Dear Ookla, I'm always amazed at how similar your voice is to that of Cookie Monster. I want a Thudarr-Cookie ticket in '08.
Signed,
Sober in Seattle
Blurgs, SIS,Ookla get this question sometime, and find insulting, like saying, "Oh, that Mok sooo articulate." Is racist. Have asked Grammar Girl explain...
Cookie monster tends to refer to himself as "me" rather than in the third person (third Mok?) as Ookla does. This is the most obvious difference in their diction. Ookla's English is awful, as you'd expect since it's his second language. On the other hand, Mr. Monster speaks in normal English: complete sentences, proper verb/noun agreement, conjunctions, tenses.
His lone replacement is "me" for "I." Whereas Ookla tends to follow almost none of the normal rules of grammar, mixing tenses and the like -- also, using few personal pronouns. Nor is he above the occasional split infinitive. Oddly enough, Ookla received an A in English. I guess the teacher didn't want to be shoved face-first through the chalkboard.
Thanks, Grammar Girl. So, there you have. Also, it THE Cookie Monster, like The Batman. Not ask why. That how blue-fur like it. Give you one more free piece advice: No ever compare Ookla to stupid blue muppet again. Muppet no even have legs. Ookla have legs. You doubt? If do, Ookla give you foot-claw up behind to show.
As for Thundarr-Cookie ticket, Cookie no can run. Has record. Knocked over Mrs. Fields store in 70s. Ookla not look down on he, though. Ookla have trouble with law, too. Got sent up river to Big Cave as teenmok, rip head off sheriff but not rip head off deputy, still, put in jail. Sad time. Ookla read Bible, though, get degree, turn life around.
Thank you for you support.
OTM
