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April 27, 2003
Moments of Smug, Part I
The following vignette is just one example of why Girl-E is a simultaneously endearing and utterly infuriating human being. Anyone who knows her can tell a similar one of their own.
On the airport bus to Bodrum, a seaside resort town in southwestern Turkey. The overture to Carmen playing on the bus's soundsystem:
Pohm* lady sitting behind us #1: (starts humming and singing lyrics). Oh I just love this piece.
Pohm #2: What is it?
P1: It's Carmen. Haven't you seen the movie? It's wonderful, all black cast. Carmen's a black opera, you know.
P2: Really!
Girl-E**: Actually, Carmen Jones, starring Harry Belafonte, is an African American cinematic remake of Carmen, which is a French opera set in Spain. Idiot.
* a whiny Brit, abbreviation for "Prisoner of Her Majesty," which was stamped on British passports back in the day when they were shipped as criminals to Australia.
** In all truth, this was said under her breath to The Dude. But she wanted very badly to say it to the woman's face, and is not typically beyond doing so.
Posted by The Twins at April 27, 2003 09:26 AM
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