And I'm not even drunk yet!

[apocalypsos]

I feel like I have to print up some little cards and carry them with me everywhere so that when I make some reference to wanting a pony and people look at me like I'm deranged, I can hand them something which says:

No, I do not actually want a real pony. Any pony jokes I might make are references to the old standby that every little girl would like to be a princess and have a pony. I am a princess on the internet, which is the closest I'm ever going to get, but I do not actually own a pony. Hence the jokes.

Having said that, I just added a piny pony and a princess tiara to my Amazon wishlist.

... hey, it amuses ME, okay?

Comments

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

World War Z is really good. I'm only half through it though. he first one was good too. The Survival Guide. Loved it. It was quite a conversation starter.

Every time I took it with me to read I'd get questions about it.

"Is it for real?" "Is it good?" "Is it scary?"

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I went up my parents's house a few weeks back and discovered that not only had my brother (who rarely ever reads anything more complicated than a cereal box) found my copy of the Survival Guide, but he'd actually read the whole damn thing.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

Hah. That's always fun to discover.

I'm currently scouring your wishlist for books that look good. I want to go book shopping but never know what I should buy. So I've been searching for recs.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. Be forewarned -- I think a page and a half of it is books on historical disasters. Floods! Hurricanes! Fires! Woohoo!

(Seriously, why was there not a history class in college on that stuff? I would have kicked ASS.)

[3jane.livejournal.com]

I get that. My mom made me a sparkly gift certificate good for one (1) pony, should she ever have one on hand. It's on my fridge. But I make the same reference to wanting a pony all the time, and I get that same weirded-out look.

You'd think that some people didn't want a pony.

(Okay, honestly? I had a pony. Several, even. But I don't have one now. So I wanna pony.)

[denorios.livejournal.com]

You know, I did actually have a pony when I was a kid, so people don't look at me so strange when I say stuff like that!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

You'd think anybody who met my mother wouldn't think this was strange. This is the same woman who wanted to buy two male calves from a family friend for twenty bucks but didn't have anywhere to put them. And, unlike me and the pony thing, was serious. :)

[tieleen.livejournal.com]

I make pony jokes all the time, and about 50% of the time nobody gets it. I just don't understand. Everybody knows about the pony! Except, apparently, not so much.

*Does the interpretive dance of the misunderstood genius, with extra sparkles*

[okelle.livejournal.com]

I always understood. I want my own tower room in a real castle too.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised people don't get the pony joke, I would have thought that would be a fairly universal joke, at least in the US. I mean, this is an icon I call "Give her a pony!" Obviously I don't actually think someone should spontaneously give the girl a pony, it's just my way of saying that I want to cheer her up, and being that she's a typical little girl, a pony will do that nicely.

[fyrdrakken]

My aunt told the story of how my cousin hooked up with his girlfriend at the time (who may be the one he wound up marrying, I didn't keep track), that after a bad breakup with someone else she'd said that all she wanted was a castle and a pony. So he got one of those 3D puzzle things that assembled into a castle and gave it to her with a note asking her to give him more time on the pony.

So, yeah, it shouldn't be that obscure a cultural reference.