(millennial scoff) More like Lucius Voracious and Titus El Pollo
MightyP
MightyP
by Philip Larkin
Ha! Thanks for the solidarity. We have a good relationship now. She had to heal from hearing the same things from her dad.
My dad used to joke when I had braces that all I needed in addition to those railroad tracks were glasses and then I would never find a husband.
Dad when I was 15: “You could stand to lose a few...” I was around 135 then...and I’m 5’7”.
She definitely does say both (though it’s other side and then outside).
I thought she said outside AND other side
The idea is that she knows it, Warren Beatty knows it, but if he admits he thinks that, even to himself, she proves his point.
Actually, it’s a pretty cool epistemic move that she’s making — unless and until she definitively says who the song’s about, there’s no way to know who it’s really about. But the vain dude is *sure* it’s about him. The point isn’t about whether he’s right or not — it’s that he’s making an assumption that’s based in…
just because he happened to be right, doesn’t make him not vain for thinking it. I think that’s the meta-beauty of the song.
My BFF and I have a running joke about the fact that Johnny is, literally, a hooker with a heart of gold. Dr. Houseman is right to be a little concerned about his daughter dating the prostitute she’s known for a week.
The point is the song “being about you” is hypothetical and the listener is vain for making the assumption that of all the people Carly knows, it’s about him. He is self important.
Untouchable Face- Ani D
I just made a “fuck you” playlist in Spotify. This is a perfect addition! Others???
That’s the joke!
For what it is worth, this guy is a lawyer.
The toaster one reminds me of the time one of the librarians smelled food and tracked it down to a woman who was sitting at a reading desk with a crock pot plugged in underneath it, cooking chicken stew.
Ok, not as good as Atlas Chugged, but how about Dagny Staggered?