Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Driver WHAT?!?

I am the Mum.
If life was a circus, I would be the plate-juggling lady with monkeys on her shoulders who stands on one leg on a horse's back as it canters around the ring.

I am the Writer.
I use too many commas, dashes and dot-dot-dots, and I often start sentences with conjunctions because I like my blog to look the way it sounds in my mind.

I am the Hero.
Life is a bit like a superhero action comic, except that the superheroes are tiny children dressed in super-suits who possess no actual powers, while I just get them food, break up fights and clean their super-suits.

12 October 2008

Driver WHAT?!?

Sometimes you mishear things. And sometimes you don't mishear, you just don't understand.

I stood at the supermarket checkout listening to the two older ladies in front of me chatting. They were talking quietly, and I guess they didn't think I was listening.

They chatted about all sorts of amazing topics that were important to ladies in their stage of life.

Then I heard them mention something that sounded like "Driver Jye-Na."

Driver WHAT?

It took me a while to work it out ...

Ummm ... Driver -

OH! I Get It Now.

8 comments:

Jen said...: bwaaahahahah. Too funny!; 12 October, 2008 11:49
Aunt Debbi/kurts mom said...: hahahaha... Thankfully, not quite yet.; 12 October, 2008 12:22
Anonymous said...: *snort* Thanks for the laugh!; 12 October, 2008 17:21
Allegro ma non troppo said...: Serves you right for eavesdropping!; 12 October, 2008 19:54
stefanie said...: Is that the opposite of 'You're a nary in continents'?; 12 October, 2008 21:05
Givinya De Elba said...: Hee hee, yes, I think it's from the same family ... hee hee!; 12 October, 2008 21:14
Putting the FUN in DysFUNctional said...: OMG! When I'm old, will I talk about THAT in the checkout line??
I probably will.; 14 October, 2008 16:41
Sun Angel said...: I had to say it out loud to get it! Good thing the daughter had already left for the bus!; 15 October, 2008 00:15

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I came up with the pseudonym Givinya de Elba in highschool and it was based on a joke from an episode of Dad's Army called 'A Soldier's Farewell.'

In the episode, after eating too much toasted cheese, Captain Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. I don't remember much about the episode other than Mainwaring telling his loyal men (Jones, Pike and Godfrey) that he has been exiled to the island of Elba.

Jones quips, "Hence the expression - Givin' ya the Elber!" (giving you the elbow, i.e., pushing you around.) I thought that Givinya de Elba was a half-decent pseudonym for someone who likes to joke and push people around, and I stuck with that.

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12 October 2008

Driver WHAT?!?

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