I work with a bunch of very brilliant engineers whose work is, in general, excellent. However, in some select circumstances, that brilliance leads to a general lack of context and a bit of cluelessness.
For instance, I was eating lunch with one of those engineers in the pantry at work and the pantry TV was tuned to CNN Headline News, which was showing a story about North Korea. Said engineer pointed to the TV and asked if I had seen “Space Captain and the Amazing Something-or-other”. I asked him if he 1) meant Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and 2) what that had to do with North Korea.
He then proceeded to tell me how he and his wife had gone to the movies with the intention of seeing Team America: World Police, which was released, or at least in theaters, around the same time as Sky Captain. Since both movies have fairly corny names, he took a shot in the dark and picked Sky Captain instead.
He said that he spent most of the movie confused and it wasn’t until around five minutes before the end of the movie that he realized that the puppets weren’t ever going to show up because he had gone to see the wrong movie. I had to agree with him: Sky Captain did lack foul-mouthed anatomically-correct puppets, or, for that matter, any puppets at all, and Kim Jung Il most decidedly wasn’t in Sky Captain.
Heh.
Standard Sources Of Amusement: Coworkers
WHERE ARE THE F’ING PUPPETS!!
I think Brad will agree with me when I say, I can completely relate. Only, I’m your weird coworker:)
One of my favorite movies is THe Shawshank Redemption. My father had never seen it, so I kept telling him about it, urging him to see it. Finally, after a couple years, my family had convened at the family home to watch it. We popped it, and he seemed to be really enjoying it, but appeared a bit confused at times. I finally asked him if he liked the movie. With a befuddled smile, he said, “Yeah, I really do, but I’ve been wondering…when do all the Jews show up?”
He thought I had been talking about Schindler’s List.
Heh. Both are great movies but I can definitely see how it would be a very confusing two hours or so.