Sunday, August 10, 2008
On A Scale of 1 to 5---five being the best-----
Here in the "States", where 30 second soundbites rule---(anything longer than that leads to boredom or confusion) most everything is rated on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the most favorable rating. The use of this rating scale being a prevalent as it is, makes for very brief but meaningful verbal exchanges---and encourages everyone to be minimalist in their answer. "How was your day dear?" (not needing to be said ---"On a scale of ---"), one hear's maybe a grunt and, "I rate it as a 2.5, and how was yours?", "not bad I would rate it 3. 8"-----"Whats for dinner?", "I made meatloaf, is that okay?", another guttural grunt, a shoulder shrug, "give it a 3",---------anyway you can see how totally useful the scale is and how its applied---those that "twitter" just think its a total "5".----with a bit more practice we can cut out all face to face communications and just exist in our small comfortable cubicles (aka wombs) and live a fairly decent comfortable, non-threatened life---(will somebody shut the door so the light goes out---sorry that was a hang up I developed when first born and they put me in an incubator.
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Hey old dude! I am so glad you stopped by...sorry about the content youhad to witness. I normally am very inclusive and vague on bodily functions and such. Please come back!!!! Us old folks need to stick together!
ReplyDeleteBTW, your site is a definite 4.6 for the lack of cursing. I myself have gutteral speech and quite often explode with explitives, ya know, like "shit" and "damn". Had I seen one or two, I would have graded it a 5.
wHERE DO YOU COME UP WITH THIS STUFF? I AM CURIOUS AS TO OUR ASSOCIATION. HOW COME I AM NOT SO ASTUTE, COMPLEX OR JUST PLAIN PRACTICAL THINKING AS YOU? WE ARE OF THE SAME DNA.
ReplyDeleteMAYBE, MAYBE, IT COMES LATER IN LIFE.
5
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ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by my blog, old dude! You're funny. Now heading out to research the term "nebish"...
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ReplyDeleteOn a scale from 1-5. I give this post a 1 simply because I know you know what the hell you are talking about and I am sure you will clue the rest of us in soon. LOL
ReplyDelete---ooooh and since when did anyone EVER think that I knew what I was doing---?? I'm not smart enough to be that devious Wendy---but wait yout teasing me aren't ya?
ReplyDeleteWhy not just eliminate words all together.
ReplyDeleteNo. 47 "1" = hello
No. 48 his wife "1"
No. 47 "15" = how was your day
No. 48 "13" = very bad
Then there's the old joke about the prisoners that have been in jail so long they tell jokes by numbers. A newby gets in a cell and says "let me try that out" so he hollers down the cell block "38"! Dead quiet. Again he yells "38"! Still nothing. He turns to his cellmate and says "what's wrong?" His cellmate turns to him and says "you didn't tell it right." ;-)
Huh?
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