banqueting

[chestnutcurls]

I had such a fun night last night! I went to a banquet with Ryan. He was just going to go by himself, but at the last minute he called me to see if I wanted to come with him. On the way, he explained that it was a banquet for the "interprenner" of the year award for the business group that his company is a part of. I was like, "The what?" "The intreprener award." I was baffled, until it hit me..."Oh! The entrepreneur award!" He got all red and was like, "Everyone says it differently!" :) So all through the banquet, every time the speaker said "entrepreneur," we had to avoid looking at each other so we wouldn't laugh. :) The county mayor was supposed to speak, but he never showed up. Ryan's boss won the award, though, so that was exciting! Anyway, he showed me all around his extremely cool downtown office (including the beautiful river view from the roof), and we ate shrimp and key lime pie. It was a great evening and I felt special that he had asked me. He is totally my Joey Tribbiani. I don't know what I would do without him. :)

Speaking of Friends, the new episode didn't air last night, did it? We watched several episodes when we got back, and Kathy said the President had pre-empted most of the other shows, but she was engrossed in a book and it was hard to get more information out of her. :)

I keep seeing this commercial in which a guy's doctor calls him to give him his cancer screening results, and when he gives him a clean bill of health, the guy says, "Thanks, Doc." This bugs me, because, seriously...does anyone actually call their doctor "Doc"? First of all, it's not a very original nickname (unless your doctor is short, has white hair and glasses, and wears a stocking cap), and second of all, few people actually know their doctor these days. And thirdly, there's no way the doctor would call you about this- they'd get their admins to do it for them. I like realism in my commercials.

I'm feeling wordy today, so watch out.

Comments

[aardwolf.livejournal.com]

Well, that commercial reminds me of something I saw recently... It was the same type situation, but the guy was in the doctor's office. The doctor said something like... "Well, you don't have a cold, but there's bad news .... you're dying of cancer!!!" And it was supposed to be funny. That sounds so awful, and I can't for the life of me remember where it came from. Hmmm...

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

That is awful! I haven't seen that one. Thankfully. :P

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[aardwolf.livejournal.com]

Maybe that was a combination of two things I've seen (one of which being part of Terrance and Phillip from SouthPark.)

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

That IS Terrance and Phillip! Oh my gosh. I'm really alarmed that I remember that. I can actually see it in my head now. :P

[lifeofpatrick.livejournal.com]

key lime pie
limes limes limes
yuuuummmmmm !!!!

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

LOL. I forgot about your lime fixation. :)

[sarah.livejournal.com]

I always check http/epguides.com/Friends to see if there's an new ep or not and it said there wasn't and the new one is only on the 13th.
Doctors here don't have admins so they would call you or else they'd tell you to call them for results. And most people call there doctors by their last name or sometimes, if they're modern, by their first name. Some people, mostly older ones, call their doctor "mister the doctor" lol. It sounds better in Flemish lol.
What's key lime pie?

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

LOL! It sounds like the medical system there is nicer. :)

It's sort of a cheesecake-y pie with lime juice (parts, whatever). It was first made with limes from the Florida Keys, so you can find it easily there. I love it. I don't know how to make it, though. :)

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

I don't know why this entry made me laugh so much... you seem to be in a goofy-ish mood. :) I keep running that line, "Everyone says it differently!" through my head. For some reason I can only imagine Garth (Wayne's World) saying it shyly. haha..it's cracking me up.

Oh and I don't get the whole "Doc" thing either. Or just "Doctor." Most people call their doctor by their name, as in, "Dr. Cohen" (my pediatrician as a kid). The only time people use the term "Doctor" is when they're telling a joke with a doctor in it and there's no point in giving him a name. :)

Friends was the rerun of the one where Rachel gives her number to a guy in the bar/restaurant when she's out with Phoebe, and Ross and Mike hang out and are bored. I don't know if you already found that out or not. My favorite line from the episode is said by Phoebe near the beginning, "Oh.. girls night out *indeed*!"

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I could amuse you. :) lol.

No, it's not a Garth rendering. I'm telling you, think of how Joey would say it, in that indignant sort of way, and that's how he said it. :)

[sp00f.livejournal.com]

"thanks doc!" is usually what I say on my way out of my chiropractors office. It's kind of like a nickname for him; just about all of his regular visitors call him that. I think it's because people feel so comfortable around him - he's more like a counselor (that's probably the kind of scenario the ad is trying to portray).

[salemgirl.livejournal.com]

yay! I'm glad you had fun.... mmmmm shrimp!!!!

[skreyola.livejournal.com]

Remember that commercials aren't written by people who are interested in realism. :)
They're written by advertisers... and we all know advertisers aren't connected with reality very strongly. :)