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bomberqueen17:
Farmsister just texted me from Dad’s birthday dinner (he’s 73 today).
The phone rang, and before he picked it up, my venerable father said, out loud, to the room, “Who dis??”
I just found this very old post and thought of something related.
Shortly after the last time but one my nephews visited, my mother said, “They’re always saying there’s a boot in my snake and I don’t know why, is that a meme?” so I explained to her about Toy Story and I wasn’t sure how it had gotten reversed, but that it was a common factor in memes, and the phrase was innocuous enough, from a children’s movie, and so it probably wasn’t anything she had to be concerned with.
So, the last time my nephews visited, sure enough, one of them hollered apropos of nothing there’s a boot in my snake and I said “You! You little jerks! You made me explain memes to my mother! Why are you even quoting Toy Story!” and they both stared at me. “It’s from Toy Story??”
They had no idea. So now I’ve been Googling to try to figure out where they might have gotten it.
The answer seems to be nowhere in particular, just that it’s a backwards-spoonerist Toy Story reference via lord knows what.
Also, children do indeed frequently repeat things they don’t understand, but like. we have the Googs now, it’s not hard to figure out if their Super Secret Code is actually something offensive. (And given the complete lack of subterfuge of most children, I’m sure it was never hard, but now there’s even less excuse.)
bomberqueen17:
Farmsister just texted me from Dad’s birthday dinner (he’s 73 today).
The phone rang, and before he picked it up, my venerable father said, out loud, to the room, “Who dis??”
I just found this very old post and thought of something related.
Shortly after the last time but one my nephews visited, my mother said, “They’re always saying there’s a boot in my snake and I don’t know why, is that a meme?” so I explained to her about Toy Story and I wasn’t sure how it had gotten reversed, but that it was a common factor in memes, and the phrase was innocuous enough, from a children’s movie, and so it probably wasn’t anything she had to be concerned with.
So, the last time my nephews visited, sure enough, one of them hollered apropos of nothing there’s a boot in my snake and I said “You! You little jerks! You made me explain memes to my mother! Why are you even quoting Toy Story!” and they both stared at me. “It’s from Toy Story??”
They had no idea. So now I’ve been Googling to try to figure out where they might have gotten it.
The answer seems to be nowhere in particular, just that it’s a backwards-spoonerist Toy Story reference via lord knows what.
Also, children do indeed frequently repeat things they don’t understand, but like. we have the Googs now, it’s not hard to figure out if their Super Secret Code is actually something offensive. (And given the complete lack of subterfuge of most children, I’m sure it was never hard, but now there’s even less excuse.)
