“...why did it decide to keep the file with all the words to the Gilligan’s Island theme song but delete anything about triangles?” --Jeffrey Marshall "Jeff" Foxworthy (1958- ) From an interview in “Parade Magazine” 2009 #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #jefffoxworthy The quote is funny because it points to a very familiar mental glitch: the brain often hangs onto trivial pop-culture scraps while letting useful information slip through the cracks. Foxworthy turns that everyday frustration into a joke by contrasting the completely unnecessary memorization of a TV theme song with the loss of basic geometry. The humor works because it captures how memory rarely seems organized according to logic or usefulness. Under the joke is a broader comment about learning, aging, and the odd way the mind stores experience. People often assume memory should work like a filing cabinet, neatly preserving what matters most, but in reality, it is shaped by repetition, emotion, and random exposure. The quote works because it admits, with exasperated humor, that the brain can be both impressive and ridiculous at the same time.
“...why did it decide to keep the file with all the words to the Gilligan’s Island theme song but delete anything about triangles?”
--Jeffrey Marshall "Jeff" Foxworthy (1958- )
From an interview in “Parade Magazine” 2009
#life #love #art #coffee #diary #books #amwriting #quotes #jefffoxworthy
