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Aug. 25th, 2013 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupR came over this afternoon and we played Wheel of Fortune on the Wii, at which he defeated me heartily. The only puzzle he didn't get was a "place": THE BIRTHPLACE OF CIRQUE DU SOLEIL.
I ended up solving it, and he turned to me with this wide-eyed look on his face.
R: Is THAT how you spell it?
Me: ...yes. Have you not heard of Cirque du Soleil?
R: PFFT NO I've heard of it! I thought it was spelled differently.
Me: Like how?
R: I've been wrong for years. *long pause* I thought it was Circus Ole.
Me: Circus Ole.
R: Yeah, like....OLE!
Me: *falls off couch laughing*
R: So it's, tell me again, it's...
Me: Cirque du Soleil.
R: *really flat twang* Cirque...du...Soleil.
Me: Could you sound more midwestern right now. My god that was a faceful of Indiana.
He nearly got defeated by BOLOGNESE PASTA SAUCE too, because as he explained to me, there are really only two types of pasta sauce: red jars and white jars. You just go to the red jar section of the grocery store and pick the one that says MEAT on it.
And then we watched the Cubs and the Padres, the two lowest ranked teams in the league, go head to head for FIFTEEN INNINGS.
Me: What happens if they go to sixteen?
R: Human sacrifice.
Me: Who? There's nobody left in the stands.
Fifteen innings. Nobody even scored until the thirteenth. It took stamina just to watch it.
I ended up solving it, and he turned to me with this wide-eyed look on his face.
R: Is THAT how you spell it?
Me: ...yes. Have you not heard of Cirque du Soleil?
R: PFFT NO I've heard of it! I thought it was spelled differently.
Me: Like how?
R: I've been wrong for years. *long pause* I thought it was Circus Ole.
Me: Circus Ole.
R: Yeah, like....OLE!
Me: *falls off couch laughing*
R: So it's, tell me again, it's...
Me: Cirque du Soleil.
R: *really flat twang* Cirque...du...Soleil.
Me: Could you sound more midwestern right now. My god that was a faceful of Indiana.
He nearly got defeated by BOLOGNESE PASTA SAUCE too, because as he explained to me, there are really only two types of pasta sauce: red jars and white jars. You just go to the red jar section of the grocery store and pick the one that says MEAT on it.
And then we watched the Cubs and the Padres, the two lowest ranked teams in the league, go head to head for FIFTEEN INNINGS.
Me: What happens if they go to sixteen?
R: Human sacrifice.
Me: Who? There's nobody left in the stands.
Fifteen innings. Nobody even scored until the thirteenth. It took stamina just to watch it.
