My roommate's girlfriend didn't know who Jessie Owens was...

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This will be an extended thread for me to share with you my roommate, his stupidity, and that of his girlfriend. File alongside Ally's (or whichever one she made) annoying co-worker thread, or any various anal sex threads.

To continue the opening, I had to explain over the phone who he was, and how important it was for him to wave his race (genetic and his talent) in the face of Hitler, etc.

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

She said she felt that House, MD on the Fox network, was one of those shows that made you feel smarter from having watched it.

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Erm. *cough* This might sound a *little* strange, but utterly fantastic a figure as Jesse Owens is, I wouldn't *necessarily* think everyone would be completely familiar with him. I agree it would be nice.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but mockery is the sincerest form of mockery." Hooray!

― Curious George (Bat Chain Puller) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

Clearly there is a need for an "I Love the 30s" series.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

the name rang a bell, but i didn't remember exactly who he was until you mentioned hitler.

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

AN EXCUSE TO SHOW SOMEONE BLAZING SADDLES. Why are you complaining?

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

Have her watch _Blazing Saddles_

XPOST DAMN YOU MICCIO

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

I met someone at a party who--as a junior English major--thought that AFRICA WAS A WHOLE COUNTRY.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha. To both those!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

House is pretty cool.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

"my boyfriend's roommate misspelled 'Jesse'"

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

...and my roommate had to be patiently told that countries in S.America were not actually states in a larger S.American union.

Dude. They're ENTIRE CONTINENTS.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

My gf's ex-roommate once had to ask what was the nearest star to Earth. And why the space shuttle doesn't hit the stars when it blasts off.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 2 May 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

Who is Jessie Owens?

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Never ask any American anything about out-of-our-borders geography. Or any geography questions at all. They don't know.

― andy --, Monday, 2 May 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

Jessie Owens

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

breasts!

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Was he really 'that important'? Not to diminish his stature or whatever, but it's not like a black American in Macon, GA circa 1936 was really worried about upstaging Hitler. They had more pressing matters at hand, I think.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

I know someone who thought Enoch Powell was Prime Minister.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

My roommate claims he is not a pot head, but he just professed to his pot head friends that he got hustled for weed from a dude who LIVES UPSTAIRS. The dude has 20 of my roommates dollars, and my roommate sees the dude all the time.

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

Never ask any American anything about out-of-our-borders geography. Or any geography questions at all. They don't know.

Indeed.

My favourite bit: "Only 89 percent of the Americans surveyed could find their own country on the map."

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if your roommate's gf knows who Jesse Owens is?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

oh, miccio already did the gag

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

Yep.

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

i didn't actually know until i googled just then. i knew the story, but not the name. sorry.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Wake up Ken ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

haha it's really late here!!!! :D

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

cut me some slack ;)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

I have to admit that I'm tempted to pull a Calum (ahem) and do a TS: Jesse Owens Vs. Jessie Owens. Cor!

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

most disappointing "my idiot roommate" thread ever

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

exactly, that's why he upstaged a lot more than just l'il ol' hitler.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

and he sure put hitler in his place, wow!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

(sorry, i mean jesse owens rocks of course. but i guess if there's a context in which i'd use the word "humanism" as a pejorative, it would be in assailing those Black History Month-style encomiums where jessie owens "stood up" to hitler etc.)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

(that wasn't directed at you, hstencil.)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Somewhere in tv guide on line land, someone claimed in House, when Hugh pretends to be a British doctor that he was actually speaking with his normal accent.
I felt smarter when I saw that episode last week.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't aware that Owens and his victories in '36 had a major role in altering the landscape of race relations in the US. I've only seem him written about in the context of Hitler, not giving hope/encouragement/pride/etc. to African-Americans.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

really?

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

http://www.jesseowensmuseum.org/articles/art20.html

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

jesse owens is awesome, i did a report on him in 7th grade, BUT what ned said way upthread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

Jesse Owens had great hair at the Olympics.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

I think Jesse Owens is pretty famous. No one else outran Hitler's zeppelin.

― webber (webber), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

There's a scene in the made-for-TV movie where Owens keeps getting called out by the judges for stepping on the line in the long jump. He's not, of course, but it's the Germans running the show here. One of his coaches tells him to start the jump a foot from behind the line. That way, the coaches won't be able to call him out because it'd be too obvious. It puts Owens at a disadvantage since he's handicapped himself a foot, but as we all know, everything works out in the end.

I think about that a lot. Having to jump from a foot back while everyone else gets to jump from the line. That's just the way it has to be done sometimes.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

I don't know who Jessie Owens is either. And I don't think I want to know. If I did know, would I care? I'm guessing he's American and I have assumed that he was a he even though he has the name of a girl or a dog coz women rarely are talked about.

― miele kitty (miele), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

It's a good thing to know.

In the end, it didn't affect how it should have, but it did show him up.

Heck, I didn't know about it before I did.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 08:48 (twenty years ago)

I thought he was Jessie Jackson to be honest!

Though I'd heard the olympics story in history in school.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

I don't know who Jesse Owens is.

― Kate / Productive Pedagog (papa november), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

Hitler was pwned, but that never lasts for long.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

Jessie Owens - is this the one that played that silly tart in Eastenders?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

no, that was Cosmic Michael

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

Talees of my idiot ex-housemate here:
There is a fish in a bucket in my living room

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

Tales of my idiot ex-housemate here:
There is a fish in a bucket in my living room

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

hi anna!

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.usps.com/images/stamps/98/jowens.jpg
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― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Who is ~~Mike Jones~~ Jesse Owens?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

If you're an American, and you were not, like, homeschooled, you have NO excuse for not knowing who Jesse Owens is.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Thank you Ally, I apppreciate that.

My Roommate's girlfriend (who does not live with us, by the way) thought it would be a good idea to introduce our cats to each other -- she has one, possibly as a child substitute, and we have one because my roommate's father got remarried, and the cat didn't get along with the dog. I have yet to figure out what purpose introducing our cats to each other would serve.

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

that sounds like it'd be disasterous. Can I bring my cat to your cat soiree?

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure this has happened or will happen.

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Is she scheduling playdates? (God I hate that word)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Basically.

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.marge.simpsons-land.de/bilder/marge.jpg

"I've just realised - the cat and the dog have been living in sin all this time!"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Exactly.

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

Nevermid the title; my roommate's sister has losst her mind

― Jimmy Mod: GRILL ENSPEKTOR (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

Do you want to help her find it?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

tell us more!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

Somewheres along the line she became a dedicated workaholic track runner wannabe lawyer into a sensible Ms.-reading midwestern wannabe housewife who works at TJ Maxx?

― Jimmy Mod: GRILL ENSPEKTOR (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

And she won't shut up

― Jimmy Mod: GRILL ENSPEKTOR (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

Working at TJ Maxx "really fits my personality"

― Jimmy Mod: GRILL ENSPEKTOR (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 20 March 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

that's a hellova personality

also since wehn do wannabehousewives read ms.????

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 20 March 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

I DON'T KNOW. I AM SO CONFOOSED

― Jimmy Mod: GRILL ENSPEKTOR (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 20 March 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

When choosing a movie:

She: *looks at a vast and impressive rack of DVD's*
What's the "Discreet Charm... of the Bourg... Bourgeoisie?"

Me: It's one of those dinner party movies. Luis Bunuel. You don't
like movies with subtitles.

She: *looks* Is "Band of Outsiders" funny?

Me: Yes. It's in french.

She: Ah. *looks more* Is "Annie Hall" funny?

Me: ...

My Roommate: You haven't seen ANNIE HALL??

She: No...

Me: What the hell do they teach you in college?

She: The showed us a movie about Tina Brandon...

Me: ...

― Jimmy Mod: GRILL ENSPEKTOR (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 23 March 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

that movie about teena brandon is brilliant, better then annie hall i think

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 23 March 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

It wasn't "Boys Don't Cry"

― Jimmy Mod: GRILL ENSPEKTOR (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 23 March 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

they didn't teach ME Annie Hall in college

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

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