Thursday, April 09, 2009

King Of Pop (Culture) (And Also, The News)

TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE RECENTLY: This song makes me think of clear Pepsi!

ME: You mean Crystal Pepsi?

TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE RECENTLY: Clear Pepsi.

ME: It was called Crystal Pepsi. And this isn't the song. The song used in the Crystal Pepsi ads was Van Halen's "Right Now".

TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE RECENTLY: Clear Pepsi?

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PAIGE LAST WEEKEND: (Something whimsical about pirates.)

ME: Pirates aren't cool anymore. They're a serious problem.

PAIGE LAST WEEKEND: I don't know what you're talking about.

ME: Modern day pirates wreak havoc off the coast of Somalia.

PAIGE LAST WEEKEND: Huh? Pirates are fun!

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ME: Speaking of reality television shows, such as this not-very-good "High School Reunion" and this advertisement for "The Cougar" and that portion of "18 Kids and Counting" we viewed online, I heard the Octomom was getting her own dating show.

ALIPETE LAST NIGHT: The Octomom?

ME: The Octomom. Nadya Suleman?

ALIPETE LAST NIGHT: Who?

ME: The California woman who had six kids already, and then gave birth to octuplets, and then went on every TV morning and afternoon show?

ALIPETE LAST NIGHT: I sleep until 12:30. I don't watch "Tyra".

ME: You work at the Times! The Octomom!

ALIPETE LAST NIGHT: I don't know who that is.

5 comments:

Lindsey said...

Hey,

I know about all this too. We can have in-the-know conversations any time.

Anonymous said...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v497/RaptorRed/Images/pepsiclear.jpg

Crystal Pepsi lives on in Mexico as Pepsi Clear.

dn said...

We used to mix Crystal Pepsi with regular Pepsi so it would look like we were drinking bourbon. We were hard.

Linds, you watch "The Hills". OF COURSE you knew about this stuff.

Lindsey said...

They rarely discuss the Somalia pirates on The Hills...I must have read a paper sometime.

dn said...

Although when they do discuss Somali pirates on "The Hills", it's TRANSCENDENT.