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- May 27, 2006
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Of course, the announcement isn’t actually coming from my desk, as such – it’s instead being electronically delivered via the online anonymous text-based football discussion forum bigfooty.com. But there is an announcement, and it is significant.
At least, that’s how I explained it to my dear friend manangatang over a pleasant stroll recently. You see, manang and I often go for walks together to clear the mind. We walk, we laugh, and we eat – in my view, the three required pillars for a successful Sweet FA career.
On this particular occasion, we were strolling around a local lake. There were some swans paddling in the shallows. I’ll tell you exactly what I said to manangatang. I said:
“manangatang, I’m going to write exactly what I’m telling you presently on the online anonymous text-based football discussion forum bigfooty.com."
mang said, “'Less, that’s honestly absolutely fine.”
And I had absolutely NO reason not to believe that. NO reason. NONE. And so I believed it, and I still do to this day.
The confidence I gained from this interaction was considerable. I started thinking that perhaps I should tell somebody about the announcement I was planning to make on the online anonymous text-based football discussion forum bigfooty.com, and who better than my dear friend? I started to think, “I really must tell mang.”
I must.
And so I did.
You simply wouldn’t believe manangatang’s response to what I told him, so I won’t bother writing it here. This announcement is clearly significant and will affect the broader league, but I don’t want to waste your time. I want this post to be efficient, to be concise, and to be clear – or, as I refer to those qualities, the ECC principles.
Not the EGG principles, of course. No – that would be absurd. The ECC principles.
I want this post to adhere to those principles, so I’m not going to divulge what manangatang said – and you simply wouldn’t believe me, anyway.
But I told mang the announcement, and I’m going to tell you, too.
At least, that’s what I was thinking as we continued our stroll. We walked in silence for some time. I don’t want to speak on behalf of manang, but I’m personally – and spiritually – very much a man of few words. We don’t need to speak.
We don’t need to.
And so, sometimes, we don’t.
After several hours, of course, we both started wondering what was happening. Earlier, I said to mang, “I think I heard that swan – the one paddling in the shadows from earlier – squawk!”
It turns out that manangatang thought I said, “I don’t think we should talk.”
It was a hilarious mix-up, and we’re still laughing about it now.
At least, that’s how I explained it to my dear friend manangatang over a pleasant stroll recently. You see, manang and I often go for walks together to clear the mind. We walk, we laugh, and we eat – in my view, the three required pillars for a successful Sweet FA career.
On this particular occasion, we were strolling around a local lake. There were some swans paddling in the shallows. I’ll tell you exactly what I said to manangatang. I said:
“manangatang, I’m going to write exactly what I’m telling you presently on the online anonymous text-based football discussion forum bigfooty.com."
mang said, “'Less, that’s honestly absolutely fine.”
And I had absolutely NO reason not to believe that. NO reason. NONE. And so I believed it, and I still do to this day.
The confidence I gained from this interaction was considerable. I started thinking that perhaps I should tell somebody about the announcement I was planning to make on the online anonymous text-based football discussion forum bigfooty.com, and who better than my dear friend? I started to think, “I really must tell mang.”
I must.
And so I did.
You simply wouldn’t believe manangatang’s response to what I told him, so I won’t bother writing it here. This announcement is clearly significant and will affect the broader league, but I don’t want to waste your time. I want this post to be efficient, to be concise, and to be clear – or, as I refer to those qualities, the ECC principles.
Not the EGG principles, of course. No – that would be absurd. The ECC principles.
I want this post to adhere to those principles, so I’m not going to divulge what manangatang said – and you simply wouldn’t believe me, anyway.
But I told mang the announcement, and I’m going to tell you, too.
At least, that’s what I was thinking as we continued our stroll. We walked in silence for some time. I don’t want to speak on behalf of manang, but I’m personally – and spiritually – very much a man of few words. We don’t need to speak.
We don’t need to.
And so, sometimes, we don’t.
After several hours, of course, we both started wondering what was happening. Earlier, I said to mang, “I think I heard that swan – the one paddling in the shadows from earlier – squawk!”
It turns out that manangatang thought I said, “I don’t think we should talk.”
It was a hilarious mix-up, and we’re still laughing about it now.
~~~ to be continued ~~~
