I think I'm almost ready to BLOOP! (from this material world)
How "bloop" was created:
Acyutananda:
One day I was in a store with Brahmananda and another fellow who had been at the temple said, “I don’t like this and that. This is all nonsense!” He walked out and slammed the door. I said to Brahmananda, “He fell back into the ocean of material illusion.” Brahmananda then made the sound, “Bloop”. That is how “Bloop” was created and it became our word when someone was leaving the temple. “Look at that guy, I think he’s going to bloop.” “Boy, I hope I don’t bloop.” “Where’s so and so?” “Oh, he blooped.” So we were up in Prabhupada’s room and Prabhupada asked, “Where is that boy, Michael?” Brahmananda said, “Oh, he blooped.” “Bloop? What is this ‘bloop’?” We all looked at Brahmananda as if to say, “You tell him, you made it up.” He said, “Well, you’ve been explaining that we fall back into the ocean of maya like a stone makes the sound when it hits the water, ‘bloop’. We’ve been saying that when somebody leaves, they ‘blooped’”. Prabhupada responded, “Well, if he blooped, what can we do?” He immediately picked up on it. And that is how “blooped” got invented.
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