You know what I do? MAKE A U-TURN.
You'd think, since you can do this practically anywhere you want in California (and that still freaks me out), you'd have a more creative expression for it.
I'm sorry. You were going to ask me to choose, right? Did you want to finish?
Zoe ,'War Stories'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
megan walker - Sep 25, 2009 11:17:19 am PDT #10992 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Kathy A - Sep 25, 2009 11:17:28 am PDT #10993 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
ChiKat loves to mock my regional word usage, specifically my tendency to overuse the word "there," as in (while pointing out something on the computer) "I love that picture there, it's a great one of my sister." She responded with "Where's that picture, Kathy?" It's a reflexive verbal hiccup that is apparently common in those of us from the southwest side/suburbs of Chicago.
erikaj - Sep 25, 2009 11:20:02 am PDT #10994 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
My mother has "hung a U-ey" but maybe she picked it up from her Okie dad...we have a few things like that in our family that flummox linguistics quizzes.
Kathy A - Sep 25, 2009 11:21:26 am PDT #10995 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The one linguistic remnant of my four years in Milwaukee is my use of "soda" instead of "pop," which throws off any linguistic quizzes I take.
Jesse - Sep 25, 2009 11:22:38 am PDT #10996 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
"I love that picture there, it's a great one of my sister."
But do you say it "dere"? Because that is what the movies and tv have led me to believe....
Laura - Sep 25, 2009 11:25:17 am PDT #10997 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Sprinkles. I have never banged a u-ey. I have been known to hang one or two.
msbelle - Sep 25, 2009 11:26:44 am PDT #10998 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
OMG, I forgot I need a medical form for mac to go to the day camp for Monday since school is closed. CURSES! His dr is open on Sat, but alwasy running late and saturday is supposed to be his uncle day and my free time. HATE.
-t - Sep 25, 2009 11:28:12 am PDT #10999 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hang or pull a u-ey.
Sprinkles if they are already on a donut, jimmies if I am looking to buy a box of them at the store.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 25, 2009 11:28:43 am PDT #11000 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
But do you say it "dere"? Because that is what the movies and tv have led me to believe....
This reminds me of a hilarious radio commercial for a Chicago-style hot dog place in Memphis, where a typically Southern woman acquired a Chicago accent upon tasting one.
Complete with a reference to... da bears.
Kathy A - Sep 25, 2009 11:37:29 am PDT #11001 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
"Dere" and "da" are much more old-school.
Here's a good explanation of a Chicago accent. Towards the end, under "Hear Chicagoans Online," he has two examples of Chicago speakers. I sound more like a female version of the first speaker; the second one is more like the stereotypical one you hear on tv and movies.