Super-Important Things My Son Should Know

Cigarettes and Karate--true wisdom, my boy
Cigarettes and karate -- true wisdom, my boy.

In honor of this unfortunate child who speaks Klingon, here is some totally useless super-important stuff I will make certain J.P. knows by the time he is 50:

1. The ewoks were speaking Tibetan.
2. The term “peckerwood” has nothing to do with a pecker, an erection, or wood. It is still okay to laugh at it.
3 Champagne comes from Champagne. Only there. Anyone who cares about this should be avoided — unless they’re buying.
4. Don’t use the word “literally” in a sentence if you don’t mean it. Example: “I literally lost my mind.” No, you didn’t. Note: I do this all the time. It makes me sound like an idiot.

Thus endeth the lesson for today, young man. Back to tormenting the nice children in your preschool.

Published by Theodore

Theodore Ross is an editor of Harper’s Magazine. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, Saveur, Tin House, the Mississippi Review, and (of course), the Vietnam News. He grew up in New York City by way of Gulfport, MS, and as a teen played the evil Nazi, Toht, in Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. He lives with his son, J.P. in Brooklyn, and is currently working on a book about Crypto-Jews.

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