this morning

[jinian]

As Wim and I were brushing each other's hair this morning, we happened to discuss a stupid radio commercial. [Footnote: I have the alarm on radio, because the stupidity of the morning DJs causes me to get out of bed far more effectively than a mere beeping.] It was for some matchmaking site that I don't remember the name of but had resolved not to publicize anyway. It was mainly just stupid, but contained the immortal line, "Your soul mate could be on line right now!"

*snicker*

I have had occasion recently to think about whether I believe I have a soul mate, and the answer is a big fat NO. I don't think that other people can't, but I'm pretty sure I don't. It's a metaphysical idea, I have a metaphysical certainty about it. Works for me. But... if I did have any, of course they would be on line a lot. Probably right now, if they're in a time zone that means they're already awake.

So I said something goofy about it being a contradiction and a tautology all at the same time, and Wim said, "It's a contradiction, wrapped in a tautology, wrapped in an enchilada!"

Okay, that is my cute boyfriend quote story for the day. Please throw fresh tomatoes; the rotten ones displease the cats.

Comments

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

I was just talking last night about those ads in the back of the paper, like "meet someone new in the next 10 minutes!", which always sound vaguely creepy to me, like, wait, some stranger is going to come to my door and want to do WHAT with me?

maybe they need special personal ads for the literal-minded among us, "using our service there might be some interesting people for you to speak with pleasantly, and at some future time you might have sexual relations with each other and/or choose to engage in a romantic/emotional entanglement. wrapped in an enchilada."

a ha ha h ha

the endangered spiked enchilada

[waywind.livejournal.com]

at first, I read "enchilada" as "echidna."

how do you wrap something in an echidna? I don't know, but it would squirm an awful lot of you tried.