#2 daughter will be singing the alto aria for Bach Cantata 12 with the KC Symphony on February 11, so if you find yourself in the audience, you will know whose amazing voice that is. Well, I guess you would know anyway because of the program and all, but still…
Now, we may have high taste in music around our place, but my husband has very low taste in television. He watches Fear Factor, Nashville Star, Fox News, CNN. So I knew, when he asked me last night, “What do they mean, ‘wild girls’?”, it was some news story.
I went over to help him puzzle it out.
We were a little hampered by the fact that the expert (and how do you become an expert on wild girls, anyway?) kept insisting that there was no need to give more detail, because “everyone has seen it!” She kept repeating this with asperity whenever the desiccated old man interviewing her tried to slip in a little information. She was, I think, sick of the whole thing.
Now, I had been at the internet anyway. I am trying to help #2 son with an assignment. I am having a little bit of difficulty with this because he has either misunderstood his teacher or she has lost her mind.
His subject is agriculture in the 1920s. This is a great subject. There were huge technological and economic changes going on. Lucky devil, I thought. But no. Apparently he is supposed to explain whether agriculture in the ’20s was liberal or conservative. That, he assures me, has to be his thesis. And he is not allowed to use any internet sources. Nor can he use any of the books we have on hand, because they are too popular. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Food and Faith, An Age of Extremes? Practically novels.
So I was trying to help him come up with a reference or two. It was the work of a googly moment to find out what these wild girls were.
Apparently, Britney Spears was photographed getting out of a car in an unladylike manner, with no panties on. Maybe Paris Hilton, too. Whether both of them forgot their undies on the same evening, and some nearby photographer took advantage of the opportunity, or whether they have been making such a habit of this that it counts as exhibitionism, I don’t know.
You may be one of the “everyone” who already knows this story. If so, I am sure that you immediately thought, as I did, of Carmen Miranda.
She had the misfortune to be photographed while being swung about by Cesare Romero, with no panties. Her skirt billowed up and a slimy photographer got a shot right up her dress.
She had to leave the country.
Now, I don’t know much about either of these stories. I don’t know why, in either case, these girls had decided to leave off their knickers. From the way the expert on the news show was talking, it didn’t seem likely that Spears was entirely blameless, but don’t you have to wonder about the photographers?
Fortunately, they then moved on to the presidential hopefuls, and we began trying to disentangle them. My husband is toying with the idea of becoming a U.S. citizen, in which case he could vote in the 2008 election, so he is trying to keep the players straight.
Another case where it might be good to have a program.
Wonderful. Just purely wonderful.
1. Yes, everyone knows about those girls and they are trashy and no one likes them anymore. We are, indeed, sick of hearing about their wierdo antics.
2. Can agriculture have a political standing?
3. No one thinks of Carmen Miranda because she had the decency to leave the county until it all calmed down. She did not capitalize on the publicity. Ms. Spears and Ms. Hilton are members of Team Firecrotch.
4. He probably should have toyed with the idea of citizenship some time ago.
Wild girls don’t wear panties. Got it. Thanks for the heads up. I prepared for the next conversation I might have with someone where that might be the topic.
Ditto #2 from #2, above.
Re your first paragraph: proud much? 🙂
I think Paris and Brittany should have to leave the country. Can you imagine the peace and quiet?…
My cradle-robber algorithm is from a boy from the UAE.
“What kind of music do you listen to (when you aren’t singing Bach Cantatas)?” without the second part is, indeed, mundane and usual.
I realise he’s closer to both of my parents’ ages than to mine. Hence my not dating him. Just in case you thought maybe I was a stupid child who could get sucked in by any nice guy no matter what his age or station.
goin’ commando after child birth is just… ewww….
I’m still LMAO over Team Firecrotch!
Hmm I wonder if we can get one of the presidential hopefuls to send Britt & Paris out of the country – am thinking they’d have my vote for sure then! UGH
Always good to have a program – even if one doesn’t follow it to the letter 🙂
Also part of the “wild girls” meme…
The three girls who physically attacked another girl at their school, bringing someone along to videotape the whole thing, and then posted the video on YouTube….
The studies showing that the rate of physical violence in girls has been steadily rising…
My “wonderful” comment at the top — with no number before it — was a reference to #2 daughter’s solo, not a comment about “wild girls.”
As for what I think of the writing assignment for #2 — I won’t go there. Do you suppose the teacher was hoping the kids would go do oral interviews? That would be one way to write the assignment without looking at any popular published materials or any resources online.
Is there a republican candidate, or are they just not running this year? That’s how the media seems to be portraying it…