Dec 7 2012

"Ooh! Straight-jackets online! Christmas sorted."

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"No, you can't bring your furry grommets in here. I said no! I swear, you bring those furry little critters in here, I'm gonna do some head stomping. Yeah, fucking furry grommet head stomping. Stomp. Stomp stomp. Squishy squishy squishy squish. See? Yeahhh."

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And the illuminating reveal:

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ADAM:	Grommets are things you get in your ears, aren't they? What are grommets? I'm thinking of a little furry thing, I don't know what a grommet is.
KAREN:	Okay, grommets are not furry by nature.
ADAM:	Oh.
KAREN:	Grommets are usually metal things that you put into material. The sashes for the curtains.
ADAM:	Yes?
KAREN:	The metal hole-things I made. That's a grommet.
ADAM:	Oh! A grommet for me is a fluffy, like—
KAREN:	Well, 'cause, the word is really cute.
ADAM:	Kind of fluffy big googly-eyed little round thing that goes (sound effect of funny little creature) and wobbles on the ground.
KAREN:	Well, the fact that that's what you thought a grommet is does explain why STM thinks that's what a grommet is. So, you knew the word "grommet" before.
ADAM:	I have heard of the word "grommet."
KAREN:	But you thought it was a cute furry creature with googly eyes.
ADAM:	Don't laugh at me.
KAREN:	Where did that idea come from? In what context have you heard the word "grommet?"
ADAM:	I know I have heard the word "grommet" in relation to children's ears. They have had operations to remove grommets.
KAREN:	What?!?!? Okay, I'm gonna look that up, and why would THAT be a cute furry thing with googly eyes?!
ADAM:	I don't know!!
KAREN:	That's really disturbing!
ADAM:	I don't know anything.
KAREN:	"You have a grommet growing out of your ear! We’re going to get that little critter out of there." Hold on. I'm going to put in "grommet" and "ear." Oh, yep, yep, hey! Uh… (reading) Ohhhh! A grommet is also—You know the tubes that they implant surgically in people's ears…
ADAM:	What?!
KAREN:	Ear tubes.
ADAM:	No?! I thought it was something that grew in there. That they had to remove. I don't know. Either way, it's not a cute furry animal, is it.
KAREN:	No.
ADAM:	Right.
KAREN:	But here's what's frightening me: you knew there was an association with ear surgery on children, and yet you still thought it was a furry little critter with googly eyes.
ADAM:	Hang on, hang on, hang on. No, no, no. I am aware of the word "grommet" in association with children's ears and something wrong with them. I IMAGINE, if someone said to me a grommet is a creature, what that grommet would look like.
KAREN:	Uh-huh, okay.
ADAM:	I didn't— Yes. Yes. Get it right.