i slept funny

... that's such a stupid phrase, isn't it ?

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I ‘slept funny’ last night, and I am now faced with a day full of awkward movements caused by the resultant stiff neck.

(In fact, I slept so funny that I want to go and have a nap right now ... and I only got up two hours ago !).

I watched a TV program recently where a male comedian described how, as a teenager, he would hear his (then aged mid-thirties) father complain every morning that he ‘slept funny’.

The father would enter the kitchen for breakfast each day rubbing his lower back or neck, and when asked what the trouble was, he would invariably reply “I slept funny”.

The son would look at him and think: “You were just laying there ... how did you fuck that up ?”.

Now aged mid-thirties himself, the comedian explained that he now understood how, as the body ages, it becomes possible to injure oneself simply by going to sleep !..

Ah yes, ‘maturing’ has it’s pleasures, but ‘sleeping funny’ is absolutely not one of them.

 

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I am so sorry that "you slept funny." I am so sorry because I completely understand and sympathize.

In fact, it was a stiff neck and the subsequent pain, that let me to write Eau de BenGay. You may appreciate the sentiment in your time of torment.

I hope your stiff neck heals soon. May all your future sleepings be noncomical (less funny).

Reply #2 Top
It is an odd phrase, and I do hope you feel less sore and stiff soon. But I also think it's a good phrase. I find sleep entertaining, and entertainment is often funny, so i often sleep funny
Reply #3 Top

I slept funny last night, so I feel your pain.   My neck hurts and my elbow hurts this morning....i can't imagine what I got up to last night to make both those things hurt. 

I wish I'd have been awake to enjoy it though.