Comments on: I finally figured out why everyone is so goofy at my gym.

By: SusanM

SusanM — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:49:49 +0000

umm. Choose one- http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Vichy

By: SusanM

SusanM — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:41:25 +0000

OK ! I definitely missed something. What is “Vichy” supposed to be in gym terminology?
I miss a lot of New Age words and even urban dictionaries don’t help. Do the services cause
pain or euphoria? Or- is it a term for dandruff scraping?

By: Merrill Markoe

Merrill Markoe — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:04:10 +0000

Wow. Thanks. That one got right by me. I don’t use spell check because I have an overactive spell checker in my head from growing up with my mother, who used to walk around supermarkets with a sharpie and correct spelling errors on signs. But”hiring” would have gotten by spell check anyway because its a correctly spelled word. I don’t know what I was thinking. I often write these at night before bed, trying to wind down from working my book . I probably had some sake before I wrote that entry. I corrected it, as you can see.

By: Larisa Sparrowhawk

Larisa Sparrowhawk — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:57:17 +0000

I suspect you are plagued with the same disorder I often struggle with, myself: typing words that sound similar but have different meanings. Of course Spell-check won’t find an actual word spelled correctly.

“The place was never an institution of hiring learning.”

By: Lairbo

Lairbo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:48:25 +0000

“Vichy Services”? What are those, exactly? And are they provided by gym employees following the orders of their malevolent puppetmasters in Berlin?

By: SusanM

SusanM — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:31:09 +0000

“drainage” is always the one that gets me. It better change my entire appearance for the better (or my health), otherwise I don’t want to hear it..

By: Cathy

Cathy — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:59:09 +0000

I’m not sure what’s worse — Twizzlers at a gym or the variety of dusty tasting cardboard-ish power bars. The upside where you work out is that if you do overindulge in holiday candy (coming soon — milk chocolate Santas) there’s always “Carboxy Therapy for Cellulite,” whatever that is.

By: Merrill Markoe

Merrill Markoe — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:56:41 +0000

You’re right. Drainage is not what I want to think about during a work out. Especially at this gym where I am still recovering from all the bowls of candy they put out during Halloween. Now when I walk in the front door, the first thought still in my mind is “Where are the tiny packs of red twizzlers?”

By: Cathy

Cathy — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:37:31 +0000

Spa terminology is normally so nice and peaceful. Why ramp it up with words like “schlero” and “drainage”? And those shadowy nostrils in the background only make me wonder what they’re schlero-ing and draining. I guess I’m a simpleton because they’ve got me at “massage.”

By: Merrill Markoe

Merrill Markoe — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:36:16 +0000

Now we are getting our whole skeletal systems sanded, buffed and painted to match our toe nails. Its a lot of work but it looks so cute if you happen to get a third degree fracture at Aspen.