It's funny you say that, Steph--I just saw this a few minutes ago:
After Inauguration Day, departed presidents usually become footnotes pretty quickly. What we are witnessing now is far more dramatic. It's closer to a liquidation, or a cauterization. George W. Bush is being turned into an unperson, like a character out of Orwell. It's been only two days, and there is scarcely a trace of not only his personal presence, but of his policies. Or at least that is the impression Barack Obama would like to convey.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Southern way of saying "Chimley" for chimney. Oh and "ele'm" for eleven.
My high educated father still says chimley. He also asks for a Co'cola.
I have a problem pronouncing "perpetuity" which sucks because some days I have to say it about 10 times. Actually I'm getting better.
oooh and tripartite that's another that trips me up at work.
VEE-HICK-EL was the one that always got me.
I never heard it pronounced any other way as a kid. I always feel a little bit like I'm betraying my ancestry when I don't use that pronunciation.
A girl I love says "volumptuous". I think it's darling and now I do it as well. (though not all the time) I have a feeling that if I didn't love her I would find it irritating.
Thank you for all your thoughts and ~ma. It was hard but things were made easy. Dad put Anna in the carrier, and she was calm all the way over. And in the exam room she wanted to jump down and explore (after she got over her nervousness).
I wish I'd asked the vet I'd been talking to to be there as well, the vet (who owns the clinci) who did the procedure, wwell, she could have had better bed side manner. She wasn't bad, there were just a few things she could have said differently.
We were given enough time, I got her to purr (Anna not the vet) and then it went rather quick. So it seems like even though her spirit was still playful and kittenish her body just wasn't. She's buried out at Dad's with several others, he was really sweet and after I put the stones on the grave he asked if I wanted to put flowers on there. So we cut some camellias from his yard and put them around.
I was at mom's and then she brought me home. It's weird. I opened the door and I expected her. Not to come running, but for her to be here. It's awful lonely with a cat. Even though if she were here she'd be sleeping some where.
We both still look for our Percy. {{askye}}
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1) The Swiss lived in a cold country and wanted to go somewhere warm.
2) The Swiss were poor (hence the low number of animals)
3)The answer is phrased like a word problem in math for extra humor.
Wow, this is not how I understood this, at all.
I understood it as "they were awfully bored. Enough to join the Pope's army". And the humping line? I understood it as a spin off on the "it's not always about the cuddling".
And the thing is, I know that correcting people makes me sound like a dick
Standing in that corner, though I have to admit that if I think someone I know and love/respect gets a word/fact wrong, I'll start with "say, isn't X a Y?". Also, it's a good approach in case I'm wrong about it.
Edit for being blunthead without thinking. Sorry!
Hugs and sympathy to you askye.
