\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not as if I can scale walls, leap tall buildings at a single bound or perform acrobatics on a trampoline.
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The implication that I could came from Karen Rieniets and Barbara Dorris, both of whom just assumed I had something to do with the rearrangement of letters on the marquee at the long-closed Serf Theater downtown.
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 To review: Last week I took a photo of some changes on both sides of the marquee. For years the sign had advertised \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In Her Shoes.”\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Someone got to the sign and changed the words to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Heros Shine.” The photo cutline commended the alterers for having used all 10 letters to come up with a different, original, movie.
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But our features editor, Lee Einer, said the plural of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hero” takes two \u00e2\u20ac\u0153e\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s.”
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Barbara Dorris suggested I had made the changes on the marquee, inasmuch as I am fascinated (most would say obsessed) by words and what they can do.
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Karen was harder to convince. I surmised the sign really was altered by tall Scrabble-enjoying Highlands basketball players, 5-foot-20, who spell well.
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Karen had a point: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Who else would do it” and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Was it a coincidence that you just happened to be driving by in time to photograph the sign?”
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m concerned (some would say hung up) about signs, their content, spelling and appearance. But what if I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t crawl out of bed when only owls stir, don my Plastic Man or Spider Man outfit and rescramble the letters? Why do people assume I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m the guilty one?
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 As to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153heros” spelling: Maybe I flunked out of the Dan Quayle School of Public Affairs and Spelling. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the former vice president who, at a school spelling bee, insisted \u00e2\u20ac\u0153potatoe” is correct.
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Plurals can be confusing. My dictionary pluralizes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hero” as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153heroes.” Yet, the plural of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153zero” is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153zeros”; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one hobo but two hoboes, but one lobo and two lobos. Take that, spellophiles-turned- feature editors!
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Now let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s see how many new movie titles we can conjure up using only and all the letters to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In her shoes.” The ground rules specify that the key words not be the same as or variants of the original words: in, her, shoes, heros, shine. Here are some entries likely to win awards this year:
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shin Horser”: A western tale of a cowboy who uses his shins, not his spurs,\u00c2\u00a0 in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153giddy-up” phase.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Her Hose Sin”: A documentary\u00c2\u00a0 of a woman whose checkered hose and past drive men wild.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He is Nosher”: A romance of a man who loves parties with Hors D\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Oeuvres.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hires Horns”: The fictional tale of a symphony conductor with a surplus of drummers and violinists.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Is She Heron?”: A tale of a flighty woman with skinny legs.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Heroin”: Avoid her.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hi! He snores”: What a soon-to-be ex-wife tells the judge in divorce court.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hoe Shrines”: A historical account of devoted groundskeepers in Fatima and Chimayo.
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And yet, despite hours of dedication to his anagrammatic challenge, the best manipulation of the Serf sign occurred at Easter.
\nSomeone \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I wish I could take the credit \u00e2\u20ac\u201d rearranged the letters to read, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh! He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Risen.” Such perfect timing!
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be surprised if the marquee gets changed once again. If you see anyone juggling the letters late at night, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t automatically assume it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s me (or, as my English teacher would say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t assume it is I”). At that hour, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be home asleep.
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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