Once again, it appears as if I'm a bit of a moron.
Yesterday I shared the tale of how I wrote an entire TV piece, only to realize I had written the same basic thing just a few weeks earlier. That wasn't the only time my moronicity (which, by the way, is now an official word) popped up this weekend. Sunday, while Loraine & I were out, I snapped a picture--
I put on social media, along with the captions “In a sure sign of Spring, the trees in Marquette have started to bloom”. It got a bunch of chuckles and responses, one of which said--
“Jim, you missed a big chance. You should have said 'the trees in Marquette are Budding'”.
And, as soon as I looked at the picture, I realized how I am, indeed, a moron. The bottle sitting on the tree branch?
It's Budweiser. The tree literally WAS budding, and I didn't use that as the gag.
Sigh. As the risk of repeating myself, sometimes I amaze myself. And it's hardly ever in a good way.
I don't know why I didn't think of that joke. I knew the bottle was Bud, but for whatever reason my pea brain (perhaps a bit distracted by its journey into moronicity a few hours earlier) didn't put two and two together. And that would have been a GREAT caption. I'm just glad someone noticed it and mentioned it; based on response to it, the comment was almost as popular as the original post itself.
So...I blew that one. But I'm glad someone swooped in to make the save, and the proper gag was saved for posterity. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to work where, I'm pretty sure, I'll do something so dumb that I'll once again amaze myself with my moronicity.
Because, you know, it's been that kind of week.
8-)
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