My parents conned my brother into eating and liking brussel sprouts by calling them shrunken heads.
Heh. I bet she got that trick from the mother in Calvin and Hobbes. That's a famous early strip.
Niska: Mr. Reynolds? You died, Mr. Reynolds. Mal: Seemed like the thing to do.
'War Stories'
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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.
DavidS - Feb 07, 2005 5:25:31 pm PST #4738 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2005 5:26:33 pm PST #4739 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Shrimp are too enumerable. I never look at the chicken curry and think "way too few pieces of chicken." But the count of the wee shrimps is always too low. Because they're just sitting up and begging to be counted, whereas the chicken hides.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2005 5:29:51 pm PST #4740 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, and I looked up "tsk" in the Britannica, and it's defined as a suction sound. Which is pretty much what the cc was spelling out, and I can't quite say t-s-k and still suck. Quite the opposite, really.
quester - Feb 07, 2005 5:30:12 pm PST #4741 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
but Gus, white asparagus from Germany is sublime.
Pix - Feb 07, 2005 5:30:31 pm PST #4742 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
The thread title is very appropriate tonight.
sarameg - Feb 07, 2005 5:31:02 pm PST #4743 of 10002
My brother is 25. Or 26? I think it was just my family's warped humor. See: lizard tongues. We didn't discover C&H until well into my teens.
Jesse - Feb 07, 2005 5:31:09 pm PST #4744 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I can't actually make any english phonemes out of that suction sound, so I'm willing to accept tsk as what it's "called."
DavidS - Feb 07, 2005 5:31:24 pm PST #4745 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"tsk" is like the sound you make for a horse to giddyup, or if you want to get a dog's attention.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2005 5:32:49 pm PST #4746 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"tsk" is like the sound you make for a horse to giddyup, or if you want to get a dog's attention.
BMECT... no, it really does, since I didn't know people used the same sound for both. And neither of them are anything I'd use to a person to indicate disapproval.
Jesse - Feb 07, 2005 5:33:16 pm PST #4747 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
"tsk" is like the sound you make for a horse to giddyup
Nuh-uh. For a horse, you do the sucking on the side thingy.
Oh, and I never want to get a dog's attention so I wouldn't know about that part.
I wish I weren't full, because I feel like eating popcorn. Maybe just a salt lick.