So I posted this brief mention of it on Twitter and on Facebook, but what happened this weekend was this...
I try to teach my students the importance of enunciation. This weekend, for example, I worked with young kids on simple commercials. 1 child kept misreading "Kellog's Corn Pops" as "Kegel's Porn Cops." I can't make this stuff up.
What was even better was when the teenage girls in class started asking, "Wait...what did he say?!" They started laughing and almost fell out of their chairs.
I couldn't stop from laughing a bit and said, "Leave it...please?"
The young boy who said it replied, "Wait! What did I say?!"
One of the teenage girls blurted out, "Kegel!" while laughing nearly hysterically.
ALL of the teenage boys turned and stared at each other in confusion saying things like, "What the hell is a Kegel?! Why is that funny?!"
The boy who had said it looked really confused and yelled, "Why can't anyone just tell me what I said and why it's so funny? And yeah...what's a Kegel?!"
I said, "We're not going into that."
"Are the girls laughing because he said 'porn cops?'" one of the boys asked.
A 16 year old girl answered, "No. Not exactly...but that was funny too."
I tried to get decorum back in the room and had the boy read the commercial out loud again...and again he misspoke with, "Kegel's Porn Cops" trying to correct himself as he went...and that's when one of the girls fell out of her chair laughing just repeating the word, "Kegel."
All four boys turned and looked to each other like a band of angry union workers and one of them stood up and said, "OK! Someone HAS to tell what this Kegel thing is!"
I refused. We pressed on. I took my lunch break. I came back after an hour and the boys came up to me and said, "We looked up Kegel on our smart phones! That's what he was saying?!"
I replied something like, "Yes. Good. You're all very smart and better educated now. Congratulations."
"We all know what Kegels are!" one of them said as they high fived each other.
"Yeah. Great. The mystery of life is open to you. Wonderful. Now you can silently exercise too. Leave me alone." That was the last thing I said as I walked out of the room to hit the restroom before class.
