In my last post, I quoted my Aunt Irma … not once … but twice. Now, I can hear a few of you (particularly if you’re related to me) saying, “He doesn’t have an aunt named Irma…what’s up with that?” Well … the answer is actually quite simple…
Aunt Irma comes from the UK … Actually, from a British comedy show called The IT Crowd.
In case you aren’t familiar with the show … it takes place in the IT Department of a typical business company. The three main characters are Moss and Roy (two very typical IT geeks) and the lady who heads up the IT Department, Jenn, who has absolutely no idea what IT even stands for. Yeah, there’s a few other odd people floating about … like the head of the company … as well as a goth guy who has absolutely no idea what his job is, other than to watch the lights on a machine blink even though he has no idea what the machine does. Anyway – you get the idea…
On the sixth episode of the first season (The first three seasons are available on DVD if you want to check them out) Jenn is a little bit irritable because, as she says it, her Aunt Irma is visiting.
Here, watch this clip from the show that explains it all:
I won’t ruin the episode for you … but I will tell you that by the end of the episode, every IT Guy on the planet gets a visit from Aunt Irma (and you can only imagine what that means.)
Anyway … after watching this episode, I realized I wanted an Aunt Irma of my own. No, I don’t want … well, you know … those days where I am irritable and all that … but I wanted a wacky Aunt who says things that every aunt should say … and thus my Aunt Irma was born.
See … it really was quite simple.
Irma? Well, that’s obscure. “Aunt Flo[w]” is always the aunt I hear about. I use the term “Shark Week”, though.