Kannst du jetzt mich hören?

[cosmolinguist]

Gut!

I just saw a commercial that I can tell is of the kind that gets old very quickly, but since this is the first time I've seen it, I found it amusing. It's a Verizon ad (thus the subject line; there's a connection I promise) about text messaging.

Someone gets a message that just says "Duck." I'm waiting for something to fly through the air over this person's head, but instead another person gets a message that also says "Duck." Then I got it. Sure enough, the third person's message says "Goose." She looks at the guy across the table from her (I think they're in a restaurant or something; they're at least around people who have no idea what's going on) and of course gets up and people run around and be silly as the functional part of the commercial takes over.

I don't care about cell phones or "text" used as a verb, but I did appreciate the idea of practicing such random acts of silliness.

Still, this made me think of the goose/grey duck controversy of my freshman year. It all started when my friend Seth and I realized that, close as we are, he's a goose and I'm a grey duck. We figured it was a regional thing--sure, we live in the same state, but he makes fun of Canada, I make fun of Iowa--but had to enlist the opinions of our friends.

But it's grey duck!

Oh yeah: the subject line means "Can you hear me now?" auf Deutsch and is something Matthew told me about. Apparently it had something to do with a contest to portray what the world would be like now if the Nazis had won, or something. Matthew thought it was really funny, and I do too.

Comments

[star-eyed-lady.livejournal.com]

It's definately grey duck! And I'm far north enough to make fun of Canada. I also make fun of Iowa, but I think that's because my dad's from Iowa.

[cosmolinguist]

No, it's because Iowa is begging to be made fun of. They hardly have any trees! Or lakes. So we are superior to them.

And thank you for the grey duck support! (and even spelling it with an E like I did)