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February 29, 2004
Blind Man
You know that expression or whatever it is " 'I see' said the blind man". Well I thought it was " "Not I' said the blind man". Don't even ask why I thought it was that. Anyway, I said that one time during school and this one guy started saying it. So, I heard these 2 other people say it the next day. Then pretty soon a whole bunch of people were saying it and it was completely wrong. I then realized it was wrong and told the one guy that had said it first what it really was and the first one was wrong. Then everybody stopped saying it PERIOD because they did not like the real way. The other day I realized not everybody got the memo (Which this was a few months ago I corrected everyone), because I heard somebody say " 'Not I'... said the blind man". Who knew!! I can start trends! (Who is this blind man anyway?)
Posted by Kelly at February 29, 2004 11:01 AM
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That reminds me of the story of a Sega video game. It was a Japanese video game and when they wanted to bring it to the US they had someone translate it some of the text. So at one point one of the bad guys says "All your base are belong to us". For some reason this really caught on and you find all these references to it on the internet. It just spread like wildfire for no real reason.
Here's the transcript of the original game:
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning
Captain: What happen?
Operator: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You!!
Cats: How are you gentlemen!!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say!!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: Ha Ha Ha Ha �.
Captain: Take off every "zig."
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move "zig".
Captain: For great justice.
You have been warned.
http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/index.shtml
Posted by: UT at February 29, 2004 02:55 PM
You got it mixed up with "Not I said the black cat" or "I hear dat, said the deaf man. Oh, and UT's story is halarious.
Posted by: Eric at February 29, 2004 07:49 PM
I cracked up out loud reading about Kelly bending the culture of her middle school. I suspect she'll be doing that for the rest of her life (although maybe not always in middle school.) I went looking on the internet and found:
I see said the blind man. I saw said the carpenter.
I see said the blind man to his deaf wife.
Posted by: Father J at March 1, 2004 10:35 PM
Wow! How cool! I had no idea blind men were married to deaf women!
Posted by: Kelly at March 3, 2004 09:37 PM
You've already told me this story and it's still so funny when I read it! You need to always live near me so that you can always keep me laughing.
Posted by: Yo Mama at April 12, 2004 09:54 PM