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.
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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.
Twist it!
bopppppppp iiiiiit!
Pppppush iiittt, ppppppush iiiiiiiiittt real good.
I was imagining the Seinfeld Hello la la la voice before I got to your mention of it. Must be supernatural.
strange things afoot at the circle k today!
I thought this was going to be a post about what you did for Valentine's day based on the title...
the title wouldn't need all the extra letters.
I could've predicted that based on your shoe size.
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