'The Killer In Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Which celebreties are are the worst customers? [link]
When asked who are the most annoying customers, our translator reports that Jah replied, “My friend Naomi Campbell always wants the best table, even if it’s already taken by other celebrities and she’s a drama queen.
I live next to New London. Guess what the big river running through New London is? Yes, the Thames. Guess how we say "Thames"? Hint: the first phonic is the same as the word "think". Boy was it embarassing to try to explain this to my British friends.
We have a Cashiers ("CASH-ers") and a Buena Vista ("BYOO-na". I shit you not), but most NC pronunciation traps are just a matter of losing syllables -- Fayetteville leans towards Fet-vl, or Winston-Salem becomes Winston.
I grew up pronouncing breeches as britches and I dislike the long e pronunciation.
Ugh, I am drowning in old data sheets that I neglected to go through in the last year. office still 8 billion degrees and I am gonna be stinky when I leave.
NOTHING is more fun than saying "Titicaca."
POT-uh-WAH-tuh-me. Said really super fast. Almost as fun. Not quite the glorious titty caca, but still fun.
must not have any family what works on ships, else you'd hear it lots.
Ha! Amazingly enough, I have a cousin in the Navy. But I have never quizzed him about modern rank. (And until two years ago, he did not work on a ship anyway, just fixed things right next to the ocean.)
Kristin, the Thames River thing totally threw me when I moved to CT. I was like, "No, really guys, it's Tems. My mom is an English teacher. It's Tems." And they were like, "Are we in England? No? Then shut up, you stupid Massachusetts kid."
"Are we in England? No? Then shut up, you stupid Massachusetts kid."
Words to live by.
OK, maybe not....
"Are we in England? No? Then shut up, you stupid Massachusetts kid."
I'm going to start saying this to Tom during arguments.
And they were like, "Are we in England? No? Then shut up, you stupid Massachusetts kid."
Bwah!!! So. Damn. True. That is exactly how we are. I dated a guy (coincidentally, from Massachusetts) who refused to pronounce it the right [our] way purely on snoot factor. I thought my mom was going to bitchslap him, and she is not normally a violent person.
She basically said the above, though I think a bit more nicely.
In England, yes. The Tems. In CT? Thhhhhhhhames.