Thursday, November 22, 2007
Incongruous
It's Thanksgiving Day and I have already made the coleslaw I am taking to our feast at my sister-in-law's. I have one other side dish to prepare and I will have completed my contributions to the meal. This week while shopping for the ingredients at Giant Eagle, I saw something that made me laugh out loud (and it wasn't the prices; I think that would be more likely to bring me to tears). In the frozen vegetable case were two cans of corn. They looked so absurd! I think that is why I laughed. I have often been tempted to put something where it doesn't belong in the grocery store when I change my mind about a purchase; but to place two CANS of veggies with the frozen ones just struck me as odd enough to be funny. It was incongruous. Often sight gags are incongruent. Like, Steve Martin walking around with an arrow through his head. That's ludicrous! It makes us laugh! In the Bible, the Pharisees though Jesus eating with tax collectors and sinners was incongruent. That just shows they didn't "get it". They were clueless as to what Jesus was all about. That got me thinking...what other incongruent things do we see ...and do they make us laugh or cry? Blogger friends, what examples do you have of incongruency? Would love to hear your responses. Happy Tgiving!
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I am commenting for the first time, and was kind of forced to by the author of the blog.
But I will comment when I have more interesting things to say.
-Josh
How about a tech support guy without an email address!
Good one, Charissa! I like it
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