This is on the back of my Special K box.
They want you to fill it in with your answer to “WHAT WILL YOU GAIN WHEN YOU LOSE [WEIGHT?]” Notice they give two little examples in the top right corner in case you can’t think of anything yourself.
I like their suggestion of “chutzpah”. I wonder if this is a special edition of the box made just for New York and LA markets. How many people who go on the Special K diet know what “chutzpah” is or how to pronounce it? You might think everyone, but you’d be surprised. I once visited a boyfriend’s family in New Hampshire, and the mom put the Zabar’s strudel I brought on the table with our main course (lobster). If people don’t know what strudel is, they won’t know chutzpah.
Other than that, it’s just a strange word choice. Really, when you get skinny, do you gain chutzpah? You feel good about yourself, sure. But more entitled and pushy? Do you start bringing your dog to weddings? Do you tell people sitting around you at Starbucks to quiet down so you can make an important call on your cell? Do you ask your friend to dry clean her dress before she lends it to you?
That’s what chutzpah is.
As for the words in their gallery of mostly paid participants, I’m not sure those would be my choices, either.
II’m all for losing weight. But you can’t have such high expectations from your personality and spirit. Losing weight can make you really annoying. And, if you do it by eating nothing but Special K products all day, don’t count on any new, lasting passion other than passionate hate for cereal.
Here are the top 8 suggestions that I would submit to Special K:
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Wish this worked in translation to Portuguese- but Yiddish to Port. is a tough one, and it’s just not a funny, nor are Girbaud jeans if you didn’t wear them.
Wish this worked in translation to Portuguese- but Yiddish to Port. is a tough one, and it’s just not a funny, nor are Girbaud jeans if you didn’t wear them.
Wish this worked in translation to Portuguese- but Yiddish to Port. is a tough one, and it’s just not a funny, nor are Girbaud jeans if you didn’t wear them.
So funny.
How about “a smaller size shmata”
Love the definitions of chutzpa. I totally know who you’re talking about, and the dog is a Bichon Frise.
Now, was it really strudel? I’m thinking it was a babka but you mainstreamed it with strudel. If Special K can use chutzpa, Talking Shrimp can say babka.
Ironically, my computer doesn’t recognize the words shmata or babka.
So funny.
How about “a smaller size shmata”
Love the definitions of chutzpa. I totally know who you’re talking about, and the dog is a Bichon Frise.
Now, was it really strudel? I’m thinking it was a babka but you mainstreamed it with strudel. If Special K can use chutzpa, Talking Shrimp can say babka.
Ironically, my computer doesn’t recognize the words shmata or babka.
So funny.
How about “a smaller size shmata”
Love the definitions of chutzpa. I totally know who you’re talking about, and the dog is a Bichon Frise.
Now, was it really strudel? I’m thinking it was a babka but you mainstreamed it with strudel. If Special K can use chutzpa, Talking Shrimp can say babka.
Ironically, my computer doesn’t recognize the words shmata or babka.
Strudel with lobster…nice. Can I get a side of bacon and a glass of milk with that?
I’m going to have so much chutzpah, I’m going to start taking other people’s dogs to weddings.
😉
Strudel with lobster…nice. Can I get a side of bacon and a glass of milk with that?
I’m going to have so much chutzpah, I’m going to start taking other people’s dogs to weddings.
😉
Hilarious! I had to look up what chutzpah was, so I’m really curious if they have special boxes based on local markets. 😉
How about: the inhuman ability to smell when there’s Special K in proximity… and run the other way.
Hilarious! I had to look up what chutzpah was, so I’m really curious if they have special boxes based on local markets. 😉
How about: the inhuman ability to smell when there’s Special K in proximity… and run the other way.
An annoying tendency to look pityingly upon my best friend as she bemoans inheriting ‘her mother’s thighs’
😉 You are hilarious, Laura.
Yeah! Pity that fool. She and her mother need to get on the Special K bandwagon.
An annoying tendency to look pityingly upon my best friend as she bemoans inheriting ‘her mother’s thighs’
😉 You are hilarious, Laura.
Yeah! Pity that fool. She and her mother need to get on the Special K bandwagon.
As someone who lost the Special K Challenge 2 days into it, I long to gain most of the things in your talk bubbles. Except the last one. Funny.
Hahaha! I love the idea of “losing” the challenge. Yes, it feels great to be showy and conceited. If only it were sustainable while eating ice cream every night.
As someone who lost the Special K Challenge 2 days into it, I long to gain most of the things in your talk bubbles. Except the last one. Funny.
Hahaha! I love the idea of “losing” the challenge. Yes, it feels great to be showy and conceited. If only it were sustainable while eating ice cream every night.
Hrm. I always wondered what the behavior was called. You know, parking your grocery cart crosswise in the aisle to block other shoppers. I’d always that was understood as “lacking common courtesy.” But then again, this is Berkeley! And there’s a word that! And everyone has it (I mean, doesn’t have it. whatever). Shows how much I know. Thank you for this enlightenment. I have to actually be _on campus_ this evening *shudder* and will attempt to implement these techniques.
Funny, I was going to cite supermarket shoppers – the biggest chutzpah move there, in my opinion, is to let your cart wait in line for the register while you go shop. Or, to tell the cashier that you forgot a few things and have her, along with everyone in the line, wait for you while you go shop.
Ok so the first five are totally true for me!! I started a weight loss program about 2 months ago and have lost 35 lbs so far which is good but it’s really just a good start. That being said though, I already feel like I’m all that and a bag of low sodium/low fat/low calorie chips when I still have a lot of weight to lose before I get out of “blue whale” status! I just hope I can wrangle my cockiness in before I buy a teacup dog and start carrying it in my purse! *shiver*
Ha! A teacup dog in a purse. That’s a good one. Congrats on losing 35 pounds and being conceited! The last one only happens as a result of the second-to-last one, so just don’t let it get to the fudge stage.