FYI I'm a guy
Hey Jill, I called a man "Ma'am" in an email today and got this response, "FYI, I'm a guy".
A buddy then later tells me "Guys" is gender neutral in his dictionary. Take that genderless-Jamie!
I don't know why this is so funny to me, or why I wrote it to Jill. It's just fun to say.
posted by jo portnoy @ 11:34 AM
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Hey Jill! Guess what?
The "new" NIV is genderless. Don't ask me how it's the new niv because yes I am aware that the N in NIV stands for new.
Point being that God is never refered to as he/him and human kind is refered to as human kind not man or men. It's very odd. and creepy.
sometimes frogs change genders. That's what doomed the island in Jurassic Park. So Danny the Bullfrog might show up to work one day as Danni the Bullfrog.
PS I get most of my science knowledge from movies. Which is how I know that any sort of asteroid disaster or alien attack can be thwarted with nukes. And that radioactive spider bites make people awesome.
Ummm...Science with Mr. Metcalf is downright disturbing.
As is the New New International Version. I'm super annoyed by PC hymns and such. God is an awesome Father and while I understand that the sinfulness human nature has made the connotation of father a negative one in the eyes of many unfortunate people, that is all the more reason to be sensitive to it and to reclaim it for God’s glory. Oh, and news flash, Jesus was a man. Just throwing that out there.
Okay, funny story after the rant. Once when I was in high school at a regional band event, the hosing people thought I was a guy named Kendt. I got put in guy’s housing. Trust me “hey guys” may be neutral but not when you’re a girl mistaken for one. Oh, and I didn’t find $5…horrible story…
For a while, in college, I was called "Jo the girl" as if that was my full name. It was that or "Jo and Di" - we were one unit.
Then I somehow got all my engineering friend to call my friend Emily "cute Emily" and they do it to this day. (Ya, Em, last I talked to Pouria I told him Ann and Emily live in NY and he said, "Oh, you mean cute-Emily?"
My name is Chandler. Do you know how many times I have been mistaken for a guy? At summer camps, on bank notes, by telemarketers...
Jo do you remember that night we bought paint and that girl got so hung up on our names being "boy" names?
Yeah Chands, she ID'd you!
I can't wait to be Genderless Jamie. I'll just make "FYI I'm a guy" my line of the night.
My mom calls me Ben. The wounds go deep. FYI, mom, I'm a girl.
I think it's actually called "Today's New International Version" (TNIV). Just FYI.
Just chiming in and being a know-it-all.
Don't mind me. I have nothing funny or witty to say.
rachelle I actually know that but it's funnier to call it the new new international version. but thanks know it all
Anytime. :)
I don't think Jill ever saw this. Hi Jill.
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