When I was in boot camp, parents were instructed to address mail to “Recruit John Doe.” My mom garbled the instruction and sent a letter addressed to “C. Bell.” We had mail call one evening, the Drill Instructor reading the last names one by one, not even looking up or caring where the letters actually went as they whipped them across the squad bay and when they got to mine, the Drill Instructor stopped and said, “C-Bell.” He twisted up his fake puzzled look and said, “C-Bell…. . C-Bell. . … C-Bell, what? How about see Bell bend and thrust!!” His fist flung open in that motion where the fingers all got extended violently from a closed fist as though he was discharging lightning bolts in my direction each time he said it: “Bend and thrust bend and thrust bend and thrust!!” He wore me out to nothing left that night, but I still thought it was a really funny piece of improv. And so today, when I saw my choices for blog extension names, I immediately thought, “C-Bell blog!” I shall try.
CBell what?
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