Just had an odd conversation with the family. We determined that while falling is funny, plummeting is funnier. Plummeting denotes a certain speed and distance. You cannot, for instance, plummet off a step. Just doesn’t happen. “Hey Bill, what happened to your head?” “Oh, I plummeted off a step!” Nope. Doesn’t work. You also can’t break your arm or bruise your hip or scratch your cornea in a plummet. You must plummet “to your death”. That’s the rule. “Hey Bob, how’d you break your arm?” “In a plummet!” See? It just doesn’t work. “So Sue, how did your great-aunt die?” “She plummeted off a cliff!” Now that works!
Yeah, we have these kinds of conversations a lot. Scary, huh?
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You have such an interesting mind.
Scary, perhaps. But, the more I read your blog the more normal it begins to sound.
What is even more scary… that’s the kind of conversations I have with some friends of mine! LOL
I have to admit, that is MY kind of conversation. Sounds like a typical day in my life. Now, the next time I hear someone tell me that they fell, inevitably my first response will be “Hey, at least you didn’t plummet!”
Odd conversation there!
- Miss Mae
very true. and have you noticed that when a bus goes off the road it doesn’t fall, it plunges.
Bus Plunge Kills Seven!, screams the headline. it sounds so much better then a Bus Fall…
LOL - you are funny, dude!
LOL! I wonder about how the media uses some words. How many people do you have to kill before its a “slaughter”? 1 is usually a murder, 2 is a double homicide, 3 might be a killing spree, and then at some point they’ll say The gunman slaughtered 8 people. You never hear “Joe Blow slaughtered his boss when he learned he lost his job”.