wickedflea | (no subject)

Whew, I finally got a couple of things that I've been working on for a couple of weeks off my desk. That feels good.

One of my favorite things to say is "There's snakes all up in it!" This phrase stems from an incident that happened when I was sixteen or so. Bork took Fool, Grimmett, and me over to Yazoo City to be extras at the filming of Miss Firecracker. Part of the movie is set at a county fair, so they had a bunch of cheap-ass rides set up. We were waiting in line to ride this scrambler type thing where you're in a car at the end of a long arm that goes up and down as the whole thing spins around. Anyway, the ride came to a stop, and as it did, one of the cars came to rest right in front of us as we waited to go through the gate, and this little kid with a huge afro looked down, made gestures with his hands like he was untangling something, and said, "It's SNAKES all up in it."

That killed me -- like he was going to scare the shit out of us, "It's SNAKES all up in it."

Anyway, that remains one of my catch phrases. If someone's having computer problems, there are snakes all up in it. Copier jammed? Snakes all up in it. Chef's salad tastes less than fresh? Snakes all up in it. The Starkville Daily News once even printed my allegation that there were snakes all up in a certain dumpster in town.

No wonder no one ever knows what the hell I'm talking about.

(By the way, I didn't end up showing up in that movie, probably because my cronies and I insisted on doing dumb shit in the crowd scenes, like mouthing obscenities at one another. *sigh*)