T1 had been camping with friends all weekend and arrived home about an hour ago. He strolled down the driveway wearing a fedora that we had never seen among his clothes before.
He explained that it was belonged to a friend of his and that the friend's mother wasn't really happy about the hat on her son's head. So when she arrived at another friend's house on Friday to pick up her son, he tossed the hat at T1 and said, "You keep it for the weekend!"
Well...some kind of discussion arose among me, Dearly Beloved and T1 on the subject of hats...the details are irrelevant, but at some point I suggested to T1 that he should just go out and buy himself a hat if he liked it so much.
"What kind of hat is it?" Dearly Beloved asked.
"I think it is what you'd call a fedora?" T1 answered hesitantly. He retrieved the friend's hat and parked it on his head. Now, if you are a Canadian female of a certain generation if I said that T1 looked like Joey Jeremiah from the Degrassi Junior High series, you'd know what I was talking about right? But Dearly Beloved being neither female, nor a fan of the old series I figured the reference would be lost on him. So what I said was,
"Looks good on him, doesn't it? Kind of makes him look like a young Gene Kelly?"
DB sucked back the last of his beer and smiled that evil little smirk that still turns the knee caps to jello and said.
"You know I'm related to him right?"
"Who? Gene Kelly?"
"Yup"
"You mean 'Singin' in the Rain', dancing around the light pole Gene Kelly?"
"Yup...Elvis too."
"You're related to Elvis Presley?" T1 chimed in in disbelief.
"Yup...Mom showed it to me on the family tree once...there are Presleys and then there is the connection to Gene Kelly...it's like 10th cousin three times removed or something like that."
Well clearly, whatever irrigation ditch was attached to the gene (no pun intended) pool it siphoned the singing and dancing genes away from Dearly Beloved.( That is not being disrespectful either...I'm sure Gene couldn't strip anything electronic down to its components and then re-assemble it in perfect working order).
But T1 CAN sing..and he's got a great sense of rhythm (but chooses not to use it) and T2 is quite a good dancer and choreographer....hmmm...do ya think....? Nah...he's gotta be pulling my leg right? Maybe? Maybe not?
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Related to Gene Kelly? If only you had known you could have put T1 in dance lessons and be living on Easy Street now - if this were still the 1950s. :-) I am impressed, though, because Singin' in the Rain is still my all time favourite musical.
ReplyDeleteNewfoundlanders will glom onto anything or anyone - no matter how far down the family tree they're swinging - if it connects somebody they know to celebrity. T1 will be famous just by letting people know that tidbit of (mis)information. Bet he looks damn good in that hat, too!
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