this week is "national natural family planning awareness" week. when i saw that in the most recent issue of family foundations, the magazine of the couple to couple league, i filed it away in my brain, thinking, "hmmmm, that would be a good time to hash out some of my thoughts that have been floating around in my brain."
but when i try to sit down and write about nfp, i can't get past my amusement that, in my head, when i think of "n. f. p" i can't help but mentally sing the letters to the tune of "lbj" from the musical hair. then i get further distracted thinking i should make up my own nfp appropriate lyrics to go with the rest of the tune. the part that amuses me the most about this is that i've only seen hair (the movie) once and listened to the soundtrack a few times while my brother learned the lyrics to one of the songs for an audition back in high school. so tonight, i decided to youtube the song to hear what the rest of the lyrics were, because all i remembered was the "l.b.j" part. and this is what i found.
after listening to the song, i still couldn't really figure out what they were saying. (i can never understand the song parts of musicals-which is why i have a hard time following the plot and don't like musicals. i know, i'm weird.)all i could catch was lbj, lsd, cia, fbi, cackle, cackle, cackle. so i looked up the lyrics and they are:
LBJ took the IRT
Down to 4th Street USA
When he got there
What did he see?
The youth of America on LSD
LBJ IRT
USA LSD
LSD LBJ
FBI CIA
FBI CIA
LSD LBJ
no wonder it didn't make any sense. and then i thought, "well, those lyrics are pretty simple, i should be able to come up with something nfp appropriate to go along with that." but i got nothin'.
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on a somewhat related tangent, initial abbreviations really annoy me. i'm very literal, so when i read clever, instant message/texting abbreviations, my brain gets confused. like when someone comments on facebook "rofl" to something that amused them, my brain thinks, "why are they rofling?" (which is like ralphing. translated-they are vomiting.) i hate all the mothering related message board lingo-"cding and bfing sahm to 2 dds". WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!!! okay, i know what it means, but come on people-use words! (i know, i know, this coming from the girl that refuses to capitalize, but still.)
as i was reading family foundations the other day, embedded in an article, it had an info box entitled, "understanding TOB". i read that as, understanding tob, like a word that rhymes with job, like the guy in the bible. and i'm thinking, who is tob? is that short for toby? i don't remember there being a toby in this article. and then i realized they were talking about theology of the body. dangit people. words. words i tell you!
little black dress, when mentioned in magazine articles like, "every woman needs a LBD" makes me think "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender" (lgbt) or "latter-day saints" (lds) "why does every woman need a mormon lesbian?" it's so confusing to live in my head.
and finally, this rant wouldn't be complete without a discussion of the term "woot". a lot of people use it on facebook (yes i'm looking at a few of you) and it makes my brain glitch. at first, when i saw it, i just didn't get it. then, after seeing it enough in context, i figured it meant something like "hooray" or "good for you/me". but where did this come from? so i googled it and this is what i found on wikipedia. i still want to ask people, "why do you use that term?" i suppose i'll still be your friend if you do, but just know that your making my brain hiccup when you do.
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well, i think i've sullied the good name of natural family planning enough. i really thought i'd be able to pull out of my goofy mood, but the headache that i have makes brow furrowing deep thought hurt, so i just couldn't do it.
peace out. woot woot!
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haha! I loved the stream of consciousness style of this post. Especially the part about a lesbian mormon :)
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ReplyDeleteI also have a hard time understanding people on online message boards. Took me forever to learn what DD, DS and DH meant. And for the longest time, I though lmao (laughing my a** off) was IMAO and I had no idea what that could mean.
ReplyDeleteI knew exactly what song from Hair you were referring to. I love that musical although it has no plot and makes no sense most of the time.
My least favorite acronym, if you could call it that, is B16 for Our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI. (Not that I call him that whole name, just making a point here.) It makes me cringe.
ReplyDeleteHa! this was the laugh i desperately needed!! Thanks Mare:) i agree w/ patty- every time i see B16 i think of the B52's which makes me think of U2. And that's just a small taste of the scariness that roles around between my ears:) one of the few acronyms i like is "idk". it just rolls off the tongue of my brain. as for the rest of the shams and dd's and whatevers- i still am too un-cool to know what they mean and refuse to look them up.
ReplyDeletehaha this post made me laugh out loud. but not LOL. because then i would annoy you. ;-D
ReplyDeleteI used to really hate these message board/texting acronyms but when I started typing while nursing and texting I realized their great value. That said I still refuse to use "ROFL" because it sounds like ruffle to me and that doesn't carry the same image as saying "I was rolling on the floor laughing". Plus when people use this, I have a hard time believing they are literally on their floor laughing. but when I do envision that, it does make me want to ROFL.
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