Alec Benson Leary said:
Da Pickle Monsta said:
Like estimating Patti's doghouse to weigh TONS.
I never really understood why everyone assumes Chris meant this literally, to the point they talk about discalculia and such. I don't think he's actually claiming the thing weighed 10 tons, he's just saying "it weighs a bunch of tons" like it's heavy. It's an expression everyone has heard, even him.
Da Pickle Monsta said:
I kind of wonder if he didn't take Dragonball Z too literally.
Now this, he probably did do. Just like lots of kids who put a towel around their neck like a cape and think they're Superman.
That's an interesting point, and one I haven't really considered. You're right: people do tend to take the idea Chris having discalcula at face value. I think the Father Call is primarily responsible for this belief, as demonstrated in this excerpt (shamelessly copy-pasted from the CWCki):
Chris: [Getting very angry at this point] Yeah, well, I was not, well, I was not paid for mowing the lawn. And also, you know what? Another heavy-duty burden I had to take care of, and that I wasn't paid for? When my dog died, a few years ago, she was a sweet dog, I moved, I lifted and carried her doghouse to the site where we buried her. Her doghouse. That thing had to weigh, like, five, ten tons.
Matthew: [laughs in disbelief]
Chris: It was very heavy! I carried that thing.
Followed by:
Matthew: [stress sigh of his own] I had to dig my mother out of the rubble of the Twin Towers. I mean, and you had to lift a doghouse.
Chris: Yeah, well, I'll tell you, that doghouse was heavier than any tombstone. And that doghouse pretty much was the tombstone!
Matthew: Sounds like you're fucking with me now.
Chris: I am not! I am being very HONEST with you sir! I'm telling you the honest truth from my, from my sound mind and my sound heart.
Matthew: I'm starting to, I'm starting to really kinda doubt this whole honesty thing you keep talking about. How do you think, how do you think Kacey would feel if I told her about this? What do you think, how do you think she would feel about you comparing this whole lifting a 30-, 50-pound doghouse to maybe a 100-, 200-pound tombstone? That doghouse was probably, what, made of wood? This is solid rock!
Chris: No, it was, it was, no, I mean, yeah, this is, it was wood and plastic, that thing had to weigh over a hundred pounds!
Granted, Chris scales back his estimate tremendously when Matthew starts calling him on his bullshit.
Taken with your statement, I believe that Chris will exaggerate figures to see if people will believe him and then backpedal when people start questioning him.
that sounds.
