Puuuuuuuullllll iiiiiittttttt . . .

It's that time of year again -- the time of year when, because of Hamlet, I entertain all topics supernatural, and challenge spirits to manifest themselves in my classroom . . . and this always gets students talking: a girl was kind enough to share a story of her own encounter with an apparition; she was playing Bop-It with her cousin, and the batteries ran out, so they took the batteries out of the Bop-It in order to replace them, and suddenly -- without batteries -- the Bop-It started speaking . . . and since I always play the role of the skeptical Horatio in these matters, I asked her how the Bop-It intoned the commands once the batteries were removed . . . but then I answered my own question; I whispered in a low, drawn out voice: "twiiiiiiiiiist iiiiiiitttttt . . . puuuuulllllll iiiiiiiittttttt . . . boooooooooooooooopppppp iiiiiittttttt" and now I can't stop using this haunted Bop-It voice . . . every time I see a Bop-It toy or someone tells a ghost story, I feel compelled to speak as I imagine a haunted toy might speak (perhaps I am possessed?) and the appropriate parallel is that I feel like Jerry, on Seinfeld, when he gets addicted to using the "Hellooooo" voice and sacrifices his girlfriend for the voice.

9 comments:

Squeaky said...

The timing is interesting on this post. G:TB has a chubby checker piece up and your title is pull it. Potential great cross promotion.

zman said...

Twist it!

rob said...

bopppppppp iiiiiit!

Squeaky said...

Pppppush iiittt, ppppppush iiiiiiiiittt real good.

Clarence said...

I was imagining the Seinfeld Hello la la la voice before I got to your mention of it. Must be supernatural.

Dave said...

strange things afoot at the circle k today!

Al DePantsdowno said...

I thought this was going to be a post about what you did for Valentine's day based on the title...

Dave said...

the title wouldn't need all the extra letters.

zman said...

I could've predicted that based on your shoe size.

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