What's up with that?
Jan. 11th, 2007 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterBack in summer camp in high school, we used to play a game called the Question Game. Basically, you would go around in a circle and each person would have to ask a question that hadn't been asked before. Eventually, one of the guys started doing things like saying, "The sky is blue. What's up with that?" And the "What's up with that?" game was born. We were pen-pals for quite a while after camp, and I'll never forget the duct-tape letter he sent me (in an envelope made of duct tape!).
In any case, something calls for a W^WT? (the new abbreviation I just invented):
Australians drive on the left. But they row on the right. W^WT?
On the other hand, getting to row in Melbourne is AWESOME. They call their boathouses Boat Sheds, because the boathouses are a bunch of historic buildings that hold rowboats and kayaks and canoes. There are something like 7 Boat Sheds all lined up and filled to the gills with boats, and rowing goes back to the 1850's here. The river's a little bit smaller than the Charles, but is very pretty. Oh, and the coaches ride their bikes along the shore and shout into their megaphones. I cannot understand a F*ing word* they're saying, but it sounds good, I guess.
*this is a trademark phrase used by R. If you know how to say it in French, PLEASE let me know. I know that a word that's pronounced "pew-TAN" substitutes nicely for the F-word, but that's about as much as I remember--and that the verb is some version of "comprehende".
In any case, something calls for a W^WT? (the new abbreviation I just invented):
Australians drive on the left. But they row on the right. W^WT?
On the other hand, getting to row in Melbourne is AWESOME. They call their boathouses Boat Sheds, because the boathouses are a bunch of historic buildings that hold rowboats and kayaks and canoes. There are something like 7 Boat Sheds all lined up and filled to the gills with boats, and rowing goes back to the 1850's here. The river's a little bit smaller than the Charles, but is very pretty. Oh, and the coaches ride their bikes along the shore and shout into their megaphones. I cannot understand a F*ing word* they're saying, but it sounds good, I guess.
*this is a trademark phrase used by R. If you know how to say it in French, PLEASE let me know. I know that a word that's pronounced "pew-TAN" substitutes nicely for the F-word, but that's about as much as I remember--and that the verb is some version of "comprehende".
