Title Explanation

When I was creating this blog, the little people inside the computer suggested that I make my URL be something like scissorsplease.blogspot.com.  While this seemed like a logical enough idea, it made it look like this blog was going to be all about making paper snowflakes or something.  While paper cutting is relevant to my title, that's not the focus I was going for. 

I intend for this blog to be lighthearted and amusing, so I decided to put a quote that always makes me chuckle a little bit even when I'm depressed about my fruitless job hunting.  I think that I should give credit to the person from whom I stole the quote for my title, so here we go: 

I had gone to ArtPrize (a wicked sweet art show in Grand Rapids, MI in case you are unaware) with my fiancee's family for an evening of refinement and culture.  However, Mark (my finacee), his dad, and brothers were more interested in seeing if the fisherman on the river was going to catch any salmon, and his mom was busy trying to keep everyone in line.  We had made it to the DeVos Center, where the art was in great abundance and there were no salmon to lure the boys away.  Jeanne, my mother-in-law-to-be, is a very social and curious being and liked to talk to the artists about their works.  This is how this particular conversation went down while we were admiring the big paper thing:

Haughty Paper Artist (a tall 60 something man, slightly stooped (probably from cutting so much paper) with thinning white hair and rectangle glasses perched on his condescending nose, wearing a sweater vest, khakis, and checkered shirt, speaking with the kind of voice you imagine a big-for-his-britches Nobel Prize winner to have): "Do you have a question for the artist?

Jeanne: "Yes, what kind of scissors did you use to make this?"

HPA: (I thought we were going to have to resuscitate the man): "Scissors??  Please.  You do not cut something like this with scissors."

Jeanne: (being very kind and un-offended): "Oh, interesting.  So you use some sort of Exacto knife or something?"

Anyway, the man proceeded to be appalled at our lack of knowledge of cutting big pieces of paper and explained that you had to use specific blades to make the different cuts, blah blah blah.  I don't honestly know what else he said because Mark and I had turned away so that he couldn't see us trying to hold in our snorts of laughter.  

So thank you, Mr. Artprize Enormous Paper Cutout Thing Artist, for providing endless entertainment for my fiancee's family and myself.  Your high-and-mighty snootiness brought great amusement to our "simple country selves" and we will forever be grateful for the ab workout you gave us due to spasms of continuous laughter behind your back.  Because of the calories we burned laughing, we were able to enjoy a lovely, guilt-free dinner at Big Boy afterward.