Thursday, September 28, 2006

Misunderstood Browns

Sometimes my clothes-matching ability becomes impaired. On certain days, my browns get mixed up. I think, "Hey, I'll wear some brown stuff," and usually that goes okay. But today, I picked out my dirty brown, worn out shoes. Then I wore a slightly different brown argyle socks, that have some creamish colors in them. Then I wore some mostly-brown pants that sometimes look a little grey. Then I wore a shirt that I think is brown, but is kinda reddish, and also has some yellow stripes. Underneath, I actually wore a green t-shirt, which believe it or not I do not think was the problem. As I was walking around, however, I became aware that all of my browns were wrong, and the outfit was not working. I do not as of now understand why. But it is true. I looked like a mis-dressed life-sized 2nd rate muppet.

5 Comments:

At 9/28/2006 4:04 PM, Blogger Kevlar Pinata said...

Which muppets are the first-rate ones?

 
At 9/28/2006 4:43 PM, Blogger Teodoro Callate said...

Well, the first-rate ones are the ones everyone thinks about. You know, Kermit, Fozzy, Piggy, and the like. You should know this more than I due to your little ones.

The second-rate ones are really more theoretical, since I am not as familiar with the Muppet canon as some.

Like, in a movie that I haven't seen, if Fozzy met a long-lost cousin who happened to be riding the rails and he's wearing beat up khaki overalls and a dusty hat. He probably had some mismatching browns. That's my concept.

I looked like a dusty rail-riding cousin of Fozzy Bear today.

 
At 9/30/2006 1:12 PM, Blogger Kevlar Pinata said...

It reminds me of Snoopy (of Peanuts fame), who has a cousin named Spike. Spike is a second rate character in Peanuts.

I wonder which muppets I'd put on the B list. I'd include the ones you named as well as Rolf, Scooter, Gonzo, Sam the Eagle, Beaker, and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew on the A list. B listers might include Rizzo the Rat and those frogs Kermit goes to work with the The Muppets Take Manhattan. Man, I have clearly watched a lot of muppet shows and movies.

 
At 10/01/2006 3:35 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rizzo is a B Lister? Oh the blasphemy.

 
At 10/01/2006 5:55 PM, Blogger Teodoro Callate said...

Pinata, I'm glad you see where I'm coming from. Spike! You totally get it. Kinda like Leather Tuscadero. You would never consider Leather Tuscadero to be an A-List cast member of Happy Days, yet there she was, thoroughly dominating a handful of episodes. Like Spike. Like many muppets in any given movie/episode. Like Moe in Calvin and Hobbes.

So, what about the muppet band? A-listers or B-listers? On the TV show, if memory serves, I think collectively they get an A-list status, but individually you'd have to say B-list. I really don't know the movies at all, so I have to defer to Pinata.

 

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