Last week the family started watching American Idol on Fox. There’s really some great comedy to be found in these first handful of audition shows. One word for some of these people sums it up… BALLS! Which is sort of a segue into how a small group of big players jumped into line to figuratively sucker punch me when I had one eye closed.
It goes like this. The folks at Fox and American Idol decide it’d be funny to show the one of the more creepy contestants. Guy writes his own song going on about how he’s gonna sneak into Paula Abdul’s house and try on her underwear etc. All the while a fiendish grin on his face. Anyway, Busta Rhymes proceeds to sing about if Paula was a bathtub he’d CAULK her…. Cue the laugh track.
Did I mention my kids are watching? Then it comes (wink) “what’s caulk” (wince) which we quickly defined, changed the subject and continued watching.
Now my wife and I are not the naive types who think their 10 and 12 year olds don’t talk their fair share of shit on the playground, but I sorta feel I was tapped on the shoulder and hit before I could turn around. This comedic event is not what prompted this post. It’s how the others seemed to get in line to follow suit.
It’s now almost a week later and my kids are singing that song thanks the brilliant memory of a child when my daughter realizes she didn’t get the answer she was looking for in our definition of caulk and decides to look it up in Oxford American Dictionaries conveniently located in the Dashboard of our Apple iMac. She’s a good speller and naturally types in COCK. There it is – a penis. My son goes on to ask again “what does that mean” when daughter armed with her new found knowledge puts two and two together (she’s also very good at math) and yells down from our living room “HE WANTS TO NAIL HER!”
DAMN!
So to sum it up, American Idol gets the finger for no warning system, the construction industry gets the finger for its slew of double entendres (but also a wink and a chuckle), Linksys sucks ’cause I have it on the “block these words” list but it still… slipped through. Apple and Oxford fit in there somewhere too.
I’m tweaked…
Filed under: American Idol, Apple Computer, Construction Industry, Linksys, Oxford American Dictionaries
