For most of us life is less than dramatic than the movies. Few of us will get to deliver the really cool lines, like “Charge!” or “Sponge, Clamp, Suture” or “I’d like to thank the Academy” I suppose that most people at some point have imagined them selves saying “take her down to periscope depth” or even, “fire Torpedo tube number 1”
When I was on jury duty recently, I got to say something I never thought possible. The judge was asking us about our suitability to serve, not wanting to share the particulars of one of my answers; I meekly stuck my hand into the air and asked, “Your Honor, may I approach the bench?” “Approach” he said. I approached feeling puffed up and important.
The next day I recounted my thrill to a friend Geoff, who happened to have served with US Special Forces in
Along the years, however I did get to utter a few other big lines. I’ve said, on my knees “Will you marry me?” A few years later I said until I was hoarse, “It’s a girl!” I’ve said, from the top of a ship’s mast after crossing an ocean “Land Ho!” Melodramatic, I admit, but it sounded better than “Yo
A friend of mine tells me a story about a magistrate in
The drunk fainted. As they were reviving him, the bailiff looked up quizzically at the judge, the judge shrugged and said, “I’ve just always wanted to say that.”
I know exactly how he felt.
Christopher Buckley
Labels: wishfull thinking.
6 comments:
ha ha ha.. in this same lines, read a fwd mail abt a softwere engg who wanted to just howl once... :-)
Great blog you got here.
How many lines have I memorized, just to use them at the apt moment in life. But in reality - mostly it feels like am stupid... :)
@ XH thanx bro id like to read that forward
@safeha Thanx
@ phoenix i knw how u feel life is just like that.
hehehhe! i loved the last part!!!!!! totally@!
i want to say "yes" to that qs [ u can guess which] all filmy isshhtyle!
freaking buts always gettin me :-/ ;)
@ veens i understand totally
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