Monday, May 12, 2008

Video Puppets On My Side

"Please please please let the video puppets say dik-dik!"

Amanda had mentioned MariesWorldTour in a piece she'd written for a lifestyle-type website. A fact-checker from an ad agency checked with me a week later.

"How do you pronounce your last name?"

Lucky for me, the man was named David.

"The -avi- is like in David, not Javits."

(In 4th grade, the gifted and talented teacher sat me down and lectured me that I said my name incorrectly. I didn't know about the David trick then, so I'd just said "It's Jay-vins, not Jaaa-vins." I probably wanted to cry. I had no defense as she pointed at my name and cited some imagined rule of grammar. But I digress.)

Sadly, the thorough video puppets did not utter the dirty-sounding but utterly innocuous word, dik-dik. But they were kind enough to say my name right. Check it out.

3 comments:

Linda said...

Well, I heard them say your name so congratulations on that. But their site doesn't work on my browser. The audio keeps looping but the text box won't scroll so I can't read the article! Well, after all, it's MSN...

Kel said...

glad they said your name right, but i gotta say, those video puppets kinda creep me out.

Anonymous said...

on man da internet is a scream! i don't know how we everlived w/out it!
as 4 ur 4th gr teacher --oye F@^$#N VEY !!!! AS A TEACHER MYSELF I TRY 2 REMEMBER 2 CHECK MYSELF &NOT DO WHAT UR RIDICULOUS 4th gr teacher did . look it how long ago that was & u still remember ! i actually make it a point 2 try & correctly pronounce kid names cause ur name is very important! now i digress....oh & I like da new website...PB