Bye, Abe, George and Diane!
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Literally the first words that appear in my google search:
Initially growing tobacco as his cash crop, Washington soon realized that tobacco was not sustainable and he switched to grains, particularly wheat as a cash crop in 1766.
My point is that the joke would make much more sense picking one of Washington's more major crops.
That's like making up an Elon Musk quote saying, "whatever, I'm going to go back to making my city guides." Yes, technically Musk had a business for that in the past, but that's not at all what he was known for so it's weird and falls flat.
"I'm going back to my wheat harvest."
"I'm going back to work on my gout problem."
"I'm going to go back to wearing dead people's teeth."Y'know, something more immediately relevant.
@Aqua-Letifer Gotcha. My thinking was that the joke was that Washington found that even growing something as unexciting as cabbages would be preferable to dealing with idiots. Wheat or tobacco just didn't have the same punch.
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@Aqua-Letifer Gotcha. My thinking was that the joke was that Washington found that even growing something as unexciting as cabbages would be preferable to dealing with idiots. Wheat or tobacco just didn't have the same punch.
@Catseye3 said in Bye, Abe, George and Diane!:
@Aqua-Letifer Gotcha. My thinking was that the joke was that Washington found that even growing something as unexciting as cabbages would be preferable to dealing with idiots. Wheat or tobacco just didn't have the same punch.
Fair thought process!
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Bye, Abe, George and Diane!:
I met my high school english teacher at my parents' yard sale, when they were selling their house. I hated english in high school, so I thought he'd find it surprising I got a master's in poetry.
He said, "that's actually not surprising at all."
I asked him why that was.
"You couldn't just do an assignment, you never just did your work. You had to add some stupid shit to it that made it funny and interesting to you. So creative writing makes a lot of sense. In fact when other kids cut up in class, you would actually insult them if you felt they weren't being funny, and told them what they should've said instead."
"Really?"
"All the time."
So yeah, apparently it's a problem. But I'm better now! I mean, right?
Please love yourself.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Bye, Abe, George and Diane!:
Bro I have long hair, a frivolous Master's, ride a singlespeed, do film photography and buy vinyl gear. It's been a bit grim for awhile now.
But I don't eat no fucking avocado toast. I have no problem dying on that hill.
Skinny jeans can go to hell, too.
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You know it's just now occurred to me that my buddy does screen printing and we design and make our own graphic tees.
My God.
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@Catseye3 said in Bye, Abe, George and Diane!:
I'm imagining what would have happened if this ilk had lived in General Washington's day.
He'd have said, "To hell with it. Let the Brits keep 'em. Ima go back to the farm and grow cabbages."
He didn't grow cabbages. He grew tobacco, then converted to wheat. Just sayin'.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Bye, Abe, George and Diane!:
@Catseye3 said in Bye, Abe, George and Diane!:
I'm imagining what would have happened if this ilk had lived in General Washington's day.
He'd have said, "To hell with it. Let the Brits keep 'em. Ima go back to the farm and grow cabbages."
He didn't grow cabbages. He grew tobacco, then converted to wheat. Just sayin'.
Whiskey.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Bye, Abe, George and Diane!:
I met my high school english teacher at my parents' yard sale, when they were selling their house. I hated english in high school, so I thought he'd find it surprising I got a master's in poetry.
He said, "that's actually not surprising at all."
I asked him why that was.
"You couldn't just do an assignment, you never just did your work. You had to add some stupid shit to it that made it funny and interesting to you. So creative writing makes a lot of sense. In fact when other kids cut up in class, you would actually insult them if you felt they weren't being funny, and told them what they should've said instead."
"Really?"
"All the time."
So yeah, apparently it's a problem. But I'm better now! I mean, right?
@Aqua-Letifer said in Bye, Abe, George and Diane!:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Bye, Abe, George and Diane!:
I met my high school english teacher at my parents' yard sale, when they were selling their house. I hated english in high school, so I thought he'd find it surprising I got a master's in poetry.
He said, "that's actually not surprising at all."
I asked him why that was.
"You couldn't just do an assignment, you never just did your work. You had to add some stupid shit to it that made it funny and interesting to you. So creative writing makes a lot of sense. In fact when other kids cut up in class, you would actually insult them if you felt they weren't being funny, and told them what they should've said instead."
"Really?"
"All the time."
So yeah, apparently it's a problem. But I'm better now! I mean, right?
Don't quit therapy....
