Saturday, September 19, 2009

What language do you speak?


I speak Movie - my native dialect is mainly "movie" but I picked up some TV slang along the way. Like "How You Doin'?"....I picked that up from Wendy Williams, whom I had never even heard of until I was watching "The Soup". I get my news from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and I get my Hollywood gossip fix from The Soup. Joel McHale from The Soup L-O-V-E-S to slam Wendy Williams relentlessly so I thought I would at least check out her show to see if she is, indeed, as bizarre as Joel makes her out to be. She is. And yet...I find myself slchlepping her suddenly famous phrase around all day.

"How you doin'?" I ask the my husband first thing in the morning. He looks at me like I'm speaking a foreign language. The words he gets....the body move and the accent? Not so much. He makes no comment but assumes I'm speaking "Movie". And I don't bother to explain.

I tell him I've made our airline reservations for our trip next week. I ask 'what extra items do we need to pack for this trip'? He says, in his Al Pacino voice "take the gun, leave the cannoli". We have a few seconds of akward starring at which I point I realize....he also speaks 'movie'. All men speak 'Godfather'.

It's kind of sexy. So I 'make him an offer he can't refuse'. And we both speak THAT language quite fluently!

5 comments:

  1. everytime i hear "how you doin" i htink of joey from friends.

    and i've never seen godfather. i think i'm the only one in the universe that hasnt.

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  2. haha "how you doin?"

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  3. LOL...all men DO speak Godfather. So funny.

    I have two awards for you. Get your fancy on and come to the Awards bash.

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  4. LOL You crack me up! I speak "Will and Grace" and my hubs doesn't understand a word of it :)

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  5. I absolutely LOVE The Soup! It's one of my favorite shows! I left you something over on my blog. : )

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