Insurmountable Chasms in Age and Culture
Dec. 16th, 2017 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newlifeinstpaulFor those of you who don't already know, two things.
1) I am older than my Missus by roughly 15 years, 10 months.
2) I'm from the West Side of the D (Six Mile and Schaefer); she's from the Canadian Prairie.
Which means I find myself translating my own pop culture references. A lot.
So!
One of my running jokes is that she's ALWAYS wearing far too many layers of clothing, particularly on her ass. I mean, there is way, way WAYY too much work to do between me and Party Central. 'Specially at home--where, if you ask me, there's no legitimate reason to wear anything. There's all sorts of punchlines and taglines involved, but you were told that much to tell you this.
Me: I swear fo GOD. Sweaters and sweater tops and long shirts and seriously, What the Hell?
B: ...
Me: Trying to see your bum is like the 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, DAYUM.
B: The who?
Me: Good Lord, really?
B: Who was--
Me: Bartholomew Cubbins was s'posed to take his hat off for the king, see? But every time he took off one hat, another hat was right underneath it.
B: Was that in the Bible or something?
Me: *collapses onto floor in a heap*
1) I am older than my Missus by roughly 15 years, 10 months.
2) I'm from the West Side of the D (Six Mile and Schaefer); she's from the Canadian Prairie.
Which means I find myself translating my own pop culture references. A lot.
So!
One of my running jokes is that she's ALWAYS wearing far too many layers of clothing, particularly on her ass. I mean, there is way, way WAYY too much work to do between me and Party Central. 'Specially at home--where, if you ask me, there's no legitimate reason to wear anything. There's all sorts of punchlines and taglines involved, but you were told that much to tell you this.
Me: I swear fo GOD. Sweaters and sweater tops and long shirts and seriously, What the Hell?
B: ...
Me: Trying to see your bum is like the 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, DAYUM.
B: The who?
Me: Good Lord, really?
B: Who was--
Me: Bartholomew Cubbins was s'posed to take his hat off for the king, see? But every time he took off one hat, another hat was right underneath it.
B: Was that in the Bible or something?
Me: *collapses onto floor in a heap*
