Trivia (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Wednesday, 28 July 2004

Trivia

Silly observations that don’t really deserve their own posts:

Yesterday in Ann Arbor was cold, rainy, and dreary—to the extent I actually had to switch on the heat in my apartment last night, lest I freeze to death (good thing I decided to have the gas switched on after all). Today, on the other hand, it’s around 80° and sunny, and supposed to stay in the 80s through the next week or so. Weird.
Maybe I’m getting old or something, but there’s something very disturbing about a current pop hit which has a chorus about a sexual technique. Particularly when it’s performed by someone best known for singing the theme to Disney’s “Kim Possible.” (What may even be more disturbing is I can’t figure out what sexual technique it is.)
Not to start a big brou-ha-ha like the recently-raging conflict over the relative “hotness” of libertarian women, but I‘ll put any five randomly selected young Mississippi women (18–35) against a comparably-selected slate of native Michiganders any day.
Would anyone know who Ashlee Simpson was if it weren’t for her sister?

4 comments:

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1. Brock Sides wrote @ Wed, 28 Jul 2004, 10:25 pm CDT:

What may even be more disturbing is I can’t figure out what sexual technique it is.

Don’t feel bad. I’m still trying to figure out “My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.”

And damn straight about Mississippi women!

2. Chris Jones wrote @ Thu, 29 Jul 2004, 1:47 am CDT:

Who’s her sister?

3. Nick wrote @ Thu, 29 Jul 2004, 10:57 am CDT:

“Not to start a big brou-ha-ha like the recently-raging conflict over the relative “hotness” of libertarian women, but I‘ll put any five randomly selected young Mississippi women (18–35) against a comparably-selected slate of native Michiganders any day.”

You’ll get no argument from me there (having never been to Mississippi, even), but you might also want to keep in mind sample bias: Ann Arbor is much better known for having smart women than attractive women (not that they’re mutually exclusive, but in this case, they mostly are).

4. Chris Lawrence wrote @ Thu, 29 Jul 2004, 4:35 pm CDT:

Brock: Heh; I can’t figure that one out myself. And I thought I had a pretty good lexicon of dirty words and phrases.

Chris: She’s Nick Lachey’s wife.

Nick: Yes, but why are they mostly mutually-exclusive in Ann Arbor? I didn’t see any shortage of smart, attractive young women at BCITS when I went for my interview, for example.

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