Journey to Gestalt

Y'know, before the Iron Man movie got me back into Marvel fandom and made me learn more about the Avengers, I would never have thought twice about this statement:

"I’ve been known to sit on the couch and stretch the hank between my feet to wind balls."

Now, the poster was in a community on Ravelry, and referring to yarn - but all I could think (as I snickered to myself like a 12-year-old boy) was, "Oooh, kinky, Jan! But I thought Reed was the stretchy one...."

So in the Sailor Moon-verse, does "Mercury in retrograde" mean that Ami Mizuno has PMS...?

Okay, it's... unfortunate to have a large and dangerous hurricane in the news that shares a name with a video game character. Yes, I'm talking about Ike from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance & Radiant Dawn, who I learned about courtesy of Super Smash Bros Brawl.

I know the storm has done massive amounts of damage and cost lives and should be taken seriously... and yet the headlines keep making me sporfle with all kinds of wrong mental images, because I read them and picture the character instead of the weather.*

The first title to make me snork was: "CNN.com: Ike looks powerful from space station" (...got good zoom lenses up there, don't they?!) Weather.com had one titled "Playing in Ike's Dangerous Waves" that sounded like a bad pr0n fic involving a waterbed, or something.

It's not that I don't take the hurricane seriously. People have lost their homes; people have died. One of my housemates is in Texas at the moment, and may have to deal with at least the edges of this thing, and I'm sure it isn't funny AT ALL in person. All of which makes me feel guilty for finding any humor in the situation, but... 's just the way my brain works. >,0

* - And of course it doesn't help that I'm a perv whose personal corollary to Murphy's Law is "Anything that can be taken out of context, will be."