"As they passed the rows of houses they saw through the open doors that men were sweeping and dusting and washing dishes, while the women sat around in groups, gossiping and laughing.
"What has happened?" the Scarecrow asked a sad-looking man with a bushy beard, who wore an apron and was wheeling a baby-carriage along the sidewalk.
"Why, we've had a revolution, your Majesty -- as you ought to know very well," replied the man; "and since you went away the women have been running things to suit themselves. I'm glad you have decided to come back and restore order, for doing housework and minding the children is wearing out the strength of every man in the Emerald City."
"Hm!" said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully. "If it is such hard work as you say, how did the women manage it so easily?"
"I really do not know," replied the man, with a deep sigh. "Perhaps the women are made of cast-iron.""
- L. Frank Baum, "The Land of Oz"
Monday, December 7, 2009
- Twilight
- cats
- Rachel Ray
- "The View"
- Transiberian Orchestra and Manheim Steamroller (or whatever they're called)
- corn, esp. off the cob
- turkey burgers
- dudes wearing jeans made for dudettes
What about you? What don't you get?
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Comments on "Things I Don't Get":
2. Justin V
- 12/07/2009 8:06 pm CST
I saw/read Twilight and I still don't get it. I get that it's wish fulfillment for some teenage girls (and their mothers, occasionally) but that's about it. I like TSO to a small extent, but after an hour of it (and Mannheim) it starts to run together.
And I just had a fantastic Turkey Burger with Basil from Trader Joes. I'll defend it any day.
As for me, apologies in advance:
- Sports Talk Radio
- Fantasy Sports
- Auto-Tuned music
- "Mad Men"
- "Friends"
- The Mac cult
3. Brian in Fresno
- 12/07/2009 8:07 pm CST
You don't get casseroles either, Jared. ;-)
I don't get professional athletes that use "performance enhancing drugs" when they don't enhance performance.
I don't get "racing teams" for which one member blocks other racers attempts to pass him or his teammate.
I used to get NASCAR but I don't anymore.
I don't get Top 40 radio. Be it secular or Christian.
I don't get all the ugly cars that are being produced now.
I don't know who Rachael Ray is. Should I Google the name to find out?
4. Wickle
- 12/07/2009 8:24 pm CST
Well, I like Mannheim Steamroller. Other than that, though, I pretty much agree. Add to the list:
- Science fiction remakes/relaunches
- anti-intellectualism
- AM popular talk radio (esp. Glenn Beck)
- "Look, we all know that babes require milk, so can we please stop beating up the milkmen?"
- cheese pizza
- yogurt
- Thousand Island salad dressing
6. Alex Costa
- 12/07/2009 8:42 pm CST
Dude, what's wrong with corn? I don't get you not liking corn.
I also don't get...
- unicorns
- my wife sometimes
- diahreah (sp?)
- that part in 1 Peter that nobody understands
- the Manhattan Declaration
- how certain Youtube videos get over 1 million hits
- Delaware
- NT Wrong
7. Jared
- 12/07/2009 8:45 pm CST
Brian, thanks for remind me:
- casseroles, esp. ones involving mayonnaise
Alex, corn is weird.
"Look, we all know that babes require milk, so can we please stop beating up the milkmen?"
Wickle, the originator of that quote is decrying the hammering people like Rick Warren take for teaching "shallow" Christianity.
Corrections from the comments:
Thousand Island dressing and N.T. Wright are awesome.
9. nhe
- 12/07/2009 9:13 pm CST
Totally agree on cheese pizza.....I'd add getting vanilla at B&Rs.
Justin - wow, Fantasy Sports and Sports Talk - I can help you if you want to "get" those.
For me
- the "horror" movie genre
- red state conservatism (edit - rather, people that would define themselves by this as much as they would their relationship with Christ).
- Mormonism
- Pink Floyd
- NASCAR
- peas
11. Wickle
- 12/07/2009 10:01 pm CST
Thanks for explaining the milk quote, Jared. My wife and I were having a hard time figuring out what that meant.
We had some interesting theories, though ... I'll leave it at that (especially since my wife is standing behind me).
14. G. Frederick
- 12/07/2009 11:35 pm CST
Oh my gosh, Molly how can you not get bacon? Due to health issues I can no longer get bacon either and it is the only food that I actually miss.
people who stereotype talk radio listeners as those who mix up their faith with conservatism.
Justin V, I am with you regarding the mac cult
Obama cultists
"green job" evangelists
U2 (G ducks and hides)
Lost (still hiding)
16. Evan
- 12/08/2009 1:36 am CST
a few off the top of my head...
- tweeting
- texting
- club music
- 90% of my cable channels
- the appeal of black friday shopping
- steak sauce
- eggnog (have never tried it, and my main association with it is that people always seemed to be spiking it with alcohol in the sitcoms of my childhood)
- children's cartoon like Dora the Explorer where they do that freaky thing of pausing for answers from the children watching
17. De
- 12/08/2009 6:36 am CST
U2, Mac, AND Lost all in the same comment? Are you trying to get yourself banned?
Nah. G-Fred's cool :-)
I don't get most things.
19. Bob Sacamento
- 12/08/2009 8:23 am CST
- Transiberian Orchestra and Manheim Steamroller
TSO is kind of a ripoff (but not such a bad one, really) if Mannheim Steamroller. I think you could probably get Mannheim S. if you had listened to them back in the day, when they were doing alot of stuff other than Christmas albums. In the '80's, they sort of walked the boundary between progressive rock and new age music, before it was called new age, and they were pretty cool. Then their Christmas album took off and I guess they decided after that that they were a "Christmas band".
20. Bob Sacamento
- 12/08/2009 8:26 am CST
I'm with G.F. I don't get U2. I get that they make some (some) good music, but beyond that, I just don't understand all the hoopla.
Soccer.
Will Ferrel -- along with most of the comedians who have come along in the past decade, now that I think about it.
Twitter -- The first time I read about it, I immediately thought, "This is stupid! Who's going to waste time on this?" I guess now I know.
21. Sherry Early
- 12/08/2009 8:47 am CST
I don't get Twitter or U2 either. What are they good for? I also don't get:
All the hate for Sarah Palin. She's not my #1 choice, but what's with the intense hatred? That goes for George W. Bush, too.
People who say that they don't read books. How do they live?
Pets in general, and intense pet-love specifically. Also zoos.
Oprah.
The whole health care debate.
27. Joe McBee
- 12/08/2009 12:46 pm CST
Tom Cruise
Jell-o
Reality TV- Yes, ALL reality TV
Lost
Curling (the "sport")
30. Shrode
- 12/08/2009 2:22 pm CST
I hereby announce that rather than listing those things that I don't get, I will list those things already listed that I ALSO don't get, thereby encouraging and reassuring those of you above, to let you know that you are not the only one!
To those of you who commented above, here the things I don't get either!
With Jared:
Twilight
- cats
- Rachel Ray
- "The View"
- turkey burgers
- dudes wearing jeans made for dudettes
With Ally,
most fried foods
potluck dinners
celebrities who haven't actually done anything to be celebrities
With Justin V:
- Sports Talk Radio
- Fantasy Sports
- Auto-Tuned music (I really don't get this one, because I don't know what it is.)
With Brian in Fresno:
casseroles
Top 40 radio. Be it secular or Christian.
all the ugly cars that are being produced now.
With Wickle:
- cheese pizza
- Thousand Island salad dressing
With Andrew:
Milk.
With Alex Costa
- the Manhattan Declaration especially since I don't know what that is.
Wtih Jared and Brian:
Casseroles. Yuck.
With nhe:
getting vanilla at B&Rs.
- the "horror" movie genre
With Quaid:
-Chemistry
-Body Splash
-Rhythmic Gymnastics because i don't know what that is.
With Molly,
-"All-nighters". College students are silly. Especially when they brag about all-nighters during finals week
-Raffles
-Bacon
-Milk
-UGG Boots. I don't know what those are either. But I'm pretty sure I don't get them since I've never gotten them. (literally)
-Cold weather
With G. Frederick:
U2 (Phil ducks and hides with G)But that's OK. Music is just personal preference.
With Evan
- tweeting (but I will one of these days.)
- club music
- eggnog
With Sherry Early,
Oprah.
With the sentinel:
Dancing with the Stars
soy milk
Adam Lambert
Fruitcake
Why we did 70's fashion once, let alone twice
body piercing
With Joe McBee
Reality TV- Yes, ALL reality TV
32. Shrode
- 12/08/2009 2:31 pm CST
I think that maybe some of you, (I won't name names)
Don't "get" the meaning of "I don't get".
I don't think this is a post for listing pet peeves.
I translate "I don't get" as "I don't understand the appeal of" OR "I don't understand why people like"
So some things you all listed above, I don't like or agree with either but I feel like understand the appeal of it or why it happens or why other people like it. (e.g. Obama Cult, Sean Hannity, not shutting doors behind us)
So I tried to limit my list to things I don't understand why anybody likes them. (But I admit I may have stretched into the "I don't like" interpretation with Reality TV.)
As for those of you who didn't get why "Diarrhea" was on someone's list: Add to your list of things you don't get:
jokes that turn figures of speech literal.
I think it was meant this way (as a joke):
"I don't get diarrhea."
Get it? Ha. Ha.
Am I the only one wondering how many different meanings the word "get" has?
33. Jared\'s Mom
- 12/08/2009 2:47 pm CST
Things I don't get:
The Bachelor, he NEVER marries the girl
The Kardashians, who are they and why did they get their own show?
jeans that hang below your bottom, you WANT everyone to see your underwear?
Sushi, I try to make my rice NOT sticky
Mudding or offroading
pink Christmas trees
34. Milly
- 12/08/2009 3:04 pm CST
My daughter had a pink feather tree. It was a fun thing
I don't get
-people who don't shower
-not brushing your teeth
-women my age not wearing bras
These people see people on TV using the products. Why don't they have a clue?
37. III
- 12/08/2009 5:33 pm CST
I hate to interrupt this not getting business, but I just wanted to say that everytime I see the commenter "nhe" I always see the world "nihilist" instead. Just so you know.
But kind of back on topic, "my dear friend, by the time whatever it is you've got left gets around to getting whatever is left to be gotten, it won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left."
I'm out.
38. Dan Allison
- 12/08/2009 11:40 pm CST
1. Non-denominational, independent churches with guys who call themselves "Bishop" or "Apostle"
2. Christians who want to boycott retailers because a clerk said "Happy Holidays" instead of Merry Christmas
3. All the verbal junk about how Halloween is demonic. Is this the soft heart a Christian should have? Just shut up and let the kids have some fun.
4. The History Channel, where I expect to see "Nostradmus was an Ice-Road Trucker Looking for Bigfoot"
5. Christian websites with consistently poor spelling and grammar. If you don't know how to use a musical instrument, why would you play a concert, and why is writing any different?
6. I don't get non-denominationalism at all. How can Christians reject the work the Holy Spirit has been doing for the last 2000 years, or reject the great saints of God who've gone before us?
7. Why Tiger Woods is paid $300 million for hitting a ball on the ground with a stick.
8. Why Courtney Cox is destroying her career on "Cougartown." Doesn't she know she's embarrassing herself?
9. Why people don't see that Nancy Grace is merely a peddler of child-murder stories, and that it's the world's easiest job.
10. Why Christians don't understand that if the devil had his own city, it would probably look more like Salt Lake City than San Francisco.
39. Andrew
- 12/09/2009 1:01 am CST
I don't get non-denominationalism at all. How can Christians reject the work the Holy Spirit has been doing for the last 2000 years, or reject the great saints of God who've gone before us?
Would you mind explaining, for those of us who attend non-denominational churches, how we are rejecting the work of the Holy Spirit?
42. Cara
- 12/09/2009 10:57 am CST
- Grey's Anatomy (bad writing, bad acting, etc)
- Why "skinny jeans" had to come back in, just after we seemed to have trained society out of them
- why anyone could possibly disparage bacon
- why CS Lewis had to die before I could meet him, and adopt him as my grandfather
43. Trevor
- 12/09/2009 12:25 pm CST
I dont get how we all survived before owners manuals, helmets, sunscreen, electricity, directions, modern medical care, antibacterial soap, government info websites (how to not spread the flu or how to stay cool in the heat, etc)
i also dont get why nobody has the guts to just say yes, we use more power than thirty years ago so we will begin building power plants immediately.
i dont get how certain lawyers can sleep at night
45. De
- 12/09/2009 2:32 pm CST
Why all the hateration on Salt Lake City? I'm not a big fan of Utah Jazz fans (our local team's announcer has called them "the dumbest fans in the NBA" :-) - but otherwise it's a nice place.
Is it the mormanism? What's the angle here?
47. Bob Sacamento
- 12/09/2009 4:00 pm CST
De,
Why all the hateration on Salt Lake City?
I can only speak for myself. I really don't know much about it. I am just admittedly going off on the stereotype of the place as being uptight, no fun, square. (Hmmm, is using the word "square" now an indication that one is a square?) The stereotype is probably all wrong and unfair. I meant it all in fun.
San Francisco, on the other hand ... ewwww. Don't get me started.
49. Shrode
- 12/10/2009 9:39 am CST
I interpreted the "Salt lake City" vs. Las Vegas as the apotheosis of the "appearance of morality" vs. the "appearance of licentiousness".
Seems like the devil would be just as happy with a legalistic false gospel as a pagan hedonistic atmosphere.
That's how I understood it.
51. TheCalvinator
- 12/12/2009 1:55 pm CST
I don't get people who don't get Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Mannheim Steamroller.
Okay, for realz:
"Two and a Half Men"
Dispensational Eschatology
Coldplay
52. DeCoughey
- 12/15/2009 10:36 am CST
Why photography, when there is so much of it that is bad, immoral/inane moves us sublimely so often as if it is masterful like Michaelangelo...photography of the chapel cartoonifies the masterful....
is it reproduction that makes aplatform for the temporally sublime? Don't get it.
also worship bands that don't let worship happen
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college football
most fried foods
potluck dinners
Leonardo DiCaprio back in the day
celebrities who haven't actually done anything to be celebrities
Rachael Ray on the other hand goes into a different category of "Dear Lord deliver us!"