Weird Expressions I Sometimes Use On Social Media
I’m a weird person, and I do/say weird things, especially on Facebook. For a while it was “Get What’s Yours” (probably 2010–11), along with “Fucking Get What’s Yours” (expletives are fun), and for a period in there it was also “Get That Brass Ring!” That has its own origin story, which I’ll tell at the bottom of this post. I also like calling people wrecks. I actually think that one is pretty universally funny — everyone, in their own way, is a wreck. It happens. It just does.
Recently I’ve been saying “ground and pound” a lot. It’s stupid and it means nothing, but here’s the story behind it regardless.
Back in March-April of maybe 2014, I was working part-time for Teach for America. It was a mostly terrible job where I coded a lot of expenses, etc. Everyone associated with the job seemed to hate me, and I was depressed as hell at the time anyway about not being able to find a real, full-time job. It sucked and I basically got fired. That’s the long and short of it.
Before that happened, though, I went to Memphis twice for conferences. We stayed in a mostly crappy hotel (with a nice staff) out by the airport. The first time I went was Wednesday → Sunday, and on Thursday night, I went down to the hotel bar. I met this dude from Jackson, MS who was in…
