adjectives are not your friends

[zenithblue]

A conversation between me and Hodge, upon him reading and critiquing a teaching statement I had to write for my apps:

HODGE: Lose "interesting." Lose "incredible."
ME: (whining) But I'm tired! And they're easy! How else am I supposed to say it?
HODGE: Make it relevant to you specifically. "Teaching is exciting?" "I want to make their stories interesting?" No. No. Adjectives are not your friends.
ME: (being petulant) Yes they are.
HODGE: No they're not
ME: Yes, they are. Adjectives give me smooches.
HODGE: Adjectives don't give you smooches, they give you back-alley hand jobs.

Comments

[blozor.livejournal.com]

She did him one better. She made "hand jobs" a tag.

[zenithblue.livejournal.com]

I told him you said this and his response was:

"What do I care? 'Hand job' isn't an adjective."

I spent the next ten minutes trying to make it one. "Oh, Boyfriend, that sweater is very hand-job." And so on.

[helpimarock.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine from college converted the word 'budget' to be an adjective meaning "of exceedingly poor quality". For example: "this CD is really budget, someone turn it off" or "the first draft of my term paper really sucks, it's totally budget."

I think 'hand-job' should be the new 'budget'. For example: "did you see that drunken post that helpimarock made last night? it's the most hand-job post I've read all week."

[musashi270.livejournal.com]

My fault, missed that; agreed we have a new winner.