The local California girl next to me says "let me fix you a drink" doesn't sound strange to her at all.
Yes! Ohmigod! Someone's blondie bear's a twenty-question genius!
Harmony ,'Help'
Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laga - Nov 05, 2007 7:37:47 pm PST #2792 of 10002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
JenP - Nov 05, 2007 7:42:08 pm PST #2793 of 10002
Excellent. Now I need some Canadians to weigh in and tell me whether it (still) sounds weird to them.
Hil R. - Nov 05, 2007 7:45:11 pm PST #2794 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
To me, "fix a meal" or "fix a drink" sounds a little old-fashioned, but not weird.
I've been trying to quit using "gonna" and "oughta." A lot of the math department is foreign-born, and I always get blank looks when I use one of those.
Laga - Nov 05, 2007 7:49:01 pm PST #2795 of 10002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
try saying, "yeah, but" in front of a Russian. I'm not sure what it means but from the snickers it's clearly something dirty.
I'm more likely to offer to fix someone a drink than to fix them some dinner.
Vortex - Nov 05, 2007 8:08:10 pm PST #2796 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
No fire tonight. I count that as a win. I think I'll go to bed now.
I thought that you said that there wasn't going to be a fire . . .
Hil R. - Nov 05, 2007 8:14:33 pm PST #2797 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Ugh. Slept all day, and now having trouble getting to sleep now. Better got to sleep soon, though, because I've got to be up at 9 tomorrow.
Typo Boy - Nov 05, 2007 8:49:33 pm PST #2798 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I would swear when I lived in Houston, (where you find people from all the world, and all over the South) I met people who used "Y'all" to mean second person singular, and "all Y'all" to mean second person plural. Maybe it is a regional difference? (Not a Houston regional difference, but used that way somewhere?)
Laga - Nov 05, 2007 8:52:19 pm PST #2799 of 10002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
eek! My roomie just texted he has $10 to his name and he doesn't come home until Thursday night. I still think broke in Hawaii is better than not in Hawaii at all.
omnis_audis - Nov 05, 2007 9:26:26 pm PST #2800 of 10002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
hope he has the plane ticket already to get home.
Laga - Nov 05, 2007 9:28:07 pm PST #2801 of 10002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
oh yes, it's round trip