Canadutch
On Wednesday night Xander and I were going out to see Star Trek – OMG What an awesome movie!!! – and I was getting cranky because he was rushing me. Also because I was sleep deprived… AND PMSing. Seriously, he should have known better.
Anyhow, as I ran around getting dressed and brushing my teeth, I was mumbling and bitching at him. This continued in the theater after he refused to get a drink of his own, instead saying he’ll “just take a sip of mine”, which I hate. I am always thirsty and run out before the movie is over and with his help I run out even sooner. He says it’s pointless for him to get a drink because he won’t finish it, but he doesn’t get that I’d probably just finish his too, seeing as even on my own mine is gone by halfway through the movie anyway.
So I told him I wasn’t going to share, and moved my bottle of blue water to the holder on the other side, away from him. Mostly teasing, but still hoping he’d get the hint and go get his own, which he didn’t.
Xander: GOD! You are contrary today! Downright ornery. You’re CONTRORNERY!!! That’s what I’m going to call you, contrornery! You are so cranky there has been an entirely new word invented to describe it.
Me: Oh whatever. I still don’t get why you won’t just get your own.
Xander: CONTRORNERY!!
Me: OH yeah, well you’re…
Xander: I’m what?!
Me: WHATEVER.
Xander: bwahaha
*A few minutes pass*
Me: You’re a MOTARD! That’s what you are, a Moh-TARD!
Xander: Took you long enough. So, what’s that? A retard and a what?
Me: A MORON.
Xander: Well, it sounds like moutarde, which is French for mustard. I’ve been called worse.
Me: I don’t care, it’s still better than your word. It’s easier to say and sounds better.
Xander: Mine is better. Contrornery, which you still are.
Me: I guarantee within a month you’ll be using my word back at me, because deep down you know it’s better and won’t be able to resist calling me a motard, because it’s a way cooler word than yours.
Xander: No I won’t.
Me: Hrmm, maybe I should have said MOR-tard. Then it doesn’t sound like mustard in French. MORTARD!!
Xander: Hmm…
Me: No, then it sounds like something out of Lord of the Rings.
*We both proceed to raise our arms and exclaim “TO MORTARD!!” *
Xander: haaaaaaaaahahahahaa
Me: *Squealing with laughter* Oh god, we really are geeks aren’t we? We are sitting in a theater waiting to see Star Trek while making up our own language and roleplaying Lord of the Rings.
Xander: ** Gasp For Breath** haaaaahahahahahaha It’s True!!
Me: I’m so embarrassed.
This morning while we were in the kitchen fixing breakfast, he called me a motard.
I win!
Hilarious AND geeky. Best kind of post. Plus both my dutchie and I have the I *heart* My Geek tshirts. I highly recommend them. Many many Dutch people will stop you to ask what a geek is.
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Motard in french is a biker, or a policeman on a motorbike…
Which in itself could be interpreted as an insult in France. (Police are not your friends)
As kids we used to call each motards, but I never thought about what it means. I do like contrornery though. My grandfather was a contrornery old bastard..
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I think I have to steal/borrow contrornery. That is a good word. (I like mortarde, too, but I can’t use it in front of my kids!) You two are made for each other…I can see how you moved half way around the world to be together!
Hehehe at least you were not arguing in Klingon :p
you guys are so made for each other just like me and meesh lol. motard indeed. tell xander it’s ok but he used the word too soon ;p
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Told ya!!!!
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ROFL!! Long live geeks!
I laughed so hard at this. Probably because similar things have happened to Andrew and I. We have our own geeky language in development. We’re sad :)
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It’s not sad it’s cool! :D TBH, that’s one of my favorite parts of us, that we have so many inside jokes and can enjoy each other’s company so much. I’d feel sad if we didn’t have our own little language after all this time :)
*hangs head* oh my!
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Both of those need to be submitted to Merriam-Webster, stat!
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I know, right?! Someday I’m going to be walking down the street and hear some 15 year old guy call his pal a motard, and they’ll never know that the genius that came up with it is merely a few steps away! Oh, and maybe some guy will call his wife contrornery too someday but then he’d be, you know, a motard.
OMG you ARE geeks!!! sheesh, LOL
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Hey now! It’s ok for ME to say it :P