I don’t like the sound of an alarm in the morning so instead of a tone, I opt for the radio on my clock/radio. For a long time, I woke to Howard Stern b/c he had the same effect for me as the alarm. I was annoyed at the sound, and I woke up. But now Howard has gone. But David Lee Roth is in his place.
And David is interesting b/c he’s smarter than Howard. Which is good. But he also thinks he’s smarter than he really is. For instance, this morning he was using the word “archetype” and “archetypical” in convo. He was talking with some chick who was on the Apprentice before. And about how she was the bad girl archetype. But he pronounced it “arctype”. Now, I know it looks like that. And I know it also looks like it’s ARCH-type. But it’s not pronounced that way. It’s supposed to be AR-ki-type. That’s just the way it is. Some things will never change. (Cue Hornsby.)
But I know why he did this. It’s because he’s probably read it before. He’s seen it in print. But the caliber of dude that’s around Diamond Dave prolly never use this is their everyday repartee. So he’s never heard the word out loud. He’s never watched Bill Moyers interview Joseph Campbell about his book The Power of Myth.
We’ve all done this. I remember in college, I knew a girl named Tonya. And she was very smart. She was from Culpeper, Virginia. And I imagine she was prolly one of the smartest girls in her highschool. Really well read. But I bet she didn’t have many friends that read like her. Because one day, she referred to one of those carpet-y things that hang on a wall. You know, a tapestry. Again, see Diamond Dave. You know how she pronounced it. TAPE-es-tree. Instead of TAP-es-tree.
But I am not immune. When I was in elementary school, I played D&D. And I remember one of the first modules(ugh, geek points risingly exponentially as I write this) that Brent and I played was called something like The Land of Chaos. And we pronounced it to rhyme with joust. So it was ‘Chous’ to us. But that was like sixth grade.
David Lee Roth is a grown man.
I’m reading this late so you’ll probably never read this comment, but Howard is not not smart. In fact I would say he is brilliant, probably much smarter than Diamond Dave. He’s a mysoginst, doing great harm to women, but he’s a very bright guy.
I guess what I meant was this. I think Diamond Dave comes off as smarter than you thought he was when you listen to him on the radio.
Fartman is brilliant?
The character fartman is not brilliant, no. But he is extremely witty and fast and aside from that insipid stripper crap he manages to do a 5-6 hour comedy show every day for a couple decades now I believe. I don’t think DD is going to be able to pull that off.
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