1. that time, as a kid, I pointed to an actor on TV and said, "Who is that guy? Is he somebody?"
2. the former boss who insisted on using the expression "take a dump" to describe falling down*
3. the time my mom learned, by using the expression in front of her grandchildren, that "cut the cheese" does not always mean "slice that cheddar into pieces."
4. the (long-since graduated) former student who, in one of the first papers I ever graded as a professor, referred to Mel Gibson as a "tool bag."
5. whoever the student was who engaged in this exchange with me:
ME: It was in the early '90s, so I was in my twenties and you were...
HER: ...Not alive?...
*"It's really icy out there! I just took a giant dump in the parking lot!"
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