In my senior year of high school I was assigned an art project that was centered around my name.
I swear to you, the art teacher, Mr. Yochum, said my name wasn’t prominent enough. “Make it red. Add some color.”
Ironic, since I was afraid of color since Mr. Yochum once cried, “No!” sat down at my easel and repainted something I was working on so it was all shades of blue. (Mr. Yochum had a brain tumor. Shhhh. It came to light the next year.)
I really don’t know if I could do any of those doodles today. In meetings I don’t doodle. I do write “Shut up shut up shut up” over and over during meetings. (It’s for me, not the people speaking.) If I’m really stressed I write biting commentaries about what people are saying.
If nothing else, I’ve since been able to cite Maddonna with a Long Neck as an example of Mannerism whenever I need to sound “arty.”
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Years ago, when I was involved in a sketch comedy radio show, there was a sketch entitled “Art History Boot Camp”. The sergeant tells the soldier to “Drop and give him 10 masters of the Italian Renaissance”. When the soldier comes up with El Greco, the sergeant growls out, “El Greco was a mannerist!”
You’d really have to hear it to appreciate why it’s stuck with me all these years, but I suspect that it sounded a lot like Mr. Yochum.
By the way – is the “ch” pronounced the usual way, or is it hard, like a “k”?
Tami -Like a K, plus a little phlegm.
…just like my last name. My heart’s a little warmer knowing that I’m not the only one out there with the hard “ch”.
Tami – Yoe – chum would be strange.
So is “Yah-chess”, but people say it all the time.
Actually, my last name just sounds strange. I accept it, now.