Recently, on the brilliant blog-tastic website of my good buddy and probable big brother Napoleon Fantastic, there was an excellent gag about the new Obama family dog. He titled his small piece on the subject Bo Selected, Bo being the name of the 6-month-old Portuguese Water Dog. I found this to be very comical, capricious and clever.
Early this morning I attempted to replicate this gag in the company of an unlikable colleague. This being an unusual situation of any actual oral communication in the office I thought this merited the effort. So, in a purely work-related setting, I mentioned how absurd and ludicrous it is that the Bo subject generated such paramount and major news coverage.
He mumbled something about the pet being a promised present to Obama’s children if he won the election and that it was a gift from Senator Ted Kennedy. I heartily joked, “Yes, Bo has well and truly been selected.” He stared at me with disdain and pity. Walking away he made a grotesque hand gesture.
The people in the office already think I am mentally challenged, due to being too much of an enigma and my shyness being mistaken for arrogance, and this does not help my precarious social laboured position.
Proof positive that even a well thought out Nap gag can backfire. Backfire at the Disco? Yes, and in the workplace.
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You are mentally challenged! It says so in your wiki entry.
‘Nelson Galaxy, mentally challenged enigma. Arrogant and shy.’