They Call Me, "Uncle Beef."
So Nellbot and I have a tendency to kind of fall in love with words. Sometimes we just realize that a word is fun to say or inherently funny. "Rudabega," is a fine example. Just say it a couple times, you'll see what I mean. Welp, one of our favorites is, "beef." There's just something so goofy and final about it. I dunno.
Anyway, I was in the meat section of the grocery store yesterday and I realized that I had been tuning this little kid out who was doing something repetitive. As I paid closer attention I realized that he was saying, "beef, beef, beef, beef, 100% beef....beef - beef," over and over-like. I had to giggle to myself since the little guy was saying one of my favorite words. He was one of us.
I told Nellbot about it in the car and we had a good laugh.
Later we visited our friends Pammy and Jim and their kickass kid, Daniel. Now Jim doesn't quite have the obsession with funny words as Nellbot and I do but he can appreciate them when we bring them up. That's why, "DOUCHE," is still uttered relatively often amongst our friends. So I tell the story of the beef boy and we all have a good laugh. Inlcluding Danny. He starts saying his version of, "beef," which he pronounces, "bee." Then Jim and I start saying it again and Danny laughs super hard. For about 45 minutes after that Danny would saunter over to me and say, "Bee! Bee! Bee!" and then I'd say, "Beef! Beef!" He'd laugh and run off. It was then that I realized the boy's nickname would forever be, "Beef."
Later, Jim and I went to get some food being the hunter/gatherer types we are. The second I walked in the door Danny started saying, "Bee! Bee! Bee! Bee!" Pammy was excited because Dan remembered me. Then she said, "Nope. You're Beef." To which I replied, that's cool, I'll be Uncle Beef. It'll make the stories he tells his friends all the better."
"One time, me, my dad and my Uncle Beef went to the Monster Truck Rally...."
The utlimate test will be to see if he starts yelling it next weekend at the house warming.
Anyway, I was in the meat section of the grocery store yesterday and I realized that I had been tuning this little kid out who was doing something repetitive. As I paid closer attention I realized that he was saying, "beef, beef, beef, beef, 100% beef....beef - beef," over and over-like. I had to giggle to myself since the little guy was saying one of my favorite words. He was one of us.
I told Nellbot about it in the car and we had a good laugh.
Later we visited our friends Pammy and Jim and their kickass kid, Daniel. Now Jim doesn't quite have the obsession with funny words as Nellbot and I do but he can appreciate them when we bring them up. That's why, "DOUCHE," is still uttered relatively often amongst our friends. So I tell the story of the beef boy and we all have a good laugh. Inlcluding Danny. He starts saying his version of, "beef," which he pronounces, "bee." Then Jim and I start saying it again and Danny laughs super hard. For about 45 minutes after that Danny would saunter over to me and say, "Bee! Bee! Bee!" and then I'd say, "Beef! Beef!" He'd laugh and run off. It was then that I realized the boy's nickname would forever be, "Beef."
Later, Jim and I went to get some food being the hunter/gatherer types we are. The second I walked in the door Danny started saying, "Bee! Bee! Bee! Bee!" Pammy was excited because Dan remembered me. Then she said, "Nope. You're Beef." To which I replied, that's cool, I'll be Uncle Beef. It'll make the stories he tells his friends all the better."
"One time, me, my dad and my Uncle Beef went to the Monster Truck Rally...."
The utlimate test will be to see if he starts yelling it next weekend at the house warming.
posted by Ueberyak at 6:21 PM
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And that's why my nephew's nickname is "T-Bone."
To understand the sheer awesomeness of this you need to know that Danny is nearly two and has a VERY limited vocabulary: maybe 6 or 7 words he says with any regularity. He frequently laughs at certain words but to actually SAY them is very, very rare. So, the fact that he considered "Beef" worthy of saying is pretty amazing.
Excellent. Hey, we have a cousin Pork... he's not funny though.
I was telling them about Pork the other day!
But uncle beef is way better than Uncle Beefcurtains.
whaaaawhaaaa!
I've PORKED a cousin...two, actually, does that count?
It ain't quite beef...
I wish they made a melon baller for the mind's eye....
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