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Posted by: DougSaidWhat Original: 4/1/2008 8:18 AM Views: 134 Comments: 11 eProps: 14 Read Comments Post a Comment Back to Your Xanga Site

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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

This past Sunday I was really, really trying to pay attention during church. It wasn't our senior pastor ... so it didn't really count ... and the guy was rather boring. He reminds me of the speakers we heard at PCC.

Which reminded me of my days at PCC and all the things I worked on while there.

The dramatic V.

Four years. I spent four years working on perfecting a system which I have never used again.

It makes me laugh.

Although I am pretty good at the whole aesthetic distance thing. My students still get thrown off by that.

Maybe I should start teaching drivers ed on the V. Maybe with an accent.

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That would be cool.
I do use the Dramatic V from time to time, but that's because I read aloud in Literature class...

Posted 4/1/2008 1:05 PM by otherdramaturge - reply

good ol' aesthetic distance. you'd always whip that one out faster than the rest of us. and you used it so well...with commitment. fond memories.

i have had an odd moment or two since college when i wished someone ELSE knew the dramatic V. that's always alarming.

Posted 4/1/2008 1:52 PM by Eumenidies - reply

and i always find a good character to use is the one where you loop your thumbs through invisible suspenders and talk like a hick. ahh, that's a great one.

Posted 4/1/2008 1:56 PM by Eumenidies - reply

I"m sure it would make teaching the same material over and over a little more interesting. And the accent needs to be challenging. No straight British for you, mister.

Posted 4/1/2008 3:37 PM by marlowho - reply

did they invent the dramatic v at pcc? because i've never heard of it anywhere else.

Posted 4/2/2008 9:04 AM by pinkshoes24 - reply

ha! ha! That's a funny mind picture.

The Dramatic V actually appeared in BJU's speech text which was written before PCC's, but I'm not sure who really "invented" it.

Posted 4/2/2008 4:07 PM by kelspace - reply

the concept or the name?

Posted 4/2/2008 4:22 PM by otherdramaturge - reply

I remember you using the Dramatic V in drama tag!

Posted 4/2/2008 11:31 PM by seriousbethy - reply

What the heck is drama tag?

Posted 4/3/2008 11:42 PM by DougSaidWhat - reply

I was just thinking about ye olde dramatic V a few days ago. No idea why. I never studied it. Probably heard all about it from all ye speechies. Maybe I was reminded of it while teaching the alphabet to Japanese kids. "and here, kids, is the DRAMATIC 'V'!" Now they need to expand it to all the other 25 letters. But the dramatic S would be killer.

Posted 4/4/2008 3:05 AM by IrishmanInJapan - reply

ryc: THAT'S IT! I looked for it everywhere and couldn't find it. haha. I really wanted to post the clip because...well, it's Jerry Seinfeld. Thanks.