a fun question soliciting alternative pronunciations/solutions. Which brings me back to the line that made me crack up in class, then close the browser and turn my head so I wouldn't burst out laughing, the suggestion that made me smile all day long: ass-poo.
Someone wrote ass-poo. It's the little things that remind me why I got into TA'ing.
UPDATE: (Jesse, upon hearing what I found funny) "Why are the smart ones always so troubled mentally? Ass-poo?"
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