We tease my midwestern parents over their La Jolla confusion 35+ years ago.
I would guess "La Hoya" pronunciation. What is correct?
eta2: Did I kill Natter? Am I the good slayer?
Willow: Yikes. Imagine the things...Buffy: No! Stop imagining! All of you! Xander: Already got the visual.
'Dirty Girls'
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.
Theresa - Aug 22, 2007 5:24:10 pm PDT #6315 of 10001
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"
sarameg - Aug 22, 2007 5:35:31 pm PDT #6316 of 10001
Austin, yup.
Long ago, my 'rents relocated and met in SoCal. And they were irish-ish farmers (mom)/recent scandanavian immigrants (dad). And even though my dad didn't know the J sound in english, spanish words? Caused a lot of hilarious confusion. And then they later settled in a locale of spanish roots and learned a little more. Though my parents' mexican accents still suck.
Theresa - Aug 22, 2007 5:41:32 pm PDT #6317 of 10001
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"
Ah, I didn't know if it was locally different. We have Salina with a long "I" in the middle and Nevada with a long "a". Like it would rhyme with invade-uh.
DavidS - Aug 22, 2007 6:23:23 pm PDT #6318 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wow. Britons are crazy.
DavidS - Aug 22, 2007 6:39:02 pm PDT #6319 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Submitted for Discussion: A fresh, sweet, perfectly ripe peach cut up with Haagen Dazs Vanilla Ice Cream (slightly melty) is one of the very best things you can stick into you mouth. (Let's say top ten.)
Agree or disagree?
I challenge you to explore the peaches before summer is gone.
aurelia - Aug 22, 2007 6:51:40 pm PDT #6320 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Damn, I really want a peach now.
So, yeah... agree.
§ ita § - Aug 22, 2007 7:04:39 pm PDT #6321 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm guessing I've never had a fresh, sweet, perfectly ripe peach.
Because all it's making me think of is mangoes. In a really tender mangoey way.
I can now say that any moment of today that was not spent lying down should have been spent lying down. A colossally horrible day, painwise.
My mother was very sweet, but her sweetness also means that I have a load of damp laundry in my bathroom that needs to be dealt with in a timely fashion, and all I really want to do is eat Percocet like popcorn, because that's how much it hurts.
Lee - Aug 22, 2007 7:08:00 pm PDT #6322 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Oh dear, ita.
mmmm, mangoes.
Susan W. - Aug 22, 2007 7:17:17 pm PDT #6323 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Why does a lieutenant general outrank a major general? Is there some sort of historical reason for this?
Some days, today being one of them, I'm convinced that the British army got together a few centuries back and decided it would be fun to mess with the head of the authors who would undoubtedly commit their great deeds to paper someday, and designed their entire system of rank, uniforms, terminology, etc. just to confuse me.
aurelia - Aug 22, 2007 7:23:08 pm PDT #6324 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Now I'm wishing magical, mango flavored pain killers for ita.
Lee, I have photos to share with you. I should get on that.