Solid Potato Salad

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Eric Francis

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12 Responses to Solid Potato Salad

  1. awordedgewise awordedgewise says:
    May 20, 2010 at 10:47 am

    I enjoy yr fishy sponge story baycyn :)

    Oh – and I double checked with a table full of teenagers last night about “creepy” and their interpretation matched mine. Simply stated it means “weird”.

    Or in other lingo; something that’s not quite right. Or “wrong”. That is, the pre-teeny reviewer could have also said that something about the video was “just wrong” and meant the same thing.

    I personally don’t see where any dark sexual repression lurks. I just think the girl thinks the performance is weird. As do I!

    Thanks for the “solid” define, e. Im LOLing at that too – ’cause I sure don’t consider potato salad to be solid food. Meat and potatoes maybe. Or in the case of baysyn, fish’n'chpis…..

    Hoping for more cracking up from you all out there — we allll could use it – in a good way!
    xo

  2. Eric Francis Eric Francis says:
    May 20, 2010 at 5:27 am

    Not the main thrust, but a current usage. Suspicion is the inner concept, yes.

  3. Amanda Painter apainter26 says:
    May 20, 2010 at 1:38 am

    hhmmm –
    i’d like to hear some of our british wavers weigh in on the “dodgy” comparison. seems to me when i was living i london i heard it used to describe something/someone untrustworthy in some way; anything from an old, beat-up car to a neighbor with a questionable income stream or social circle.

    so yeah, in as much as, say, an overtly, “inappropriately” sexual coworker may seem untrustworthy (to keep his hands to himself, say), i can see “dodgy” having that connotation. but i never got the sense that sexual was the main thrust of the word.

    anyone have any more insight?

    but as for the little girl’s use of “creepy”… i could see the same reaction to any other person with a physical skill that counted as “circus sideshow freak” material back in the day…

  4. baycyn says:
    May 20, 2010 at 12:56 am

    I’d say maybe “freaky” rather than “creepy”.

    That flexibility/range of motion is so far beyond what I can physically comprehend…it just left me staring with my eyebrows fighting for which could go higher.

    Amanda & awordedgewise – you both cracked me up.

    Hey, speaking of odd… I bought some fish today at an old-fashioned seafood-lunch-counter-type place. Run by a bunch of brothers. The sweet guy gave me my sand dabs in a little white bag. I saw him put something in there, looked like a piece of paper.

    I took it out when I got home. It looks like a large, fuzzy yellow business card. Has the name, phone # & address of the place. Then, in smaller letters: “Dip in water – see what happens. Dip in water – be surprised!” It’s a pop-up sponge. Makes me smile every time I look at it.

    - Cynthia

  5. Eric Francis Eric Francis says:
    May 19, 2010 at 11:17 pm

    Apparently this song was a standard, in its day. Type it into youtube and you’ll see a good few people have done it. Solid being, a ‘square meal’ kind of thing. Solid food.

    Their accents tweaked me a little at first; then they come in with this line in perfect American like, it’s a heck of a potato, Jack.

  6. awordedgewise awordedgewise says:
    May 19, 2010 at 9:28 pm

    Um. No, no, really. Just “creepy”.

    Bizarre to watch a combo of the Andrew or Pointer Sisters, Cirque de Soleil, and Beverly Hillbillies. Definitely far far from any version of “sexy” to me.

    And what IS “solid” potato salad anyway?

  7. Eric Francis Eric Francis says:
    May 19, 2010 at 7:39 pm

    From this I gather that ‘sexy’ is in there – creepy (dodgy in the UK) seems to be young girl/woman talk for overtly sexy/erotic.

  8. Amanda Painter apainter26 says:
    May 19, 2010 at 4:52 pm

    i think maybe the kid’s just weirded out by the physical display. i mean, one of the gals puts her feet on her face from behind. you have to admit, watching someone sing with their ass resting on their head is not “everyday.”

    “creepy” may not be the most accurate word, but it may be the best one she has at her disposal to describe whatever visceral reaction she has to seeing almost super-human physical abilities… while the bodies are singing in harmony, no less.

    – amanda

  9. Eric Francis Eric Francis says:
    May 19, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    She keeps calling it creepy! That’s what I thought was perplexing. And she seems fully authentic and spontaneous in that assessment – what is she on about? That it’s old? Manipulative?

  10. elleshaylor says:
    May 19, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    DAYYYUMMM

    Haha, um yeah! Right on!

    Random dude: So what do you do for a living?
    Ross Sisters: Well we sing, dance and put our heads on our asses, you?
    Random dude: (quiet)

  11. Shanna Philipson says:
    May 19, 2010 at 9:13 am

    :-) “…except that it’s creepy…”

    Definitely reinvents the definition of “triple threat”.

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