{{{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.

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{{{askye}}} Sounds like a lovely way to say goodbye.

Aw, askye, much sympathy from me.

{{askye}} I'm so sorry, hon. That's a hard thing to do. How nice that you have traditional place for her final rest.

I've been wondering if the people who bought the house I grew up in did any digging. There's three dogs, four hamsters and scores of gerbils in the front and back yard. The first dog we lost even got a headstone that was covered up by periwinkle within a few years. I hope they haven't decided to tear up that front courtyard and found the stone that says "Chico." That might freak me out if I didn't immediately realize Chico was a pet.

Now Perkins' vee-hick-ul thing has me thinking of John Turturro in O Brother, Where Art Thou saying OB-stack-uls.

Much love, askye.

In pronunciation news, I'm going to have to take a completely contrary position. I love accents and dialects, so odd pronunciations even ones I think are "wrong" don't bother me usually. I love the ways words change on different parts ofthe country and world; plus, who can really say what the correct one is?more standardized, sure, but wrong? I think it just depends on your perception. I'm a liberal commie when it comes to these things, I guess.

Now that I've said this, of course, I'm going to think of a bunch of exceptions.

Well, there are things that are regionalisms or accents and things that are just wrong. They ping very differently.