Phrases that are just fun to say

Again I begin by indenting my sentence even though I know when this posts...it will be crushed up against the left wall much like the person in the middle of the back seat being crushed against the person to their left when playing "Centrifugal Force".What, you never played? The rules are simple. You need enough people in the back seat to make sure everyone is touching hip to hip. Then, whenever the car takes a corner, each person exaggerates the effect of gravitation upon them...except the person furthest from the turn who anchors themself against the wall and pushes back. This results in the person/people in the middle being crushed between one person using the wall as a brace and everyone else piling on as hard as they can, usually screaming inane babble about "oh, the gravity! I can't stop!" while everyone giggles banaly. Why this is funny I have never figured out. Not that it ever stopped us from playing.Now, there would probably be some justification for this if the person in the middle was a pretty girl or something. To the best of my recollection, however, when a girl was in the middle we never played. Apparently guys have strange preoccupations that don't always make sense.Take, for example, the phrase "Super duper pooper scooper." This was one of the great joys of my childhood. Much like Centrifugal Force, no rational, logical, or even vaguely intelligent reason can be offered for this. It just was.For the mal-educated psuedo-intellectuals out there who may not know what a super duper pooper scooper is and are curious, I shall attempt to exlain. It is a long and involved explanation that will require every ounce of brainpower you have available. Ready? Good.I have no idea.Have you grasped that concept? Good. As far as I recall, it was something that followed horses in the interminable parades we had in St. Helens when I was growing up. Typically they were after the 4-H horses. Every 4-H club seemed to have horses. Sometimes it made sense, like when it was the 4-H Horse Club, the 4-H Show Horses, the 4-H Rodeo people and so forth. Other times it was a bit more confusing. Like when it was the 4-H Microwave Cooking Class. What, exactly, did that have to do with horses? Why did they need to ride?Of course, we did not care. It gave us another chance to scream, "Here come the super dooper pooper scoopers!" and laugh maniacally. As I recall, much of my childhood was spent laughing maniacally.Really, though, there is just something magiacal about the phrase Super Duper Pooper Scoopers. It wasn't just a scoop for poop. It was a super scoop for poop that was somehow duper. Now there is a word you don't hear every day."How are you today?""Oh, just duper."No, you can only be duper if you are first super. How this relates to a horse that is a super pooper is unclear. Also, what exactly is a super poop? Is it small, tidy and unsmelly? Or is it a massive, steamiong effort that befouls the air for miles around? Also, if the pooper performs not super can the super duper pooper scooper clean it up or must he wait for a regular pooper scooper?So many questions, so few answers. All I know is the phrase super duper pooper scooper is fun to say. Don't worry, this post was easy to write. It was Nothing. (although Horrible might have wanted to make a contribution)note: running jokes, for example, Nothing and Horrible, are much funnier if you know where they came from. Thanks, Spiggyman, for the Horrible joke...good stuff.

1 comment:

Riot Kitty said...

Do you have any Super Duper Idiot Scoopers? I could use one on 26 in the mornings.