April Whose?


Wherein Our Heroine Cribs Off Of Someone Else's Jokes.
I was thinking about bowing to the inevitability of today's date in this post, but I've never really been one for practical jokes (cruel) and I'm not feeling clever enough to come up with a fake WoT? post. Luckily, other people have obviously been planning for this day and made my job a lot easier.

One of the job listing e-mails I subscribe to came this morning and was full of terribly silly "job posts" like: Senior Public Affairs Associate, Center for Blame Management, Washington, DC or Media Relations, Marge Schott Foundation for the Advancement of Couth, Cincinnati, Ohio. The thing that's a bit scary about this is I could actually believe there is a "Center for Blame Management" here in DC. There's an Association of Associations, so why not a Center for Blame Management?

But the Marge Schott thing? That's an easy tip-off. You don't even need to check the calendar to know that one is a joke.

I wish this post were real: Communications Weenie, Office of Grammatical Supervision, Washington, DC. I could send them one of my old blog posts in lieu of a cover letter. It's posted as a GS-15, too. That would be a good gig.

This one is good too: Kommunikashunz Pirsun, Huked on Fonix, Mahfreesburah, Tinnasee. I frequently write in dialect (mostly Bahstonian to my expat New England friends), but it's pretty easy to cross that fine line between amused and puzzled. I was recently invited to a book club get-together which included the request to check "shed-wools." We recipients expressed a collective "wha?" at this, and we were instructed to say it in our heads with a teddibly, teddibly uppah-claaahs English accent. It took a while, but we figured it out. Inviso-text for those who might want it (highlight to read): "schedules."

So enjoy April Fool's if that's your thing. I have more important things to attend to: for instance, an appointment with my parole officer.

No, really. That's what I call my outplacement counselor. ;-)
Posted: Thursday - April 01, 2004 at 08:22 AM         | |

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