I heard the funniest clip on the radio this
morning. “The Ubuntu people are dancing in the streets as the French
has liberated their city. The French army is poised and ready to invade
Timbuktu.”
Seriously?!? Like, did no one in the radio editing
office or whatever listen to this clip and say, “nope, WAY too many
things that are potentially hilarious about this”
First to my head is: isn’t Ubuntu an operating
system or software or something like that? So then I get a vision of
all of these software nerds, like all dancing around Napoleon Dynamite style:
(and, as the pictures TOTALLY show, I believe Linux nerds can be hot and Napoleon Dynamite can be cool…)
The next thought on my list is “What? France
invaded something?? And is winning??? (Sorry, France, but I cut my
teeth on the “and just to be on the safe side, France surrenders” meme.)
And then my thoughts run to Timbuktu as this sort
of mythical place (this time, blame my mother! We’d always joke about
re-route things through Timbuktu.) So, in my mind, it doesn’t have the
legitimacy as, say, London, or even the Arctic
Circle. (we learned about the Arctic Circle in Science class… my
Geography teacher may have mentioned Timbuktu once in passing…)
But, I swear, I know Timbuktu exists!!!
Ok… but until this blog post, I probably couldn’t have told you that it was in Africa…
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