The real-life references are killing me

[clocketpatch]

Right, so today was the day when three seperate references converged on me, each stranger than the last, and I had to fight to keep from laughing my head off each time.

1. My Linguistics teacher started ranting on about Welsh people. Nothing new since he did some field work in Wales and often rants about how all people how speak Welsh are crackpots (his words not mine. I have no opinions on the matter) anyway, his discussion somehow led to television and he started explaining Torchwood to th class and why Welsh people are crazy. I think I'm the only one present who understood, but oh... it was funny. So I guess i can now safetly assume he's a Who fan, or at least knows of the show, or something...

2. I was telemarketing and came across a Tom Baker who lives in Little Britian, Ontario. he had a southern drawl when I called him. That's just weird okay?

3. After work I was watching CSI NY on DVD with my room mates and they reversed the polarity of the neutron flow!!!!! I seriously though it was just other sf type shows that stole that bit of techno-garble.

Yeah... I don't know if I'm just becoming obsessive and seeing things that aren't there or what, but there you go. Strange day. Never had a day quite like it before, but... wow.

Just... special.

[Kit]

1. A test on East of Eden in English class once had a true/false question that said: 'Sam Hamilton is an immigrant from Whales' and next to that was written in sharpie '-England'. Well, for one Wales is spelt wrong, and I'm not sure what the '-England was supposed to mean. But I found it rather insulting as Sam was from Ireland.

2. That... that's really scary.

3. =D We reversed the polarity of something in Robotics! It made me squee.

[clocketpatch]

That... that's really scary.

*

quite. Other memorable call names include: Earl Grey (no kidding), Margret Atwood (she didn't answer so I don't know if it was the writer or not), and Davd Tennent (I got an answering machine, but the guy on it WAS Scottish strangely enough)

those are just off the top of my head. I keep a runnin log of strange call names.

[Kit]

I think I may have said this some time ago, but in my old Spanish classroom, 'Sarah Jane was here' was written on the whiteboard. I was all, 'OMG!'.

[magnusgreel]

Feb 29, 2008 6:04:54 GMT Kit said:

I think I may have said this some time ago, but in my old Spanish classroom, 'Sarah Jane was here' was written on the whiteboard. I was all, 'OMG!'.

Well, when you meet her next month, you can ask if it she who scribbled that, but she may not know-- she may not have done it yet. Wait... did I give anything away I shouldn't have?

I liked hearing about clocketpatch's Linguistics teacher who gets mysteriously all worked up about the Welsh.

[Kit]

Well, when you meet her next month, you can ask if it she who scribbled that, but she may not know-- she may not have done it yet. Wait... did I give anything away I shouldn't have?

The Timey-Wimey-ness is making my brain hurt.

[magnusgreel]

It's a good kind of hurt.

[Kit]

Naturally. (: