A while back, Web Watch told you about how much we hate certain words – like “mancave” and “actually”.
It ends up that there’s a reason why some of these words really suck – and it’s not because some of these phrases are just stupid made-up things (“vajayjay”) that serve no purpose when other, more practical words can suffice.
Hopefully by now, you’ve heard the story about Caine Monroy and the arcade he made in his dad’s shop, where all the games were made entirely out of cardboard.
No? It’s a phenomenal story. Here – watch this, then continue…
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Web Watch had a rough childhood.
Our father was a bit of a tinkerer. A gadget-guy. (Still is, actually.)
He loves to put things through their paces, then take them apart to see how they worked or if they could be improved upon.
For a while, when we were young, he was infatuated with battery-operated devices – like toys. So he’d go out and buy the latest, greatest battery-operated toy (even better if it was a rechargeable battery). And Web Watch would get to play with the toy for as long as we wanted to.
Go ahead. Have fun with that.
Until Dad decided that it was time for him to take the toy apart and see what made it last as long as it did on that single battery charge.
Web Watch went through a lot of battery-operated toys during that time. Sure, we got to play with all of them, but only for like a day.
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There’s a running joke at Web Watch about one’s ability – or inability – to handle math that’s more advanced than the basic multiplication table.
We’ve counted on our fingers in public more often than we care to note, and we are often despised at the blackjack tables — not because we don’t know the rules of the game or make the incorrect strategy decisions, but rather because we slow the game down tremendously while we determine whether we should hit or stay on a 6 of clubs and an 8 of hearts vs a dealer’s up-card of 4.
Yeah, 6+8 shouldn’t be a difficult piece of math to remember, but sometimes things aren’t as easy as they look.
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Were you one of those kids who really excelled at Social Studies in grade school?
Do you sit there and read through the World Almanac every year?
Can you entertain others at a cocktail party with your ability to name every foreign president in alphabetical order?
Yeah, we didn’t think so. Kids who can do that kind of stuff are pretty much dorks.
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Web Watch has traveled all over the world and has made tons of friends.
We could call up folks from Hong Kong to Morocco, and places in-between using that old-fashioned telephone thingie.
Sure, we could use Facebook to reach out to all our friends, but why do something that impersonal when you can reach out and touch someone with a phone call?
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What color is your bedroom?
Do you like a vibrant, brothel-colored RED bedroom? Or are you more of a cool, soothing off-white neutral color (because it helps with the home sale)?
Colors can certainly affect ones mood – but now surveys show us that there’s one mood that color REALLY has an effect on:
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Web Watch remembers a few times that we had to sit through a few after-school suspensions. We certainly don’t remember the exact cause of having to sit, Breakfast Club-like, in a classroom and “consider our actions”.
We’re sure that we were wrongly accused, completely innocent – whatever it was. Perhaps we need to check out our PERMANENT RECORD someday, to see what horrors we bestowed on our fellow students or faculty.
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