{"id":109,"date":"2006-04-22T04:18:16","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T04:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/ali_g_to_aarp\/"},"modified":"2006-04-22T04:18:16","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T04:18:16","slug":"ali_g_to_aarp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/language\/ali_g_to_aarp\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali G to AARP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=173,height=182,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/oldpeople_1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"105\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/oldpeople_1.gif\" title=\"Oldpeople_1\" alt=\"Oldpeople_1\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>Yesterday Language Log <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/003047.html\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> about Ali G&#8217;s interview with Noam Chomsky, which is now on YouTube, so I sent the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fOIM1_xOSro\" target=\"_blank\">video link<\/a> to my friend Sara.<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving work the following IM chat took place:<\/p>\n<p>Sara: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">that made me laugh real hard.<\/span><br \/>me: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">i love ali g<\/span><br \/>Sara: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">how can you not love ali g?<\/span><br \/>me: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">if part of your head is missing<\/span><br \/>Sara: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">oh right that makes sense..it made me laugh especially because for the longest time i thought that oral sex was just phone sex&#8230;and then that whole cunnilingual thing.<\/span><br \/>Sara: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">hey did you have a good birthday?<\/span><br \/>me: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">was ok<\/span> [I turned 28 on April 14]<br \/>Sara: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">are you sad because you are an old man now?<\/span><br \/>me: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">yes<\/span><br \/>me: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">but ive always wanted to be a member of the aarp<\/span><br \/>Sara: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">dont worry i think youll age well<\/span><br \/>me: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">i hope to grow out of my awkward stage<\/span><br \/>me: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">into the hotness<\/span><br \/>Sara: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">oh i think you are coming along just fine matt. but yeh.<\/span><br \/>me: <span style=\"color: #0000cc;\">thanks<\/span><br \/>Sara: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">no problem<\/span><\/p>\n<p>OK, pretty regular IM chat, ya? But half an hour later I get home and what do I find in the mail? An erroneously delivered issue of AARP magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Ha ha, very funny <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Synchronicity\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Jung<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Language Log wrote about Ali G&#8217;s interview with Noam Chomsky, which is now on YouTube, so I sent the video link to my friend Sara. Before leaving work the following IM chat took place: Sara: that made me laugh real hard.me: i love ali gSara: how can you not love ali g?me: if part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}