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Another public service announcement
Every once in a while, my favorite blog, "The Art of Darkness," posts a list of amusing things the blogger has seen online. I found the most recent of these posts
http://www.shadowmanor.com/blog/?p=16502
particularly entertaining, as it included, among other quotes, the following:
"I will be buried in a spring loaded casket filled with confetti, and a future archaeologist will have one awesome day at work." JiminyKicksIt
"I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert “by zombies” after the verb, you have passive voice." johnsonr
and
dammit owls you KNOW who this is" donni.
However, I feel compelled to correct a misapprehension of sighties as expressed in the following statement:
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man doesn’t really have to wear clothes ever. KenJennings
In my experience, I can almost always tell when a man is naked, because there are basically two kinds of men (outside of one's partner) in the world.
One is the kind of man who sounds really embarrassed when accidentally caught naked, even by a blind woman.
The other kind of man sounds really proud when caught naked, even by a blind woman.
Three- or four-year-old boys exhibit no particular affect when caught naked by anybody. (I have my suspicions that housemate T. falls into this category.)
http://www.shadowmanor.com/blog/?p=16502
particularly entertaining, as it included, among other quotes, the following:
"I will be buried in a spring loaded casket filled with confetti, and a future archaeologist will have one awesome day at work." JiminyKicksIt
"I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert “by zombies” after the verb, you have passive voice." johnsonr
and
dammit owls you KNOW who this is" donni.
However, I feel compelled to correct a misapprehension of sighties as expressed in the following statement:
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man doesn’t really have to wear clothes ever. KenJennings
In my experience, I can almost always tell when a man is naked, because there are basically two kinds of men (outside of one's partner) in the world.
One is the kind of man who sounds really embarrassed when accidentally caught naked, even by a blind woman.
The other kind of man sounds really proud when caught naked, even by a blind woman.
Three- or four-year-old boys exhibit no particular affect when caught naked by anybody. (I have my suspicions that housemate T. falls into this category.)
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It's why Toph on Avatar the last airbender is so wonderful -- she has that same blase attitude. "You're gonna throw a 400 ton metal boat on my head? No problem." Yet it's not at all a super-crip "I can do anything" response. I think it's the result of handling ridiculously difficult challenges and surviving, like most PhD students.
Why was that WGBH producer asking about "is she or isn't she"?
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The radio producer was, I think, trying to make a point about truth in documentary stories, but I don't think he was expecting a ringer disabled person. He may not have even realized I was blind--a lot of people just thought I was very goth, wearing all black and keeping my sunglasses on, even indoors.