My girlfriend is generous, kind and extremely cute and girly.  It also doesn’t hurt that she is one of the most uninintentionally funny people that I know.  Her verbal gaffes and overwhelming ignorance on pop culture always gets me laughing.  This is the girl that thought that Blade Runner was the movie about the first Olympic Jamaican bobsled team, a fact that I have mentioned repeatedly in my other, now almost entirely defunct blog.

Do I Look Jamaican to You?

Now it seems that her particular knack for mashing up pop culture icons has spread to me.  As we were dining on delicious frozen yogurt the other night, Chan started waxing poetic about Gary Cooper, the famous Western film star of yesteryear.  Thinking I was being exceedingly witty, I quipped, “What you talkin’ ’bout, Willis?”. 

Notwithstanding the disparity of 20 inches in height, eight shades in skin color and three decades in age, I immediately realized my mistake and Chan and I had a pretty good chuckle about it.  Still, not to be outdone, my girlfriend - still puzzled at the true identity of Gary Cooper - asked innocently, “You mean the guy from Hanging with Mr. Cooper?” 

“Oh baby” I said after three or four minutes of unadulterated laughter, “Don’t ever change.”