Hey, now, my marmee drove a cahmengear.
I used to drive a cahmengear.
(Jen it's a Karmann Ghia, made by VW.)
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
DXMachina - Jan 31, 2005 4:26:35 pm PST #2642 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
sarameg - Jan 31, 2005 4:27:27 pm PST #2643 of 10002
Jen, Karmen Ghia. (or however that is spelled.) A really cute little car my dad loved that alas, didn't have a back seat. My arrival and Mass's salting (and thus bad rust issues) prompted him to sell it. And he STILL talks about that car.
Hil R. - Jan 31, 2005 4:28:52 pm PST #2644 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Karmann Ghia
Oh!
(I was trying to get that into a NY accent, and had all the right sounds, but couldn't figure out any way for those sounds to arrange into words.)
Jesse - Jan 31, 2005 4:31:14 pm PST #2645 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Scituate
That's MA. I have fambly there!
JenP - Jan 31, 2005 4:32:06 pm PST #2646 of 10002
Karmann Ghia
Oh, OK, I feel better now. Because I'd never heard of that before. Thank you.
Sadly, though I know I've posted this before, I'm going to repeat it here, because there is, as of yet, no Groundhog Day Thread (discussion of which now belongs in that thread. Weird): my mispronunciation that caused the most stunned stares of disbelief was Chatham, MA. I said, I think, KAY-thum. It's CHAT-um. It was funny.
sarameg - Jan 31, 2005 4:34:45 pm PST #2647 of 10002
Hee. OK, so Felton is CA. When I was 19, I went up to Boston for fall break and found the summer beach house my parents lived in and wandered World's End. It was very pretty (height of leaf season.)
sarameg - Jan 31, 2005 4:37:32 pm PST #2648 of 10002
Also, my nose has either become super sensitive or I'm over the lowlevel congestion (known as a 3-4 day cold for most. Me, I spend months notsick, but mildly congested.)
It's weird. Suddenly I can smell the slightest odors. Which means grossout when my officemate eats his lunch. Some kinds of tuna and turkey smell a lot like catfood or dogfood when you are not the one consuming them.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 31, 2005 4:41:52 pm PST #2649 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I cannot believe that the town of Worcester has not been brought up. Perhaps it's small potatoes compared to other town/city pronounciations, or perhaps it is such a classic conundrum that it is cliche, passe, and generally lost all of its mojo.
Tom and I are watching "Serenity." Man, that show rocks. I haven't seen it since it went off the air.
Jesse - Jan 31, 2005 4:42:32 pm PST #2650 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's war-chester, right?
sarameg - Jan 31, 2005 4:43:03 pm PST #2651 of 10002
I did that last weekend, Nora. Not that ep specifically, but just the....man, this show rocked.