BMan (part 3 of ?): Overheard out my window one morning

[aroraborealis]

I was sleeping in the bed over the cab of the RV, and I always sleep with the windows open, as the fresh air is delightful, and keeping them closed doesn't particularly impact the noise level in a noticeable way. Early one morning -- say, 7ish -- I overheard this (loosely transcribed) conversation from the camp next door (the Lazy-Ass Fuckers):

Lazy-Ass Fucker: Hey, man, this isn't your camp!
Mumbling Dude: [mumble]
LAF: No, that's not your tent, and this isn't your camp!
MD: [mumble]
LAF: Oh, man, you must've had a really good night. No, this isn't your camp.
MD: [mumble]
LAF: Is this your bag?
MD: Uh... no...
LAF: Did you think it was your bag last night and now it's your bag?
MD: [mumble]

At this point, I looked out the window and saw Mumbling Dude scratching his head and looking around vaguely, with a crowd of Lazy-Ass Fuckers clustered around him. He apparently asked where he was and was given to understand that he wasn't anywhere near his camp. Poor guy.

Later, the folks in that camp realized that the bag belonged to one of them, so at least that part of the story has a happy ending. I hope Mumbling Dude found his way home.

Comments

[mrf-arch.livejournal.com]

If there's a camp of "lazy hyphen ass space fuckers" I suddenly wonder if somewhere else on the playa is the camp of "lazy space ass hyphen fuckers".

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

Although they put the hyphen in the right place, we spent most of the week pronouncing the name as though it were the latter.

[dot_fennel]

It helped that on a window facing us, they had written the abbreviation kind of like

L-AF

which made me want to group A and F together. I don't know if that's reasonable or not. Hm.

Thinking about it: An org name that has a hyphen in it when written out usually doesn't have one in the acronym, I think; the word after the hyphen might or might not get to contribute a letter to the acronym. (Like in the B'nai Brith Anti-Defamation League, for example.) Hyphens in acronyms are for bigger separations, like in AFL-CIO and TIAA-CREF.

So they totally brought it on themselves.

[bluegargantua]

I just want to say that your BM icon really is a pic of you right? Because it looks like someone completely different. It's cool, I like it.

later
Tom

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

It really is me! I felt like I looked like someone completely different all week. It was interesting!

The icon is from this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/moominmolly/2826029006/