Last weekend, I met a couple of friends for drinks downtown and they mentioned twunnytwunny.com. The subject of our discussion wasn't the photos, though, but rather the title I had chosen for my blog. Both of them pronounced it "twoonie twoonie" (rhymes with "toonie") and asked what the hell it meant. It never occurred to me that someone might pronounce it any way other than how it was spelled (rhymes with "funny," "sunny," "bunny," etc.), otherwise it wouldn't make sense. Maybe I think about these things too much, but to my mind it seemed perfectly obvious. "Twunnytwunny" is a phonetic rendering of "20/20," the score for having perfect vision in both eyes. There's a familiar saying, "Hindsight is always 20/20," meaning that it's easier to see the source of our errors in retrospect. Which is why I chose the tag line "What is it they say about hindsight?" I guess I figured that if anyone didn't understand the meaning of "twunnytwunny" at first glance, they'd surely get it on closer inspection. My mistake. Maybe I should just change the tag line to "Rhymes with funny" and leave it at that.
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