Recently, I finished reading this wonderful book by Lewis Black called “Me of little faith” given to me as a gift and signed by the author himself. That’s exciting! I have never had anything signed over to me personally though I gotta wonder; as he was signing the book he must have been thinking “’Misagh’ ? what the hell kinda name is that ?!” to which I usually reply “It’s one with the GH sound. You know like how the French pronounce the R in ‘Merci’ ? It’s like that, yes actually it’s French!”.
Nah, fuck the French. I guess I should be just glad that my name is not “Gholam-Gholy Ghare Ghoz Loo”! Can you imagine my email address ?
“Gholam.Gholy _under_eskor_GhareGhoz_2006@yahoo.com”.
Yes, that is exactly why Iranians keep getting rejected at the immigration office. Try filling out an application with that, good luck!
- Hi, I am sorry can I get another blank paper ? My email does not fit one this one!
Anyway, what was I gonna say ? Ah yes, it’s a great book that entails the author’s various encounters with different religions and his experience and understanding of each obviously all narrated in a very funny way. Little anecdotes here and there, funny stuff, but one of them really clicked with me. Let’s see if I can remember:
Half way into the story, the author travels to the Mormon town as a tourist to visit the city and a get a load of exactly what it is that Mormons do/don’t. He joins a group and in all their sightseeing, they come across this huge fantastically monumental church, beautiful architecture and giant statues and everything. At this point, standing right in front of the Church, he is so fascinated with the view that almost spontaneously involuntarily he yells in awe (aka. vain): “Oh, JESUS CHRIST”.
Can you imagine standing in a group full of hardcore religious people in front of the Mormon church screaming the Lord’s name in vain ? The others looked at him like he’d committed the original sin or something but I perfectly understood him. His intention was not at all to offend or insult the Lord. It’s just a fucking expression meant to communicate an extreme feeling of, I don’t know, just about anything.
Take the expression “Fuck You” for instance. It has absolutely no sexual meaning. It would actually be a lot more offensive, not to mention self deprecating if you applied the sexual context. Why ?
Well, you’re trying to wish the worst for your opponent and you’re thinking about the most horrible cruel painful thing you could ever come up with. So, let me ask: the most awful curse apparently for you is to “Fuck” them and that experience would end up being so horrible that could damn’em to hell for all eternity, right ?!
Really ? really ?! I am sorry, if I choose to fuck someone I’d like to think that would be a happy experience worthy of remembering, not a damnation!
Nah, fuck the French. I guess I should be just glad that my name is not “Gholam-Gholy Ghare Ghoz Loo”! Can you imagine my email address ?
“Gholam.Gholy _under_eskor_GhareGhoz_2006@yahoo.com”.
Yes, that is exactly why Iranians keep getting rejected at the immigration office. Try filling out an application with that, good luck!
- Hi, I am sorry can I get another blank paper ? My email does not fit one this one!
Anyway, what was I gonna say ? Ah yes, it’s a great book that entails the author’s various encounters with different religions and his experience and understanding of each obviously all narrated in a very funny way. Little anecdotes here and there, funny stuff, but one of them really clicked with me. Let’s see if I can remember:
Half way into the story, the author travels to the Mormon town as a tourist to visit the city and a get a load of exactly what it is that Mormons do/don’t. He joins a group and in all their sightseeing, they come across this huge fantastically monumental church, beautiful architecture and giant statues and everything. At this point, standing right in front of the Church, he is so fascinated with the view that almost spontaneously involuntarily he yells in awe (aka. vain): “Oh, JESUS CHRIST”.
Can you imagine standing in a group full of hardcore religious people in front of the Mormon church screaming the Lord’s name in vain ? The others looked at him like he’d committed the original sin or something but I perfectly understood him. His intention was not at all to offend or insult the Lord. It’s just a fucking expression meant to communicate an extreme feeling of, I don’t know, just about anything.
Take the expression “Fuck You” for instance. It has absolutely no sexual meaning. It would actually be a lot more offensive, not to mention self deprecating if you applied the sexual context. Why ?
Well, you’re trying to wish the worst for your opponent and you’re thinking about the most horrible cruel painful thing you could ever come up with. So, let me ask: the most awful curse apparently for you is to “Fuck” them and that experience would end up being so horrible that could damn’em to hell for all eternity, right ?!
Really ? really ?! I am sorry, if I choose to fuck someone I’d like to think that would be a happy experience worthy of remembering, not a damnation!
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