The defense counsel would like to say a few words

[slipjig3]

Okay. So let's say you're watching Top Chef with your significant other, and let's say it's the premiere episode of season 6 (a.k.a. the Parade of Nasal-Voiced Throbbing Egos Who Couldn't Boil an Egg With an Instruction Manual season), wherein four out of the 17 contestants decide they're going to prepare halibut for an elimination challenge on the theme of "my greatest vice."

Now, on the one hand, you might be excused, perhaps even expected, to cry out loud, "WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE MAKING HALIBUT FOR THIS?" But by the same token, you should not be excused for being upset if your significant other were to reply with a deadpan "I dunno. Just for the halibut, I guess," because you bloody well knew it was coming, and thus your death threats should perhaps be saved for a more appropriate occasion. That's all I'm saying.

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Unrelatedly, figmentj and I both wholeheartedly embrace ultra_lilac's suggestion that Google Plus be colloquially referred to in conversation as "Goo-Ploo." Pass it on.

Comments

[rain-herself.livejournal.com]

Don't you mean CHEFTESTANTS?

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*twitch*

I know where you sleep.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Word. *fist-bump*

[yendi]

Seriously, when you hang a curveball right out over the middle of the plate, you can't be surprised at the result.

[rain-herself.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised when Sarah Palin says something stupid, but that does not stop me from wanting to punch her in the face.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

WHY DO YOU WANT TO PUNCH ME? WHYYYYY?

[rain-herself.livejournal.com]

Just for the HALIBUT, I guess.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*GLOWER*




(...should have mentioned sockeye salmon. Just saying.)

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

MORE EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENSE: I began reading this post aloud to *my* significant other, one [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]. Before getting to the punchline (in this case, the pun is not intended), he immediately saw where the conversation was going and vocalized the offending phrase himself, moments before I could read the defense's version. So I mean, if it's so obvious that other people are making the same joke when given the set up, it really isn't anyone's fault.

[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

"Top Chef" has started? Quickly, Batman, to the TiVo!

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm disappointed that Google didn't go for the slightly more obvious and geeky "GooglePlex" as their moniker.

(I found myself calling it GooglePlex the other day.)