I could be at your doctor. Mine's in Santa Monica - Dr. Feltman. Love her but I'm hating this wait! 40 minutes and counting. I walk here from work. They couldn't call and tell me she was running behind???
We're deep in space, corner of No and Where.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
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.
Glamcookie - Aug 20, 2007 2:38:14 pm PDT #5722 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Pix - Aug 20, 2007 2:38:58 pm PDT #5723 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Kicking it old school, yo. Green-which is just wrong.
Yes, and yet we say "Thames" with the "th" sound when we talk about our New London river. Sometimes old school and sometimes not, I guess.
ETA: GC, that blows. I used to have my doctor in Santa Monica for similar reasons (work), but now I'm up in Pasadena. It just got to be a PITA.
DebetEsse - Aug 20, 2007 2:56:20 pm PDT #5724 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
The story I heard (for Thames St in PVD) was that it was named before whatever king of England it was who couldn't pronounce his "th" and so, it being the king's English, became "tayms" there.
brenda m - Aug 20, 2007 2:56:35 pm PDT #5725 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I didn't know there was anywhere that pronounced the W. They need to stop.
Ginger - Aug 20, 2007 2:59:47 pm PDT #5726 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There's a small town in South Georgia that changed its pronounciation from Ber-lin' to Ber'lin during WWI.
brenda m - Aug 20, 2007 3:00:55 pm PDT #5727 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, in Wisconsin we have New BERlin for the same reason.
Dana - Aug 20, 2007 3:01:13 pm PDT #5728 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
There's a small town in South Georgia that changed its pronounciation from Ber-lin' to Ber'lin during WWI.
Oh, yeah, I bet that completely fooled people!
Jesse - Aug 20, 2007 3:01:44 pm PDT #5729 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The story I heard (for Thames St in PVD) was that it was named before whatever king of England it was who couldn't pronounce his "th" and so, it being the king's English, became "tayms" there.
Similar story to the Castilian (?) Spanish accent, right? The king or someone had a lisp, and everyone still says "Barthelona."
Ginger - Aug 20, 2007 3:02:29 pm PDT #5730 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Oh, yeah, I bet that completely fooled people!
Well, it *is* South Georgia.
amych - Aug 20, 2007 3:03:39 pm PDT #5731 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
butbutbutbut... the Thames (the one in England) was spelled Temes or Temese for a good 800 years before it ever got a TH. [link]