(SURPRISE!!!! I bet you were all bummed out this morning thinking "DANG IT! Lizzy's hanging with Mr. B, so she's not gonna post and that makes me SAD!!!" BUT through the magic of blogger, I'm here, but yet, I'm not!!!!!)
Background #1 -
My mom is a very wonderful upstanding Christian woman and a former elementary Principal. She doesn't EVER swear. NEVER. EVER. NOT EVER
Background #2 -
I am an only child of a single parent. Just me and my mom. Growing up we had all kinds of goofy games we would play. We were obsessive about patterns (palindromes especially) on the odometer. We would talk to each other put replace the first letter in every word with the letter D. And our favorite was Tairy Fales - taking two words and switching the first letters. So - Fairy Tales - Tariy Fales. Mountain Dew - Dountain Mew... Get it?
Ok, I'm in 8th grade, it's a Sunday, and we're strolling through Apache Mall in Rochester, MN. Down the center of the corridors are little booths - part of an arts & crafts fair. There were crocheted Renuzit covers and inspirational posters burned on the edges and shellacked onto a piece of wood. Simply gorgeous stuff. And my mom and I tairy faled our way through the day. We were just about to leave the mall, when a little booth caught her eye. The lady had made the most adorable baby quilts!! Each one had a large animal on it and they were soft and sweet. My mom points to one, a sweet soft blue quilt with a little duck on it. And she proceeds to say - "OH! Look at the cute little duzzy fuck!!!!"
Wanna know what mortification looks like?
So - the fuzzy duck has become a long standing joke in my family. And many friends have latched on. I have fuzzy duck slippers, fuzzy duck ornaments, a 3 foot fuzzy duck from FAO Schwarz.
So... in the near future, be on the lookout for... fuzzy ducks.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
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I've heard this story before..and still I cracked up laughing!
we always called it "Getting our mords wixed up"
I like "tairy Fales" better!
you are an amazing woman!!! you know that, right?
LOL LOL That is so funny!!!!!!!!!
HOPE you are so having a great Thursday!
Oh, my--pretty funny stuff! I'm totally impressed with your Mom--how much patience does it take to raise a daughter AND work as an elementary school principal?
That is too funny!
That is HILARIOUS! Bless you mom for being a principal. I have trouble dealing with my own 2, much less a school full of others kids.
hahahaha. Too cute! I was relieved this morning that you'd "posted."
I hope you're having a blast with Mr. B:0)
P.S. Check out my latest post (when you get a free minute). There may or may not be a surprise there for you!
LMAO
I have done something similar. It was 1984 and I was in Mr. Powell's 10th grade biology class. I had a question, so I raised my hand up. Mr Powell said "Yes Gayla, what is it?" I say out loud in front of the whole classroom. " For the test, do we have to know all about the orgasm's...............I mean organisms?"
Mr. Pal laughed his butt off and in 1986 after I had graduated, hit on me at a party!
Too funny! Have a great weekend!!
Fuzzy ducks and tairy fales. These are the reasons I so dig you!
LOVE it Betch. (notice I joined your world!!!!)
Oh my....I laughed out loud at this!! Your poor mom, but it sounds like she's been a good sport about it all! :D
OMG! That is just too hilarious. I bet your mom was mortified.
That's a crack up! Thanks for sharing...don't ya just love those special memories?!?
CONGRATULATIONS!!
heeeheee ;-)
My mother probably would have had a heartattack right then and there. Too funny!
Oh, that is a riot! My husband and son are into palindromes, and yes, number ones. I loved the way you wove that story.
Happy SITS Day, Lizzy, from your old neck of the woods!
Too funny!! LOL! I'm a huge fan of patterns, too, btw.
Happy SITS day!
Another pattern/palindrome fan here, laughing my head off. Hmmm, this might be a blog post............
I especially loved the description of the crocheted Renuzit covers - I totally could picture the kind of arts and crafts that were there!
Cheers!
Oh and PS - When I was in jr high, a popular tongue twister was "Fuzzy Duck Ducky Fuzz." Hilarity. High comedy, I tell ya.
WOW...you might win an award for "kids say the darndest things"....too funny!
I have a HUGE respect for all mothers......and an even greater one for the single moms. Its the hardest most rewarding most fulfilling job ever....so kudos to both you and your mama....what lovely memories!
Funny! My mother and I always do a game where we have a complete conversation using only one word at a time, and that word has to start with the same letter. Example: Hello...Hi...Happy?...Hungry!...HotDog?...Hamburger!...Happily!....Hurry! etc! Sometimes we would laugh so hard people would stare at us like we were on drugs or something!
That's too funny! My mom and I would have pee'd our pants!
I can imagine how mortified you mom was once she realized what she said. I am sure that the look on her face was priceless!
That is too funny. Your Mom sounds like a great woman.
Your poor mother!!
Mr. Baseball and I play this game too, and you do have to be careful what you say. Case in point: Fuddruckers restaurant can become rudd-*uckers, and Huck Finn can become *uck Hinn. An English teacher at my school accidentally oopsed and said that in front of a class.
I will never think of fuzzy ducks the same again thanks to you!
Oh my, I can't believe its your SITS day - how etinkin' sexciting (it even works with everday words, not just fuzzy ducks!)
What a great story!! My mom sounds like your mom. We used to do things like that all the time until she really messed up at the dinner table one time. We were doing the reverse letter thing and she tried to say if the shoe fits and instead she said if the foo shits! I was about 8 years old and my jaw dropped. I couldn't believe my mom had just said that!!! It's still a running joke in our family. Thanks for the laugh this morning.
This story cracks me up!
I was an only child of a single mom too...except my mom wasn't quite as 'let loose and have fun' as yours LOL :)
I think it's awesome you and your mom had that relationship, even in your teens. She sounds like a lot of fun. Poor mom tho. lol. I once ordered green peckers on my Subway sandwich, the guy behind the counter couldn't even keep it together to ring me up. ;-)
I love it! I have got to remember that game for me and my daughter. She'd love something like that.
LOL I love it. I hope to have that type of relationshhip with my daughter. It is not what I had so I know what not to do. LOL
Excellent! I thought you were going to say that YOU made the slip of the tongue, but your MOM...! lol
When she was 3 my daughter asked for Chucky Larms for breakfast, and they've been called that in my house ever since.
That is hilarious! :D
LOL Funny!
I would love to have seen your mom's face after that slipped out.
You are hilarious. That is just too funny, I can see my mom doing this. She use to do the word thing all the time, but by the grace of God there she would be.
Thanks for the laugh this morning!! OH.MY. You must've been in shock to hear her say that, I know she probably was. A great story to share.
I have a group of friends who like to put "f" in place of the first letter of a word if it is fake, so like fake money would be "foney." We had to be careful sometimes though...
That's really funny :-)
I bet your Mum was totally redfaced after that :-)
I love how you took a simple slip up and made it legendary! Our family has the same sarcastic bent... We'll always make sure that dead horse gets beaten to a pulp.
:-)
LOL totally funny
LOL I love how such simple things become classics in families, the quirkier the better.
HILARIOUS. i'll never look at a fuzzy duck the same way again:)
damn. I peed on myself. On to shorts #2 for the day.
Too funny.... reminds me of my sister, an elementary school librarian playing the name game with a class...you know Mary Mary Bo Bary, Banana nana Fo Fary... well when it came to Tucker's turn she had to quick make up a reason why the game was over!!
Oh, your poor mother!! That is too funny!
Great story Lizzy! Enjoy your SITS day!
Great story! It reminds me of my Granny. She used to get somewhat confused with words as she got older. One of our favorite restuarants was Fuddruckers ( a burger joint) She once asked if I wanted to go to Ruddfuckers....I was game!
This is even funnier! LOL! That's a creative way of using the F word. It's the glorified version! :)
Congrats to YOU congrats to YOU!!!!
Shot Hit, that's funny!
funny stuff! This story inspired your blogicon! :)
Very.Funny. I can just picture the realization and mortification setting in, even though I don't know what your mother looks like.
How funny is that! I know it must have been hard for your mom to be a single parent raising you alone...but I can't help but think how special it must have been for her (and you) to have such a fun, special bond.
Congrats on SITS today!
rotf! Loved this story!
Foo tunny! You know you're lost in the moment when you're cussing to your kid and don't realize it until it's over :)
I just had to explain what a certain cuss word was to my girl. Posted about it today actually.
Happy UNbirthday btw!
I have a feeling people are going to be giving me strange looks all day when I crack up for no reason. This is one of those stories that never lose their hilarity! Thanks for sharing.
What a great game, until it catches up with you, right? :P I used to do speech therapy with 3-5 years olds. Do you know how many "fire f**ks" I've played with? That's called assimilation--taking a sound from a word you can say and putting it into a word that is harder to say. Gotta love it! :)
Oh my gosh. You just had me laughing out loud. Too freaking funny!
My family does weird games like that too. My brother and I always make math equations out of the time on a clock or the date. The same brother always says things backwards. Stuff like that...
That is too funny! As a teacher I can assure you that I've had several of those moments, but the one my students still bring up is reading the lunch menu... we had "tater tits" that day.
hehe. Your poor mom! So funny though!
Okay that one made me laugh outloud. Wasn't sure what to expect. Sounds like something my Grandmother would do and then proceed to die right there of horror.
Glad I found your blog through SITS!!!
Too funny! I wish there was a video that went with this one!
Cute! Wasn't sure what to expect when it said to read at your own risk! I was hoping for something a little more risque than fuzzy ducks! LOL!
That is so funny! At first I thought that was a cool idea to do with my kids and when I got to the end of the story I thought twice about it.
At the moment,I can't really think of one but I would bet if we did play the game, it would happen at the worst time for maximum embarrassment. lol
Thanks for sharing.
Your poor mom!
HILARIOUS!!!
I play those types of word games with my kids. I'll have to be careful.....
Oh dear!
Sounds exactly like something my mom would slip up and say! lol
That's hilarious! Cute that you two made it into a long-standing joke too, I love it.
You're not serious about this, are you? Your very Christian mom really said that out loud? That's hysterical!!!!!!!!!!
Justine :o )
oh to be so innocent.......my own daughter did a very similar thing - forever wixing up her mords when she was about 2. lol!
Ha ha!!! Awesome!
My bro-in-law used to do this thing where he'd add "ness" to the end of everything. "Oh, my coolness!" or "Holy sunburnness!" So you can imagine how hard we were all laughing at the Sunday dinner table when his mom plopped a huge boat of peas right in front of him.
Clueless. Priceless.
I remember the day our pastor of a VERy small, VERY conservative church spoke of the 'diery farts' of hell, instead of the 'fiery darts'
HILARIOUS!
Happy Sits day!
Ha ha. Brings back memories of the the morning I said "momma, look at the morning douche" instead of dew. Yikes.
AHHH, now I understand all the duck things!
Too Funny!
THAT? Is fantastic! So sounds like something my own mom would do and then be totally clueless about for a few minutes. So funny!!!!
You have wonderful story telling skills, has anyone ever told you that?
Oh your poor poor mom. How long before she dared show her face in the mall or around town again? :) Glad it's something you could all laugh at!
HAHAHA! And I thought it was hilarious when my husband's grandmother, also a Christian lady, said somebody needed to "fart a star." She always denied saying it!
great story!
I am also an only child of a single mother :)
NICE! That is hysterical!
That's a great story!
Oh my, still laughing from the last featured post, now the laughter is increasing. Side hurting, tears in eyes.
I LOVE IT!! That's a great story!
LOL!!!
This was a great story! Happy SITS day!
I went to elementary school with a boy named Buck. One day we were playing the name game and well....
That's foo tunny.
Congrats on being SITS featured!
Fabulous! Glad that you allowed it to be a good memory!
Jen
love the warning!!!!
it was funny though...our funniest backward phrase is "funny duck "instead of "silly goose"
you must have made your mother so proud :o)
~simply~
Loved the story! I've had those moments myself, but sometimes they've happened during a speech pathology session, which makes it more embarassing!
Once I was writing down the non-word 'farl' for a child to sound-out for me. The whole time I was thinking, "Please don't read it as 'fart' ..."
And I wrote it down as fart. Of course.
So cute! Your mom sounds like a great one.
That is classic!
I love it! I bet your mom wanted to pass out!
Oh, my! I bet your mom's face turned all shades of red!
That is a funny story! Thanks for having me come check it out this morning. Off to check out the Dlonde Buck's blog now. ;)
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