Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair. Buffy: Just how I remember it.

'The Killer In Me'


Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!  

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.


brenda m - Jul 08, 2008 8:18:02 am PDT #6987 of 10003
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

And the locals pronounced it "Ver-sails". Seriously. Lived there for many years and am still not over the boggle.

That's more or less how they pronounce Versailles, Illinois. (See also KAY-ro, which normal people would pronounce Cairo.)


Kathy A - Jul 08, 2008 8:20:48 am PDT #6988 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Also Marsailles, Illinois (Mar-SAILS), which is always mentioned on the local weather reports since that's where the big Doppler radar station is.


sarameg - Jul 08, 2008 8:24:28 am PDT #6989 of 10003

Thames Street here is pronounced as it is spelled, not "tims".


sumi - Jul 08, 2008 8:25:47 am PDT #6990 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

OMG, they didn't bleep the guy in the repeat of the Tour footage either!


Pix - Jul 08, 2008 8:26:09 am PDT #6991 of 10003
The status is NOT quo.

Same with the Thames River in New London, CT.


tommyrot - Jul 08, 2008 8:35:33 am PDT #6992 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Arkansas Cage Fights Turns Gay, Crowd Goes Crazy: 'Bruno' Suspected

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others' clothes off and kissing _ a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of "Borat" fame.

"We had a contract for cage fighting. We were deceived," said Dwight Duncan, president and CEO of Four States Fair Grounds in Texarkana, where the first of two Arkansas fights raised suspicions last month.

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An elaborate array of mounted and handheld video cameras caught the crowd of 1,600's reaction as the two men "went right up to the line" of the city's morality laws, Holland said. The two men stripped down to their underwear, kissed and rubbed on each other, the sergeant said.

The audience, as well as local fighters drawn to take part in the show, became enraged. "It set the crowd off lobbing beers," Holland said. "They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually."


Calli - Jul 08, 2008 8:37:56 am PDT #6993 of 10003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Also, St. Louis, MO, which the founders probably didn't expect people to pronounce, "Saint Lewis".


Shir - Jul 08, 2008 8:43:59 am PDT #6994 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Humm. They're showing La Traviata free in the park in Tel Aviv on Thursday, only I'm supposed to show my CSer Jerusalem that day (and I thought about taking her to see an outdoor screening of Princess Bride).

Dilemma, unless she hates free operas or The Princess Bride.

And if she hates The Princess Bride, I'm not sure I wanna host her.

But... free opera! In the park! So what if it's gonna be hot as hell?

Finished groceries shopping, and now compiling a list of the things I forgot + the buns that's awesome and fresh to pick up from the store in the morning. And then, cleaning. And then, getting back to the my arch nemesis Excel file. And I still want to watch a Buffy ep and read tonight (Innocent Blood, P.D. James, very very very good). Better start with the cleaning, then. Sigh. Evil Excel file.


Shir - Jul 08, 2008 8:45:38 am PDT #6995 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Also, St. Louis, MO, which the founders probably didn't expect people to pronounce, "Saint Lewis".

I think I pronounce Lewis and Louis almost the same way. What am I missing?


Frankenbuddha - Jul 08, 2008 8:45:55 am PDT #6996 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Is Worcester generally pronounced "wooster", or is that a weird NE thing (we're also good at mangling French and Native American words)?

By the reverse, it took me forever to figure out when I heard "sinjun" on various BBC programs, it was "St. John".