I grew up pronouncing breeches as britches and I dislike the long e pronunciation.
See, in my fantasy, when I'm kissing you... you're kissing me. It's okay. I can wait.
Oz ,'First Date'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
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.
sumi - Jan 31, 2005 9:28:22 am PST #2477 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
msbelle - Jan 31, 2005 9:28:57 am PST #2478 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
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.
shrift - Jan 31, 2005 9:29:35 am PST #2479 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
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.
Nutty - Jan 31, 2005 9:32:45 am PST #2480 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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."
tommyrot - Jan 31, 2005 9:33:31 am PST #2481 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
"Are we in England? No? Then shut up, you stupid Massachusetts kid."
Words to live by.
OK, maybe not....
Nora Deirdre - Jan 31, 2005 9:35:18 am PST #2482 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
"Are we in England? No? Then shut up, you stupid Massachusetts kid."
I'm going to start saying this to Tom during arguments.
Pix - Jan 31, 2005 9:35:27 am PST #2483 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
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.
Cashmere - Jan 31, 2005 9:38:19 am PST #2484 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Go Fug Yourself has moved.
Alibelle - Jan 31, 2005 9:38:35 am PST #2485 of 10002
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Oh, ITA. And I'm sure if colonels appeared in my novel half as often as sergeants, it'd bug me more.
Thanks, Susan! I was feeling so alone in my hate.
Katie! My sistah in viola-playing! How much do we hate pizzicato? Almost as much as we hate whole notes.
Aww. I played violin, so it's not quite the same, but man do I hate pizzicato, too. (And I used to yearn for whole notes, because we were usually playing some horrible combination with 32nd notes. With the occasional sixteenth notes, and if we were lucky some quarter notes, but the quarter notes usually had some crazy grace note coming off it, and it was all supposed to be up in third position, which we were never formally taught. That said, I could easily see where the non-violin sections of the orchestra would be bored, however. Harmony isn't nearly as much fun to play. And I only know that because the one year I was a second violin was incredibly boring, musically speaking.) And my irritating song is Canon in D, which is played all the freaking time, rather than The Nutcracker.
May I still join the We Hate Pizzicato! club?
Nutty - Jan 31, 2005 9:39:41 am PST #2486 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Moving to Connecticut also caused my introduction to the bizarre concoction known as "fritters," which in retrospect was the very first encroachment of the now-wide variety of inappropriately-fried objects into my consciousness.
N.b.: Fritters are nasty and who thought it would be a good idea to put cooked corn into a doughnut in the first place?