Missed opportunity

July 2nd, 2008, 9:34 pm PDT by Greg

In my 470 lecture today, I was making comment about MySpace. To point out that I wasn’t a MySpace user, I said

Since I’m neither a 14 year old nor a musician, I don’t have a MySpace account.

Moments later, I realized that what I should have said was

Since I’m neither a 14 year old, nor a musician, nor a pedophile, I don’t have a MySpace account.

I’m very disappointed in myself. George Carlin would be disappointed as well.

Update: Now I’m stuck watching George Carlin on YouTube. Best curse ever: “Holy jumpin’ fuckin’ shitballs!” [@0:53]. Also my favourite Carlin rant: Airport Security (which happened well before September 2001, and rings true even in our stupid, stupid post-911 world).

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