{"id":11743,"date":"2011-01-18T23:39:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T04:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/11743\/hold-hand-mmm-kay\/"},"modified":"2011-01-18T23:39:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T04:39:45","slug":"hold-hand-mmm-kay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/11743\/hold-hand-mmm-kay\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold My Hand, mmm kay?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sense of humor is like a fingerprint.\u00a0 There are no two exactly the same.\u00a0 It\u2019s got little swoops and swerves and patterns that may resemble the sense of fingerprints of other people.\u00a0 Similarities can be noticed, but what is \u201cfunny\u201d varies as much as people do.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For example, today I was sitting in class, listening to a rather dry lecture in my Adolescent Assessment and Treatment class when I noticed a little habit of the lecturer.\u00a0 At least once a minute, as he was finishing a point, he would say, \u201cokay?\u201d\u2026 actually, he shortened it to simply \u201ckay?\u201d with just the slightest inquisitive upwards inflection at the end.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The most influential orator of our day has an issue with saying \u201cumm\u201d too much, so I\u2019m not going to be overly critical of this guy.\u00a0 When I\u2019m speaking to a group of people, I occasionally find myself slipping into a habit that drives me nuts when others do it: the superfluous \u201cy\u2019know?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Like many professors, the guy talking today was mostly bald and wore eyeglasses.\u00a0 He was talking about how drugs are bad for youth, kay? Oh. My. God<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 MY INSTRUCTOR IS MR. MACKEY FROM SOUTH PARK!!<\/em>
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This made me chuckle when I made the connection in my head, but then it got worse.\u00a0 The \u201ckay?\u201d\u2019s started becoming \u201cm\u2019kay?\u201d\u2019s.\u00a0 I could barely control myself.\u00a0 My sense of humor was making me hear things!\u00a0 Or was I?\u00a0 Was there just the slightest little \u201cmmm\u201d before the ubiquitous \u201ckay?\u201d\u2019s ?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Point being, even if I had explained the situation, I think I would be the only one in the room who found it funny.\u00a0 Now, Mr Mackey\u2026err\u2026the instructor seems like a pretty hip guy.\u00a0 Probably finds South Park amusing.\u00a0 Maybe on the last day of the semester, I will explain why (and I\u2019m sure I will be constantly listening for the mm\u2019kay?\u2019s from here on out) I had often seem on the verge of laughter.\u00a0 He\u2019s part time faculty; I won\u2019t have him in future classes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What kind of private jokes do you have with yourself?
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\nIn my ongoing active denial that I have to really start packing this week, I put out a request for song requests into the FriendBurst stream yesterday.\u00a0 Rig Veda asked for the tune \u201cHold My Hand\u201d, which I had not heard of before, but I guess was a post-humous hit for one Michael Jackson.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I really need to stay out of the high register songs, but I\u2019m not too displeased\u00a0 with the results\u2026
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A sense of humor is like a fingerprint.\u00a0 There are no two exactly the same.\u00a0 It\u2019s got little swoops and swerves and patterns that may resemble the sense of fingerprints of other people.\u00a0 Similarities can be noticed, but what is \u201cfunny\u201d varies as much as people do. For example, today I was sitting in class, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,25],"tags":[81,1383,192],"class_list":["post-11743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-music","category-world","tag-joko","tag-michael-jackson","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}