Everyone has guilty pleasures, right? Well, one of mine is reading hilariously funny blogs of questionable taste. There are a few that stick out in my mind, for example, Heather Armstrong's blog at Dooce.com. Her pictures of her cute dog, Chuck, with things balancing on his head never fail to crack me up. Why do I think this is funny? I have no idea. (Click on the link and see if you agree with me!)
Another website that makes me laugh out loud, even though I feel like I shouldn't, is the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. Some anonymous person who calls himself "Fake Steve" pretends to be Steve Jobs, and writes a completely irreverent, tasteless, yet hilarious website.
For example, a recent post talks about his lunch with Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi. This is what he had to say:
We meet in this Thai restaurant in Los Gatos. Out back, private room. Table set with knives and forks. She tries to be all cool and hip-to-the-ethnicity-thang and asks for chopsticks. Waiter gives her this funny look but brings her back chopsticks, kinda laughing at her. And he offers them to us, too, like, Here you go, stupid white people. Al takes his, all proud of himself, but I tell the guy, in Thai, (which yes I happen to speak), No thank you, I'll use a knife and fork, I'm not a frigtard like my companions. Waiter cracks the frig up, I mean like doubles over. Pelosi's kind of taken aback so I tell her, Um, actually, Thai people don't use chopsticks. They eat with knives and forks. She goes, really? I go, Yup. No matter, she's sticking with her chopsticks. Then she asks the dude if they've got sushi. He kind of groans. Finally I just order for the table and when the food comes, sure enough, she goes ahead and eats her pad thai with friggin chopsticks, like a frigtard, and Al does the same, though he clearly has no friggin idea how to use them and looks like someone trying to eat a hot dog with a pair of baseball bats.
I never knew Steve Jobs knew so much about Thai language and culture. I wonder how he would do at a Charity Bowling event in Bangkok...
Funny, I always thought it was forks and spoons with the spoon being the tool of choice? :-)
That is a way funny story though.
Haha. Good eye, Charles. You're right, Thai people (in general) don't use knives either. It's a fork and spoon all the time, like you said. Although when they eat noodles (like pad thai) they will sometimes use chopsticks after all.
Which is just another reason why that paragraph is so funny to me. He tries to make it sound like he is so knowledgeable about everything, but he really doesn't have any more of a clue than "Pelosi".
I still also like the simile at the end: "Using chopsticks like eating a hot dog with baseball bats."