Remember That Time?

Remember That Time is a category of jokes that Scoot claims to have invented. The punch line is that when you say "Remember that time?" you're referring to something that hasn't happened yet. As in, "Remember that time you went and got me a beer while you were up?" It can also be used to refer to something that just happened, the joke being that you seem to be asking about something in the distant past but in actuality it was immediately previous. It was this usage when I first heard it. Scoot, Artie and I were burning shit in my backyard and I put a wide board on the fire and the flames were lapping around it but I wasn't satisfied with the speed of burning, so I went got my drill and drilled some holes in it so the flames and oxygen could burn it from the inside out too. Scoot made fun of me for doing it until he saw how well it was working, which was a span of 10 seconds, after which he said, "Remember that time you stopped drilling holes in that board and I got pissed off at you?"

(Artie and Miki)

Well I immediately picked it up and started using it, the extreme example being on my road trip to Little Rock for the LSU-Arkansas game. We stayed with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and I started using it around him and he, quite unexpectedly, started using it too. On the way back was when it really got out of hand. Nathan and I picked up Miki in Shreveport and I would estimate that, between Shreveport and Baton Rouge, nine out of every 10 sentences we said to each other began that way.

So I told Scoot the other day how viral Remember That Time became, and I cited the KF reference, and he flew off the handle. He claims ownership of the joke, which is fine (though a quick google search will reveal that everyone says it), but what really pissed him off was that I told KF. Apparently Scoot thought, correctly, that KF would really run with it, and HE wanted to be the one to tell him. Oh well.

Hey, remember that time when Scoot and I started a blog and then didn't invite anyone so we ended up telling stories to each other that we already told in person?