4. Tell us about something new you learned last month.
My husband took a bite out of his sandwich, looked at our dog and then said, “Sorry Charlie!” in a really weird voice.
My daughters were all, “Dad got that from our show Good Luck Charlie!”
And I was all, “Actually that phrase has been around forever…I have no idea where it’s from.”
And Pat was all, “Charlie the Tuna right? It was for tunafish commercials. Charlie always wanted the tuna and at the end they were all “sorry Charlie”…sort of like Trix and the rabbit.”
But I don’t really believe anything Pat says because when he doesn’t know answers to things he just makes them up.
So I was all, “A tunafish commercial? You really think this phrase the entire country has been using for years was derived from a commercial?? No, I’m sure it came from England or something…Charlie is an English name probably…and it rhymes with Sorry kind of so people just put it together.”
But Pat wasn’t backing down, “No I’m serious, I think it was tunafish. Either that or a perfume commercial…”
And I was all, “Oh sure a perfume. I can see it now, the girl sprays herself with perfume, spends the entire commercial being irresistible to me and then when one of them gets ALMOST close enough to kiss her she’s all ‘Sorry Charlie!’ and winks at the camera.”
And Pat was all, “Yeah actually! I think that’s exactly how it goes.”
So I Google searched it to prove him exactly wrong on all accounts, but it turns out he was RIGHT:
On both accounts:
I guess I did learn something new last month. I learned that this phrase the entire country has been using for years was derived from a commercial.
I should have believed Pat, on account of him being “the smart one of the group” and all.