Shrift I have been there before, wondering if I’m the crazy one but no.
Or maybe you could just be Buffy, he'll see your amazing heart, and he'll fall in love with you.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Feb 27, 2023 8:30:42 pm PST #20865 of 30000
Susan W. - Feb 27, 2023 8:45:58 pm PST #20866 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Feeling good that my first available colonoscopy appointment was 3pm on Monday July 31.
The July part of that is actually great--mine have all been in January or February, and one time I was worried I'd have to reschedule after I'd already started prep hell the night before because of snow, but fortunately a friend and neighbor with AWD was a complete hero and was willing to be my chauffeur.
Toddson - Feb 28, 2023 5:12:56 am PST #20867 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
shrift, there was once an ad where a guy insisted that Phoenix should be pronounce pa-hoe-nix
javachik - Feb 28, 2023 6:35:38 am PST #20868 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I learned how to pronounce desultory last week. I’ve been saying it out loud for 40 years. Ha!
dcp - Feb 28, 2023 6:39:33 am PST #20869 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
My aunt thought "misled" was pronounced "myz'-zld" and it was very hard to convince her otherwise.
Steph L. - Feb 28, 2023 6:53:40 am PST #20870 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
One of our friends told us how his kid pronounced "debris" as "DEB-riss," and now that's forever how I hear it in my head when I read it. And if I ever say "debris" out loud, I have to pause for a fraction of a second to make sure I pronounce it correctly.
Dana - Feb 28, 2023 6:57:12 am PST #20871 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
The problem comes when you get used to pronouncing words in a joke way, and then you start to forget that they're wrong. I say "Supposably" and "it fucken wimdy" a lot.
Steph L. - Feb 28, 2023 7:01:36 am PST #20872 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Ha! The good thing about "it fucken wimdy" is that you can show the meme to people when you say it in front of them, and they instantly get it. (And then they often start saying it themselves, like Tim's co-workers. Slow propagation of memes: successful!)
Susan W. - Feb 28, 2023 7:30:52 am PST #20873 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
When Alex was really little he called German shepherd dogs Grrr-man shepherds, which I loved almost as much as his toddler pronunciation of flowers as flowflers.
For a long time I thought "awry" was pronounced aw-ree, and that there was this totally separate word out there that I assumed was spelled "arigh."
javachik - Feb 28, 2023 7:34:06 am PST #20874 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
For a long time I thought "awry" was pronounced aw-ree, and that there was this totally separate word out there that I assumed was spelled "arigh."
Ha, that’s me with facade. Definitely thought it meant different things if you pronounced as fake aid versus fussad.