Deaf Anthology: Deaf Anthology #40: "Get A Life!"

John: "I am sending this post to Sean, he's a chronic complainer. (copy and paste)
Joan: "Hope he's in good mood."
Post: "I am very, very, very upset, it's not fair, I am one of those diehards who love reading Deafread at 2:30 am everyday, and I'm losing sleep over it because of the disruption of this ritual. It is not fair to us us night owls. It is not fair to us college students burning the midnight oil. It is not fair to those bar patrons after their last call. It is not fair to those who hates infomercials on t.v. I am sick and tired of waiting until fall to make up the one hour I lost enjoying Deafread. Face it guys, life is unfair. I have to spend one hour I lost reading Deafread to reprogrammed my alarm clock, the microwave clock, my wristband watch, my auto dashboard clock, the stove range clock, and what else. I hate it when the newspaper and the broadcaster have to remind me that I must reset the clock at 2 am Sunday, moving it forward one hour. I don't know how many of us Deaf will not be able to enjoy Deafread from 2 to 3 am this coming Sunday, thousands, if not millions of readership and potential revenues will be lost that hour, I have no estimates of the impact it will have to our morals. I am depressed, but I got to lightened up to the fact, that there will be no wars, no murders, no heart attacks, no domestic disputes, no taxes, no commercials, no Acts of God (hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.), no sex (smile), no inflation, and whatever during that one hour anywhere in the world. One commented no Deaf protest also. One hour of relatively peace that no one will ever witness as that time frame doesn't exist when we needed it the most. I lost one hour of sleep over this for nothing. This is Smokey, just reminding you all to spring forward your clock one hour this Sunday at 2 am and sorry if you wasted your time reading this irrelevant post on Deafread. Gotcha!"

Anonymous: "Get a Life!"

Old Greenfield Medical Clinic

John: "Where is my interpreter, I am here for an annual physical?"

Nurse: "Sorry, your appointment is tomorrow, have you forgotten this is a leap year?" (John left embarrassed)

State Theatre, New Canaan

Joan: We ought to support Insight Cinema in their open-captioning of Hollywood films to show our appreciation.

Jeffrey: "It's difficult to read the laser projected on the screen"

Jason: "Couldn't the theatre have the captioned under the silver screen, like they do on DVD in letterbox format."

Joan: "Good idea, you should suggest that to the theatre manager."

John: "The synopsis (storyline), boys"

Jason and Jeffrey: It's about eight strangers with eight different points of view try to unlock the one truth behind an assassination attempt on the president of the United States during an anti-terrorism summit in Spain."

John: "When I was at Gallaudet I was paid participating in a research project conducted by the Office of Educational Technology, we were to watch all these 16mm captioned films, and they'll test us on the theory that our reading skills will improved. The conclusion was that it was not significant to us Deaf adults, but it has a major impact on Deaf children in learning English."

Joan: "You got another movie stub to put on your locker at school."

Jason: "I collected 36 so far, my teacher wouldn't allow us to put movie posters up, so movie stubs is a good alternative."

John: "I am planning on a new blog being a movie critic, so I given Vantage Point a thumbs up."

Joan: "Maybe Hollywood will take notice and invite you to their world premiere parties."

Jason and Jeffrey: "We want to meet Steven Spielberg and get his autograph."

John: "If so, I can give him my scripts"

Joan: "Johnny Depp is my favorite actor."

John: "He's in Columbus, Wisconsin on the set of "Public Enemies," in the role of John Dillinger from Universal Studios."

Joan: "Deaf Anthology crew will be there to request access from Dave Fulton, the unit publicist." (Pager vibrates)
John: "Just got a page from my agent that CBS wants me to write a script for Without A Trace about the recent Chicago incident involving Walter."

Joan: "What about the deal with Madison Avenue involving Bret Favre."

John: "They wouldn't breached the contract since that Pepsi dropped the commercial project after his retirement announcement on the fourth."

Jeffrey: "Got a new joke, who's with Jesus in Heaven."

Jason: "Taylor, that's easy because Mom always shop at Lord & Taylor."

Revised (3/14/08)