The Loft link up is asking us to write something funny this week.
Growing up with five siblings, there was a good deal of name-calling. One day in junior high, I learned the term “perpendicular bisector” in geometry class. It’s very likely that I didn’t grasp what the concept was, but the term itself stuck with me and it sounded quite impressive.
Perpendicular Bisector of a Triangle
Sure enough, my younger brother picked an argument with me that evening. (Certainly I didn’t pick the argument!) My response to whatever he said was:
Well YOU’RE a perpendicular bisector!!!!
My brother went into the kitchen and said
Mom! Karen called me a perpendicular bisector!
Mom looked horrified. She told me I shouldn’t talk to my brother that way, blah blah blah and finally ended with:
What is that!?
The Loft
Blue and Green Together 
I may try that term sometime soon. That is if I can remember it. 🙂
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Ha! Yes, I think I probably said it several times on the way home that day so I could remember it….”perpendicular bisector, perpendicular bisector….” 🙂
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Very funny! Brings back memories of my growing up with a brother who has a photogenic memory! Didn’t study and was an honor roll student. Me, that’s a different story. I had to study much, much, much!!!
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Thanks Barblynn! You know, my brother (the one referred to in the story above it) is incredibly smart and always did better in school than I did. That is probably why I remember this incident so well. It was very hard to “one up” him. ha ha!
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That is hilarious!! My son, too, loves to use those terms we adults forget. And yes, they do sound pretty terrible until you disect them 🙂 Thanks for linking up this week, (I added your link. Don’t know what happened.)
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Thank you for adding me! I greatly appreciate it. 🙂
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