Food For Seagulls

My Dear Princess, Loulou and Fellows,

It was a quiet Friday in the house. Well. I say that. I had a meeting with Gromit and Faz the Change Management Lady. They are both South African. 

They told me about the South African term, "now now". Apparently, they are cynical as a nation about people who say, "I'll be there in five minutes" or "I'm on my way now."

So the word "now" has evolved. "Now" means "sometime in the near future". But "now now" means "right this minute". As in:

MAN 1: I'm on my way now.
MAN 2: Now? Or now now?
MAN 1: Now now! I'm literally on the bus right now!
MAN 2: Right now now??
MAN 1: FFS.

That brings me to thing 2 that amused me in the meeting. As you know, we are supposed to be finding Te Reo* names for all the meeting rooms - but some already have names. However, we still have to check these for political sensitivity. 

Gromit had discovered a particularly grim one, where the meeting room was named after an Auckland suburb. AND that particular suburb had been where a massacre had taken place, bodies scattered the ground afterward, so the suburb name translates into English as "Food For Seagulls."

"FFS," added Faz. 

We decided that "food for seagulls" would be our in-meeting-in-joke from now on. From now now on.

Other than that, I spent the evening finishing up episode one of the new podcast. It tells the story of a film producer who started his career making naturist "documentaries". I find these films hilarious, as they are so coy and so earnest about the benefits of going around with your tackle out. His credits include films like "The Nude Ones"**, "Naked As Nature Intended" and "My Bare Lady".

The episode will include a fair bit of dialogue from some of these films. I find it particularly hilarious. Hopefully you'll see what I mean when it is published.

I am not a pervert.

S.

* Literally, "the language" which refers to Maori language.

** "The Young Ones" was a big hit at the time.