Tuesday, June 21, 2005

In England some potato lovers are trying to get the word couch-potato out of the dictionary because it is derogatory to potatoes. I put in a call to make sure there weren't any couch-binsks in their dictionary either, and I'm happy to report they didn't know what the hell I was talking about.

Also, I sleep weird. I wake up lying on my back with my legs crossed and propped up. It's like I'm sitting at a table and I've fallen over backwards.

20 comments:

Lu said...

is couch potato in the dictionary....lol

i should make a clever comment on the sleeping thing...but that is just plain weird hehehehe

Lu

Robin said...

Oh my GOD! I wake up that way too! Indian style, but flat on your back, right?

Robin Alexa said...

Lu - Apparently it's in the dictionary in England.

Robin - One foot flat on the bed but bent up and then my other one crossed over top of it at the knee. Maybe I'll take a pic of it.

Does that sound like what you do??
Hopefully because weirdery loves company.

Leesa said...

Too funny. I like the fish!

Anonymous said...

I have been known to knock over side tables and flip head to foot while sleeping. It drives Cheeky nuts sometimes, my sleepy gymnastics, but it's not like we can do anything about it right. I mean we're sleeping.

Robin M said...

you have no idea how hard i laughed when i read your second paragraph. too funny. i often raise my arms above my head in my sleep and then all the blood rushes out of them. man that hurts when i wake up!

Anonymous said...

How funny! I had to go out and get a Temperpedic pillow so that I wouldn't wake up in a similar weird position. Now if I can do something about the drool! (only kidding)

Rusty said...

They have dust bunnies too. Oh, what?

It is only weird if people find out. Sheesh! Look at Michael Jackson, he should have fallen away into seclusion after Thriller. Then he got progressively stranger, and we all watched it happen. If we never saw him again after Thriller, he'd still be one bad mama-jama.

Mona said...

It's so interesting that there are people who are actively defending the potato's reputation. We all have our missions in life, and I am continually intrigued by what they all are.

And what do you suppose your dreams are these days? Very weird position you're waking up with!

Yoda said...

"Weirdery loves company."

You should needlepoint that.

:-)

~Kurt

Anonymous said...

I fall asleep on my back with my legs straight and wake up on my back with my legs straight. How weird is that? LOL

Unknown said...

Dang.. Kim is a freak ! LOL

Pratt said...

I live with real bunnies along with the dust bunnies...

clara* said...

hear hear! potatoes are all that is good and holy in the world...

mr. tomas ubik said...

its not weird...it just means the heavens are tugging at ya while your sleeping...if you ask me thats good luck...and i have a rabbit foot for an ass so thats gotta be lucky right.



*furry asses are not all their cracked up to be.

Unknown said...

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, potatoes.

sage said...

Do you sleep that way because you eat potatoes?

I wonder if the British Potato Lovers had similar complaints about Mr. Potato Head. And what about mashed potatoes (a drunken tatter?), baked or fried (leaving tatters in the sun too long?), whipped (sadistic treatment of tatters?), sweet (condensing sounding?) And why do the Brits care about potatoes--that's the Irish stable isn't it and they've not been too concern about anything else Irish.

Anonymous said...

The English are weird!

Peas on Toast said...

I really think that the concept of "couch potatoe" has a bad rap. It needs an image change, because I feel that there is absolutely nothing derogatory about sleeping on a couch all day.

How could there be?? Give me a couch and make me a potato anyday :)

Memphis said...

I know this is about as funny as a damp rock, but do you have back problems at all? Like if you lay on your back does your back start to hurt and you have to roll over on your side? Just trying to figure out the legs thing. Maybe it was me. Maybe I sneak in every night and mess with your legs, just to freak you out? Yeah, that sounds like something I'd do. It probably is me.