The Irish

Because I haven't made fun of enough foreigners...

Actually, I'm not making fun. This post has nothing to do with the Irish. But it's a post I've been meaning to write for a long time now. I was in directing class sophomore year of college and Doc was talking about comic timing. He made all of us do this little skit:

A: My grandfather was Irish.
B: Oh really?
A: O'Reilly.

Just say it to yourself a few times. It's so stupid that it's funny.

And also something that will never leave my mind. The ex and I both have this problem. We can't hear the phrase "Oh really?" without saying to ourselves (and sometimes out loud) "O'Reilly".

Oh really?
O'Reilly.

It's true. And somewhat sad. Who knew that the power of Doc's suggestion could be so strong? But we're not the only ones. griff says so too. Not about Doc. But it's the same. You go see. I'll wait here.

Interesting wasn't it? I know.

Anytime the ex and I think of a phrase, it will stick for years. We were making fun of people for saying "supposably" instead of "supposedly". It's on a Friends episode. My best friend from high school says it once in a while. And because we've now said it in jest so many times, it's become a regular part of our speech pattern. If we say one, we must say the other. There are two forms of this phenomenon:

"So I was talking to Jeff, and supposedly (supposably) he likes to smoke crack."
In this instance, we are stating that we still find the word supposably humorous and have not abandoned our inside joke.

"Eagles supposably (supposedly) mate while falling to the earth and sometimes they die."
In this instance, we are proving that we do, in fact, know the correct word and were just making a joke, even though it is more likely that the wrong word popped out because we say it too often.

(Now if you've been reading this and are surprised to know that "supposably" is not actually a word, may I recommend that you go and see a friend of mine named Webster. He'll tell you all you need to know.)

Really.

Or Reilly. Whichever.