Wednesday Overnight Open Thread

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread – 08/24/2022

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STREET ART

I am a fan of clever street art, and this is literally “street art.” The canvas for artist Jim Bachor in Chicago is potholes, which he fills with mosaics. Here are a few of his works:

There are more photos at the link.

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HAPPY CHANGE OF SEASONS

What do you consider to be the date or milestone for when the change of seasons from Summer to Fall starts?

Obviously, the Fall Equinox in late September is the astronomical first day of Fall. Meteorologists consider September 1 the first day of Fall. For some it’s Labor Day, or the first college football game, or the start of school.

As for me, it’s when the first apples of the new crop arrive. I love apples, but by the time summer rolls around, what’s still available in stores isn’t very good. Improved varietals and improved storage techniques still can’t overcome the quality difference between aged apples and fresh apples.

The Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia is an apple-growing region, and being so far south, the new crop of apples starts arriving in mid-August.

My wife and I made a road trip to those mountains last weekend and loaded up on a couple baskets of new crop Ginger Golds and Honeycrisps. They are mighty good. I’m not normally a fan of Honeycrisps, as they usually seem to have a slight taste of pine sol to them, but these ones are fantastic. Maybe it’s the “terroir” of Georgia mountain soil versus that of Washington State.

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IN MY KANSAS MOUNTAIN HOME

Name a US mountain range and geography buffs can tell you which states are covered by that range. For instance, the Ozarks are located in Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and…Kansas?

The Ozarks Studies Institute has an official map of the Ozarks. It includes Cape Girardeau, part of northeast Oklahoma and a sliver of southeast Kansas.
Southeast Kansas?

Time to start planning that mountain getaway to Galena!

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FULFILLING NOAA’s QUOTA FOR NAMED TROPICAL STORMS

We are now in peak hurricane season for the Atlantic Ocean, which lasts from August 20 to September 20 each year. So far there have been no hurricanes, nor anything close. According to the experts, this is either because of global warming, or despite global warming. Or both. Because science, of course.

But there have been three named “tropical storms.” Global Warming alarmists like to hype the increased number of named tropical storms as proof of climate change. Thus, there is demand for more named storms, which NOAA dutifully provides.

Two of this year’s three named storms would not have been considered actual tropical storms before the weather became so politicized. Tropical Storm Bonnie was an unorganized storm with squalls up to 50 mph as it moved ashore. It was a named storm for less than one day. Tropical Storm Colin had gusts up to 40 mph as it moved ashore in South Carolina. It was a named tropical storm for only a few hours.

When it comes to defining tropical storms, maximum sustained winds have pretty much given way to “strongest gust” so as to ensure more named storms. NOAA is no different than the CDC nowadays - another federal agency that has shed all legitimacy in pursuit of a political agenda.

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WORDS YOU’VE READ BUT DON’T KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE (aka “Eppitomes”

In a recent ONT, Weird Dave posted this funny tweet, and it hit home with me for a couple reasons.

One reason is that I have humiliated myself on a couple of occasions this way. I was actually mispronouncing ”hover” well into my college years. I still remember the embarrassment when it was pointed out to me that it is not pronounced “HOE-vurr.” Another was “prevalent” which I pronounced “pree-VALE-unt” well beyond an age which I should have known better. In my defense, why is prevalent pronounced so differently than “prevail” and “prevailing”?

Along with a co-worker some years ago, I became a big fan of words that people read but don’t know how to pronounce. We compiled a list of our favorites that we heard in the workplace, and we started calling them “EPP-i-tomes” in tribute to another co-worker who liked to use the word “epitome” but didn’t know how to pronounce it correctly. (e.g. “This report is the eppitome of sloppy work.”

That list has long since been lost, but I still remember some of my favorites, including ”WHERE-WITH-ull” (wherewithal); ”CEN-truh-PETE-ull” (centripetal); and ”Perry-feral” (peripheral).

What are some of your favorite eppitomes?

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MRS. THROCKMORTON - WORDSMITH

Many of you have become fans of Mrs. Throckmorton’s creative wordsmithing. I am very pleased to announce that she has accidentally created yet another word that is a welcome addition to the English language - ”efflusive”

She was recounting a conversation that she had with a person who was passionate, yet insincere. My wife described this person as “efflusive.” That is a perfect term for someone who effusively spews verbal effluent.

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GRAMMAR PEEVE

Staying on the subject of words…

If the plural of “Attorney General” is “Attorneys General, then why isn’t the singular, possessive form “Attorney’s General”? Is attorney the noun or isn’t it?

Also, what is the plural possessive? Attorneys General’s? Attorneys’ General?

Bah. I’m going to keep typing the plural form of Attorney General as “Attorney Generals” unless/until Ace’s layers and layers of editors make me stop.

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NO FRILLS SEATING

Air travel is kind of miserable these days, isn’t it? All seats are now no-frills, it seems.

Here’s a classic old Carol Burnett skit where she is a stewardess on a flight in which Tim Conway chose to save a few dollars by sitting in the “no frills” section.

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UNSURPRISING STATISTICS

This statistic illustrates the ongoing economic devastation that blue cities have inflicted upon themselves. It’s tragic what this has done to so many small business folk who owned restaurants.

Restaurant Reservations Fla vs Blue Cities.JPG

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THROCKMORTON’S FIRST LAW OF LIVE MUSIC: IF THERE’S AN UPRIGHT BASS IN THE BAND, IT’S PROBABLY GOING TO BE GOOD

Did any of y’all know that late, great bluegrass musician Jerry Garcia was once part of a rock & roll band too? It was a little group named “The Grateful Dead” that only cracked the Top-40 once. Who knew? I reckon I’ll have to check their music out some time.

Anyhow, I love the acoustic music that Garcia did with the group Old And In the Way. Here’s Mr. Garcia performing a bluegrass classic.

”Shady Grove” - Jerry Garcia & David Grisman

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Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 09:57 PM

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Zettai has entered the chat...

Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 09:58 PM (Klrhf)

2 Good Evening

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 24, 2022 09:58 PM (gi0xn)

3 Hello?

Posted by: Half Dozen at August 24, 2022 09:58 PM (dJs6r)

4 Hojotoho!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 24, 2022 09:58 PM (Dc2NZ)

5 Nice ONT!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 24, 2022 09:59 PM (hOUT3)

6 Howdy Buck!

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 09:59 PM (5KWKT)

7 Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight post of Buck Throckmorton

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 09:59 PM (XG2Fi)

8 I'll take a back seat

Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2022 09:59 PM (AmoqO)

9 Hi

Posted by: Ciampino -- I'm just having fun at August 24, 2022 09:59 PM (qfLjt)

10 good evening all

Posted by: wing at August 24, 2022 09:59 PM (PlW9M)

11 Wordle!

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 24, 2022 10:00 PM (rbKZ6)

12 Pothole Art. A sign of the impending Western Dark Age.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 10:00 PM (XG2Fi)

13 To think. We were doing Gothic cathedrals 800 years ago.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 10:01 PM (XG2Fi)

14 so how was my work day?

I walked into a CSSB footprint wearing a day glo vest to secure an interview made it 3/4s of the way to the TOC before being intercepted and was offered a cigar and a written piece in lieu of interview....

was accused of sneaking in- I winked and tugged on the day-glo vest.

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:02 PM (Lzpvj)

15 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:02 PM (LsEU/)

16 Perry Farrell - peripheral

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 24, 2022 10:02 PM (Dc2NZ)

17 What are some of your favorite eppitomes?

I have a pluh-THOR-a of them

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:02 PM (5KWKT)

18 Huh. According to that map of the Ozarks, I live smack dab in the middle of them. I always imagined I was sort of on the outskirts...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 24, 2022 10:02 PM (K5n5d)

19 Beautiful, Throckmorton.

Posted by: Eromero at August 24, 2022 10:02 PM (0OP+5)

20 13 To think. We were doing Gothic cathedrals 800 years ago.
Posted by: Cicero

Without computers...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 24, 2022 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

21 SMDH

The nutcase organic farmer who was running for AG Commissioner here in Florida got more votes than Nikki Fried.

I am going to miss her picture on the gas pump stickers though, she's pretty cute.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:03 PM (5p7BC)

22 Nice ONT!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 24, 2022 09:59 PM (hOUT3)

shame if something happened to it

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:03 PM (5KWKT)

23 I probably pissed off a couple of women at work with my pointing out the insanity of "forgiveness."

Why stop at GSLs?

Why not forgive my mortgage, or buy me a new RV or catamaran?

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:03 PM (Lzpvj)

24 To think. We were doing Gothic cathedrals 800 years ago.
Posted by: Cicero

Without computers...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 24, 2022 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

or Milwaukee tools. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 24, 2022 10:03 PM (VwHCD)

25 Which reminds me of "Been Caught Stealing":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrwjiO1MCVs

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 24, 2022 10:03 PM (Dc2NZ)

26 This ONT seems unusually refined and civilized.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 24, 2022 10:03 PM (yQpMk)

27 20 Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 24, 2022 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

That are still standing as opposed to my TOFU skyscrapers!

//Xi the Pooh

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:03 PM (Lzpvj)

28 What do you consider to be the date or milestone for when the change of seasons from Summer to Fall starts?

first field hockey game! which will be this weekend so ... pumpkin spice time has arrived for me!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 24, 2022 10:03 PM (w0NJk)

29 What are some of your favorite eppitomes?

One I struggled with lately was "hegemony".

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 24, 2022 10:04 PM (h8nSa)

30 'What are some of your favorite eppitomes?'

Nuclear.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 24, 2022 10:04 PM (mdjgu)

31 shame if something happened to it
Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:03 PM (5KWKT)

I knew there something wrong with that post, but you nailed it!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 24, 2022 10:04 PM (hOUT3)

32 How many hurricanes hit the US mainland in 2500 BC?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 24, 2022 10:04 PM (6oLEp)

33 This ONT seems unusually refined and civilized.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 24, 2022 10:03 PM (yQpMk)

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Just wait until an Indian shoots out the lights.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 10:04 PM (XG2Fi)

34 I am constantly being berated for pronouncing Gonzaga "gone-ZAHG-uh." Mostly because I've known people with that last name and that's how they pronounce it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:04 PM (DgWEj)

35 I walked into a CSSB footprint wearing a day glo vest to secure an interview made it 3/4s of the way to the TOC before being intercepted and was offered a cigar and a written piece in lieu of interview....

was accused of sneaking in- I winked and tugged on the day-glo vest.
Posted by: sven

If you have a hard hat, a clip board and that vest, you can get in damn near anywhere unmolested. High security or not.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:04 PM (LsEU/)

36 Having spent virtually my whole life (actually all but four years of it, wow) on the edges of the Ozarks, I would say this is actually pretty accurate. People often forget that the Ozarks is technically defined as a plateau, not a mountain range, which sometimes makes it difficult to tell where it stops. Actually, only in the southeast do you get a definite edge because it hits the Mississippi River floodplain.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:04 PM (tp+tP)

37 Thanks for the ONT Buck.

Buck is actually one of my long time nicknames. Is that one of your nics or something just picked for the net? Your moniker BT sounds distinguished, like you should be in the UK parliament or cabinet.

Posted by: Farmer at August 24, 2022 10:05 PM (55Qr6)

38 24 To think. We were doing Gothic cathedrals 800 years ago.
Posted by: Cicero

Without computers...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 24, 2022 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

or Milwaukee tools. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

The didn't even have Harbor Freight tools!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 24, 2022 10:05 PM (hOUT3)

39 I just realized that I used the word "actually" three times in that one paragraph. God, I suck.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:05 PM (tp+tP)

40 >What do you consider to be the date or milestone for when the change of seasons from Summer to Fall starts?

1st wool blanket goes on the bed

Posted by: DB at August 24, 2022 10:05 PM (geLO8)

41 Pac Man parking.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:06 PM (7FozI)

42 35 Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:04 PM (LsEU/)

I apply a combination of wargamed pretext, OODA loop cognition, charm, and presence coupled with hypervigilance on sight lines....

I call it "ringing the bell."

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:06 PM (Lzpvj)

43 I am sensing some anxiety and agitation in the Horde, Captain.

Posted by: Counselor Deanna Troi at August 24, 2022 10:06 PM (4I/2K)

44 17 What are some of your favorite eppitomes?

SAL-mon

AH-mond

apparently I do both words wrong!

and honestly I have no idea how to say epitome (also I have a Philly accent so it's all a wreck)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 24, 2022 10:06 PM (w0NJk)

45 39 Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:05 PM (tp+tP)

You are ready to take my place good doctor....

//Kamala Sutra Harris

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:06 PM (Lzpvj)

46 The didn't even have Harbor Freight tools!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 24, 2022 10:05 PM (hOUT3)

And thats why they're 800 years old and still standing. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 24, 2022 10:06 PM (VwHCD)

47 Cyclic and pitot. Please prounceiate these words.

Posted by: Eromero at August 24, 2022 10:07 PM (0OP+5)

48 Well into college when I was corrected on my pronunciation of portcullis. My brain has stuck an "i" between the t and c for my entire childhood.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:07 PM (5p7BC)

49 Actually, only in the southeast do you get a definite edge because it hits the Mississippi River floodplain.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:04 PM (tp+tP)
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The Mississippi flood plain in the bootheel of Missouri is some of the flattest terrain I've ever seen. Even Kansas seems mountainous by comparison.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 24, 2022 10:07 PM (K5n5d)

50 Never grab the cyclic if the pitot tube is clogged!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 10:07 PM (XG2Fi)

51 >>> 23 I probably pissed off a couple of women at work with my pointing out the insanity of "forgiveness."

Why stop at GSLs?

Why not forgive my mortgage, or buy me a new RV or catamaran?
Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:03 PM (Lzpvj)

Ask them why the student loans weren't paid off out of the various universities' multi-billion dollar endowments.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:08 PM (llON8)

52 Could have told you we would never have another hurricane. I put hurricane shutters on my house.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:08 PM (5p7BC)

53 If you have a hard hat, a clip board and that vest, you can get in damn near anywhere unmolested. High security or not.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:04 PM (LsEU/)

Tenet. Great line.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 24, 2022 10:08 PM (mdjgu)

54 "Tropical Storm Colin had gusts up to 40 mph as it moved ashore in South Carolina."

40 mph, that's every other Wednesday where I come from.

Posted by: Plains Dweller at August 24, 2022 10:08 PM (ftFVW)

55 Thanks for the splendid ONT, Buck!

Always a pleasure to have you fill in.

I enjoy Mrs. Throckmorton's wordsmithing. Inspired!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 24, 2022 10:08 PM (L/KCM)

56 48 Well into college when I was corrected on my pronunciation of portcullis. My brain has stuck an "i" between the t and c for my entire childhood.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:07 PM (5p7BC)
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Me too! Frankly I think it sounds better with an "i".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 24, 2022 10:08 PM (Dc2NZ)

57 Could have told you we would never have another hurricane. I put hurricane shutters on my house.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:08 PM (5p7BC)

I used that trick when I got the snow blower. It worked.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 24, 2022 10:09 PM (VwHCD)

58 Spent way to long thinking khaki was pronounced kahackie.

What's wrong with tan??

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:09 PM (mZ3xv)

59 I love fall and wool blankets. I noticed on Sunday that the vine maple hasn't changed color up in the woods. Some years, it's red by August.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 24, 2022 10:09 PM (9WSy4)

60 If you have a hard hat, a clip board and that vest, you can get in damn near anywhere unmolested. High security or not.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:04 PM (LsEU/)
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I have a name badge for my department at work. I also have one for the IT department (I used to work there). I like to call it my, "go anywhere and do whatever I want badge." I could probably walk into the Chancellor's office and steal his computer using that badge.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 24, 2022 10:10 PM (K5n5d)

61 I hate it when my well laid plans go aw-ry.

Posted by: huerfano at August 24, 2022 10:10 PM (dTFZY)

62 51 Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:08 PM (llON

They wanted to cry LITERALLY when I explained they were victims of the greatest con in human history making Social Security look legit...

that was okay they like being victims.....then I laughed at them like the joker and cackled "and your generation is going to politically reward the conmen"

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:10 PM (Lzpvj)

63 It’s tragic what this has done to so many small business folk who owned restaurants.

It's not accidental. Drive out the middle class and you're left with the people who are too rich to care and those that are poor and uneducated (because you control their education) enough to be satisfied with scraps under the table.

https://tinyurl.com/38m33xes

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2022 10:10 PM (kOpft)

64 Lancaster, PA is pronounced Linkister by the locals. Wtf

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:11 PM (7FozI)

65 There are quite a number of books out there that highlight misuse, mispronunciation, malapropisms, etc. One of my favorites is Herrings Go About the Sea in Shawls (published in 1931), a small tome that includes some hilarious bits from the writings of school children. Many of the observations and definitions are not wrong, but painfully correct, in certain circumstances:

"A compliment is when you say something to another which he and we know is not true".

"The Bible is against bigamy when it says no man can serve two masters".

Even the comments that are wrong seem like they ought to be right:

"The Romans made their roads straight so the Britons couldn't hide around the corners".

My favorite item from the book: "A gelding is a stallion who had his tonsils taken out so he would have more time to himself".

Posted by: Paco at August 24, 2022 10:11 PM (njExo)

66 If I had a Sargent Major I’d win this bloody war.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at August 24, 2022 10:11 PM (9X60i)

67 I used that trick when I got the snow blower. It worked.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 24, 2022 10:09 PM (VwHCD)

Once I bought the second snow blower, it has never snowed here!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 24, 2022 10:11 PM (hOUT3)

68 >What do you consider to be the date or milestone for when the change of seasons from Summer to Fall starts?

When cooler and dryer blue northern air moves into SE Texas and parts stop sticking to everything.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2022 10:11 PM (4I/2K)

69 Top photo would make a great monochromatic oil painting.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 10:12 PM (zB5jo)

70 My wife described this person as “efflusive.” That is a perfect term for someone who effusively spews verbal effluent.
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Are you saying she talks shit?

Posted by: Ciampino -- calling a spade a fucking shovel at August 24, 2022 10:12 PM (qfLjt)

71 64 Lancaster, PA is pronounced Linkister by the locals. Wtf

is it?

most say "LANKster"

now try Ephrata

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 24, 2022 10:12 PM (w0NJk)

72 34 I am constantly being berated for pronouncing Gonzaga "gone-ZAHG-uh." Mostly because I've known people with that last name and that's how they pronounce it.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:04 PM

I think I pronounce it the same way, but maybe a bit closer to gun-ZAHG-uh?

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 24, 2022 10:12 PM (rbKZ6)

73 Never grab the pitot tube after a flight. That sucker gets hot.

Posted by: huerfano at August 24, 2022 10:12 PM (dTFZY)

74 It's al lou minny um?

Or ah lou min um?

Or, foil?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:13 PM (mZ3xv)

75 I think that will be my next painting project.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 10:13 PM (zB5jo)

76 The Mississippi flood plain in the bootheel of Missouri is some of the flattest terrain I've ever seen. Even Kansas seems mountainous by comparison.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 24, 2022 10:07 PM (K5n5d)

Yup, grew up there. Most days I could look out the back door and see a power plant 15 miles away.

It's home to me, but I can get why it would drive a lot of people crazy.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:13 PM (tp+tP)

77 What do you consider to be the date or milestone for when the change of seasons from Summer to Fall starts?

The first time I turn on the furnace for the season.

Evening, all.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 24, 2022 10:13 PM (sy5kK)

78 "Magellan Circumcised the Globe with a 40 Foot Clipper".

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 24, 2022 10:13 PM (r46W7)

79 "gone ZAGA.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 24, 2022 10:14 PM (r1z5A)

80 23
' I probably pissed off a couple of women at work with my pointing out the insanity of "forgiveness."'

You know what? Good. In the past, I would have seen that as rude.
Since the people who pretend to represent us aren't doing anything (and then wonder why their voters hate them so f-ing much),
I've decided that 100% of the pushback against creeping tyranny I'm going to see is whatever I do myself.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 24, 2022 10:14 PM (roH4R)

81 It's al lou minny um?

Or ah lou min um?

Or, foil?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:13 PM

Al-yoo-MIN-yum...

Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 10:14 PM (09oQ1)

82 Newark, DE - locally pronounced NEW-ark.
Newark, NJ - locally pronounced NORK.
Versailles, KY - locally pronounced ver-SALES
Taneytown, MD - locally pronounced TAWN-ee-TOWN

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:14 PM (5KWKT)

83 I'm going to have to try to incorporate efflusive into my vocabulary. That is a great mashup, immediately knew what she meant.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 24, 2022 10:15 PM (ftFVW)

84 The next county South of me is pronounced "Howsten". If someone says "Houston" we know they ain't from around here.

Posted by: fd at August 24, 2022 10:15 PM (sn5EN)

85 Lancaster, PA is pronounced Linkister by the locals. Wtf
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Peabody MA - PEE bitty
Russia OH - RUSE ee
Versailles OH - ver SALES
Lima OH - LIE ma
Lancaster OH - LANG ka ster

In Ohio alone there are multiple dozens of these.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:15 PM (LsEU/)

86 I think it's ver sighs.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:15 PM (mZ3xv)

87 78 "Magellan Circumcised the Globe with a 40 Foot Clipper".
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 24, 2022 10:13 PM (r46W7)

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He used a clipper ship?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 10:15 PM (XG2Fi)

88 Two of my grammar pet peeves: 1) people who say or write "based off of" rather than "based on", and 2) people who say or write "a myriad of" rather than just "myriad"

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 24, 2022 10:15 PM (rbKZ6)

89 The first time I turn on the furnace for the season.

Evening, all.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 24, 2022 10:13 PM (sy5kK)
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Yep. That's a good marker. I was out in my sunroom earlier tonight and noticed there's a definite "nip" in the air...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 24, 2022 10:15 PM (K5n5d)

90 We take turns reading Scripture in Sunday school rather than the Pastor reading it.

The Old Testament is a minefield of difficult to read proper names of individuals and towns and always brings out some creative pronunciations.

Most are forgivable and understandable, but I had to giggle a bit last week when someone even managed to get the pronunciation of Job wrong.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 24, 2022 10:15 PM (h8nSa)

91 most say "LANKste

I pronounce it the way it's spelled to piss off my lib aunt.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:16 PM (7FozI)

92 Magellan the Mohel.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 10:16 PM (XG2Fi)

93 Linux. I say Lie-Nux

Linus, Unix, LieNux

Everyone else says Lynn-Ix

Posted by: DaveX64 at August 24, 2022 10:16 PM (GeysU)

94 Now THIS is an ONT!

Posted by: Toynbee at August 24, 2022 10:16 PM (1mIG+)

95 ever been to Pibahdee

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2022 10:16 PM (us2H3)

96 Flomot, Bovina and Quitaque, Texas.

Posted by: huerfano at August 24, 2022 10:16 PM (dTFZY)

97 The Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia is an apple-growing region, and being so far south, the new crop of apples starts arriving in mid-August.

Pooky didn't want to stop for peaches, pecans or apples when we went through Georgia.

Posted by: pookysgirl, pouting at August 24, 2022 10:16 PM (XKZwp)

98 I’m going to look for a bar. I’m surprised I’m not in one already. More later maybe.

Posted by: Theodore at August 24, 2022 10:16 PM (+26ge)

99 In Ohio alone there are multiple dozens of these.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:15 PM (LsEU/)
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MO has a few...VIE-enna (Vienna) and LEB-non (Lebanon) are two that are close by to me.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 24, 2022 10:16 PM (K5n5d)

100 Lancaster, PA is pronounced Linkister by the locals. Wtf
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Cairo, IL is pronounced CARE-oh.

Another acceptable pronunciation is SHIT-hole.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:16 PM (tp+tP)

101 I had forgotten how annoying laugh tracks are.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:17 PM (5p7BC)

102 Magellan was at the foreskin of Renaissance navigators.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 10:17 PM (XG2Fi)

103 Urg. I know some of those "empaths".

Howdy, beloved Horde!

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 10:17 PM (6RgRK)

104 84 The next county South of me is pronounced "Howsten". If someone says "Houston" we know they ain't from around here.
Posted by: fd at August 24, 2022 10:15 PM

Kind of like "BOW-fort" in NC and "BEW-fort in SC.

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 24, 2022 10:17 PM (rbKZ6)

105 I think I pronounce it the same way, but maybe a bit closer to gun-ZAHG-uh?
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 24, 2022 10:12 PM (rbKZ6)

Thats's better than what I put; that's what I meant. I live near the school and they pronounce it ZAG instead of ZAHG. So I get corrected a lot.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:17 PM (DgWEj)

106 Horry County, SC is home to Myrtle Beach.

I have it on good authority that the MBPD are not amused by drunken Spring Breakers calling it "Whore-ee County."

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2022 10:17 PM (4I/2K)

107 I’m not normally a fan of Honeycrisps, as they usually seem to have a slight taste of pine sol to them, but these ones are fantastic. Maybe it’s the “terroir” of Georgia mountain soil versus that of Washington State.

Pine Sol taste?

You need a better source of honeycrisps. They are good, but almost too sweet for me.

Also, try Cosmic Crisps, a new variety created at WSU's ag department in partnership with WA state apple growers. Incredible. Only available from WA state growers, and the university gets a small cut of the sales for a few years.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 24, 2022 10:17 PM (sy5kK)

108 That's what I like about the Dwell app. They pronounce those names for you. And the reader I like has a British accent so he must be doing it right.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 24, 2022 10:17 PM (9WSy4)

109 >>Did any of y’all know that late, great bluegrass musician Jerry Garcia was once part of a rock & roll band too?

I believe I heard tell of that.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2022 10:18 PM (ZLI7S)

110 I'm guessing some of that pothole art was done during the pandemic.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 10:18 PM (6RgRK)

111 maybe this relates

Norm Crosby on the Dean Martin Show

https://tinyurl.com/mw2ubums

Posted by: DB at August 24, 2022 10:18 PM (geLO8)

112 95 ever been to Pibahdee
Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2022 10:16 PM (us2H3)

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Nope. But I been to Arizona.

Posted by: Cory Wells at August 24, 2022 10:18 PM (XG2Fi)

113 I am very pleased to announce that she has accidentally created yet another word that is a welcome addition to the English language - ”efflusive”
-----

I copyrighted 'Confusement' decades ago.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2022 10:18 PM (WxuR2)

114 When I was a we pup, and was reading about Greek Myths and Gods, I always reading Persephone as;

Pers-ah-phone (phone...as in telephone). Imagine my mortification when called on to read about Persephone and Hades aloud in class...

#eeesh

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 24, 2022 10:18 PM (BgMrQ)

115 What do you consider to be the date or milestone for when the change of seasons from Summer to Fall starts?

Fall, like summer, are weather/coffee variable. In the fall, when I can no longer drink iced coffee in the morning as it's too cold, then it's fall and time for hot coffee. Same for April/May/June. Once hot coffee becomes unbearable, time to go to iced. That's when it's summer. It's always tricky with that last pitcher of the season. Should I do one more or wait? Wait or make some more iced? Decisions, decisions. Don't want to need iced and not have it. You can always brew up some hot coffee.

Posted by: RickZ at August 24, 2022 10:18 PM (ldL4g)

116 For us, it was always getting apple cider at the orchard. The drive to the orchard with all the leaves changing was one of my favorite memories.

Just a hint of chill in the air. Warm cider. Hay rides.

Fall is the best.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:19 PM (mZ3xv)

117 I wonder why Biden doesn't just forgive the national debt? Seems like it would solve all kinds of problems.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:19 PM (5p7BC)

118 Interesting Jerry Garcia clip. I'm admittedly not very familiar with his musical abilities; as noted, he only ever had one studio hit and I'm not nearly old enough to have been a hippie.

Posted by: CppThis at August 24, 2022 10:19 PM (UewuT)

119 Lancaster, PA is pronounced Linkister by the locals. Wtf
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:11

Just north of us is Grand Detour by a big bend in the Rock River, named by the French fur traders. it is now pronounced Grandy Tour by all the locals. I think we lost the french in

Posted by: Farmer at August 24, 2022 10:19 PM (55Qr6)

120 Lon Guyland.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:19 PM (7FozI)

121 There is a town close by in ID called Athol. I pronounced it AY-thol until someone told me it's pronounced like asshole with a lisp.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:19 PM (DgWEj)

122 "Efflusive". Great word. May I submit the noun variant to Mrs. Buck Throck's contribution? A person who is passionate yet insincere can be described here forward as an effloozy...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 24, 2022 10:19 PM (bUGMk)

123 My supervisor at my last job didn't mispronounce words, but frequently committed malapropisms. On more than one occasion, trying to be complimentary, he would refer to us as his "crackpot" staff. He meant "crack", of course, as in a "crack regiment", but the looks on the faces of his interlocutors somehow made the blunder worth tolerating for the rest of us.

Posted by: Paco at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (njExo)

124 eppitomes?

Oh, goodness. The hash I made of 'echinacea' the first time I said it. 'eh-chin-uh-see-uh', or something awful like that.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (0udfB)

125 fluence. LOL

Posted by: Farmer at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (55Qr6)

126 Empaths are just this generations version of horoscopes.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (mZ3xv)

127 MO has a few...VIE-enna (Vienna) and LEB-non (Lebanon) are two that are close by to me.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 24, 2022 10:16 PM (K5n5d)

In the Bootheel we have Hayti (Hay-TIE) and New Madrid (MAD-rid). Also Advance (AD-vance).

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (tp+tP)

128 I had forgotten how annoying laugh tracks are.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

But oh so appropriate for every white house briefing under the current management.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (r1z5A)

129 114 When I was a we pup, and was reading about Greek Myths and Gods, I always reading Persephone as;

Pers-ah-phone (phone...as in telephone). Imagine my mortification when called on to read about Persephone and Hades aloud in class...

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Don't sweat it. Understandable mistake.

Posted by: Testicleez at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (XG2Fi)

130
Dahlonega, GA.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (aSWOS)

131 What are some of your favorite eppitomes?
Mine is the American classic Arkansas [Ar-can-sass]

(I understand it's where the Clintons hail from .... and that explains everything).

Posted by: Ciampino -- Hey, Kansas is normal at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (qfLjt)

132 It's "Coolinary" in New Orleans during the month of August. Reduced prices at restaurants all over town, 86 of them. I might even venture out myself.

https://tinyurl.com/y5sad2w3

Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (AmoqO)

133 Two of my grammar pet peeves: 1) people who say or write "based off of" rather than "based on", and 2) people who say or write "a myriad of" rather than just "myriad"
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 24, 2022 10:15 PM (rbKZ6)

I have 3 main ones:
1 - "irregardless" is NOT a word. That is a hill to die on for me!
2 - Redundant words after abbreviations. ATM machine, PIN number, etc.
3 - "I could care less" makes no sense. It's COULDN'T care less.

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (5KWKT)

134 It's a set up.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 24, 2022 10:21 PM (gi0xn)

135 Gonzaga Bulldogs are commonly referred to as "Zags", not "ZAWGs".

And it's "OreGUN", not OreGONE".

Yes, a pet peeve of mine.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 24, 2022 10:21 PM (sy5kK)

136 117 I wonder why Biden doesn't just forgive the national debt? Seems like it would solve all kinds of problems.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:19 PM (5p7BC

This is brilliance. You should email the White House!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:21 PM (mZ3xv)

137 >>> 117 I wonder why Biden doesn't just forgive the national debt? Seems like it would solve all kinds of problems.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:19 PM (5p7BC)

LOL

This needs to be "trending" on the twatter.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:21 PM (llON8)

138 Good evening morons and thanks buck

Acoustic Jerry

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2022 10:21 PM (EZebt)

139 There is a town close by in ID called Athol. I pronounced it AY-thol until someone told me it's pronounced like asshole with a lisp.
Posted by: Jordan61

My long ago profoundly deaf GF always referred to me as "ATH HOL!"

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:21 PM (LsEU/)

140 There is a town close by in ID called Athol. I pronounced it AY-thol until someone told me it's pronounced like asshole with a lisp.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:19 PM (DgWEj)

Kith my ath

Posted by: Mike Tyson at August 24, 2022 10:22 PM (5KWKT)

141 San Antonio is in Bexar (Bear) County.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:22 PM (7FozI)

142 Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 24, 2022 10:17 PM (sy5kK)

I love honeycrisps. Husband works for the Department of Agriculture and when the farmers come in for meetings they bring boxes of honeycrisps and Rainier cherries. It's awesome.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:22 PM (DgWEj)

143 >>>I’m not normally a fan of Honeycrisps, as they usually seem to have a slight taste of pine sol to them, but these ones are fantastic. Maybe it’s the “terroir” of Georgia mountain soil versus that of Washington State.

Honeycrisps are the bomb right about October, but they're also super-expensive. Most apples are in the autumn, I guess (except for Red Delicious, which ew).

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:22 PM (tp+tP)

144 My favorite is a setup that gets back at a smartass.
Me: "Was it really necessary to be FACEchus to him?" unbecoming."
SA: "What?"
Me: "Facechus."
SA: "Spell it."
Me: "F-a-c-e-t-i-o-u-s."
SA: "You mean Fa-CE-shus."
Me: "Noooooo!"

Posted by: Pascal at August 24, 2022 10:23 PM (JPCC1)

145 Great ONT Buck! You're hired!

Posted by: Zeera. 'Nobody Cares, Drink Harder' at August 24, 2022 10:23 PM (a1OOQ)

146 It's Fall when the false albacore start running around here. There aren't many fish salt or fresh that are more fun to catch.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2022 10:23 PM (ZLI7S)

147

La Jolla, CA...

This explains why I was never able to find "Lahoya" on a map...

Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 10:23 PM (Lj2Cc)

148 105 I think I pronounce it the same way, but maybe a bit closer to gun-ZAHG-uh?
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 24, 2022 10:12 PM (rbKZ6)

Thats's better than what I put; that's what I meant. I live near the school and they pronounce it ZAG instead of ZAHG. So I get corrected a lot.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:17 PM

The next time someone calls you out for it, just tell them they're totally overrated in basketball. That'll teach 'em!

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 24, 2022 10:23 PM (rbKZ6)

149 >>> 144 My favorite is a setup that gets back at a smartass.
Me: "Was it really necessary to be FACEchus to him?" unbecoming."
SA: "What?"
Me: "Facechus."
SA: "Spell it."
Me: "F-a-c-e-t-i-o-u-s."
SA: "You mean Fa-CE-shus."
Me: "Noooooo!"
Posted by: Pascal at August 24, 2022 10:23 PM (JPCC1)

Useless trivia of the day: This is the only English word with all five vowels in alphabetical order.

(I think. Now watch Muldoon or some other smart Morons provide counter examples.)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:24 PM (llON8)

150 The Lahoya run a bunch of casinos on the Eastern seaboard.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 10:24 PM (XG2Fi)

151 An important ingredient in the secret sauce that was Jerry Garcia is that he truly, obviously loved the America: in the American character, American language, and the American outlook.

Yes he was at times a filthy, drug-taking hippie, but he did it in a 19th Century holdover American way, and with great affection.

Posted by: Zek at August 24, 2022 10:25 PM (9RLhb)

152 Rainier cherries.

Speaking of which, how exactly is that pronounced?

ra-NEAR?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 24, 2022 10:25 PM (h8nSa)

153 >Also, try Cosmic Crisps, a new variety created at WSU's ag department in partnership with WA state apple growers. Incredible. Only available from WA state growers, and the university gets a small cut of the sales for a few years.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 24, 2022 10:17 PM (sy5kK)

Funny, I tried a Cosmic Crisp on a whim for the first time this year when I saw them in the supermarket and I thought it tasted like ass. Maybe they lose their good flavor when they leave Washington.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 10:25 PM (KOooo)

154 I have 3 main ones:
1 - "irregardless" is NOT a word. That is a hill to die on for me!
2 - Redundant words after abbreviations. ATM machine, PIN number, etc.
3 - "I could care less" makes no sense. It's COULDN'T care less.
Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (5KWKT)

Heh. I used to drive husband nuts by saying CAC card.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:25 PM (DgWEj)

155 I like to butcher pronunciations.

Long ago I had one boss who was an asshole. I used to enjoy quoting Ralph Kramden at meetings and he would always correct me. I never let on.

Things like "can it core 'a' apple", or "string of pol-op-o-knees"
I had a bunch.

"A mere bag of shells"

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 24, 2022 10:25 PM (1mIG+)

156 There is an art called mandala which is often painted on rocks. This is something I do as a relaxing kind of hobby. I would link, but I'm too lazy to figure out tinyurl. com. Anyhow, the pics above remind me of this....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 24, 2022 10:25 PM (QGSb8)

157 3 - "I could care less" makes no sense. It's COULDN'T care less.
Posted by: Doof

Sorry Sir Doof, but I COULD care less, but at this point it would be lower than the Marianas Trench.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 24, 2022 10:25 PM (r1z5A)

158 In last thread, there was discussion of "what good did Cromwell do?" I'm a bit surprised that it wasn't immediately noted that his most important and long lasting innovation was the creation and establishment, along with Thomas Fairfax, of the New Model Army. This was a radical rethinking of military organization for the day, but we often don't realize it because it is so familiar to us now - even the modern US Army is still set up along the lines the New Model Army pioneered.

This, more than anything else, was why Cromwell's army ripped through every other army they came face to face with. It was so good that every professional army in Western Europe used his blueprint from then on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 24, 2022 10:25 PM (r46W7)

159 My fellow Amricans, I've decided today to forgive the country for its national debt. That's what my staffers told me to say, so we can knock this economy out and take its lunch money like back in the '50s. Those were the days, man.

Posted by: "President" Biden at August 24, 2022 10:25 PM (tp+tP)

160 Dahlonega, GA.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (aSWOS)

Similar to Talledega?

Posted by: clutch at August 24, 2022 10:25 PM (9UmRs)

161 Evening.

1. My understanding of why storms are being named "tropical storms" sooner is because the technology to measure wind speeds is better/more accurate. If that's the case I'd argue that we need to expand upon what defines a tropical storm.

2 (a). I believe a "Perry-feral" is what you call the singer of Jane's Addiction.

2 (b). I have this impression that the English don't really give a crap how words are pronounced just as long as you can be clearly understood. They have like ten bajillionty dialects and accents over there, plus they have to put up with us, so their attitude is, "Fuck it." The notion that there is a "right way" is, I think, mostly an American one. "Pre-vail-ent" is, or at least ought to be, fine.

Posted by: Robert at August 24, 2022 10:26 PM (QDLHp)

162 >>Acoustic Jerry

Best Jerry

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2022 10:26 PM (ZLI7S)

163 People have trouble with the pronunciation of Lake Pend Oreille in northern Idaho. There's a clue, though. There's a town on the southern end of the lake called Ponderay.

And as far as mountain ranges go, I remember driving through New Mexico on I 40 many decades ago as a young pup and seen the sign for the continental divide, and thinking "isn't that a Colorado thing? "

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 24, 2022 10:26 PM (zfAML)

164 Winesap apples make the best cobblers and pies.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:27 PM (7FozI)

165 Useless trivia of the day: This is the only English word with all five vowels in alphabetical order.

facetiously

and

abstemiously

have all the vowels in order

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 24, 2022 10:27 PM (w0NJk)

166 Useless trivia of the day: This is the only English word with all five vowels in alphabetical order.

(I think. Now watch Muldoon or some other smart Morons provide counter examples.)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:24 PM (llON

abstemious 'indulging only moderately in food and drink'

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:27 PM (5KWKT)

167
Heh. I used to drive husband nuts by saying CAC card.
Posted by: Jordan61

I used to say "The El Camino Real road" when I lived in CA.
People never got it.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 24, 2022 10:27 PM (1mIG+)

168 156 There is an art called mandala which is often painted on rocks. This is something I do as a relaxing kind of hobby. I would link, but I'm too lazy to figure out tinyurl. com. Anyhow, the pics above remind me of this....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 24, 2022 10:25 PM (QGSb

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Mandalas are usually intricate designs made with colored sand by Buddhist monks in Tibet. Some take years, which explains why Buddhist monks didn't hold conventional employment.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 10:27 PM (XG2Fi)

169 A shirt tail relative of mine pronounced weirdo as weary doo. But he was pretty much of a weary doo himself.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 24, 2022 10:27 PM (FVME7)

170 Evening peoples.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 24, 2022 10:28 PM (YglAn)

171 164 Winesap apples make the best cobblers and pies.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:27 PM (7FozI)

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You omitted FIGHT ME

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 10:28 PM (XG2Fi)

172 Natchitoches, Louisiana is one that escapes me as well.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 24, 2022 10:28 PM (h8nSa)

173 First day of fall for me is when I can run at night and the temps are below 70.

Which is usually November.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:28 PM (5p7BC)

174 Our HOA Manager writes everything in passive voice, nothing in active voice, and always uses "utilize" over 'use'. It sets my jaw to grinding reading her monthly newsletter.

She served in the Navy as some kind of intelligence analyst and should know better.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2022 10:28 PM (4I/2K)

175 (except for Red Delicious, which ew).
Posted by: Dr. T

Yeah, red delicious makes me doubt that the people who name apples actually eat them.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 24, 2022 10:29 PM (ftFVW)

176 155 I like to butcher pronunciations.

Long ago I had one boss who was an asshole. I used to enjoy quoting Ralph Kramden at meetings and he would always correct me. I never let on.

Things like "can it core 'a' apple", or "string of pol-op-o-knees"
I had a bunch.

"A mere bag of shells"
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 24, 2022 10:25 PM

You stole your act from Norm Crosby!!

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 24, 2022 10:29 PM (rbKZ6)

177 IN, KY and OH all have towns named Versailles.
Local pronunciation is, Versales.
I've been to all three and if you haven't, you've missed three chances at nothing.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at August 24, 2022 10:29 PM (NlVMd)

178 Driving through ETEX this evening after past week of rain, could smell smoke from folks seizing chance to burn brushpiles. Smelled like fall, like football, like peanut boils, like Gloria in a fuzzy sweater at the drive-in.

Posted by: Eromero at August 24, 2022 10:29 PM (0OP+5)

179 >>> 172 Natchitoches, Louisiana is one that escapes me as well.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 24, 2022 10:28 PM (h8nSa)

Natchitoches meat pies are pretty tasty and there's even a recipe in "the" cookbook.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:29 PM (llON8)

180 Damnit.

FIGHT ME.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:29 PM (7FozI)

181 Real men eat Winesap apples.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (7bRMQ)

182 (I think. Now watch Muldoon or some other smart Morons provide counter examples.)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:24 PM (llON

Well, if they do, it will probably be sarcastic.

Posted by: Pascal at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (JPCC1)

183 Heh. I used to drive husband nuts by saying CAC card.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:25 PM (DgWEj)

Yup. If someone says that to me at work, I take theirs and throw it! LOL!!

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (5KWKT)

184 What's the best apple for cider?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (mZ3xv)

185 Jordan, We have an Athol in Mathathuthetts too!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (a4EWo)

186 I used to say "The El Camino Real road" when I lived in CA.
People never got it.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 24, 2022 10:27 PM (1mIG+)

Ha! The one that bugs me is chai tea.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (DgWEj)

187 I remember a funny line from an old Edward G. Robinson movie (I think it was A Slight Case of Murder). Robinson was playing a gangster (naturally) and he was complaining to one of his guys about bumping somebody off prematurely. The subordinate gangster (played by Allan Jenkins) said, "Don't take that altitude, boss! We had to illuminate him!"

Posted by: Paco at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (njExo)

188 menagerie used to mean a collection of animals but now people use it for any collection of things. Enough that it is an alternate definition.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 10:31 PM (zB5jo)

189 A mid-October birthday is a great, "Okay, NOW it's Fall."

Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered by events at August 24, 2022 10:31 PM (EouuZ)

190 (except for Red Delicious, which ew).
Posted by: Dr. T

Yeah, red delicious makes me doubt that the people who name apples actually eat them.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 24, 2022 10:29 PM (ftFVW)

Seriously, those are gross.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:31 PM (DgWEj)

191 172 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 24, 2022 10:28 PM (h8nSa)

It is an Indian name....

fun fact 3 states in a row all with members of the same tribe have cities named from that language....

Natchez MS, Natchitoches LA, and Nacogdoches TX....

you're welcome America-The Coushatta tribe

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:31 PM (Lzpvj)

192 "Efflusive" is nice.

*tucks term into bag*

Mrs. Throckmorton can chalk one up.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 24, 2022 10:31 PM (Ckg4U)

193 82 Newark, DE - locally pronounced NEW-ark.
Newark, NJ - locally pronounced NORK.
Versailles, KY - locally pronounced ver-SALES
Taneytown, MD - locally pronounced TAWN-ee-TOWN
Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:14 PM (5KWKT)

In the Shenandoah Valley:
Buena Vista - pronounced "Beeoona Vista"
Staunton - pronounced "Stanton"

Posted by: Interesting Times at August 24, 2022 10:31 PM (ieN7O)

194 RAIN-ear

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 24, 2022 10:32 PM (9WSy4)

195 >And it's "OreGUN", not OreGONE".
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 24, 2022 10:21 PM (sy5kK)

Eh, that's an easy way to tell who's not from this part of the country. My favorite is when a local company hires voice talent for a commercial voiceover for a commercial to play in Oregon who says Ory-gone. That's a real mark of a quality local company who cares.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 10:32 PM (KOooo)

196 Two towns, spelled the same, in two different states.

CA: Mar-teen-ez

GA: Martin-ez

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 24, 2022 10:32 PM (Bd6X8)

197 Linux. I say Lie-Nux Linus, Unix, LieNux Everyone else says Lynn-Ix
Posted by: DaveX64 at August 24, 2022 10:16 PM (GeysU)

Linus Torvalds pronounces

https://bityl.co/E0Z1

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 24, 2022 10:32 PM (cOGHc)

198 49
The Mississippi flood plain in the bootheel of Missouri is some of the flattest terrain I've ever seen. Even Kansas seems mountainous by comparison.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 24, 2022 10:07 PM (K5n5d)
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You know how flat is N. Dakota? Saskatchewan's runner-up motto? "Like North Dakota but flatter"

Posted by: Ciampino - Illinois, Gateway to Iowa at August 24, 2022 10:32 PM (qfLjt)

199 IN, KY and OH all have towns named Versailles.
Local pronunciation is, Versales.
I've been to all three and if you haven't, you've missed three chances at nothing.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at August 24, 2022 10:29 PM (NlVMd)

Disagree about the one in Kentucky. The very scenic Woodford Reserve distillery in there, and it is a lovely drive through horse farms to get there.

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:32 PM (5KWKT)

200 185 Jordan, We have an Athol in Mathathuthetts too!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (a4EWo)

We've got one in WNY...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 24, 2022 10:32 PM (BgMrQ)

201 Well, if they do, it will probably be sarcastic.
Posted by: Pascal at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (JPCC1)

No, that's missing at least three vowels.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (tp+tP)

202 Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 09:57 PM

Hip Hip!

Cherrio old Chap!

Stiff upper lip and whatnot!

Posted by: Sir Throck Buckmorton, Third Baronet Buckmorton at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (LyVHa)

203 New Orleans is pronounced a half dozen different ways.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (zB5jo)

204 174 Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2022 10:28 PM (4I/2K)

She served in the Navy, an organization that spent eleventy kajillion bucks on brown water navy boats that barely lasted a decade.....

it makes sense actually.

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (Lzpvj)

205 >>> 184 What's the best apple for cider?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (mZ3xv)

Juice cider or alcohol cider? For the latter iirc the more bitter varieties are better.... *however* fcking Prohibition apparently caused zillions of the old varieties to be chopped down or just lost to neglect because it was no longer legal to sell the booze. Now there is an ongoing shortage of the desirable types. There are several articles on the intertubes.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (llON8)

206 For the Alabama peeps:

Conecuh sausage.

Cah neck uh.

Don't ask me why.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (mZ3xv)

207 Pronouncing some words in South Louisiana can be a challenge.

Terpsichore
Tchoupitoulas
Thibodaux
Atchafalaya

Among others.

Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (AmoqO)

208 I probably wasn't the only boy singing "Lead On O Kinky Turtle" (King Eternal) at church as a mischievous kid.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (d9Cw3)

209 OK has a lot of towns with Indian names. But the towns with Indian names in OR are pronounced a lot differently. Multnomah is just weird.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (9WSy4)

210 New Orleans is pronounced a half dozen different ways.
Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (zB5jo)

Who you telling??

Posted by: Louisville at August 24, 2022 10:34 PM (5KWKT)

211 155. "A mere bag of shells" - Gentleman etc.

LOL! My boss used to refer to a "death nail". Once, I think he even conflated two expressions by mentioning "the last death nail in the coffin".

Posted by: Paco at August 24, 2022 10:34 PM (njExo)

212 Disagree about the one in Kentucky. The very scenic Woodford Reserve distillery in there, and it is a lovely drive through horse farms to get there.
Posted by: Doof

Especially if you get it on sale in Versailles.

Posted by: Thrifty Miklos at August 24, 2022 10:34 PM (LyVHa)

213 I think the universal epitome is Worcestershire.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 24, 2022 10:34 PM (h8nSa)

214 Worcester MA pronounced Woostah.

Live right next door in Shrewsberry for a year, what a lousy place to live.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:34 PM (5p7BC)

215 Disagree about the one in Kentucky. The very scenic Woodford Reserve distillery in there, and it is a lovely drive through horse farms to get there.
Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:32 PM (5KWKT)

If my luck holds, I'll get to go out there in 2-3 weeks for the state's (excuse me, commonwealth's) Bourbon Trail. Maybe not to Versailles specifically, but definitely the general area.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:34 PM (tp+tP)

216 195 Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 10:32 PM (KOooo)

The Mall at Fairfield Commons in "beavercreek" ohio pronounced "beaver-crik" hired old boy from Barney Miller to do a read....

Beave-r CREEEEK.....

irritated all the patrons....hilarious

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:35 PM (Lzpvj)

217 203 New Orleans is pronounced a half dozen different ways.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (zB5jo)

There are probably at least that many distinct accents in the City metro area.

Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2022 10:35 PM (AmoqO)

218 208 I probably wasn't the only boy singing "Lead On O Kinky Turtle" (King Eternal) at church as a mischievous kid.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (d9Cw3)

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Hmm. Sounds fine to me.

Posted by: Sadly The Cross-Eyed Bear at August 24, 2022 10:35 PM (XG2Fi)

219 Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (Amo

Herbert is when you know they are not from South LA.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 10:35 PM (zB5jo)

220 213 I think the universal epitome is Worcestershire.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 24, 2022 10:34 PM (h8nSa)

Probably.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:35 PM (7FozI)

221 I used to work with a Hungarian lady who would say brain sergeant.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:35 PM (DgWEj)

222 It's woo ster shear

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:36 PM (mZ3xv)

223

Norwich, a town in Upstate Newyorkistan, is pronounced "Nor-witch"...

Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 10:36 PM (tzQxk)

224 Juice cider or alcohol cider? For the latter iirc the more bitter varieties are better.... *however* fcking Prohibition apparently caused zillions of the old varieties to be chopped down or just lost to neglect because it was no longer legal to sell the booze. Now there is an ongoing shortage of the desirable types. There are several articles on the intertubes.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (llON

It was for your own good, peons.

Posted by: Progressives at August 24, 2022 10:36 PM (tp+tP)

225 If you had a ripe Red Delicious out of the orchard, you'd be amazed. They pick everything green.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 24, 2022 10:36 PM (9WSy4)

226 Juice cider or alcohol cider? For the latter iirc the more bitter varieties are better.... *however* fcking Prohibition apparently caused zillions of the old varieties to be chopped down or just lost to neglect because it was no longer legal to sell the booze. Now there is an ongoing shortage of the desirable types. There are several articles on the intertubes.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (llON

The son of one of my friends is in the Hard Cider business. He travels all through upstate NY, Penna, and Ohio looking for old abandoned orchards for lost varietals.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 24, 2022 10:36 PM (BgMrQ)

227 >>> 178 Driving through ETEX this evening after past week of rain, could smell smoke from folks seizing chance to burn brushpiles. Smelled like fall, like football, like peanut boils, like Gloria in a fuzzy sweater at the drive-in.
Posted by: Eromero at August 24, 2022 10:29 PM (0OP+5)

This is what I will be doing tomorrow night.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:36 PM (llON8)

228 >And it's "OreGUN", not OreGONE".
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 24, 2022 10:21 PM (sy5kK)

Eh, that's an easy way to tell who's not from this part of the country. My favorite is when a local company hires voice talent for a commercial voiceover for a commercial to play in Oregon who says Ory-gone. That's a real mark of a quality local company who cares.

Likewise the Organ mountains east of Las Cruces, NM. Named for their resemblance to a pipe organ. Yet some people who can read a map and should really know better insist on pronouncing it as the "Oregon mountains."

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 24, 2022 10:37 PM (Bd6X8)

229 210. New Orleans is pronounced a half dozen different ways.
Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (zB5jo)

Hey, remember that hound dog in a couple of Justin Wilson's Cajun yarns? Phideaux.

Posted by: Paco at August 24, 2022 10:37 PM (njExo)

230 These rubes will never find our store if we pronounce it correctly. I know, let's go by MAR-kwiss!

Posted by: Marquis Furniture at August 24, 2022 10:37 PM (ftFVW)

231 Hmm. Sounds fine to me.
Posted by: Sadly The Cross-Eyed Bear at August 24, 2022 10:35 PM (XG2Fi)

Don't I know your sister Gladly?

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:37 PM (tp+tP)

232 New Orleans is pronounced a half dozen different ways.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (zB5jo)

There are probably at least that many distinct accents in the City metro area.
Posted by: Javems

When I lived there, I could tell in about 30 seconds what part of town someone was from, and where they went to school.

Posted by: Confederacy of Miklosian Dunces at August 24, 2022 10:37 PM (LyVHa)

233 This is what I will be doing tomorrow night.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:36 PM (llON

---------

Gloria?

*gulp*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 10:38 PM (XG2Fi)

234 Hiya doof.
The last time I was through Versailles, KY the distilleries weren't open to the riff raff, er ... public.
It may well be worth the trip now.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at August 24, 2022 10:38 PM (NlVMd)

235 I liked Gala apples
honeycrisp is good too
can't eat them anymore

Posted by: DB at August 24, 2022 10:38 PM (geLO8)

236 The problem with the CAC card is if you just say "CAC" no one knows what the hell you are talking about. You need the "card" for context. But "CA card" is three syllables, where "CAC card" is two.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:38 PM (5p7BC)

237 201 Well, if they do, it will probably be sarcastic.
Posted by: Pascal at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (JPCC1)

No, that's missing at least three vowels.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (tp+tP)

Well played! Three under is an albatross. There! Did it again.

Posted by: Pascal at August 24, 2022 10:38 PM (JPCC1)

238 You stole your act from Norm Crosby!!
Posted by: Moonbeam

no no.

I stile it from The Honeymooners. I can even name the episodes.

Some trivia - In The Sopranos, when the Italian guy comes to the US (Furio) and is making mozzarella, he walks in with a chef hat and Paulie Walnuts says "Woah, Chef of the future!"

Well, he was quoting The Honeymooners. The core a apple episode.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 24, 2022 10:38 PM (1mIG+)

239 >>> 226
==
The son of one of my friends is in the Hard Cider business. He travels all through upstate NY, Penna, and Ohio looking for old abandoned orchards for lost varietals.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 24, 2022 10:36 PM (BgMrQ)

That sounds like fun.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:39 PM (llON8)

240 Disagree about the one in Kentucky. The very scenic Woodford Reserve distillery in there, and it is a lovely drive through horse farms to get there.
Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:32 PM (5KWKT)

If my luck holds, I'll get to go out there in 2-3 weeks for the state's (excuse me, commonwealth's) Bourbon Trail. Maybe not to Versailles specifically, but definitely the general area.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:34 PM (tp+tP)

Nice! Lovely areas on the trail! On my journey toward Texas in October, I'll be hitting the Four Roses, Wild Turkey, and Makers Mark distilleries. I've been to Woodford twice and Buffalo Trace (not officially a Bourbon Trail member) 3 times.

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:39 PM (5KWKT)

241 >>Worcester MA pronounced Woostah.

Lake Chaubunagungamaug is not far away.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2022 10:39 PM (ZLI7S)

242 I used to work with a Hungarian lady who would say brain sergeant.
Posted by: Jordan61

And?

Posted by: Merry Magyar Miklos at August 24, 2022 10:39 PM (LyVHa)

243 Running joke on newcomers to Premier League Football (Soccer) if the pronuinciation of:

Leicester City FC

which is of course: Lester, and not Lie-Sester

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 24, 2022 10:39 PM (BgMrQ)

244 I copyrighted 'Confusement' decades ago.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2022 10:18

There is small group of people, but distressingly too large, that in rural IL think orientated is a real word and they are smart for using it. WTeverlovingF?

Posted by: Farmer at August 24, 2022 10:39 PM (55Qr6)

245 What are some of your favorite eppitomes?

----

It's weird because if I'm speaking I pronounce "epitome" correctly, but if I read the word I subvocalize it as eppitome.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at August 24, 2022 10:39 PM (G9ctU)

246 Mine was actually Epitome.. if you have/had several? it's the sign of a "Reader"
Jerry Garcia's 1st instrument? Accordion.

Posted by: birddog at August 24, 2022 10:39 PM (uAI4S)

247 >>> 233 This is what I will be doing tomorrow night.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:36 PM (llON

---------

Gloria?

*gulp*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 10:38 PM (XG2Fi)

Who is Gloria and why do you think I should set her on fire??

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:40 PM (llON8)

248 Duquesne.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:40 PM (7FozI)

249 You can tell the change of season by the quality of light in the morning and the smell of the air. While in New Mexico the difference is stark in that one morning you smell the season change and feel the air and light is changed, it is more gradual in Arkansas as the noticible change occures over a week or so so that one morning you can tell the season change is happening. Thats how I tell the season change.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 24, 2022 10:40 PM (eJn7u)

250 In an Honeymooners episode, Ralph suspects Alice of cheating on him and his suspicions are confirmed when Alice ends a phone call with "Arrivederci." Ralph tells Norton that at least he knows the adulterer's name, Harry Vedurchi.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 24, 2022 10:40 PM (FVME7)

251 >I think the universal epitome is Worcestershire.

WUSS ti shur

?

Posted by: DB at August 24, 2022 10:40 PM (geLO8)

252 It's woo ster shear
Posted by: AlaBAMA
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Or is it woo sta shure?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:40 PM (5p7BC)

253 Myriad is also a noun. (Originally meant one thousand) "A myriad of" is just as correct as "myriad".

If you guys like pronunciation, look up "The Chaos" by Gerald Nolst Trinite and see how far you can get reading it out loud before you screw up.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 24, 2022 10:41 PM (kqdTE)

254 Nice! Lovely areas on the trail! On my journey toward Texas in October, I'll be hitting the Four Roses, Wild Turkey, and Makers Mark distilleries. I've been to Woodford twice and Buffalo Trace (not officially a Bourbon Trail member) 3 times.
Posted by: Doof

I'm guessing the B-52's "Dry County" is not on your road trip playlist.

Or maybe

Posted by: Asst. Automotive DJ Miklos at August 24, 2022 10:41 PM (LyVHa)

255 Relevant to My Interests ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at August 24, 2022 10:41 PM (qAR6u)

256 >>> 248 Duquesne.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:40 PM (7FozI)

doo-KESS-knee?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:41 PM (llON8)

257 My husband used to pronounce it orientated. He was born in Clay City IL. I wonder if his mom pronounced it that was too.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 24, 2022 10:41 PM (9WSy4)

258 Andy Dufresne

Posted by: Warden Norton at August 24, 2022 10:41 PM (XG2Fi)

259 58 Spent way to long thinking khaki was pronounced kahackie.

What's wrong with tan??

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:09 PM (mZ3xv)
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British word borrowed from Urdu, who borrowed it from Persian. Also bungalow, dhobi.

Posted by: Ciampino - words adopted from the Raj at August 24, 2022 10:41 PM (qfLjt)

260
WUSS ti shur

?
Posted by: DB at August 24, 2022 10:40 PM (geLO8

No no no.

Woo ster shear

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:41 PM (mZ3xv)

261 Hiya doof.
The last time I was through Versailles, KY the distilleries weren't open to the riff raff, er ... public.
It may well be worth the trip now.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at August 24, 2022 10:38 PM (NlVMd)

Yeah, the drive to Woodford is lovely. As is the actual distillery. Woodford Double Oaked is among my favorite bourbons.

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:41 PM (5KWKT)

262 Relevant to My Interests ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at August 24, 2022 10:41 PM

https://nitter.net/kbdabear/media

Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 10:42 PM (tzQxk)

263 Duquesne.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Great gramma, who was from the coal regions of PA and should have known better - due QWES knee

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:42 PM (LsEU/)

264 There is small group of people, but distressingly too large, that in rural IL think orientated is a real word and they are smart for using it. WTeverlovingF?
Posted by: Farmer at August 24, 2022 10:39 PM (55Qr6)

Ohhhhh, thank you! I was trying to remember that one...

I hate that usage, and have steered away from people who insist on using it.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 24, 2022 10:42 PM (BgMrQ)

265 Myriad is also a noun. (Originally meant one thousand) "A myriad of" is just as correct as "myriad".

Off by a factor of 10

Posted by: Ancient Greek Homos at August 24, 2022 10:42 PM (LyVHa)

266 LOL! My boss used to refer to a "death nail". Once, I think he even conflated two expressions by mentioning "the last death nail in the coffin".
Posted by: Paco

It took me way to long to figure that one out.
Death knell.

Good stuff, I will remember that one.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 24, 2022 10:42 PM (1mIG+)

267 Andy Dufresne
Posted by: Warden Norton at August 24, 2022 10:41 PM (XG2Fi)

Don't be obtuse

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:42 PM (5KWKT)

268 >The Mall at Fairfield Commons in "beavercreek" ohio pronounced "beaver-crik" hired old boy from Barney Miller to do a read....

Beave-r CREEEEK.....

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:35 PM (Lzpvj)

Hmm, didn't know they said it that way in OH. I thought that was more of a Texas thing. I, an Oregonian, have a tendency to say 'crick', acquired from my Texan grandpa. It does make me stand out here.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 10:42 PM (KOooo)

269 >>> 259 58 Spent way to long thinking khaki was pronounced kahackie.

What's wrong with tan??

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:09 PM (mZ3xv)
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British word borrowed from Urdu, who borrowed it from Persian. Also bungalow, dhobi.
Posted by: Ciampino - words adopted from the Raj at August 24, 2022 10:41 PM (qfLjt)

"Khakis, that's what you staht the kha with." -- Bostonians

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:42 PM (llON8)

270 Used to think awry was pronounced ahh-ree. I still screw it up from time to time.

Posted by: 496 at August 24, 2022 10:42 PM (U1eOr)

271 My father in law comes from the area of Georgia where people drink from crishtal glasses.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 24, 2022 10:42 PM (cOGHc)

272 Who is Gloria and why do you think I should set her on fire??
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:40 PM (llON

And of course, by "set her on fire," you mean....

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:43 PM (tp+tP)

273 Little Nell > Death Knell

Posted by: Dudley Do-Right at August 24, 2022 10:43 PM (XG2Fi)

274 Cider. Had a pressing yesterday Gravensteins and apples from two trees that no one in 30 yrs has been able to type. Tastes pretty good.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 24, 2022 10:43 PM (r1z5A)

275 Only one apple for me: the homely McIntosh

Only one pear for me: the Bartlett

Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered by events at August 24, 2022 10:43 PM (EouuZ)

276 In the southeast, Fall is officially under way when SEC football kicks off.

Not sure why, but I consider people to be a bit highfalutin if they say Autumn instead of Fall.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 24, 2022 10:43 PM (h8nSa)

277 The guy that was supposed to help me out at 3 today just let me know he won't make it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 24, 2022 10:43 PM (9WSy4)

278 Oh, you're right, it was ten thousand. Thanks.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 24, 2022 10:44 PM (kqdTE)

279 Duquesne?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Non, Monsieur, I do not.

Posted by: Inspector Miklos Clouseau at August 24, 2022 10:44 PM (LyVHa)

280 >>> 272 Who is Gloria and why do you think I should set her on fire??
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:40 PM (llON

And of course, by "set her on fire," you mean....
Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:43 PM (tp+tP)

LOL

The ONT will ONT.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:44 PM (llON8)

281 whir sester shire
wait

A1

Posted by: DB at August 24, 2022 10:44 PM (geLO8)

282 Little Nell > Death Knell
Posted by: Dudley Do-Right

Nell seemed to me to be a bit too friendly with Do-Right's horse.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:44 PM (LsEU/)

283 yeah "orientated" fuck those limey assholes....sure they were speaking English when people around here were speaking Cherokee or Shoshone but they forget tat Teddy Roosevelt created "American."

Sorry, forgive me I speak like a caveman.

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:44 PM (Lzpvj)

284 >Duquesne?

du KANE

Posted by: DB at August 24, 2022 10:44 PM (geLO8)

285 Nice! Lovely areas on the trail! On my journey toward Texas in October, I'll be hitting the Four Roses, Wild Turkey, and Makers Mark distilleries. I've been to Woodford twice and Buffalo Trace (not officially a Bourbon Trail member) 3 times.
Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:39 PM (5KWKT)

Interesting. I'll have to file that away for future reference. Thanks!

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:45 PM (tp+tP)

286 What's this here sauce???

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:45 PM (5KWKT)

287 256 >>> 248 Duquesne.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:40 PM (7FozI)

doo-KESS-knee?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:41 PM (llON

Again, as a young pup reading about the French / Indian wars...I used to pronounce it: DOO kess knee

My parents never read to me, so how was I to know different???

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 24, 2022 10:45 PM (BgMrQ)

288 The guy that was supposed to help me out at 3 today just let me know he won't make it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Better nate than lever.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:45 PM (LsEU/)

289 If the plural of “Attorney General” is “Attorneys General, then why isn’t the singular, possessive form “Attorney’s General”?
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton

The possessive can be "of the Attorney General" to avoid that.

Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2022 10:45 PM (P1f+c)

290 @db - I always say "whir stir sure"

Posted by: PabloD at August 24, 2022 10:45 PM (TZVCK)

291 Nevada is pronounced with the way we say “cat” of course the Spanish pronunciation is different. But that is not how it is pronounced in that state.

In NC and SC, you have Beaufort, pronounced differently, same spelling. There are tons of examples around the country. Some think there is one way to pronounce a word. But names are different, names are a free for all.

Posted by: Quint at August 24, 2022 10:45 PM (I1jyF)

292
"Khakis, that's what you staht the kha with." -- Bostonians
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:42 PM (llON

Took me a second then chuckled heartily!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:45 PM (mZ3xv)

293 doof, bring samples to TX.
Dworkin, we pronounced it crick in S IN also.
I hear it fairly often here in Central WA.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at August 24, 2022 10:45 PM (NlVMd)

294 277 Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 24, 2022 10:43 PM (9WSy4)

Cool 6 and 3/4 hours is better than never I guess.

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:45 PM (Lzpvj)

295 Off by a factor of 10

Posted by: Ancient Greek Homos at August 24, 2022 10:42 PM

Ancient Greek Homo theorists agree!

Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 10:45 PM (zIN/y)

296 Not sure why, but I consider people to be a bit highfalutin if they say Autumn instead of Fall.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

"Autumn" has a certain monotonous langour sound.

Posted by: paul-Miklos verlaine at August 24, 2022 10:45 PM (LyVHa)

297 Chinoiserie

heard the word for the first time at 14

took me a few tries to get

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2022 10:46 PM (us2H3)

298 Doo-Cain

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:46 PM (7FozI)

299 Best apple I have ever had is a York apple, very tart and firm. They are one of the ugliest apples I have ever seen. Used to be an orchard nearby where I could pick them but haven't checked to see it they are still in business.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 24, 2022 10:46 PM (hOUT3)

300 26 This ONT seems unusually refined and civilized.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 24, 2022 10:03 PM (yQpMk)

Appearances can be deceiving.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 24, 2022 10:46 PM (sy5kK)

301 Anyone know how chimera is pronounced?

Posted by: 496 at August 24, 2022 10:46 PM (U1eOr)

302 WORDS YOU’VE READ BUT DON’T KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE

I was around 25 years old when I realized that ren-dez-vous and ron-day-voo were not just synonyms.

Posted by: Half Dozen at August 24, 2022 10:47 PM (dJs6r)

303 Boobs

Pronounced

bah zonk ahs

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:47 PM (mZ3xv)

304 For years, I was convinced that "comradery" and "cameraderie" were different words, with the latter being pronounced "camera-derry".

In my defense, these were the years from like 5 to 8.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 24, 2022 10:47 PM (kqdTE)

305 >Anyone know how chimera is pronounced?

Posted by: 496

yes

Posted by: DB at August 24, 2022 10:47 PM (geLO8)

306 In Oxford, Magdalen College (Mawdlin) is on Magdalen street (Mag da lin).

Not to be confused with Magdalene.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 24, 2022 10:47 PM (1mIG+)

307 >>> 277 The guy that was supposed to help me out at 3 today just let me know he won't make it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 24, 2022 10:43 PM (9WSy4)

Only what, 5 hours late?? That sucks.

There are some sites where you can hire "two dudes for three hours" for moving help; the UHaul version claims its sources are background checked iirc and I'm sure there are others.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:47 PM (llON8)

308 Boobs

Pronounced

bah zonk ahs
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Oh boy, here we go.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:47 PM (LsEU/)

309 Little Nell > Death Knell
Posted by: Dudley Do-Right

Nell seemed to me to be a bit too friendly with Do-Right's horse.
Posted by: Tonypete

I was just looking for Meat Loaf.

Posted by: Little Nell at August 24, 2022 10:47 PM (ftFVW)

310 cavalry and Calvary

Posted by: DB at August 24, 2022 10:48 PM (geLO8)

311 My wife lived in Nevada for awhile. She still corrects my pronunciation.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:48 PM (5p7BC)

312 My dad said "crick, feesh, and warsh". He was from southern Ohio, my grandfather had a big farm on the banks of the Ohio river. I blame the Kentucky influence.

Posted by: megthered at August 24, 2022 10:48 PM (kELVK)

313 whurdster is what an old auctioneer called it

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2022 10:48 PM (us2H3)

314 285 Doof, I want to do the Bourbon trail some day. I want to do a Scotch tour as well. I doubt anyone got fired up about a vodka trail.

Posted by: Quint at August 24, 2022 10:48 PM (I1jyF)

315 For all intensive purposes.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 10:48 PM (KOooo)

316 301 Anyone know how chimera is pronounced?
Posted by: 496 at August 24, 2022 10:46 PM (U1eOr)

K aye mere uh

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:48 PM (mZ3xv)

317 Gilbert Perrault

Gilbert (hard G) Per Alt.

***face palm***

Somebody should have put me down for being a moron (small "m")

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 24, 2022 10:48 PM (BgMrQ)

318 301 Anyone know how chimera is pronounced?

My inner voice reads it as kie-MARE-uh.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 24, 2022 10:48 PM (h8nSa)

319 @305 - thanks - I'm good now!

Posted by: 496 at August 24, 2022 10:49 PM (U1eOr)

320 yeah "orientated" fuck those limey assholes....sure they were speaking English when people around here were speaking Cherokee or Shoshone but they forget tat Teddy Roosevelt created "American."

Sorry, forgive me I speak like a caveman.
Posted by: sven

Don't get me started on "competency" vs. American "competence".

Posted by: Miklos, thoroughly vetted in Anglicisms at August 24, 2022 10:49 PM (LyVHa)

321 316 301 Anyone know how chimera is pronounced?
Posted by: 496 at August 24, 2022 10:46 PM (U1eOr)

K aye mere uh
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:48 PM (mZ3xv)

kim er ah

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 24, 2022 10:49 PM (BgMrQ)

322 I completely forgot to include one of my all time favorite eppitomes, which I now intentionally mispronounce just for fun: "HAR-Bing--ur" (harbinger).

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at August 24, 2022 10:49 PM (d9Cw3)

323 Death Nail is an awesome eggcorn that I had not heard before. I love eggcorns. They are not just mispronunciations but also have to make sense some sense to the correct word or phrase.

Thus the name eggcorn . Acorn = eggcorn

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 10:49 PM (zB5jo)

324 Can someone explain to be how the British can look at the spelling lieutenant and come up with LEFTenant?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:49 PM (5p7BC)

325 doof, bring samples to TX.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at August 24, 2022 10:45 PM (NlVMd)

Count on it!!

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:49 PM (5KWKT)

326 Oh boy, here we go.
Posted by: Tonypete

Looking forward to being educated AND entertained.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 24, 2022 10:49 PM (r1z5A)

327 >>> 302 WORDS YOU’VE READ BUT DON’T KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE

I was around 25 years old when I realized that ren-dez-vous and ron-day-voo were not just synonyms.
Posted by: Half Dozen at August 24, 2022 10:47 PM (dJs6r)

Rendezvous
is what the Morons do
in Colorado

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:49 PM (llON8)

328 Siobhan. In BBC TV productions, I never could connect the name spelled that way in the credits to the character.

Shiv+awn. Also Shevaun, Shavon, and Chevonne

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2022 10:50 PM (4I/2K)

329 Worcestershire sauce comes from the city of Worcester in the UK which is where Worcester, MA got its name.

It's Wusster or if you are from MA Wusstah.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2022 10:50 PM (ZLI7S)

330 Boobs can also be pronounced as

Swet er puh pees

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:50 PM (mZ3xv)

331 Ha. For years Buck I would pronounce that Har Bringer.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:50 PM (5p7BC)

332 324 Can someone explain to be how the British can look at the spelling lieutenant and come up with LEFTenant?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:49 PM (5p7BC)

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*ahem*

Posted by: Aluminum at August 24, 2022 10:50 PM (XG2Fi)

333 There are some sites where you can hire "two dudes for three hours" for moving help; the UHaul version claims its sources are background checked iirc and I'm sure there are others.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

I used that service in a move from GA to VA. UHaul had a team for me at the beginning and end of the trip!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 24, 2022 10:51 PM (hOUT3)

334 My dad said "crick, feesh, and warsh". He was from southern Ohio, my grandfather had a big farm on the banks of the Ohio river. I blame the Kentucky influence.
Posted by: megthered

Ironton area? (college roomie was from there)

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:51 PM (LsEU/)

335 How do you folks pronounce "aunt"? Where I come from, we always said it to sound like "ant". We always figured that "ahnt" was jes' puttin' on airs.

Posted by: Paco at August 24, 2022 10:51 PM (njExo)

336 What are some of your favorite eppitomes?

ogive. OH-jive or OH-gihve?

pedophile: PEHD-oh-phile or PEED-oh-file?

(If PEHD-oh-file, explain why pediatrics is PEED-ee-atrix)

Joe Biden: ID-ee-ot or Eks-TREEM ID-ee-ot?

Posted by: Gref at August 24, 2022 10:51 PM (AMIL/)

337 208 I probably wasn't the only boy singing "Lead On O Kinky Turtle" (King Eternal) at church as a mischievous kid.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (d9Cw3)

And don't forget Gladly, the Cross-eyed Bear.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 24, 2022 10:51 PM (r46W7)

338 Doof, I want to do the Bourbon trail some day. I want to do a Scotch tour as well. I doubt anyone got fired up about a vodka trail.
Posted by: Quint at August 24, 2022 10:48 PM (I1jyF)

Let me know if you want a traveling buddy for the bourbon trail. You'll need more than one day!

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:52 PM (5KWKT)

339 Lima OH - LIE ma
In Ohio alone there are multiple dozens of these.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:15 PM (LsEU/)

Yep, we pronounce it like the bean even though Lima was named for the city in Peru.

Posted by: AF at August 24, 2022 10:52 PM (S8ePJ)

340 What are some of your favorite eppitomes?
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton

I know how to pronounce all the words that end in -acle. Tabernacle, manacle, spectacle.....

What a debacle that was.

Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2022 10:52 PM (P1f+c)

341 Jack, Jack, Jack...

WOO stah. There is no "uh" it is "OOO"

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:52 PM (5p7BC)

342 This is neat end to a bad day.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:52 PM (7FozI)

343 The mother of my best friend when I was growing up called her sofa a Davenport. That's the only time I've ever heard that. Where does that originate from?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 10:52 PM (KOooo)

344 324 Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:49 PM (5p7BC)

It is literally quite literally "this guy walks to the left of the CO....

the British were probably the most literal folks on Earth...

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:53 PM (Lzpvj)

345 pedophile: PEHD-oh-phile or PEED-oh-file?

Posted by: Gref at August 24, 2022 10:51 PM (AMIL/)

I thought the latter was how the Brits pronounce it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:53 PM (DgWEj)

346 99 In Ohio alone there are multiple dozens of these.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:15 PM (LsEU/)
---
MO has a few...VIE-enna (Vienna) and LEB-non (Lebanon) are two that are close by to me.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 24, 2022 10:16 PM (K5n5d)
----
Illinois here: I think our Vienna is more like Vie-ana.
Cairo is ke-hee-row.

Posted by: Ciampino - words at August 24, 2022 10:53 PM (qfLjt)

347 English is a great language but I've heard one of the harder to become fluent.

Maybe because of possible sentences like this.

I have reservations about the reservations I made for our visit to the reservation.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 10:53 PM (zB5jo)

348 I know how to pronounce all the words that end in -acle. Tabernacle, manacle, spectacle.....

What a debacle that was.
Posted by: mikeski

Well done, Lad.

Posted by: Miklos, adjusting monocle at August 24, 2022 10:53 PM (LyVHa)

349 How do you folks pronounce "aunt"? Where I come from, we always said it to sound like "ant". We always figured that "ahnt" was jes' puttin' on airs.
Posted by: Paco

It rhymes with haunt in Minnesota, so I guess we're airy.

Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2022 10:53 PM (P1f+c)

350 Is woo ster.

The only debatable part is shy er or shear.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:53 PM (mZ3xv)

351 343 The mother of my best friend when I was growing up called her sofa a Davenport. That's the only time I've ever heard that. Where does that originate from?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 10:52 PM (KOooo)

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Chesterfield, MA

Posted by: Aluminum at August 24, 2022 10:53 PM (XG2Fi)

352 343 The mother of my best friend when I was growing up called her sofa a Davenport. That's the only time I've ever heard that. Where does that originate from?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 10:52 PM (KOooo)

my parent from the midwest said that. What's really weird is that I think Canadians call it a Chesterfield.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 24, 2022 10:53 PM (r46W7)

353 343 The mother of my best friend when I was growing up called her sofa a Davenport. That's the only time I've ever heard that. Where does that originate from?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 10:52 PM (KOooo)

...I used to know that. Now that information is lost to the sands of time.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 24, 2022 10:53 PM (BgMrQ)

354 >>WOO stah. There is no "uh" it is "OOO"

My family literally lived right around the corner from Worcester for 20 year, Florida Man.

I'm pretty sure I got this one.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2022 10:54 PM (ZLI7S)

355 as a kid, I leaned a lot of words from people in London

took me a while before I knew what people here were calling patina

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2022 10:54 PM (us2H3)

356 I love honeycrisps. Husband works for the Department of Agriculture and when the farmers come in for meetings they bring boxes of honeycrisps and Rainier cherries. It's awesome.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:22 PM (DgWEj)

YUM!

Rainier cherries are amazing.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 24, 2022 10:54 PM (sy5kK)

357 The mother of my best friend when I was growing up called her sofa a Davenport. That's the only time I've ever heard that. Where does that originate from?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen

I believe there was a manufacturer in Davenport Iowa.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:54 PM (LsEU/)

358 Fall is anglo
Autumn is Latin

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 24, 2022 10:54 PM (gi0xn)

359 Can someone explain to be how the British can look at the spelling lieutenant and come up with LEFTenant?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:49 PM (5p7BC)

Ummm...

Posted by: Colonel at August 24, 2022 10:54 PM (5KWKT)

360 May I get a paranoia check from the Horde, please?

I have been attending baseball games at a major league park from before the times when fans had to have their bags searched and pass through a metal detector. (I wonder if the searches and metal detectors prevent shooting incidents or merely prevent an effective response to an incident.) This season, some new protocols are being implemented. (1) Electronic tickets only -- all fans over 18 must present their own electronic ticket on their own cell phone. (2) All concessions are card only -- no more cash transactions. (3) Remove caps when passing through security, I assume so faces aren't blocked from facial recognition cameras.

This strikes me as similar to the Communist China panopticon state. The only thing missing is people being denied entry or the use of their cards inside the park if they don't meet certain social credit criteria. To me, the most likely reason for these changes is to make it possible to monitor people's whereabouts and spending and potentially restrict activities or link their locations to frame people for any mischief that goes on in the area.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 10:54 PM (6RgRK)

361 I think the Brits say that Americans overemphasize the "-shire" at the end of many words.

But it makes me wonder where the Hobbits lived when the Brits read LOTR.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 24, 2022 10:54 PM (h8nSa)

362 It is literally quite literally "this guy walks to the left of the CO....

the British were probably the most literal folks on Earth...
Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:53 PM (Lzpvj)

They also call Japanese women 'behindmees'.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:54 PM (mZ3xv)

363 Turks call it a Divan.

Posted by: Aluminum at August 24, 2022 10:54 PM (XG2Fi)

364 I have reservations about the reservations I made for our visit to the reservation.
Posted by: polynikes

Try the Tribal Elders' Reserve (no tax).

Posted by: Miklos, part Lumbee at August 24, 2022 10:54 PM (LyVHa)

365 343 Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 10:52 PM (KOooo)

for the same reason my great great grandpa would have called coffee "Arbuckle's"

The best selling sofa in the country was made by the AH Davenport and Company

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 10:55 PM (Lzpvj)

366 I grew up in Massachusetts.
It's Woosta.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 24, 2022 10:55 PM (QGSb8)

367 The mother of my best friend when I was growing up called her sofa a Davenport. That's the only time I've ever heard that. Where does that originate from?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 10:52 PM (KOooo)

Iowa?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2022 10:55 PM (4I/2K)

368 @335 - I'm that way with pecan. Pick-ahn sounds too formal, and pee-can sounds a tad silly

Posted by: 496 at August 24, 2022 10:55 PM (U1eOr)

369 We used to pronounce Duke of Gloucester street in Williamsburg, Glowe Chester street. I was a yute then. That is the one I recall that showed me the letters don’t always give you the pronunciation.

Posted by: Quint at August 24, 2022 10:55 PM (Zl5Vb)

370 Chester Drawers is probably one of the eggcorns that is most used.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 10:55 PM (zB5jo)

371 Cadieux is a major street in Detroit. Locals call it Cadju, everyone else tries Cadux.

Posted by: Lirio100 at August 24, 2022 10:55 PM (r0RRi)

372 128 I had forgotten how annoying laugh tracks are.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

But oh so appropriate for every white house briefing under the current management.
Posted by: Some Rat at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (r1z5A)

So true, Rat, so true.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 24, 2022 10:55 PM (sy5kK)

373 Hassock.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 10:55 PM (7FozI)

374 The mother of my best friend when I was growing up called her sofa a Davenport. That's the only time I've ever heard that. Where does that originate from?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it!

Divan?

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 24, 2022 10:55 PM (ftFVW)

375 >>I grew up in Massachusetts.
It's Woosta.

So did I. It is not.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2022 10:56 PM (ZLI7S)

376 360Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 10:54 PM (6RgRK)

Am I nuts? I am considering not attending events at this ballpark anymore, although this is a traditional family activity and others would not understand if I demurred

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 10:56 PM (6RgRK)

377 Jack, lived there. I heard that place pronounced many a time.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:56 PM (5p7BC)

378 Turks call it a Divan.
Posted by: Aluminum

The French call it The English Disease

And take English Leave without a word to anybody

Posted by: Le Mikleuse, mes cheres amis at August 24, 2022 10:56 PM (LyVHa)

379 310 cavalry and Calvary

Posted by: DB at August 24, 2022 10:48 PM (geLO

Guys who rode it it call it the calvary.

Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2022 10:56 PM (AmoqO)

380 The Sultan's cabinet was called the Divan and the empire was called Ottoman, suggesting an inappropriate fixation with furniture.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 10:57 PM (XG2Fi)

381 Duvet

As in do vets charge a lot?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:57 PM (mZ3xv)

382 I get my apples and fresh cider at a small orchard just off US 99 E near Salem.

He makes fresh cider using number #1 apples unlike the #2s or those picked off the ground that big apple orchards use.

He has tree left of Northern Spy left and it probably won't make it through the winter.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 24, 2022 10:57 PM (YcysM)

383 Am I nuts? I am considering not attending events at this ballpark anymore, although this is a traditional family activity and others would not understand if I demurred
Posted by: Emmie

Welcome to a harbinger of the Great Reset!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 24, 2022 10:58 PM (hOUT3)

384 353 343 The mother of my best friend when I was growing up called her sofa a Davenport. That's the only time I've ever heard that. Where does that originate from?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 10:52 PM (KOooo)

I beieve that was a company trade name

in the trade, when you refer to a davenport, it's usually a small one person lift top desk

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2022 10:58 PM (us2H3)

385 I have reservations about the reservations I made for our visit to the reservation.
Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 10:53 PM (zB5jo)

I worked in a real estate office and proofread something once for a Chinese Realtor. She had written about something being on the premises, but wrote premise. I corrected it, and she said, "but it's only one property! English is so complicated."

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:58 PM (DgWEj)

386 359 Can someone explain to be how the British can look at the spelling lieutenant and come up with LEFTenant?
Posted by: Dave in Fla
-----------------

They go out of their way to screw up/anglicize a Latin word.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 24, 2022 10:58 PM (gi0xn)

387 I think the Brits say that Americans overemphasize the "-shire" at the end of many words.

But it makes me wonder where the Hobbits lived when the Brits read LOTR.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Our ancestral homeland is the only Shire. All those other -shires are pale imitations.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 24, 2022 10:58 PM (ftFVW)

388 My former Japanese boss advised me on a business trip that after we returned to Houston he was going to get on another flight because he had to visit the Indiana Police. Being slow it took me a second and request that he repeat , that I realized he was going to Indianapolis.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 10:58 PM (zB5jo)

389 Another pet peeve --

Kilometer should not be kil-AHM-it-er. It is not a device for measuring Kilos.

It should be KILL-oh-MEET-er.

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:58 PM (5KWKT)

390 Tonight, we fight over steak sauce!

Let the battles begin!!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 10:58 PM (mZ3xv)

391 How do you folks pronounce "aunt"? Where I come from, we always said it to sound like "ant". We always figured that "ahnt" was jes' puttin' on airs.
Posted by: Paco

Growing up, I only heard two groups pronounce it "ahnt": New Englanders and black people. And that was on TV; I couldn't believe anybody said that in real life. Still can't, now that I think of it.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 10:59 PM (tp+tP)

392 Am I nuts? I am considering not attending events at this ballpark anymore, although this is a traditional family activity and others would not understand if I demurred
Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 10:56 PM (6RgRK)

I'm not attending any more live games where that rule is in place.

Kinda like having to install ArriveCan on your phone if you want to enter Canada (in addition to being jabbed of course). NEVER EVER GOING BACK...

#fuckem

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 24, 2022 10:59 PM (BgMrQ)

393 Am I nuts? I am considering not attending events at this ballpark anymore, although this is a traditional family activity and others would not understand if I demurred
Posted by: Emmie

No.

I've changed the events I will attend and locales I use to frequent based on changes I observed over the past few years at those places. What normal folks used to think was paranoid behavior is now good OPSEC.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 10:59 PM (LsEU/)

394 152 Rainier cherries.

Speaking of which, how exactly is that pronounced?

ra-NEAR?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 24, 2022 10:25 PM (h8nSa)

Ray-NEAR

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, born and raised in the view of the mountain, and drinker of a lot of that beer at August 24, 2022 10:59 PM (sy5kK)

395 Thanks for puttin' me some knowledge. Interesting.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 10:59 PM (KOooo)

396 369 in Texas it is puhcahn. Any variation is treated with disdain. I say peecun sometimes just to be mischievious.

Posted by: Quint at August 24, 2022 10:59 PM (TkZEK)

397 America and Britain are two great nations separated by a common tongue.

-- Winston Churchill

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 10:59 PM (XG2Fi)

398 Another pet peeve --

Kilometer should not be kil-AHM-it-er. It is not a device for measuring Kilos.

It should be KILL-oh-MEET-er.
Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:58 PM (5KWKT)

You misspelled MILES.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2022 10:59 PM (4I/2K)

399 Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 10:56 PM (6RgRK)

I'm sure the first two are under the guise of being "touchless" AKA no covid cooties.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 11:00 PM (DgWEj)

400 You misspelled MILES.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2022 10:59 PM (4I/2K)

Thread Winner!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 24, 2022 11:00 PM (hOUT3)

401 Hmm, now that I think of it, half my Oregon family calls them ray-near and the other half ra-near.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:00 PM (5p7BC)

402 But it makes me wonder where the Hobbits lived when the Brits read LOTR.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Our ancestral homeland is the only Shire. All those other -shires are pale imitations.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 24, 2022 10:58 PM (ftFVW)

I read somewhere that the Shire was supposed to be based on either Warwickshire or Staffordshire, or the West Midlands generally (Tolkien was a big fan of ancient Mercia, it seems).

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 11:01 PM (tp+tP)

403 397 America and Britain are two great nations separated by a common tongue.

-- Winston Churchill
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 10:59 PM (XG2Fi

Out of spite, I think.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 11:01 PM (mZ3xv)

404 Had a college English teacher pronounce "awry" as "uh-REE".

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 24, 2022 11:01 PM (RFKzk)

405 345 pedophile: PEHD-oh-phile or PEED-oh-file?

Posted by: Gref at August 24, 2022 10:51 PM (AMIL/)

I thought the latter was how the Brits pronounce it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 10:53 PM (DgWEj)

I had a US born and bred doctor correct me once when I said PEHD-oh-phile. It's one of those words whose Latin spelling is paedophile but the typical modern English spelling is pedophile. For example, Caesar is pronounced SEE-zar. And with this bit of useless trivia, I'm out for tonight. Sweet dreams, everyone.

Posted by: Gref at August 24, 2022 11:01 PM (AMIL/)

406 You misspelled MILES.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2022 10:59 PM (4I/2K)

Damn, beat me to it.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 11:02 PM (tp+tP)

407 Long time user of Adobe CS6, recently subscribed to the Photography Bundle.

Well, I can tell you what, I don't like how the Adobe Idiots (c) have moved the simplest actions to weird sub-menus and other hidden options.

Yes, this is a nothing post.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 24, 2022 11:02 PM (m0zqP)

408 >I get my apples and fresh cider at a small orchard just off US 99 E near Salem.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 24, 2022 10:57 PM (YcysM)

What's the name, if you don't mind me asking?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 11:02 PM (KOooo)

409 What are some of your favorite eppitomes?

Considering I am quite the grammar nazi, and was quite the straight-A nerd in school, my family never lets me forget when, as an early teenager, I mispronounced the description of the scene on my brother's Batman movie collectible cards.

I read "Rooftop Rendezvous" as "Rooftop REN-dez-vez".

For years after that time, whenever I would correct someone on something, within seconds one of my brothers would yell "REN-Dez-Vez!" and all I could do was reply with a humbled snarl... "yeah, yeah... shutup..."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 24, 2022 11:02 PM (Do5/p)

410 Puh-cahn.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 11:02 PM (7FozI)

411 Yeah, I don't say kil AH gram or cen TIM eter. Don't see why I should say kil AHM eter.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 24, 2022 11:02 PM (kqdTE)

412 What are people in the Big Blue Shitholes doing for food exactly?

So they don't eat out anymore. They think bbq is bad for da Erf. And if a woman learns to cook she is committing a sin.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 24, 2022 11:02 PM (ESjRY)

413 Runners will think of distance in kilometers (we run 5Ks and 10Ks). But we measure pace in minutes per mile.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:02 PM (5p7BC)

414 anks for puttin' me some knowledge. Interesting.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen -

It's the ONT

Always Puttin' on the Ritz of Knowledge

Posted by: Cafe Miklos is open for Dining and Dancing Pleausure(s) at August 24, 2022 11:02 PM (LyVHa)

415 Peed ee atric nurse.

Peed o phile.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 11:02 PM (mZ3xv)

416 Hmmm. So far, nobody has called me nuts regarding my question.

Thanks for the feedback, my friends.

I hate to bring this up with my husband. We have enjoyed many games together. Our new home state has a double or triple A team and the park entry rules sound much more sane.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:03 PM (6RgRK)

417 Obama pronounces Orion as Or -RE--on .

In front of a group of Astro physicists.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 11:03 PM (zB5jo)

418 I used read and say facsimiles as "fasmiles". This was a common word in stamp collecting. But when people said the common phrase on TV, "...or a reasonable facsimile thereof", I never connected the two. I figured it out in college, I think.

Posted by: t-bird at August 24, 2022 11:03 PM (Jg92y)

419 You misspelled MILES.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2022 10:59 PM (4I/2K)

too-SHAY

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 11:03 PM (5KWKT)

420 389 Another pet peeve --

Kilometer should not be kil-AHM-it-er. It is not a device for measuring Kilos.

It should be KILL-oh-MEET-er.

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:58 PM (5KWKT)

The military did a smart thing for once and simply made it KLIX.

Posted by: Gref at August 24, 2022 11:04 PM (AMIL/)

421 Puh-cahn.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

How would Brits say Grits?

Posted by: Miklos will not consider this for long at August 24, 2022 11:04 PM (LyVHa)

422 I think an ONT one night had a link to an article in Atlas Obscura about a guy named Tom Brown who rescued 1000 lost varieties of Appalachian apples.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 24, 2022 11:04 PM (a4EWo)

423 181 Real men eat Winesap apples.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (7bRMQ)

When I was a kid, there were Delicious, Winesaps, and those crabapples that everyone with property had a tree that grew them.

Now, dozens of wonderful varieties.

Winesaps aren't usually in stores very often, but yeah, make the best pie and cobbler. Baking apples. Granny Smiths are a substitute, but definitely not as good.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, born and raised in the view of the mountain, and drinker of a lot of that beer at August 24, 2022 11:04 PM (sy5kK)

424 417 Obama pronounces Orion as Or -RE--on .

In front of a group of Astro physicists.
Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 11:03 PM (zB5jo)

Obama

Pronounced

Bear E

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 11:04 PM (mZ3xv)

425 Am I nuts? I am considering not attending events at this ballpark anymore, although this is a traditional family activity and others would not understand if I demurred
Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 10:56 PM (6RgRK)

No, you're not. F*ck that "cashless concessions" nonsense.

Can I ask which MLB stadium is pulling this?

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 11:04 PM (tp+tP)

426 Posted by: Colonel

I always thought explaining that word to a native Japanese speaker, or anyone else with that R/L confusion, would be a hoot.

Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2022 11:05 PM (P1f+c)

427 How would Brits say Grits?
Posted by: Miklos will not consider this for long at August 24, 2022 11:04 PM (L

Would those be instant grits, or regular???

Posted by: Vincent Gambini at August 24, 2022 11:05 PM (BgMrQ)

428 375 Jackstraw

Eh. I suppose it depends on where in MA one came from. For my part, yeah, it was Woosta or maybe Worsta...whatever...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 24, 2022 11:05 PM (QGSb8)

429 Yeah, I don't say kil AH gram or cen TIM eter. Don't see why I should say kil AHM eter.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 24, 2022 11:02 PM (kqdTE)

Fistbump

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 11:05 PM (5KWKT)

430 >What are people in the Big Blue Shitholes doing for food exactly?

So they don't eat out anymore. They think bbq is bad for da Erf. And if a woman learns to cook she is committing a sin.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 24, 2022 11:02 PM (ESjRY)

GrubHub, Postmates, Uber Eats, etc

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 11:05 PM (KOooo)

431 Blue shitholes have a lot of vegan restaurants.

I've eaten in one, fastest way to lose weight, because I'd rather starve than eat that crap.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:05 PM (5p7BC)

432 My husband used to pronounce it orientated. He was born in Clay City IL. I wonder if his mom pronounced it that was too.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 24, 2022 10:41

Wonder if that's an IL thing.

My brother has been saying "it's a mute point" for yrs, drives me nuts. Should I tell him it's "moot" after all this time.

That reminds me, Grandma B. always called my guppies guffies. Tho that isn't as bad as her saying my aunt and uncle bought a Vulva.

Posted by: Farmer at August 24, 2022 11:05 PM (55Qr6)

433 185 Jordan, We have an Athol in Mathathuthetts too!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (a4EWo)

John Kerry?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, born and raised in the view of the mountain, and drinker of a lot of that beer at August 24, 2022 11:05 PM (sy5kK)

434 When I lived in NYC I took a lot of ribbing from my friends about some of my pronunciations. I'm sure it also cost me a few jobs or follow up interviews also.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 11:06 PM (zB5jo)

435 Kinda like having to install ArriveCan on your phone if you want to enter Canada (in addition to being jabbed of course). NEVER EVER GOING BACK...

#fuckem

Forget Ukraine, I'd like to see us spending billions funding regime change in Canuckistan

Posted by: 18-1 at August 24, 2022 11:06 PM (ESjRY)

436 Had a college English teacher pronounce "awry" as "uh-REE".
Posted by: No One of Consequence

*alert FBI SWAT Team*

Posted by: Dr. Jill at August 24, 2022 11:06 PM (LyVHa)

437 Strike that last also.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 11:06 PM (zB5jo)

438 >Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 11:03 PM (zB5jo)

Corpseman

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 11:06 PM (KOooo)

439 Good evening!
Now, do Norfolk.

Posted by: gourmand du jour back in the fog at August 24, 2022 11:06 PM (jTmQV)

440 Nah folk

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 11:07 PM (mZ3xv)

441 Gree-its.

As in kiss mine!

Posted by: Flo, Mel's Diner at August 24, 2022 11:07 PM (4I/2K)

442 439 Good evening!
Now, do Norfolk.
Posted by: gourmand du jour back in the fog at August 24, 2022 11:06 PM (jTmQV)

Norfk

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 24, 2022 11:07 PM (BgMrQ)

443 133
I have 3 main ones:
1 - "irregardless" is NOT a word. That is a hill to die on for me!
2 - Redundant words after abbreviations. ATM machine, PIN number, etc.
3 - "I could care less" makes no sense. It's COULDN'T care less.

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (5KWKT)
----
Those 3 are also on my A-list.
Using went instead of gone: 'he should have went south.'
'He lit the grass on fire' instead of 'he set the grass on fire'.

Posted by: Ciampino - A-list means I must correct at August 24, 2022 11:07 PM (qfLjt)

444 How would Brits say Grits?

Posted by: Miklos will not consider this for long at August 24, 2022 11:04 PM (LyVHa)

Polenta?

Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2022 11:07 PM (AmoqO)

445 378 we can always rely on the English and French to insult each other. They is also French Leave, and a woman having her “English”.

Posted by: Quint at August 24, 2022 11:07 PM (xLeFU)

446 And if a woman learns to cook she is committing a sin.
Posted by: 18-1

O trespass sweetly baked! Give me my sin again.

Posted by: She Hobbit at the oven door at August 24, 2022 11:07 PM (ftFVW)

447 I'm sure the first two are under the guise of being "touchless" AKA no covid cooties.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 11:00 PM (DgWEj)

Yes, a lot of things were done under the guise of Covid safety. I still don't think I was successful in removing a Covid tracker from my phone that my employer asked everyone to download. We were supposed to check in every time we stepped on campus to show we were paying attention to any symptoms that indicated we should stay home.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:07 PM (6RgRK)

448 Valdez, Alaska.

Pronounced "Val-DEEZ".

Chicken, Alaska.

Pronounced "Ptarmigan" (not really, but that was supposed to be the name. When the locals were filling out the form to get a post office, they could not agree on how "ptarmigan" was spelled, so they went with "Chicken").

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 24, 2022 11:08 PM (bW8dp)

449 We have an Athol in Mathathuthetts too!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (a4EWo)

John Kerry?
------
You owe me a new keyboard.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:08 PM (5p7BC)

450 444 Haggis or Marmite

Posted by: Quint at August 24, 2022 11:08 PM (xLeFU)

451 GrubHub, Postmates, Uber Eats, etc

I did Uber Eats once. Paid twice as much for the food as if I'd gone to get it myself. How can anyone afford to do that regularly?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 24, 2022 11:08 PM (ESjRY)

452 440 Nah folk
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 11:07 PM (mZ3xv)

--------

I always thought it was Naw-fuck

Cracked me up every time.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 11:08 PM (XG2Fi)

453 Blue shitholes have a lot of vegan restaurants.

I've eaten in one, fastest way to lose weight, because I'd rather starve than eat that crap.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:05 PM (5p7BC)

To this day, and I'm sure I speak for many, I do not understand veganism. Vegetarianism I get, intellectually: I could never do it myself, but I understand how people could have such a soft spot for animals that they couldn't bear to eat them. But why is eating animal products so objectionable? Consuming eggs and milk doesn't kill anything, ffs; the animals are going to produce them either way. And the substitutes will never be as tasty or as healthy as the real thing. I simply don't get it.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 11:08 PM (tp+tP)

454 Good evening!
Now, do Norfolk.
Posted by: gourmand du jour back in the fog at August 24, 2022 11:06 PM (jTmQV)

If you don't pay Trixie, she will neither suck Norfolk

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 11:09 PM (5KWKT)

455 Chicken, Alaska.

Pronounced "Ptarmigan" (not really, but that was supposed to be the name. When the locals were filling out the form to get a post office, they could not agree on how "ptarmigan" was spelled, so they went with "Chicken").

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 24, 2022 11:08 PM (bW8dp)

Really?!?!

LOL...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 24, 2022 11:09 PM (BgMrQ)

456 I always thought it was Naw-fuck

Cracked me up every time.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 11:08 PM (XG2Fi

Sounds right to me. lol

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 24, 2022 11:09 PM (mZ3xv)

457 Corpseman

He also pronounces Michael as 'Michelle'. Weird.

Posted by: t-bird at August 24, 2022 11:09 PM (Jg92y)

458 Massachusetts also has Gay Head.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 24, 2022 11:09 PM (ESjRY)

459 "Supposeably" instead of supposedly.

Argh!

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:09 PM (6RgRK)

460 The student loan cancellation is iNfLATiOn fIGhTinG! you guyz!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2022 11:09 PM (EZebt)

461 Had a college math professor, way back when, pronounce "logon" as "Logan".

In her defense, this was back at the tail end of the punch card days.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 24, 2022 11:10 PM (bW8dp)

462 Now, do Norfolk.

I do that whenever the fleet pulls in rookie.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at August 24, 2022 11:10 PM (ESjRY)

463 443 133 I have 3 main ones:
1 - "irregardless" is NOT a word. That is a hill to die on for me!
2 - Redundant words after abbreviations. ATM machine, PIN number, etc.
3 - "I could care less" makes no sense. It's COULDN'T care less.

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 10:20 PM (5KWKT)
----
Those 3 are also on my A-list.
Using went instead of gone: 'he should have went south.'
'He lit the grass on fire' instead of 'he set the grass on fire'.
Posted by: Ciampino - A-list means I must correct at August 24, 2022 11:07 PM (qfLjt)
----------------------------
Using "itched" instead of "scratched"

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 24, 2022 11:10 PM (RFKzk)

464 I still say me-mees instead of Meems. I've rarely head the word spoken if at all.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 11:10 PM (zB5jo)

465 Tho that isn't as bad as her saying my aunt and uncle bought a Vulva.
Posted by: Farmer

Haven't we all in our own way?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 11:10 PM (LsEU/)

466 He also pronounces Michael as 'Michelle'. Weird.
Posted by: t-bird at August 24, 2022 11:09 PM (Jg92y)

-------

*snort*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 11:10 PM (XG2Fi)

467 Massachusetts also has Gay Head.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 24, 2022 11:09 PM (ESjRY)

Obviously, but we're talking about cities right now.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 11:10 PM (tp+tP)

468 We have an Athol in Mathathuthetts too!

Well wooden eye, wooden eye!

Posted by: Hair lip at August 24, 2022 11:11 PM (h8nSa)

469 > Really?!?!

I'm pretty sure it's documented.

Some people call ptarmigan "stupid chickens", which, when you consider how dumb a regular chicken is, tells you everything you need to know about the brainpower of ptarmigan.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 24, 2022 11:11 PM (bW8dp)

470 Well, I'm not off to bed quite yet.

I was totally embarrassed in 8th Grade History when I said "Antietam crick" and the teacher looked hard at me and simply said, "creek." Where I was born, a smaller town in the same state, South Dakota, the natives called a creek a crick. Damned South Dakota big town snobs!

Posted by: Gref at August 24, 2022 11:11 PM (AMIL/)

471 You pay big bucks to rent a Vulva in L.A. for an hour, or so I've heard.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 11:11 PM (XG2Fi)

472 One I struggled with lately was "hegemony".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 24, 2022 10:04 PM (h8nSa)

That's what you have invested in hedge funds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 24, 2022 11:12 PM (BEZHm)

473 Nah Fuk. According to locals.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 11:12 PM (7FozI)

474 Hey Debbie Doberman: That was me that linked in an ONT the Atlas Obscure story about the guy saving old Appalachian apple varietals. I'm a sucker for apple stories.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at August 24, 2022 11:12 PM (d9Cw3)

475 You pay big bucks to rent a Vulva in L.A. for an hour, or so I've heard.

Meh, once you get them on the couch its free. Especially the newest models.

Posted by: Some Disney Producer at August 24, 2022 11:12 PM (ESjRY)

476 But why is eating animal products so objectionable? Consuming eggs and milk doesn't kill anything, ffs; the animals are going to produce them either way. And the substitutes will never be as tasty or as healthy as the real thing. I simply don't get it.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 11:08 PM (tp+tP)

Human bodies require animal products and are less healthy without them. In the New Morality, everything you do must be a little bit suicidal or else you are not a good person.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:12 PM (6RgRK)

477 Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2022 11:09 PM (EZebt)

This isn't a dig on you, but, I find it hilarious and completely disqualifying that all the normal republicans are out howling at the moon about spending however many billions on this, but completely shilled for sending unlimited amounts of money to Ukraine.

The Stupid Party indeed.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 24, 2022 11:13 PM (YglAn)

478 >I did Uber Eats once. Paid twice as much for the food as if I'd gone to get it myself. How can anyone afford to do that regularly?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 24, 2022 11:08 PM (ESjRY)

Same here. The driver took forever and was surly AF trying to find me in the hotel designated spot. Never again.

Millennials like their "convenient" num-nums, regardless of cost. I'm glad I can live small to pay for their college loan payment they can't make because they spent their entire paycheck on GrubHub and Starbucks.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 11:13 PM (KOooo)

479 One I struggled with lately was "hegemony".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 24, 2022 10:04 PM (h8nSa)

Money grows on trees, not hedges.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2022 11:13 PM (4I/2K)

480 Pronounced "Ptarmigan" (not really, but that was supposed to be the name. When the locals were filling out the form to get a post office, they could not agree on how "ptarmigan" was spelled, so they went with "Chicken").

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 24, 2022 11:08 PM (bW8dp)

Are those the little white birds I see on the Alaska TV shows. If so the P must be silent.

Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2022 11:13 PM (AmoqO)

481 >> It should be KILL-oh-MEET-er.

The governing metrology standards bodies agree with you. The prefixes should be distinct and maintain their identity and not alter the pronunciation of the base unit they modify.

But as with all language, this is a losing battle as the kuh-LA-meter has stuck with a lot of people.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 24, 2022 11:13 PM (Mzdiz)

482 I did Uber Eats once. Paid twice as much for the food as if I'd gone to get it myself. How can anyone afford to do that regularly?
Posted by: 18-1

My 13 yo granddaughter was delivered a Starbucks treat that way once at her middle school.

Unscrewing the mind of that spoiled princess will be a lifelong undertaking.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 11:13 PM (LsEU/)

483 Yeah, I always heard it pronounced Nah Fuk too.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:13 PM (5p7BC)

484 You pay big bucks to rent a Vulva in L.A. for an hour, or so I've heard.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 11:11 PM

They're becoming increasingly rare amongst the prostitutes in those provinces these days...

Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 11:14 PM (uFcrg)

485 Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:12 PM (6RgRK)

You are correct.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 24, 2022 11:14 PM (YglAn)

486 >>> 447 I'm sure the first two are under the guise of being "touchless" AKA no covid cooties.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 11:00 PM (DgWEj)

Yes, a lot of things were done under the guise of Covid safety. I still don't think I was successful in removing a Covid tracker from my phone that my employer asked everyone to download. We were supposed to check in every time we stepped on campus to show we were paying attention to any symptoms that indicated we should stay home.
Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:07 PM (6RgRK)

I would have replaced it with a different model phone (and in fact now have a cheapo flip phone for a local number).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 11:14 PM (llON8)

487 "Supposeably" instead of supposedly.

Argh!

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:09 PM

I don't get it.

https://bit.ly/3ANGOON

Posted by: Joey Tribbiani at August 24, 2022 11:14 PM (Do5/p)

488
Some people call ptarmigan "stupid chickens", which, when you consider how dumb a regular chicken is, tells you everything you need to know about the brainpower of ptarmigan.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 24, 2022 11:11 PM (bW8dp)

First time I ran into the word/bird "ptarmigan" was reading Ernest Thompson Seton's "Wild Animals I Have Known", way back when...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 24, 2022 11:14 PM (BgMrQ)

489 In the New Morality, everything you do must be a little bit suicidal or else you are not a good person.
Posted by: Emmie

That sums it up so perfectly! Deep.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 24, 2022 11:14 PM (ftFVW)

490 >Massachusetts also has Gay Head.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 24, 2022 11:09 PM (ESjRY)

I'm sure it does.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 11:14 PM (KOooo)

491 449 We have an Athol in Mathathuthetts too!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (a4EWo)

Supposedly that's my ancestral lands, would explain a lot.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 24, 2022 11:14 PM (vuisn)

492 477 Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 24, 2022 11:13 PM (YglAn)

Fuck it, let's make the new note the Quint our Quintillion dollar bill.

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 11:14 PM (Lzpvj)

493 Using went instead of gone: 'he should have went south.'
'He lit the grass on fire' instead of 'he set the grass on fire'.
Posted by: Ciampino

Borrow me your dictionary and I'll try to figure those out.

Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2022 11:14 PM (P1f+c)

494 Hegemony is what you pay Manuel for the weekly mow-n-blow

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 11:14 PM (XG2Fi)

495 Until a couple years ago I thought cicada was pronounced kikadaws.

Posted by: yep at August 24, 2022 11:14 PM (mw3mG)

496 185 Jordan, We have an Athol in Mathathuthetts too!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 24, 2022 10:30 PM (a4EWo)

Also one in South Dakota. A town, that is.

Posted by: Gref at August 24, 2022 11:15 PM (AMIL/)

497 South Dakota doesn't have towns. They have encampments. Like Sue Falls.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 11:15 PM (7FozI)

498 147
La Jolla, CA...

This explains why I was never able to find "Lahoya" on a map...

Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 10:23 PM (Lj2Cc)
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In spite of my fluency in Italian I don't do Spanish. My BiL's wife is named Gilda and I didn't know it was pronounced Hilda.

Posted by: Ciampino - My Spanish is from cartoons at August 24, 2022 11:15 PM (qfLjt)

499 Kiev. Key+ev. Like the famous ptarmigan dish.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2022 11:15 PM (4I/2K)

500 Another Massachusetts thing -- towns that end with "mouth" are pronounced as though they end with "myth".

Plymouth (PLIM-myth). Falmouth (FOUL-myth).

Posted by: Doof at August 24, 2022 11:15 PM (5KWKT)

501 I once could not figure out the word underfed from context alone and I had to read the fucker out loud.

Posted by: ... at August 24, 2022 11:16 PM (BXxcV)

502 >>Jackstraw

>>Eh. I suppose it depends on where in MA one came from. For my part, yeah, it was Woosta or maybe Worsta...whatever.

I grew up close to Boston for much of my life by my folks moved out to the 495 belt after I graduated and Worcester became our closest big city for a while. I got schooled on how to pronounce it by the locals repeatedly.

I thought they were just giving me crap but Worcester really is named after the city in the UK and that one is pronounced Wuster. At least I never pronounced Billerica as Bill era ca.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2022 11:16 PM (ZLI7S)

503 >>> 476 But why is eating animal products so objectionable? Consuming eggs and milk doesn't kill anything, ffs; the animals are going to produce them either way. And the substitutes will never be as tasty or as healthy as the real thing. I simply don't get it.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 11:08 PM (tp+tP)

Human bodies require animal products and are less healthy without them. In the New Morality, everything you do must be a little bit suicidal or else you are not a good person.
Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:12 PM (6RgRK)

something something good for evil...

In this instance, humans as stewards / owners / consumers of all the critters, vs humans as equals of equivalent to all the critters

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 11:16 PM (llON8)

504 Also one in South Dakota. A town, that is.
Posted by: Gref at August 24, 2022 11:15 PM (AMIL/)

Whew, close one.

Posted by: John Thune at August 24, 2022 11:16 PM (tp+tP)

505 get my apples and fresh cider at a small orchard just off US 99 E near Salem.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 24, 2022 10:57 PM (YcysM)

What's the name, if you don't mind me asking?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August

Hilltop Orchard. First driveway on your left as you head east on Hazel green coming from 99 E. The driveway as is the sign are mostly hidden behind a bush. It is only 75 yards from 99 E

Posted by: Beartooth at August 24, 2022 11:16 PM (YcysM)

506 I highly recommend the “Big book of beastly mispronunciations by Elster. I am not saying he is always right. But he does a good job of digging deep for his argument. I read it years ago and can say he swayed me on a word or two. Either way I know the Horde. My bet is many would enjoy flipping through the book on the crapper.

Posted by: Quint at August 24, 2022 11:16 PM (xLeFU)

507 Last time I was there I tried to pronounce it the way it is spelled.
Nor Folk.
No one knew what the hell I was saying...

Posted by: gourmand du jour back in the fog at August 24, 2022 11:17 PM (jTmQV)

508 Up until I was 40 or so I thought Porkin was a kind of bean.

Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2022 11:17 PM (AmoqO)

509 That's what you have invested in hedge funds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 24, 2022 11:12 PM (BEZHm)

Lol.

That's how I read it.

Hedge-a-mony (last syllable like the Billy Idol song)

But I hear public speakers saying heh-jiminy (like the cricket).

Posted by: Hair lip at August 24, 2022 11:18 PM (h8nSa)

510 Can I ask which MLB stadium is pulling this?
Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 11:04 PM (tp+tP)

Coors Field in Denver. Our crazy lefty relative has season tickets and invites us several times per season.

It's difficult enough when she berates strangers (out of town fans) at the park for being from red states. She's gotten better about that.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:18 PM (6RgRK)

511 Oh I'm plenty cheesed about Ukraine.

Instead of working to resolve the conflict and end the bloodshed the junta is fueling it with money and arms.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2022 11:18 PM (EZebt)

512 470 Well, I'm not off to bed quite yet.

I was totally embarrassed in 8th Grade History when I said "Antietam crick" and the teacher looked hard at me and simply said, "creek." Where I was born, a smaller town in the same state, South Dakota, the natives called a creek a crick. Damned South Dakota big town snobs!
Posted by: Gref at August 24, 2022 11:11 PM (AMIL/)

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The house I grew up in was next to a man-made creek. I always pronounced it "crick".

Unrelated, funny story. A house a couple lots away from the creek was up for sale. The realtor listed it as "waterfront property". Picture a deep concrete trench, where the water is usually no more than 6 inches deep. Probably not what most people were expecting.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 24, 2022 11:18 PM (RFKzk)

513 Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 11:14 PM (Lzpvj)

Too close to quid.

Let's call it the thehalfricansven.

It sounds like....something, not sure what but, something.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 24, 2022 11:18 PM (YglAn)

514 Sheesh, I heard it pronounced Fall-muth.

I hate this game.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:18 PM (5p7BC)

515 I usually realize "fall" when I trip over the garden hose that's been left on the lawn, instead of properly coiled on it's holder.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 24, 2022 11:19 PM (tkOps)

516 497 South Dakota doesn't have towns. They have encampments. Like Sue Falls.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 11:15 PM (7FozI)

You're thinking of NORTH Dakota, not civilized South Dakota.

Posted by: Gref at August 24, 2022 11:19 PM (AMIL/)

517 In the New Morality, everything you do must be a little bit suicidal or else you are not a good person.
Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:12 PM (6RgRK)

Heh, that's one way of putting it.

The way I look at it is a dom/sub thing, except a lot less consensual. *YOU* must be harmed and *THEY* will judge when enough is enough.

Same as it ever was. These people feel they are nothing without their slaves.

Posted by: ... at August 24, 2022 11:19 PM (BXxcV)

518 Up until I was 40 or so I thought Porkin was a kind of bean.
Posted by: Javems at August 24, 2022 11:17 PM (AmoqO)

LOL

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 11:19 PM (zB5jo)

519 I still say me-mees instead of Meems. I've rarely head the word spoken if at all.
Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 11:10 PM (zB5jo)

My husband does, too. And insists that he is correct.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 11:19 PM (DgWEj)

520 >>> 510 Can I ask which MLB stadium is pulling this?
Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 11:04 PM (tp+tP)

Coors Field in Denver. Our crazy lefty relative has season tickets and invites us several times per season.

It's difficult enough when she berates strangers (out of town fans) at the park for being from red states. She's gotten better about that.
Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:18 PM (6RgRK)

Um. I suspect you handled that much more nicely that I would have.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 11:19 PM (llON8)

521 Unrelated, funny story. A house a couple lots away from the creek was up for sale. The realtor listed it as "waterfront property". Picture a deep concrete trench, where the water is usually no more than 6 inches deep. Probably not what most people were expecting.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 24, 2022 11:18 PM (RFKzk)

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So no dock then?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 11:19 PM (XG2Fi)

522 This strikes me as similar to the Communist China panopticon state. The only thing missing is people being denied entry or the use of their cards inside the park if they don't meet certain social credit criteria. To me, the most likely reason for these changes is to make it possible to monitor people's whereabouts and spending and potentially restrict activities or link their locations to frame people for any mischief that goes on in the area.
Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 10:54 PM (6RgRK)

In my experience, whenever a commercial outfit institutes a cashless policy, it's because management is convinced that the hired help is skimming off a lot of it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 24, 2022 11:20 PM (r46W7)

523 Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2022 11:18 PM (EZebt)

There's also that. I was just focusing on the money aspect of it all.

These people are so predictable. "Student loan forgiveness bad! Funding a proxy war to launder money..er fight for democracy good!"

Same difference. Both are a scam.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 24, 2022 11:20 PM (YglAn)

524 > Are those the little white birds I see on the Alaska TV shows. If so the P must be silent.

There are a couple of kinds here. Yep, they turn (mostly) white in the winter.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 24, 2022 11:20 PM (bW8dp)

525 Coors Field in Denver. Our crazy lefty relative has season tickets and invites us several times per season.

It's difficult enough when she berates strangers (out of town fans) at the park for being from red states. She's gotten better about that.
Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:18 PM (6RgRK)

Yeah, that sounds like a Denver thing, unfortunately. If Busch Stadium follows suit, I'm going to have a psychotic episode. Maybe you'll get lucky and they'll be forced to drop it, though.

'Night, everyone!

Posted by: Dr. T at August 24, 2022 11:21 PM (tp+tP)

526 513 Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 24, 2022 11:18 PM (YglAn)

I joked yesterday about 1 notional 250,000 BotMark grant by a diplomatic delegation....

"uh guys I am confused is that enough a candy bar or a Cadillac?"

Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 11:21 PM (Lzpvj)

527 For lawyers and chemists:

unionized

Posted by: Ciampino - the local versus netral at August 24, 2022 11:21 PM (qfLjt)

528 Wuster

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 24, 2022 11:21 PM (U2p+3)

529 521 Unrelated, funny story. A house a couple lots away from the creek was up for sale. The realtor listed it as "waterfront property". Picture a deep concrete trench, where the water is usually no more than 6 inches deep. Probably not what most people were expecting.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 24, 2022 11:18 PM (RFKzk)

I remember seeing a place in Dallas called 'The Inn on the Creek", when Honest Labeling would have called it "the flophouse on the drainage ditch."

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 24, 2022 11:21 PM (r46W7)

530 Vegemite Sandwich

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 24, 2022 11:21 PM (WF/xn)

531 Sorry. Wustaa

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 24, 2022 11:22 PM (U2p+3)

532 I thought infra-red was in-frared.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:22 PM (6RgRK)

533 How do you tell the difference between a plumber and a chemist?

Ask them to pronounce "unionized"

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 24, 2022 11:22 PM (RFKzk)

534 >Hilltop Orchard. First driveway on your left as you head east on Hazel green coming from 99 E. The driveway as is the sign are mostly hidden behind a bush. It is only 75 yards from 99 E
Posted by: Beartooth at August 24, 2022 11:16 PM (YcysM)

Thanks kindly, I'll try to check it out when I'm in the area!

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 11:22 PM (KOooo)

535 Hope to see you guys at the next moam!!!

Posted by: ... at August 24, 2022 11:22 PM (BXxcV)

536 > There are a couple of kinds here. Yep, they turn (mostly) white in the winter.

And yeah, the P is silent.

Same reason you can't hear a pterodactyl go to the bathroom.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 24, 2022 11:22 PM (bW8dp)

537 I would however be up for forgiving 20k of student loan debt, as long as we go after the endowments.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 24, 2022 11:22 PM (YglAn)

538 > There are a couple of kinds here. Yep, they turn (mostly) white in the winter.

And yeah, the P is silent.

Same reason you can't hear a pterodactyl go to the bathroom.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 24, 2022 11:22 PM (bW8dp)

The P is silent in baby, too.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2022 11:23 PM (4I/2K)

539 And yeah, the P is silent.

Same reason you can't hear a pterodactyl go to the bathroom.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Or why Pee Wee Herman is known as Wee Wee.. .

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 11:23 PM (LsEU/)

540 Posted by: sven at August 24, 2022 11:21 PM (Lzpvj)

"Neither, they're both still way out of your price range. But, hey! At least your have 250k right?"

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 24, 2022 11:23 PM (YglAn)

541 >>Sheesh, I heard it pronounced Fall-muth.

>>I hate this game.

You should run the Falmouth Road Race. Pretty course.

Fal muth

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2022 11:23 PM (ZLI7S)

542 Only In America is there something called “strong cider”. It goes back to prohibition and I have discussed this in detail. In America we have the tinyy group of “strong cider”, in the rest of the world it is just cider.

American strong cider has been improving for 20 years. I recall the date it started to become a thing, that was about the year 2000. At the time we had few legit cider apple trees, so it was by hook and crook.

America used to own hard cider. But prohibition sent the industry into a 40 year oblivion

Posted by: Quint at August 24, 2022 11:24 PM (CZkqB)

543 How about words that depending on context have a different pronunciation?

Long 'e' vs short 'e': "read", "lead", "record"
Or words like "slough" which can be sloo or slef.

Or changing from lower case to upper: Polish vs polish

I feel for those who have English as a second language.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 24, 2022 11:24 PM (3hSHB)

544 Um. I suspect you handled that much more nicely that I would have.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 11:19 PM (llON

I'm socially awkward. I covered my face in embarrassment.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:24 PM (6RgRK)

545 Dennis. That's a great spot on the Cape.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 24, 2022 11:24 PM (U2p+3)

546 Apropos of nothing I only learned this year that infrared is the opposite of ultraviolet. It's literally right there in the name.

I had never noticed or thought about it, and it's weird because in my line of work I should have.

Posted by: ... at August 24, 2022 11:24 PM (BXxcV)

547 Hope to see you guys at the next moam!!!
Posted by: ...

Your reach outgrabe your rath.

Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2022 11:24 PM (P1f+c)

548 537 I would however be up for forgiving 20k of student loan debt, as long as we go after the endowments.

Posted by: thathalfrican
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All those Billions at Harvard, hard to imagine him not going after them.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 24, 2022 11:25 PM (gi0xn)

549 Consortium

Every now and then I'll hear someone say "con-sor-tee-um".

Posted by: AF at August 24, 2022 11:25 PM (S8ePJ)

550 Worcester MA pronounced Woostah.

Live right next door in Shrewsberry for a year, what a lousy place to live.

Posted by: Dave in Fla

I went to college in Woostah and lived in Shrewbury until I moved to Bethesda two years ago. Worcester was always a pit but Shrewsbury was nice. Built a house next to a farm in the middle of a suburban town.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 24, 2022 11:25 PM (Y+l9t)

551 The house I grew up in was next to a man-made creek. I always pronounced it "crick".

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 24, 2022 11:18 PM (RFKzk)

Creek vs cricket by Patrick McManus 1/2
Maybe I can, once and for all, clear up this confusion over cricks and creeks.

First of all a creek has none of the raucous, vulgar, freewheeling character of a crick. If they were people, creeks would wear tuxedos and amuse themselves with the ballet, opera, and witty conversation; cricks would go around in their undershirts and amuse themselves with the Saturday night fights, taverns, and humorous belching. Creeks would perspire and cricks, sweat. Creeks would smoke pipes; cricks, chew and spit.

Creeks tend to be pristine. They meander regally through high mountain meadows, cascade down dainty waterfalls, pause in placid pools, ripple over beds of gleaming gravel and polished rock. They sparkle in the sunlight. Deer and poets sip from creeks, and images of eagles wheel upon the surface of their mirrored depths.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 24, 2022 11:25 PM (YcysM)

552 some who have only read and not heard the word "misled" were "'MY-zzled"

Posted by: Vox Clamantis at August 24, 2022 11:26 PM (FpA7J)

553

500 comments by 2315Z!

I already smell a full 1000-comment ACEPLAN ONT quota this evening...

Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 11:27 PM (Klrhf)

554 Creek vs crick. By Patrick McManus 2/2

Cricks, on the other hand, shuffle through cow pastures, slog through beaver dams, gurgle through culverts, ooze through barnyards, sprawl under sagging bridges, and when not otherwise occupied, thrash fitfully on their beds of quicksand and clay. Cows should perhaps be credited with giving cricks their most pronounced characteristic. In deference to the young and the few ladies left in the world whose sensitivities might be offended, I forgo a detailed description of this characteristic. Let me say only that to a cow the whole universe is a bathroom, and it makes no exception for cricks. A single cow equipped only with determination and fairly good aim can in a matter of hours transform a perfectly good creek into a crick.

Excerpted from "How to Fish a Crick"

Posted by: Beartooth at August 24, 2022 11:27 PM (YcysM)

555 I still think calling someone a mensch sounds like an insult when of course the opposite is true. Talk about temporary confusion when I lived in NYC.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 11:27 PM (zB5jo)

556 You should run the Falmouth Road Race. Pretty course.
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Been meaning to run the Narragansett Half for a couple years now.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:27 PM (5p7BC)

557 There's a "kids'" (it's really for grownups) book on Amazon called P is for Pterodactyl. It looks pretty funny.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 24, 2022 11:28 PM (kqdTE)

558 America used to own hard cider. But prohibition sent the industry into a 40 year oblivion
Posted by: Quint at August 24, 2022 11:24 PM (CZkqB)

and made beer the more popular and available beverage. You can spin up a brewery but not an orchard.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 24, 2022 11:28 PM (cOGHc)

559 We have some Indian names that mess people up here

Ojai sounds like Oh hi

Matilija sounds like muh till I ha

Heuneme sounds like why knee mee

Nojoqui sounds like know how ee

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 24, 2022 11:28 PM (WF/xn)

560 America used to own hard cider. But prohibition sent the industry into a 40 year oblivion
Posted by: Quint

Grampa had a 35-30 tree orchard and made a nice second income selling hard cider. If it went bad, we'd sell it as apple cider vinegar. Had to be careful selling that stuff though - ALL the barrels were labeled as vinegar.

Tis a mystery why he did that though.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 11:29 PM (LsEU/)

561 Tho that isn't as bad as her saying my aunt and uncle bought a Vulva.
Posted by: Farmer

Haven't we all in our own way?
Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 11:10

Thanks for the almost heart attack laughing, TP, you bastard.

Posted by: Farmer at August 24, 2022 11:29 PM (55Qr6)

562 Sharon I went the opposite way, moved from Germantown to Shewsberry. But also built a house next to a farm.

Really didn't like living there, though.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:30 PM (5p7BC)

563 The way I look at it is a dom/sub thing, except a lot less consensual. *YOU* must be harmed and *THEY* will judge when enough is enough.

Same as it ever was. These people feel they are nothing without their slaves.
Posted by: ... at August 24, 2022 11:19 PM (BXxcV)

I have felt this is one of the religious reasons to object to the forced injections. The shots are potentially harmful and do not even serve the public good since they don't prevent infection and transmission. Demanding that we submit to harm just seems like them trespassing on God's sovereignty over His creation.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:30 PM (6RgRK)

564 >>Been meaning to run the Narragansett Half for a couple years now.

I might be able to find you a room. Narragansett is just down the road.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2022 11:30 PM (ZLI7S)

565 Thanks for the almost heart attack laughing, TP, you bastard.
Posted by: Farmer

I live to serve the Horde.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 11:31 PM (LsEU/)

566 One of my dear departed dad's favorite jokes:

"Have you heard the cheer for the Norfolk, Virginia women's seminary basketball team? "

"No,what is it?"

"We don't drink!"
"We don't smoke!"
"Nor-folk!"
"Nor-folk!"

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 24, 2022 11:31 PM (zfAML)

567 I could hire a crew, if this was a normal move. The problem is that Ai am trying to extract what I want to move out of the stuff still in the house. And people have moved my things around so that I have to go through all the stuff in the garage to make sure I get it all. And I don't have a place to stage it and I would have to move all this stuff to a staging area before I got a crew. That was the point to having this guy out. I have some folks coming in next Wed to load it all up. Then I just have to put the last minute stuff in my trailer and go.
I've been going through stuff for years. Then Zi had to go through it all again after my husband died. I'm tired of dealing with it but there are things I want to keep. I'm not a minimalist.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 24, 2022 11:31 PM (9WSy4)

568 Humuhumunukunukuapauaii

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 24, 2022 11:32 PM (U2p+3)

569 The Mainiacs say Cal-less for Calais, ME.

Posted by: Cosda at August 24, 2022 11:32 PM (2uT//)

570 You know how flat is N. Dakota? Saskatchewan's runner-up motto? "Like North Dakota but flatter"
Posted by: Ciampino - Illinois, Gateway to Iowa at August 24, 2022 10:32 PM (qfLjt)

Saskatchewan: so flat, that if your dog runs away, you can still see his asshole 3 days later.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 24, 2022 11:32 PM (xCFBH)

571 *hic*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 11:32 PM (XG2Fi)

572 I learned the word "hegemony" (but not how to pronounce it) from a Star Trek novel. Same for the word "scatological".

I, um. I actually learned a lot of things from Star Trek novels.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 24, 2022 11:32 PM (kqdTE)

573 Every now and then I'll hear someone say "con-sor-tee-um".
Posted by: AF at August 24, 2022 11:25 PM (S8ePJ)

I used to grow "nas-tur-tee-um" flowers.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:33 PM (6RgRK)

574 Saskatchewan: so flat, that if your dog runs away, you can still see his asshole 3 days later.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The state tree is a telephone pole.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 24, 2022 11:33 PM (LsEU/)

575 We have a river here called Econlockhatchee.

Crossed that damn thing for a year trying to puzzle out the pronunciation.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:33 PM (5p7BC)

576 This orchard in Hood River has old varieties:

https://kiyokawafamilyorchards.com/

I know some of the cider places buy from them. If you can find Winter Banana or Spitzenberg apples, they are really good.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 24, 2022 11:33 PM (9WSy4)

577 Saskatchewan: so flat, that if your dog runs away, you can still see his asshole 3 days later.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 24, 2022 11:32 PM (xCFBH)

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"If the Earth wasn't curved, you could see Istanbul!"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 11:34 PM (XG2Fi)

578 > "We don't drink!"

Occultist Aleister Crowley was raised in an extreme fundamentalist sect called the Plymouth Brethren.

When he was a teen, his uncle was working on a sermon (or a tract or something) about the "Two Evil Kings" that led young people to ruin, namely "Smo-King" and "Drin-King".

Young Alec pointed out that his metaphor needed a Third Evil King. The uncle asked what it was.

He told him.

The uncle was not amused.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 24, 2022 11:34 PM (bW8dp)

579 I swam in cricks as a kid.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 24, 2022 11:34 PM (7FozI)

580 > I used to grow "nas-tur-tee-um" flowers.

I just call 'em "nose-twisters".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 24, 2022 11:35 PM (bW8dp)

581 Haleakala.

Climb that motherfucker.

It's gorgeous

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 24, 2022 11:35 PM (U2p+3)

582 Him A Lay as or Himalyas.

Would love to stay and chat about crazy MA pronunciations (and it is definitely Worcester) but it is New Gun Eve so I have to go to sleep so I can wake up to the email allowing me to go get it.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 24, 2022 11:35 PM (Y+l9t)

583 Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:30 PM (6RgRK)

It has certainly made me see the incredible wisdom in the eventuality of The Mark and how many will submit to it voluntarily and for what reasons they will.

Frightening sneak preview. But one that should be taken to heart by Believers.

Posted by: ... at August 24, 2022 11:35 PM (BXxcV)

584 My wife (who was quite well-read but shy- meaning she didn't read aloud) early in our relationship pronounced facade fa(soft a)ck-aid. Had to ask if she was talking about KY jelly.

Posted by: Pastor Charles the Simple at August 24, 2022 11:35 PM (moMmw)

585 568 Humuhumunukunukuapauaii
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 24, 2022 11:32 PM (U2p+3)

Close

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 24, 2022 11:36 PM (WF/xn)

586 Rainier Beer commercials of the '70's and '80's.
They got bought out decades ago, but whoever bought the label still brews it.

Rainier Beer motorcycle ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFG_UB1YMr0

running of the Rainiers ads, there are a few of them here, Mickey Rooney was once in them, trying to capture a Wild Rainier and popping it's cap.

https://tinyurl.com/murtyfh2

good times, good times

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, born and raised in the view of the mountain, and drinker of a lot of that beer at August 24, 2022 11:36 PM (sy5kK)

587 Sioux

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 24, 2022 11:36 PM (U2p+3)

588 "If the Earth wasn't curved, you could see Istanbul!"
Posted by: Cicero

In North Dakota, you can calculate earth's diameter by laying down a 2x4, and measuring how high off the ground the ends are.

Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2022 11:37 PM (P1f+c)

589 > Saskatchewan: so flat, that if your dog runs away, you can still see his asshole 3 days later.

Way back in the last century, I saw a hitchhiker taking a piss on the Trans-Canada Highway in Saskatchewan.

Not a tree or bush to be seen all the way out to the horizon, of course.

He resorted to getting behind the post of a speed limit sign, with his junk mostly concealed by it, but a clearly visible stream of piss emerging from the other side.

Poor devil.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 24, 2022 11:37 PM (bW8dp)

590 That is cool personal history Tony Pete. What prohibition did to cider in this country is way worse than it did to beer and Whiskey. They dug up the cider apple trees and replaced them with God Awful eating apples. The legit trees can take 7 plus years to bear fruit. It is history now, but the USA went from a cider drinking nation back to Washington, Jefferson, Johnny Appleseed, and Adams to a nation that pretty much didn’t know hard cider existed. I am not kidding when I say in every other country “cider” means hard.

Posted by: Quint at August 24, 2022 11:37 PM (2zYC7)

591 I learned the word spelunking from Calvin and Hobbes.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 11:38 PM (zB5jo)

592 I used to call them the Him-a-LAY-yuz, but after I came back from Everest I call them the Him- MALL-yuz.

Makes me sound experienced and it scares the hell outta the slopes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 11:38 PM (XG2Fi)

593 Frightening sneak preview. But one that should be taken to heart by Believers.
Posted by: ... at August 24, 2022 11:35 PM (BXxcV)

Yep. It was a practice run. We needed at least two-thirds resisting to show it wasn't going to work on us yet.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:38 PM (6RgRK)

594 I am the family repository and the end of the line.
I would like them to go to an appreciative place not junked. It's difficult.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 24, 2022 11:38 PM (gi0xn)

595 Hialeah, FL

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2022 11:39 PM (4I/2K)

596 > You can spin up a brewery but not an orchard.

Supposedly that's why Johnny Appleseed did his thing.

You generally get shit apples from seeds, as far as eating apples go.

But the crabs you get from random seed are perfectly adequate for making hard cider.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 24, 2022 11:39 PM (bW8dp)

597 In North Dakota, you can calculate earth's diameter by laying down a 2x4, and measuring how high off the ground the ends are.
Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2022 11:37 PM (P1f+c)

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And Eratosthenes thought he was so smart!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 11:39 PM (XG2Fi)

598 "If the Earth wasn't curved, you could see Istanbul!"
Posted by: Cicero

Just north of Fargo, the Google Street View truck pointed its camera west, and got a picture of the Google Street View truck.

Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2022 11:39 PM (P1f+c)

599 Humuhumunukunukuapua`a

(Rhinecanthus rectangulus)

Hawaii stae fish

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 24, 2022 11:40 PM (WF/xn)

600 360 May I get a paranoia check from the Horde, please?

Looks to me like a good reason to stay home and watch the game on TV.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, born and raised in the view of the mountain, and drinker of a lot of that beer at August 24, 2022 11:40 PM (sy5kK)

601 Here is the thing though, the flattest state in the US is not North Dakota or Kansas. It is Florida.

345 feet from lowest to highest point.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:40 PM (5p7BC)

602 LCD,

The old rainier beer ads and the Ivar's ads. Oh my goodness.

Seattle had a wicked sense of humor once upon a time.

Almost Live! Was fucking hysterical. Oh well.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 24, 2022 11:40 PM (U2p+3)

603 564, Jack Straw. Quint’s favorite beer. Even today some wonder about the can he crushed. I believe they were made out of steel at the time.

Posted by: Quint at August 24, 2022 11:41 PM (2zYC7)

604 That Rainier Beer motorcycle ad is etched into my hippocampus. They must have played the hell out of that when I was a kid.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 11:41 PM (KOooo)

605 Dances With Clams.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 24, 2022 11:42 PM (U2p+3)

606 The least flat state is West Virginia IIRC.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 11:42 PM (zB5jo)

607

Reef triggerfish > Rhinecanthus rectangulus > humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa

Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 11:43 PM (F7/EG)

608 Hope to get a chance to take you up on that Jack.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:43 PM (5p7BC)

609 439 Good evening!
Now, do Norfolk.

No-f*ck

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, born and raised in the view of the mountain, and drinker of a lot of that beer at August 24, 2022 11:43 PM (sy5kK)

610 Dances With Clams.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 24, 2022 11:42 PM (U2p+3)

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Ever seen a geoduck quite this big, baby?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 11:43 PM (XG2Fi)

611 We need continued prayers, beloved Horde. No offers on our house (link in nic) yet and we really need access to the money tied up in it.

We showed to an investor and he offered an amount appropriate for a mobile home on 1/8 of our lot size. So discouraging! I knew it would be a lowball offer, but his offer was ridiculous.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:44 PM (6RgRK)

612

Dancing with fartclams is known to cause minkeypox...

Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 11:44 PM (F7/EG)

613 Here is the thing though, the flattest state in the US is not North Dakota or Kansas. It is Florida.

345 feet from lowest to highest point.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

Put a book on a table. Pick up the left side about a half-inch. That's North Dakota.

It's not flat as in "perpendicular to gravity", it's flat as in "bulldozed smooth by a ten-mile-tall glacier."

Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2022 11:45 PM (P1f+c)

614 Emmie - Your link comes up as a 404 error.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:45 PM (5p7BC)

615 Chariots of Clams

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 24, 2022 11:45 PM (U2p+3)

616 Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:44 PM (6RgRK)

Did you give a counter price? At least to let him think about it down the road.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 11:46 PM (zB5jo)

617 Awesome ONT thank you MH!

Posted by: NC Ref at August 24, 2022 11:46 PM (Yh3xC)

618

I'd read that the highest point in Floridia is a landfill...

Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 11:46 PM (F7/EG)

619 Looks to me like a good reason to stay home and watch the game on TV.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, born and raised in the view of the mountain, and drinker of a lot of that beer at August 24, 2022 11:40 PM (sy5kK)

Now, now, you know modern televisions have a hidden camera in them, don't you? That way programmers can tell if the audience is engaged (supposedly).

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:46 PM (6RgRK)

620 Yeah, the Rainer ads were great. I forgot about Almost Live! Was Mathnet a Seattle creation. It was a man and woman solving crime by using math. It was a take off of Dragnet

Posted by: Beartooth at August 24, 2022 11:46 PM (YcysM)

621 >>> 611 We need continued prayers, beloved Horde. No offers on our house (link in nic) yet and we really need access to the money tied up in it.

We showed to an investor and he offered an amount appropriate for a mobile home on 1/8 of our lot size. So discouraging! I knew it would be a lowball offer, but his offer was ridiculous.
Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:44 PM (6RgRK)

Sure thing.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 11:46 PM (llON8)

622 Dances With Clams.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 24, 2022 11:42 PM (U2p+3)

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Ever seen a geoduck quite this big, baby?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 11:43 PM (XG2Fi)

Put that thing away, Michelle.

Posted by: Barry Obama at August 24, 2022 11:46 PM (4I/2K)

623 But why is eating animal products so objectionable?

Because they taste good and make us healthier and stronger- things which should only be available to our elite.

Posted by: t-bird at August 24, 2022 11:47 PM (Jg92y)

624 My most embarrassing mispronounciation was Sidhe only to be corrected by our Dungeons and Dragons master. I was going to say dungeon master but I knew you would all take it the wrong way.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 24, 2022 11:47 PM (Y+l9t)

625 my parent from the midwest said that. What's really weird is that I think Canadians call it a Chesterfield.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 24, 2022 10:53 PM (r46W7)

That's what I knew it as, when a child.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 24, 2022 11:47 PM (U8zjK)

626 Hmm, been meaning to run the Fargo Marathon. I like the idea of a course that flat.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:47 PM (5p7BC)

627 But the crabs you get from random seed are perfectly adequate for making hard cider.
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I just lost my taste for hard cider.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2022 11:47 PM (XQDUp)

628 Awesome ONT thank you MH!
Posted by: NC Ref at August 24, 2022 11:46 PM (Yh3xC)

Um, who is going to tell NC Ref?

Posted by: Beartooth at August 24, 2022 11:47 PM (YcysM)

629 I'd read that the highest point in Floridia is a landfill...
Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 11:46 PM (F7/EG)

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Only when Denise Milani isn't lying on a beach on her back.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 11:48 PM (XG2Fi)

630 596 maybe by hook and crook. Old school cider apple orchards take a long time. Maybe you can get a crab apple that works in a brew. But the American hard cider industry has been growing for twenty years. Even now they are short on everything, they just don’t have the right apples.

The. Spanish have 400 year old orchards. Their legit Spanish style stuff is amazing. They have tried to market to the new world with only moderate success.

Posted by: Quint at August 24, 2022 11:48 PM (bH9pY)

631 The canvas for artist Jim Bachor in Chicago is potholes, which he fills with mosaics.

Those are potholes? He could put entire sculptures in Pennsylvania potholes.

Posted by: t-bird at August 24, 2022 11:48 PM (Jg92y)

632 Anybody else remember the "Ka Mana Wana Lei U" t- shirts in the 70s?

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 24, 2022 11:48 PM (zfAML)

633 Y'all ain't mangling the language, are ya?

Evening, y'all.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 24, 2022 11:49 PM (JOtiF)

634 Did you give a counter price? At least to let him think about it down the road.
Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 11:46 PM (zB5jo)

He said, "Take it or leave it" so no.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:49 PM (6RgRK)

635 Emmie, 404 on the link

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 24, 2022 11:49 PM (gi0xn)

636 Ok, here's one. Why do so many people - including one or two realtors I've known - pronounce the word as "real-a-tor"? Ain't no "a" after the "l".

In re: the comments on apple cider, my late uncle Otha had an apparatus for crushing the apples and squeezing the juice out of them, and the cider he made, which he put in glass jugs, was the best beverage I ever tasted.

Posted by: Paco at August 24, 2022 11:50 PM (njExo)

637 Heh, Medley Landfill

265 feet in Miami.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:50 PM (5p7BC)

638 Am I nuts? I am considering not attending events at this ballpark anymore, although this is a traditional family activity and others would not understand if I demurred
Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 10:56 PM (6RgRK)

No, you are not nuts. If they cannot accept paper tickets, and cash money, they don't need your business.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 24, 2022 11:51 PM (U8zjK)

639 The. Spanish have 400 year old orchards. Their legit Spanish style stuff is amazing. They have tried to market to the new world with only moderate success.
Posted by: Quint at August 24, 2022 11:48 PM (bH9p

Spain has century old orchards for multiple products. I say products because they have old cork trees in addition to the olive trees and vineyards.

Posted by: polynikes at August 24, 2022 11:51 PM (zB5jo)

640 I'd read that the highest point in Floridia is a landfill...
Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 11:46 PM (F7/EG)

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Only when Denise Milani isn't lying on a beach on her back.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 24, 2022 11:48 PM (XG2Fi)

I get that reference. Did she ever bare 'em or fess up to having had implants?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2022 11:52 PM (4I/2K)

641 614 Emmie - Your link comes up as a 404 error.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:45 PM (5p7BC)

I updated it. Maybe the old link expired when we lowered the price. I can't check for sure because when I click the link it activates my real estate app. I don't know what it looks like for people who don't have that app.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:52 PM (6RgRK)

642 Emmie, as a former real estate agent(30+years) I can tell you that this part of summer is just the worst time to try and sell a house. I don't know how much pressure you're under but if possible, taking it off for 3 or 4 weeks, putting it back on at a better price in September might give you a fresh start.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 24, 2022 11:52 PM (Y+l9t)

643 Hmm, been meaning to run the Fargo Marathon. I like the idea of a course that flat.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

Go drop the Google Street View guy anywhere in or around Fargo, and try to find a non-man-made hill.

https://tinyurl.com/fargobeflat

Posted by: mikeski at August 24, 2022 11:52 PM (P1f+c)

644

I just absent-mindedly go ogled 'Denise Milani'...

When shall I ever learn??

Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 11:52 PM (udPm8)

645

TV commercial just tried to commence me that a black family has a pet cat and dog.

Yeah, about that...

Posted by: Emperor Nero with thumbs down at August 24, 2022 11:53 PM (7DYli)

646 And there’s Billerica, MA. But my favorite is Lac Court d’Orielles, WI - up near MisHum’s neck of the woods.

Posted by: Final Arbiter of Reality at August 24, 2022 11:54 PM (orvb1)

647 Thanks, Helena.

We were not diligent about preparing the house for sale in a timely manner. If we had, we could have sold last year at a very nice price. We are suffering the consequences of our actions and I am nervous about how much of a disaster this will turn out to be.

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:54 PM (6RgRK)

648 244 I copyrighted 'Confusement' decades ago.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 24, 2022 10:18

There is small group of people, but distressingly too large, that in rural IL think orientated is a real word and they are smart for using it. WTeverlovingF?

Posted by: Farmer at August 24, 2022 10:39 PM (55Qr6)
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I often hear obligated whereas British English would say obliged.
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Concise Oxford Dictionary
orientation : noun ; DERIVATIVES: orientate verb ; orientational adjective

Posted by: Ciampino - oriented? at August 24, 2022 11:54 PM (qfLjt)

649 >>Jack Straw. Quint’s favorite beer. Even today some wonder about the can he crushed. I believe they were made out of steel at the time.

There's a liquor store over in Narragansett with a window poster ad for Narragansett beer with a smiling Quint. I myself am also an aficionado of cheap beer.

Narragansett is actually a very pretty town with some serious money. Just south is Galilee in Point Judith where the real Quint's go to work. Commercial fisherman are not to be trifled with.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2022 11:55 PM (ZLI7S)

650
Um, who is going to tell NC Ref?

Posted by: Beartooth at August 24, 2022 11:47 PM (YcysM)

Thank you for doing so. And ALL those THANKS go to Buck. Love his musical posts! My fault of course. I guess this is probably a barrelable offense so laters y'all.

Posted by: NC Ref at August 24, 2022 11:55 PM (Yh3xC)

651 >>>Saskatchewan: so flat, that if your dog runs away, you can still see his asshole 3 days later.

>Once while driving down the interstate in ND, we looked around us in 360 deg. and saw 4 tornadoes on the horizon way off in the distance. Amazing.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 24, 2022 11:56 PM (KD5bY)

652 Good Night all.
Sweet Dreams

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 24, 2022 11:56 PM (Y+l9t)

653 558 dead in, that is the history. The influx of German immigrants didn’t hurt.

Posted by: Quint at August 24, 2022 11:56 PM (+Exsz)

654
Judge Jugs just made a Uranus joke on Gutfeld. Kilmeade is hosting and nicely getting back at Greg for all the jabs. It's hilarious.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 24, 2022 11:56 PM (Mzdiz)

655 "It was a named storm for less than one day. Tropical Storm Colin had gusts up to 40 mph as it moved ashore in South Carolina. It was a named tropical storm for only a few hours."

about ten years ago a storm came through here and knocked down a lot of my trees, and ripped the ~60 year old roof off one side of my grainery, and some other roof damage. Storm was not named, and I got no federal relief, just repairs and a mess of my woods. I was ROBBED ... where is my free Money?

Rich folks that enjoy the coast get the bailout billions, not to mention all the graft for those with no damage ... fluck em all.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 24, 2022 11:56 PM (Cus5s)

656 Yep, that is flat. Looks worse than here because it goes so far without any trees.

Although, I did a run last night that has 2 feet of elevation change over 5 miles, and that included some bridges over swamp.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 11:57 PM (5p7BC)

657 Thanks, Sharon. I figured we would be catching the people who need to move before the school year. I will talk to my realtor about taking the listing down for a bit. Our plan was to reduce every week until we got an offer we could accept.

Hope the new link works!

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:57 PM (6RgRK)

658 602 LCD,

Almost Live! Was fucking hysterical. Oh well.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 24, 2022 11:40 PM (U2p+3)

I went to a taping of Almost Live! once. The studio was tiny. Absolutely one of a kind funny. Before political correctness ruined everything.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, born and raised in the view of the mountain, and drinker of a lot of that beer at August 24, 2022 11:58 PM (sy5kK)

659 635 Emmie, 404 on the link

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 24, 2022 11:49 PM (gi0xn)

Does the corrected one work?

Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 11:58 PM (6RgRK)

660

Judge Jugs' voice grates my nerves...

Posted by: Zettai at August 24, 2022 11:59 PM (udPm8)

661 Winesaps aren't usually in stores very often, but yeah, make the best pie and cobbler. Baking apples. Granny Smiths are a substitute, but definitely not as good.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, born and raised in the view of the mountain, and drinker of a lot of that beer at August 24, 2022 11:04 PM (sy5kK)

I thought I read that Winesaps were the preferred colonial apple?

Sheesh, I get so far behind comments when wife gets off work late, I think I'll just go to bed.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2022 12:00 AM (7bRMQ)

662 Emmie, feel free to email me if you want to chat. July and August were always killers even in a good market. The second worse time is between Thanksgiving and New Years.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 25, 2022 12:01 AM (Y+l9t)

663 One year, about 1972 some Boy Scouts were selling Washington state Apples door to door for some fundraiser.

They were fricking huge, maybe softball sized, and the most crisp Apples I've ever had, and tasty AF. Never had anything like them, before or since.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2022 12:01 AM (3m11Z)

664 Link works Emmie.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 25, 2022 12:01 AM (5p7BC)

665 636 Ok, here's one. Why do so many people - including one or two realtors I've known - pronounce the word as "real-a-tor"? Ain't no "a" after the "l"."

real-a-tor has a lot in common with nuk-u-lar.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 25, 2022 12:02 AM (r46W7)

666 653 558, dead on not dead in. I am limited with this phone, I can’t quote and respond like I would like to. My apologies there.

Posted by: Quint at August 25, 2022 12:02 AM (+Exsz)

667 Forget Ukraine, I'd like to see us spending billions funding regime change in Canuckistan
Posted by: 18-1 at August 24, 2022 11:06 PM (ESjRY)

As long as it's Trump calling the shots.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 12:02 AM (bVMvu)

668 "There is small group of people, but distressingly too large, that in rural IL think orientated is a real word and they are smart for using it. WTeverlovingF?"

if enough people use it, it IS a real word. Now whether they are smart for using it ... idk, there are a lot of discomobulations of original usage of words to debate that issue.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 25, 2022 12:02 AM (Cus5s)

669 252 It's woo ster shear
Posted by: AlaBAMA
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Or is it woo sta shure?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 24, 2022 10:40 PM (5p7BC)
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You had it right the first time.
Some Americans mispronounce those county names, particularly the SHIRE part by saying SHYRE instead of SHEAR. Also Lan-CAS-ter instead of Lancan-ster

Posted by: Ciampino - oriented? at August 25, 2022 12:03 AM (qfLjt)

670 Emmie, maybe you need a new realtor.
Some realtors will take your contract then contact people they know and if they aren't interested they sit on it.

That happened to me. The second realtor pushed a little at first and did a good presentation like yours then she set on it.

At the end of the contract and she was talking about re-uping I told her that several other realtors had contacted me saying quick sale at my price

Within two weeks she presented a contract.
You have to push them.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 25, 2022 12:04 AM (gi0xn)

671 Am I nuts? I am considering not attending events at this ballpark anymore, although this is a traditional family activity and others would not understand if I demurred
Posted by: Emmie at August 24, 2022 10:56 PM (6RgRK)

You seem pretty sane to me. The people still lining up to have their every move and transactions monitored and controlled by who-knows-what are nuts. At this point in history, the entire night of everything electronically conducted and monitored in a stadium sounds like a set-up for something sinister, so yeah, I'd stay home, too.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma Donald J Trump is our duly elected president at August 25, 2022 12:04 AM (l0Cy4)

672
Apparently Shaquille ONeal is flat-earther:

https://tinyurl.com/2je8a94e

He says he flew from the US to Australia and didn't turn upside down. So there you go.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 12:05 AM (Mzdiz)

673 Up in the Alaska panhandle there is a Native American tribe called the Tlingit. IIRC it’s pronounced CHING-git or similar.

Posted by: Final Arbiter of Reality at August 25, 2022 12:05 AM (orvb1)

674 Emmie, if I may... can you take out the words "Tons of Potential". It is, if you'll excuse the parlance, a boner killer.

Give me a few minutes and I might have a suggestion for some replacement wording.

I will keep the prayers going.

Posted by: ... at August 25, 2022 12:05 AM (BXxcV)

675 I started pressing and canning apple juice today.
I got 16 quarts so far. One day I am going to get proper equipment and up my output.
Gravensteins are the bomb for cider, applesauce and apple crisp.

I also took some of the pulp after pressing and mixed it with water on the hope of making apple cider vinegar. It might work

Posted by: Kindltot at August 25, 2022 12:07 AM (xhaym)

676 Good eating apples mostly suck for cider, hence the conundrum. Take a good. Sweet apple. All that sweet is sugar and gets transformed into alcohol by the yeast. What you are left with is nothing. Same reason why legit cider apples are not for eating, they are for drinking like most apples man has planted.

Posted by: Quint at August 25, 2022 12:07 AM (cDfzw)

677 Hmm, been meaning to run the Fargo Marathon. I like the idea of a course that flat.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
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Avoid the wood chipper section.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2022 12:07 AM (id1Da)

678 "345 feet from lowest to highest point." Posted by: Dave in Fla

"most of Florida will be underwater by 2010" Al Gore, 1995

(OK, I made up the quote and date, but sounds about right)

Posted by: illiniwek at August 25, 2022 12:07 AM (Cus5s)

679 I'm pretty sure it's documented.

Some people call ptarmigan "stupid chickens", which, when you consider how dumb a regular chicken is, tells you everything you need to know about the brainpower of ptarmigan.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 24, 2022 11:11 PM (bW8dp)

Yellowknife, NWT. Big charter outfit in town is Ptarmigan Airways. Graffiti seen on falling-down shack on the road to the airport: "Ptarmigan Pterminal".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 12:08 AM (bVMvu)

680 The precise moment when Summer is Over and Fall Begins is kind a personal thing, it isn't on any calendar or official date.

You'll just know - the sun angle is a bit different, it might be a warm day but you know instinctively it is waning, it isn't going to last, the sky is maybe a little bluer, the sudden realization that another year has passed, the sigh of wind through the trees, the rustle of leaves, a melancholy metaphor that portends ones own mortality.

That, and the Fucking Dairy Queen is closed down for the season.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2022 12:08 AM (3m11Z)

681
There is a family of Lancasters around here. They and we all pronounce it "lan-kister", but with a hint of g, almost "lan(g)-kister".

First time I head the lan-CAS-ter was with ol' Burt.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 12:08 AM (Mzdiz)

682 ..."Ptarmigan Pterminal".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 12:08 AM

*snort

Posted by: Zettai at August 25, 2022 12:10 AM (udPm8)

683 The best cooking apples ever were Maidenblush. Grandma made apple pies, apple butter, and applesauce with them. There was an orchard on my Great Uncle's farm in SE Indiana and we used to pick them off the ground for her. I got a lead on a tree in central Ohio about 5 years ago but found out that it died. Far as I know, they're gone.

And Grandpa took his afternoon naps on the Davenport.

Posted by: The Cookie Man at August 25, 2022 12:11 AM (jaYNR)

684 That, and the Fucking Dairy Queen is closed down for the season.

Ours only closes for certain holidays, high school graduation, and occasionally during elk hunting season.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 25, 2022 12:12 AM (Bd6X8)

685 I appreciate the realtor tips, y'all, but perhaps I should mention that my realtor is Mr. Bassman.

I will share your thoughts with him.

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2022 12:12 AM (6RgRK)

686 675 try making some hard cider just as an experiment. Making vinegar is harder, but once you make it it is difficult to unmake it. Vinegar is like a disease.

If you have some good fresh pressed cider, throw it in a tall boy with an airlock and see what happens. I have made lots of batches, but the best was fresh unpasteurized juice with an air lock and nothing else.

Posted by: Quint at August 25, 2022 12:12 AM (MAZTB)

687 ...the best was fresh unpasteurized juice with an air lock and nothing else.

Posted by: Quint at August 25, 2022 12:12 AM

*takes notes

Posted by: Zettai at August 25, 2022 12:14 AM (udPm8)

688 Summer ends when overnight temps go below 70F.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 25, 2022 12:14 AM (gi0xn)

689 >>>Saskatchewan: so flat, that if your dog runs away, you can still see his asshole 3 days later.

>Once while driving down the interstate in ND, we looked around us in 360 deg. and saw 4 tornadoes on the horizon way off in the distance. Amazing.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 24, 2022 11:56 PM (KD5bY)

We had cousin's from Towson, MD that drove the "Highline" across northern Montana. The wife told us she got scared at seeing nothing other than a grain elevator 10 miles away.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 25, 2022 12:14 AM (YcysM)

690 Hilltop Orchard. First driveway on your left as you head east on Hazel green coming from 99 E. The driveway as is the sign are mostly hidden behind a bush. It is only 75 yards from 99 E
Posted by: Beartooth at August 24, 2022 11:16 PM (YcysM)

There is another Cidery about 8 miles past Rickreall on Hwy 22 on the way to the coast, it is off Salt Creek Rd.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 25, 2022 12:15 AM (xhaym)

691
Day length down here in Greenville is now 13:08 from a peak of 14:30 at the Solstice.

Daylength changes the most rapidly at the equinoxes. As you approach the Fall equinox, the days get noticeably shorter every day, which adds to the effect.

During the Spring equinox, the days are lengthening rapidly which contributes to the "summer is coming" effect.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 12:15 AM (Mzdiz)

692 I will share your thoughts with him.
Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2022 12:12 AM (6RgRK)

Well, except the ones about him sitting on the listing and getting a new realtor.

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2022 12:15 AM (6RgRK)

693 Locally, Leicester (NC) is pronounced in several ways. All are accepted without comment.

Lee-cess-ter
Lie-cess-ter
Lie-chester
Lee-chester

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2022 12:15 AM (tUVP/)

694 Emmie, how about

GREAT POTENTIAL!!

I think that's a lot more palatable. "Tons of Potential" is a turnoff. Just my opinion.

Posted by: ... at August 25, 2022 12:15 AM (BXxcV)

695 Ours only closes for certain holidays, high school graduation, and occasionally during elk hunting season.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 25, 2022 12:12 AM (Bd6X

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So the tradition of hunting elk with a yummy ice cream cake is still a thing then?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2022 12:16 AM (XG2Fi)

696
Judge Jugs' voice grates my nerves...
Posted by: Zettai

You aren't the only one...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 25, 2022 12:16 AM (63Dwl)

697 693 Locally, Leicester (NC) is pronounced in several ways. All are accepted without comment.

Lee-cess-ter
Lie-cess-ter
Lie-chester
Lee-chester
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2022 12:15 AM

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Hmm. In England it's a simple "Lester"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2022 12:17 AM (XG2Fi)

698 ..Up in the Alaska panhandle there is a Native American tribe called the Tlingit. IIRC it’s pronounced CHING-git or similar. Posted by: Final Arbiter of Reality at August 25, 2022 12:05 AM (orvb1)

'Bout the same pronunciation for the Chinese beer "Tsing Tao". For the first word, anyway. Used to be a decent beer, until it started brewing under license with Molson's. *spit!*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 25, 2022 12:17 AM (tkOps)

699 My husband does, too. And insists that he is correct.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 24, 2022 11:19 PM (DgWEj)

are teh extra cringy ones "screamin' Meemes?"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 25, 2022 12:17 AM (xhaym)

700 700 already?

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 25, 2022 12:18 AM (bM7vb)

701 685 I appreciate the realtor tips, y'all, but perhaps I should mention that my realtor is Mr. Bassman.
I will share your thoughts with him.
Posted by: Emmie at
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Fire the realtor. Hire a hungry realtor who lives at location and cut him his 6%. Count the money you've already lost. A pro can help in many ways and may get you more that you're asking now.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 25, 2022 12:18 AM (gi0xn)

702 Or words like "slough" which can be sloo or slef.

Or changing from lower case to upper: Polish vs polish

I feel for those who have English as a second language.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 24, 2022 11:24 PM (3hSHB)

My father was a business partner with a gent from Slough, England. Great guy, Bert was his name. The town name is pronounced "Slow, rhymes with cow". He had a distinctive accent. Years later, I met a Brit with a very similar accent. I asked, "are you by any chance from Slough?" He said, "no, about 15 miles away, I was."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 12:19 AM (tG77n)

703 "Human bodies require animal products and are less healthy without them. In the New Morality, everything you do must be a little bit suicidal or else you are not a good person." Posted by: Emmie

this sounds inciteful, maybe even prophetic, but as usual, I need it explained to me, probably with treats as enticement to comprehension.

OK, yeah, they want to kill us, but bugs are also animal products. It is destruction of culture they are after ... and farming and eating animals is age old culture. Taking that is destructive to back yard BBQ and even MacDonalds. ...

it is a move toward Soylent Green ...

Posted by: illiniwek at August 25, 2022 12:19 AM (Cus5s)

704 @691: "Day length changes the most rapidly at the equinoxes."

One might even say it's geometric; a sine wave of sorts.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 25, 2022 12:20 AM (bM7vb)

705 I think that's a lot more palatable. "Tons of Potential" is a turnoff. Just my opinion.
Posted by: ... at August 25, 2022 12:15 AM (BXxcV)

Ellipses, I will suggest it. The house needs a lot of work but is in a desirable location on a large lot. "Potential" is a polite way to say that.

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2022 12:20 AM (6RgRK)

706 Hmm. In England it's a simple "Lester"
Posted by: Cicero
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Thanks for the reminder, 'Lester' works here too.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2022 12:20 AM (jZBWN)

707 700 700 already?
Posted by: Walter Freeman
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Going for a thousand?
I may need extra vodka.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 25, 2022 12:20 AM (gi0xn)

708 I had French 1 just before calculus in one semester in college.

I could not pronounce "outlier" as anything other than oot-lee-ay.

Yes...I was laughed at!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 25, 2022 12:20 AM (kGduw)

709 No allusions to negatives.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 25, 2022 12:21 AM (gi0xn)

710

There is a village in Ontario called Cloyne -- pronounced as "clone"...

Posted by: Zettai at August 25, 2022 12:22 AM (Rty+z)

711 It is destruction of culture they are after ... and farming and eating animals is age old culture.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 25, 2022 12:19 AM (Cus5s)

Yes, they want to destroy civilization. Plus, they must do the opposite of every one of God's commands, including "fill the earth and subdue it."

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2022 12:22 AM (6RgRK)

712 >>Summer ends when overnight temps go below 70F.

Already getting that here but it's not quite Fall yet. Another week or so and it will be here.

Best time of the year is early Fall.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2022 12:23 AM (ZLI7S)

713 693 Locally, Leicester (NC) is pronounced in several ways. All are accepted without comment.

Lee-cess-ter
Lie-cess-ter
Lie-chester
Lee-chester

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2022 12:15 AM (tUVP/)

Also Beaufort. Is it NC or SC??? I'll be visiting both places and need to get it right!

Posted by: NC Ref at August 25, 2022 12:23 AM (Yh3xC)

714 Ellipses, I will suggest it. The house needs a lot of work but is in a desirable location on a large lot. "Potential" is a polite way to say that.

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2022 12:20 AM (6RgRK)

I think it's the "Tons" part that rubbed me the wrong way.

Tons primes someone to think it's a headache before they've even begun *reading*. People need to be primed to have a dream. The house looks lovely. There is enough there to dream on.

I'm no realty expert, but I do understand the mind.

Posted by: ... at August 25, 2022 12:24 AM (BXxcV)

715 There is another Cidery about 8 miles past Rickreall on Hwy 22 on the way to the coast, it is off Salt Creek Rd.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 25, 2022 12:15 AM (xhaym)

Thanks. We're over in Dallas about once a month and take the Kings Valley turn off Hwy 22. Sounds like that cidery is just past the turn off.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 25, 2022 12:24 AM (YcysM)

716 Fire the realtor. Hire a hungry realtor who lives at location and cut him his 6%. Count the money you've already lost. A pro can help in many ways and may get you more that you're asking now.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 25, 2022 12:18 AM (gi0xn)

My husband is a professional realtor.

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2022 12:25 AM (6RgRK)

717 Thanks for the ONT.

Just popping in to offer mine: 'acrid.' I somehow thought it was ar-cid. Lasted til I was about 30. Yes, I know.

When this came up on another forum someone offered this perfect quote: 'My apologies- I was raised by books.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 25, 2022 12:25 AM (dNqv+)

718 Nah, Quint, I've made bad cider. I suppose I could make Calvados, but I really don't drink much. I used to mix cheap rum with apple juice but even that seems a bit much.
I also have about 50 feet of grapes to press later this fall, and they are eating and juice grapes too. My yearly goal is 52 quarts so I can drink a quart a week, but this year I suspect I am going to get more for giving away.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 25, 2022 12:25 AM (xhaym)

719 Meteorologist = Media urologist

Posted by: Bosk at August 25, 2022 12:26 AM (yh68b)

720 >>>Or words like "slough" which can be sloo or slef.

>The slough was where I went as a youngster to catch fish and frogs and butterflies and snakes, tadpoles, turtles and ticks.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 25, 2022 12:26 AM (KD5bY)

721 > IIRC it’s pronounced CHING-git or similar.

More like "Hlinkit". Hard for English-speakers to say, as we don't have the "hl" phoneme in English.

Most Anglo types tend to approximate it as "Klinkit".

Interestingly, Welsh does have it. They usually spell it "ll", as in Lloyd ("Hloyd"). English speakers generally drop the "h" part in that case.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 25, 2022 12:26 AM (l6zMc)

722 >There is another Cidery about 8 miles past Rickreall on Hwy 22 on the way to the coast, it is off Salt Creek Rd.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 25, 2022 12:15 AM (xhaym)

I've spotted that recently and wanted to stop in for a try next time I'm out by Dallas. Google reviews seem favorable.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 25, 2022 12:27 AM (KOooo)

723 So the tradition of hunting elk with a yummy ice cream cake is still a thing then?

You just have to find a fat elk. Feed it the ice cream cake and it will go into a diabetic coma. The rest is easy.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 25, 2022 12:27 AM (Bd6X8)

724 Not to harp on this but in persuasion, the first word matters a great deal. So even though "tons" is describing the potential, the effect is still generally a negative one.

It's like if I said (for example):

"Heavy Potential"

vs

"Amazing Potential"

They both describe the same thing, but one pings around the mind a whole lot better than the other. I like GREAT POTENTIAL as a descriptor. You're not changing the meaning, just the effect. My two cents, dear.

Posted by: ... at August 25, 2022 12:28 AM (BXxcV)

725 Cookie man, there appears to be some available

https://www.treesofantiquity.com/products/maiden-blush-apple

Posted by: Kindltot at August 25, 2022 12:28 AM (xhaym)

726 You seem pretty sane to me.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma Donald J Trump is our duly elected president at August 25, 2022 12:04 AM (l0Cy4)

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

Things have gotten so weird I can't always tell if I am seeing clearly.

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2022 12:29 AM (6RgRK)

727 >> One might even say it's geometric; a sine wave of sorts.

A double sine wave even. The vagaries of this are best explored by pondering the Equation of Time, and asking why that be:

https://tinyurl.com/pmnfha4

There are two components to that, one a sine wave with a period of one tropical year which is due the earth's elliptical orbit and varying orbital speed. The other is due to the tilt of the axis, and has a period of equinox to equinox, or roughly one half a tropical year.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 12:30 AM (Mzdiz)

728 My two cents, dear.
Posted by: ... at August 25, 2022 12:28 AM (BXxcV)

I do understand your point and will take it up with my realtor, er, my husband.

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2022 12:30 AM (6RgRK)

729 I don't mind people using 3 dollar words when regular words will do, but ya hafta know how they are used, as well as spelling correctly.

It's more obvious when writing. "What I was eluding to ..." when the proper word is alluding. Or "I don't believe in that per say.. Compliment where Complement is the right word.

Another thing is needlessly complicating things. "I'm in the process of washing my car." Yeah, it might be a process washing the car, so what? "I'm washing my car" is all that's necessary.

"Pre-registration is required". How does pre-registration differ from registration?

Sort of like "Planning ahead". Is there any other kind?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2022 12:30 AM (3m11Z)

730

Sidereal year > tropical year

Posted by: Zettai at August 25, 2022 12:31 AM (kj/CD)

731 721. Thanks for the edumacation, Rodrigo!

Posted by: Final Arbiter of Reality at August 25, 2022 12:32 AM (orvb1)

732 >> Sidereal year > tropical year

Don't forget the anomalistic year.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 12:32 AM (Mzdiz)

733 687 the guys that provided the juice were diligent. They cleaned their press every time they used it. Just ask them to do it right and you should be ok. Tell them you are making hard cider. Either way go for it. I have done it many ways, with different yeasts and other throw ins. The best by far was leaving it alone.

Posted by: Quint at August 25, 2022 12:32 AM (FR5CC)

734 "Yes, they want to destroy civilization. Plus, they must do the opposite of every one of God's commands, including "fill the earth and subdue it." Posted by: Emmie

right ... and while we have moved beyond subsistence farming, there are many "homesteaders" that have great relationships with their animals, before the "harvest" them. The "good shepherd", for example.

The bug "farmer" is just a factory, no culture, an abomination. But I kinda disagree with those that retreat to the woods to form their little survival farms, rather than participate in the necessary "revolution".

Posted by: illiniwek at August 25, 2022 12:33 AM (Cus5s)

735 Ok, here is one where I have gone 47 years without knowing what exactly it means.

'clusienne'

I have seen the word in books for decades, and by context it refers to a certain type of ornamentation?

This popped into my head when thinking of words I am not sure of. I looked up the word, and the only definition is in french, and there are images of a bunch of ornate clocks. The pronunciation I am assuming is like Clue-see-ehn.

I am assuming it has some root word from Clusium (which was an etruscan city of antiquity.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 25, 2022 12:33 AM (dNqv+)

736 Sort of like "Planning ahead". Is there any other kind?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2022 12:30 AM (3m11Z)

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I was going to do hands but I ran out of dynamite.

Posted by: Gutzon Borglum at August 25, 2022 12:33 AM (XG2Fi)

737 @727: "A double sine wave even."

Whew! I'm sure the long term orbital mechanics will project forward quite accurately using those two frequencies alone.

*glares at Jupiter*

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 25, 2022 12:34 AM (bM7vb)

738 It's pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 25, 2022 12:35 AM (63Dwl)

739 Thanks. We're over in Dallas about once a month and take the Kings Valley turn off Hwy 22. Sounds like that cidery is just past the turn off.
Posted by: Beartooth at August 25, 2022 12:24 AM (YcysM)

Past it a bit, near the new fire station and beyond Perrydale road. It is on Salt Creek which is not helpful because that parallels the highway

Posted by: Kindltot at August 25, 2022 12:35 AM (xhaym)

740 The photo log is descriptive except that it doesn't show the property. The text should only cite the positives.
Good well, new roof - whatever. Things make the buyer feel comfortable about viewing the place.

How are you able to show the property to interested buyers?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 25, 2022 12:35 AM (gi0xn)

741 >> I'm sure the long term orbital mechanics

Over long enough time scales, the solar system is utterly chaotic.

Even the most precise, PPN (parameterized post-Newton, ie GR corrections in a slick, linear form) are only good on the tens of millions of years scale into the future.

There is a small, but distinct possibility the earth and other inner planets could be ejected from the solar system within the next 1 billion years or so.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 12:38 AM (Mzdiz)

742 >>It's pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd

What song is it you wanna hear?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2022 12:39 AM (ZLI7S)

743 What song is it you wanna hear?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2022 12:39 AM (ZLI7S)

Fre' Baird.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 25, 2022 12:39 AM (dNqv+)

744 >>>What song is it you wanna hear?

>It's better if you start off with the preacher's daughter.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 25, 2022 12:41 AM (KD5bY)

745 There is a small, but distinct possibility the earth and other inner planets could be ejected from the solar system within the next 1 billion years or so.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 12:38 AM (Mzdiz)

Way to ruin a good night's sleep, dude.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 12:41 AM (tG77n)

746 Some Realtors are masters at Marketing, the art of attracting the eyes and interest of potential buyers.

Some Realtors are masters at Negotiating & Closing, the Art of the Deal, if you will. They could, quite literally, sell Ice to Eskimos, quite literally, the Art of the Deal.

Lastly, some Realtors are Master Mechanics of the Machinery of the Sale. All of the surveys, inspections, clauses, caveats, tricks of the trade after the sale, and leading to and including, the close.

Almost Never, is one single Realtor the Master of all Three Aspects of the profession.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 25, 2022 12:43 AM (tkOps)

747 Past it a bit, near the new fire station and beyond Perrydale road. It is on Salt Creek which is not helpful because that parallels the highway
Posted by: Kindltot at August 25, 2022 12:35 AM (xhaym)

Got it. I know where it is.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 25, 2022 12:45 AM (YcysM)

748 @745: "Way to ruin a good night's sleep, dude."

Plenty of not so outlandish ways to reduce that billion year time scale too. It's like spinning plates while being spun on a playground carousel. You think you've got it all balanced until you suddenly don't.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 25, 2022 12:47 AM (bM7vb)

749
I knew there was term for it, and had to look it up. Lyapunov time. That's the time period over which a dynamical system becomes chaotic. For the solar system as a while, that time is just 5 million years.

Within the Lyapunov time, your system is predictable. After that, things begin to get iffy. After so many Lyapunov times, your predictions become utter noise.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 12:47 AM (Mzdiz)

750 I do understand your point and will take it up with my realtor, er, my husband.

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2022 12:30 AM (6RgRK)

Posted by: ... at August 25, 2022 12:48 AM (BXxcV)

751 It's Lyapunov Time!!!!!! WOOOT

Posted by: ... at August 25, 2022 12:49 AM (BXxcV)

752 >> Way to ruin a good night's sleep, dude.

Reminds of the story (true, of course!) of the young freshmen in an astronomy class. The prof explains the Sun will go red giant in 4 billion years or so, and swallow up the earth.

The kid freaks out, throws a shit fit. THe prof says relax, kid, 4 billion years is a very long time.

The kid says, "What? 4 billion? Whew! I thought you said only 4 million."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 12:49 AM (Mzdiz)

753 718 Hi Kindlot. My cider has been hit or miss. I have tried many variations but tried the hard way. I poured them into bottles and alllowed the co2 to create thre bubbles. There are easier ways to go. The biggie with fermentation is making sure everything is sanitary.

Outside of that, there is no good reason not to give it a try.

Posted by: Quint at August 25, 2022 12:51 AM (qEw4M)

754 There is a small, but distinct possibility the earth and other inner planets could be ejected from the solar system within the next 1 billion years or so.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 12:38 AM (Mzdiz)

Not so bad, can tour space from my couch. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2022 12:52 AM (VwHCD)

755 >Within the Lyapunov time, your system is predictable. After that, things begin to get iffy. After so many Lyapunov times, your predictions become utter noise.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 12:47 AM (Mzdiz)

Chaos theory and the N-body problem. Chaos theory in particular blew my mind when I first studied it, almost as much as quantum mechanics. I guess it's a little more mundane a topic these days.

And the idea of Earth wandering the galaxy as a rogue planet has always been super creepy. Imagine some far future aliens discovering the deep-frozen remains of whatever civilization still remains on Rogue Earth.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 25, 2022 12:52 AM (KOooo)

756 @751: "It's Lyapunov Time!!!!!! WOOOT"

Go google his wiki picture, and tell me that wouldn't be a party.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 25, 2022 12:52 AM (bM7vb)

757 Since we are pondering the end of another Summer and Jerry is on the menu

https://tinyurl.com/3jjx747j

Goodnight

Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2022 12:53 AM (ZLI7S)

758 There is a small, but distinct possibility the earth and other inner planets could be ejected from the solar system within the next 1 billion years or so.

Note to future generations, pay the rent.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 25, 2022 12:55 AM (Bd6X8)

759 Way to ruin a good night's sleep, dude."

Biden has the football. Goodnight.

Posted by: Bosk at August 25, 2022 12:56 AM (yh68b)

760 @759: "Biden has the football. Goodnight."

Worse, he thinks it's a grapefruit.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 25, 2022 12:57 AM (bM7vb)

761
Oh, no, Brandon's trying to take a shit in the football again!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 12:59 AM (Mzdiz)

762 I'm no realty expert, but I do understand the mind.
Posted by: ... at August 25, 2022 12:24 AM (BXxcV)

My husband likes your idea. He'll probably edit the listing tomorrow. Thank you!

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2022 01:00 AM (6RgRK)

763
Speaking of lunatics, Gary Busey, you may have heard has been charged with sexual misconduct. He apparently groped and was rude, crude, and lewd with at least 3 womyns at some "Monster Con" thing.

Well, a few days later, he was back in business:

https://tinyurl.com/2pyr6lvv

He dropped his pants and sat on a park bench, like he was taking a dump. While smoking a cigar.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 01:01 AM (Mzdiz)

764 That isn't parking for people who twerk at barbecues, it's parking for people who fart at babies

Posted by: azjaeger at August 25, 2022 01:02 AM (3/XaG)

765 552 some who have only read and not heard the word "misled" were "'MY-zzled"
Posted by: Vox Clamantis at August 24, 2022 11:26 PM

That was the beginning of the end for Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 25, 2022 01:03 AM (rbKZ6)

766 It's Lyapunov Time!!!!!! WOOOT
Posted by: ... at August 25, 2022 12:49 AM (BXxcV)

Sounds like the intro to a Motown dance hit:

"It's Lyapunov Time! Hey now, hey now. It's Lyapunov Time."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 01:03 AM (U8zjK)

767
Well, that explains Gary Busey. In that article, his son from a previous marriage tells what happens. Gary was in a motorcycle crash in 1988 and suffered severe head injury. The son said he never was the same after that, and that he considers he lost his father in 1988.

Ding, ding, ding, that explains Gary Busey.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 01:03 AM (Mzdiz)

768 Multnomah is just weird.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 24, 2022 10:33 PM (9WSy4)

Willamette is weird. As is Champoeg

Posted by: Kindltot at August 25, 2022 01:05 AM (xhaym)

769 "What do you consider to be the date or milestone for when the change of seasons from Summer to Fall starts?"

When the hobo spiders come inside.

Posted by: wodun at August 25, 2022 01:05 AM (lFga6)

770
Lyapunov suffered a tragic end. His wife died of the consumption, and he blew his brains out.

But yeah, he looks lit. I bet he could put away some vodka in his heyday.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 01:07 AM (Mzdiz)

771 within the next 1 billion years or so.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 12:38 AM (Mzdiz)

Not so bad, can tour space from my couch. lol
Posted by: Berserker
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Also means you have time to finish the kitchen.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2022 01:07 AM (vDH+g)

772 "What do you consider to be the date or milestone for when the change of seasons from Summer to Fall starts?"
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The day that I fire up the boiler, because it got too cool in the house the night before.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2022 01:09 AM (WxuR2)

773 Busey needs a keeper.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 25, 2022 01:09 AM (gi0xn)

774 Where's Electric Vehicle Guy when you need him? I worked on an E-lectric Vee-hickel today. A Sears Roebuck "adult tricycle" with an electric motor that drives the front wheel by means of a roller driving the front wheel. The "clutch" lever that forces the roller down onto the tire was bent and useless, and I straightened it, and took a few excess inches out of the cable, too. It's either all on or all off; no throttle. I did get it rolling, and it rode me around the yard at maybe 10 miles per hour, at best. Faster than walking, but not by a whole lot. Would likely do better on smooth pavement. Also the front tire is old and hard, and weather-checked; the friction drive would likely work much better with a new tire.

The pedal drive has a high and low gear, too. That works fine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 01:11 AM (U8zjK)

775 Go google his wiki picture, and tell me that wouldn't be a party.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 25, 2022 12:52 AM (bM7vb)

Seriously though.

Posted by: ... at August 25, 2022 01:12 AM (BXxcV)

776 Apparently the word "cache" is pronounced "kash-ay", but I've always used "kaytch". I'm not changing my ways...

Posted by: the last to post at August 25, 2022 01:12 AM (kVT/A)

777 My husband likes your idea. He'll probably edit the listing tomorrow. Thank you!

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2022 01:00 AM (6RgRK)

Excellent. Good man.

Posted by: ... at August 25, 2022 01:13 AM (BXxcV)

778 "What do you consider to be the date or milestone for when the change of seasons from Summer to Fall starts?"
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The day that I fire up the boiler, because it got too cool in the house the night before.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2022 01:09 AM (WxuR2)

Around here, I consider the end of summer as being the first frost. When T-shirt weather changes to sweatshirt weather.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 01:14 AM (U8zjK)

779 In the west, Cache is pronounced "Cash"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 25, 2022 01:16 AM (xhaym)

780
Aetius451AD

Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of clusienne in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of clusienne in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

No need to thank me ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at August 25, 2022 01:16 AM (pNxlR)

781 Thank you, beloved Horde, for your encouraging words and ideas! You all are the best and I'm so grateful I can share my concerns with you.

It's time to close my eyes for the night. Remember to be strong and courageous! I will keep this in mind as well.

I leave you with a thought my husband shared with me from Psalm 94:

If I should say, "My foot has slipped," Thy lovingkindness, O LORD, will hold me up. When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Thy consolations delight my soul.

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2022 01:16 AM (6RgRK)

782
Astronomical seasons are defined by the equinoxes and solstices. Astronomical summer beings on the day of the summer solstice, Fall begins on the day of the fall equinox.

Meteorological seasons are defined by month. Summer is June, July and August. Fall is Sept, Oct, Nov. Winter is Dec, Jan, and Feb. Spring is March, April and May.

I did not know about the meteorological seasons until my cousin, the re-tard meteorologist told me one time. I should have known that. Anyway, I think that's the best, actually. For the Southern hemisphere, just shift that 6 months in phase.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 01:16 AM (Mzdiz)

783 Fall is when the frosts start. And when the cats start getting needy and like being inside

Posted by: Kindltot at August 25, 2022 01:17 AM (xhaym)

784 Cache: "cash". A hiding place for stored goodies. Or a mountain pass (french) e.g. "Tete Jaune Cache" is Yellowhead Pass.

Cachet: "cash-ay" sort of an implied attribute of exclusivity.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 01:18 AM (U8zjK)

785 . . . And when the rains start.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 25, 2022 01:18 AM (xhaym)

786 Also means you have time to finish the kitchen.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2022 01:07 AM (vDH+g)

Yeah, this thing is kicking my ass. When I used to do this shit they weren't as elaborate as they are now, so there's a billion steps, and you have to think 10 steps ahead. I'm probably halfway done with the whole project.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2022 01:18 AM (VwHCD)

787 Well, that explains Gary Busey. In that article, his son from a previous marriage tells what happens. Gary was in a motorcycle crash in 1988 and suffered severe head injury. The son said he never was the same after that, and that he considers he lost his father in 1988.

Ding, ding, ding, that explains Gary Busey.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 01:03 AM (Mzdiz)

I remember when that happened. Its a miracle he didn't die. No helmet and I think his head hit the curb or some shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2022 01:19 AM (VwHCD)

788 Here I was making a lame grapefruit joke, and a few minutes later, I kicked a homeless man outta my apartment entryway while he was eating, yes, a grapefruit.

The universe is delightfully weird sometimes.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 25, 2022 01:20 AM (bM7vb)

789 How do do pronounce Niagara?

South of the 43rd.

We gain or lose (aprox) 3 minutes per day.

Gain or lose (aprox) 20 minutes per week.

It's a awesome place.

Posted by: Niagara Falls at August 25, 2022 01:21 AM (255p5)

790 Here I was making a lame grapefruit joke, and a few minutes later, I kicked a homeless man outta my apartment entryway while he was eating, yes, a grapefruit.

The universe is delightfully weird sometimes.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 25, 2022 01:20 AM (bM7vb)

Was he using one of those little spoons with the saw teeth on one edge?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 01:21 AM (U8zjK)

791 Speaking of falling, I took a dive in the hallway last night. Had a dizzy spell and took a chunk out of my hand. Being sick sucks.

Posted by: Infidel at August 25, 2022 01:22 AM (QgnTJ)

792 See!

Got me all flustered with your......

"nazi" grammer!

Posted by: Niagara Falls at August 25, 2022 01:23 AM (255p5)

793
The highest point in the state of Delaware is a speed bump in a road through a trailer park.

My "WTF Driving Tours" feature this geographical marvel. As I drive over it, I ask my baffled customers, "Do you know what we just did?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at August 25, 2022 01:24 AM (pNxlR)

794
If you read the Daily Mail article on Gary Busey, he did a stint on GEOTUS's "Apprentice".

Ol' Gary actually grabbed a woman by the pussy, and told her "I'm gonna tickle you 'til you pee!"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 01:25 AM (Mzdiz)

795 If only, AOP, and maybe one of those little cups with a hard boiled egg.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 25, 2022 01:25 AM (bM7vb)

796 Speaking of falling, I took a dive in the hallway last night. Had a dizzy spell and took a chunk out of my hand. Being sick sucks.
Posted by: Infidel at August 25, 2022 01:22 AM (QgnTJ)

Well, as long as you are feeling dizzy, here's some Dizzy:

https://youtu.be/vfQrZKyKhFk

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 01:26 AM (U8zjK)

797 lol, that gentleman has some cheeks. Nice song.

Posted by: Infidel at August 25, 2022 01:28 AM (QgnTJ)

798 Married folks: Summer, her: "Ohhh, Get OFF me!"

Fall, her: *snuggles* and it's ON. Winter, her: Flannel sheets, flannel P.J.s Eighteen inches of blankets and comforters. Spring, her: "when will do the gender reveal and baby names?"

Cycle of Life.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 25, 2022 01:28 AM (tkOps)

799 Crossing the Continental Divide in Rocky Mountain National Park is a sign (reason unremembered) explaining cache and saying that it's pronounce cash ay.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 25, 2022 01:28 AM (gi0xn)

800 Ol' Gary actually grabbed a woman by the pussy, and told her "I'm gonna tickle you 'til you pee!"
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 01:25 AM (Mzdiz)

Good thing he wasn't on a golf course.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 01:29 AM (U8zjK)

801 Meatloaf and Gary Busey made for some classic television on The Apprentice.

Meatloaf was convinced that Gary Busey moved his bag of paint and...

Meatloaf went apeshit on Gary Busey. The punchline is Meatloaf had misplaced his own bag of paint. But the whole thing was stupendous. And it was a real freakout, too. Not a staged, exaggerated or TV freakout.

It turns out watching someone freak the fuck out over absolutely nothing at someone who is completely innocent is hilarious.

Posted by: ... at August 25, 2022 01:30 AM (BXxcV)

802 Posted by: Niagara Falls at August 25, 2022 01:23 AM (255p5)

Niagara Fall! Slowly I turned.....

Posted by: Larry Fine at August 25, 2022 01:30 AM (YcysM)

803 lol, that gentleman has some cheeks. Nice song.
Posted by: Infidel at August 25, 2022 01:28 AM (QgnTJ)

It's mellow, isn't it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 01:30 AM (U8zjK)

804 AOP, yes, good for sleeping.

Posted by: Infidel at August 25, 2022 01:32 AM (QgnTJ)

805 Superfluous ("super fluous")

I knew what that word was in 6th grade but had no idea how it was pronounced until I was an adult. Good thing I never had to say it.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 25, 2022 01:33 AM (KAi1n)

806 This evening I found a 2mm oval on my abdomen, slightly raised, slightly lumpy, dark reddish-purple, and naturally I'm concerned it's a -noma. Sent pics to my dermatologist. Ugh.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 25, 2022 01:37 AM (KAi1n)

807 This evening I found a 2mm oval on my abdomen, slightly raised, slightly lumpy, dark reddish-purple, and naturally I'm concerned it's a -noma. Sent pics to my dermatologist. Ugh.
Posted by: SFGoth at August 25, 2022 01:37 AM (KAi1n)

Hopefully just a roach burn.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 01:38 AM (U8zjK)

808 # 802

Will not even pronounce Niagara right,

Let alone "fall"

This is an epic Thread!

Thank You Mr BM.

The politics are getting worse,

the blogs are getting better?

Posted by: Niagara Falls at August 25, 2022 01:41 AM (255p5)

809 I managed to find some bars that were still open. A woman I had never seen before bought me tequila.So overall, it was a good evening.
Good night horde!

Posted by: Theodore at August 25, 2022 01:42 AM (+26ge)

810 SFgoth. Sounds like a bedbug bite.

You are, after all, living in the BedBug Capitol of the USA.

That said, if it's a bedbuganoma, well.. can I have your stuff?

/s

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 25, 2022 01:42 AM (tkOps)

811 This evening I found a 2mm oval on my abdomen, slightly raised, slightly lumpy, dark reddish-purple, and naturally I'm concerned it's a -noma. Sent pics to my dermatologist. Ugh.
Posted by: SFGoth at August 25, 2022 01:37 AM (KAi1n)

Hopefully just a roach burn.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 01:38 AM (U8zjK)

Hmm, I wonder if that explains the occasional mystery micro holes I find in my shirts. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2022 01:43 AM (VwHCD)

812 306 In Oxford, Magdalen College (Mawdlin) is on Magdalen street (Mag da lin).

Not to be confused with Magdalene.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 24, 2022 10:47 PM (1mIG+)
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Not as gppd as the above but the Chemistry Department at Harvard is on Oxford Street in Cambridge (MA)

Posted by: Ciampino - what's in a name at August 25, 2022 01:44 AM (qfLjt)

813 806 Arne't you glad the republicans weren't able to do away with medicare for being socialized medicine.

Posted by: raimondo at August 25, 2022 01:44 AM (qnDws)

814 Hmm, I wonder if that explains the occasional mystery micro holes I find in my shirts. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2022 01:43 AM (VwHCD)

Isn't Smallville in New Jersey?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 01:46 AM (U8zjK)

815
As I get older, I find the occurrence rate of these strange wounds and bruises the origin of which is unknown is increasing.

Where did that come from? What did I do? Little fire ant pustules are common. I don't even feel 'em when they happen, but notice 'em later.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 01:46 AM (Mzdiz)

816 Blue mole on the back of my arm. Visited the dermatologist last Friday. She used something that looked like a miniature ice cream scoop.

I now have an circular notch and the blue mole is going to biopsy.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 25, 2022 01:47 AM (gi0xn)

817 The older you get the thinner the skin. I get little bruises all the time and have no idea why. Although the one on my had bled and looks nasty.

Posted by: Infidel at August 25, 2022 01:48 AM (QgnTJ)

818 Arne't you glad the republicans weren't able to do away with medicare for being socialized medicine.
Posted by: raimondo at August 25, 2022 01:44 AM (qnDws)

If he had to rely upon socialized medicine, he'd be given a prescription for medically-assisted suicide. Which is an option that's open to you, yannow.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 01:48 AM (U8zjK)

819 Isn't Smallville in New Jersey?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 01:46 AM (U8zjK)

Hmm, I know we got a smithville, its a historic little town. Never been there but the pictures are nice.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2022 01:48 AM (VwHCD)

820 had=hand

Posted by: Infidel at August 25, 2022 01:49 AM (QgnTJ)

821
The Lyapunov time of Raimondo's brain has to be in microseconds.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 01:50 AM (Mzdiz)

822 I know of an office located at 20 20th Street, which would not be so odd except that it is the *only* numbered street in the whole town, and '20' is the only address on that street.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2022 01:50 AM (aSWOS)

823 821
The Lyapunov time of Raimondo's brain has to be in microseconds.
Posted by: publius
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Unstable.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2022 01:52 AM (aSWOS)

824 Hmm, I know we got a smithville, its a historic little town. Never been there but the pictures are nice.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2022 01:48 AM (VwHCD)

It was a reference to "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" by Larry Niven.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 01:52 AM (U8zjK)

825 343 The mother of my best friend when I was growing up called her sofa a Davenport. That's the only time I've ever heard that. Where does that originate from?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 24, 2022 10:52 PM (KOooo)
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English. A davenport is a sofa that opens up into a bed.

Posted by: Ciampino - have slept on many a davenport at August 25, 2022 01:52 AM (qfLjt)

826 # 907 (AOP)
Your a Cynic after my own heart.

I met a gut's "girlfriend" in OK one time.

Asked, Why are there no trees?

Duh!

It's farm land.

Posted by: Niagara Falls at August 25, 2022 01:53 AM (255p5)

827 Moonbeam, indeed it was. In my case it was the beginning of Debby Doberman Schultz.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 25, 2022 01:54 AM (a4EWo)

828 Again with the cider mafia!

Posted by: Niagara Falls at August 25, 2022 01:55 AM (255p5)

829
*?*

Why would rainmandodo assume that SF is somehow dependent upon Medicare?

Projection?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2022 01:56 AM (NZ1lp)

830 English. A davenport is a sofa that opens up into a bed.
Posted by: Ciampino

The only davenport I saw was one in Sumas, WA. Pull it down and the back and seat made the bed. I think it was green.

Posted by: Infidel at August 25, 2022 01:56 AM (QgnTJ)

831 The clapper is ratcheting into position.
Y'all have a good evening.
'night.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 25, 2022 01:58 AM (gi0xn)

832 As I get older, I find the occurrence rate of these strange wounds and bruises the origin of which is unknown is increasing.

Where did that come from? What did I do? Little fire ant pustules are common. I don't even feel 'em when they happen, but notice 'em later.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 01:46 AM (Mzdiz

Between the harleys and working on the house I get all kinds of strange wounds. At this point I stop looking. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2022 02:00 AM (VwHCD)

833 Night, Braenyard.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 02:00 AM (U8zjK)

834 Hopefully just a roach burn.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Considering that I don't smoke....

Posted by: SFGoth at August 25, 2022 02:00 AM (KAi1n)

835 I've only heard them referred to as 'convertibles'. I'm old enough to remember the radio jingle for Castro Convertibles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNq0Umgvkas

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2022 02:00 AM (NZ1lp)

836 Between the harleys and working on the house I get all kinds of strange wounds. At this point I stop looking. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2022 02:00 AM (VwHCD)

I get these little burns on my feet, where a drop of welding slag falls into my shoe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 02:01 AM (U8zjK)

837 Rainmondo stuck his head into the Large Hadron Collider in Bern, Switzerland.

The particles didn't hit a damned thing.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 25, 2022 02:02 AM (tkOps)

838 I get these little burns on my feet, where a drop of welding slag falls into my shoe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 02:01 AM (U8zjK)

I hate that shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2022 02:02 AM (VwHCD)

839 358 Fall is anglo
Autumn is Latin

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 24, 2022 10:54 PM (gi0xn)
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Nope, Fall is American and Autumn is British (and from Latin).

Posted by: Ciampino - something about the Autumn of my despair? at August 25, 2022 02:03 AM (qfLjt)

840 Arne't you glad the republicans weren't able to do away with medicare for being socialized medicine.
Posted by: raimondo

I'm not on medicare. I pay $387/month (and that's going to go up substantially now that I'm actually starting to make some money again).

Posted by: SFGoth at August 25, 2022 02:03 AM (KAi1n)

841 I hate that shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2022 02:02 AM (VwHCD)

I have socks with matching holes!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 02:03 AM (U8zjK)

842 I have socks with matching holes!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 02:03 AM (U8zjK)

I was torque boxing a set of lower control arms for my roadrunner, and didn't wear a long sleeve shirt. Yeah, stupid. Looked like I had a million bug bites. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2022 02:05 AM (VwHCD)

843
Also, blood spots. Where did that come from? It's a mystery.

Welding burns. When I was young and learning, I used to suit up pretty good. I'd put on a denim jacket to keep the sparks and shit from hitting my delicate skin.

As I got older, and my heat tolerance decreased, I said fuck that, and began welding in my shirt sleeves. The discomfort of a few hot sparks hitting my skin was less than the heat of of hot summer day.

One time, I fucked up. I got some hard-facing rods to play, and decided I was gonna hard-face me some bush hog blades, and see how that did.

I did some prolonged welding in my shirt sleeves, laying down hard face beads on the edges of six big blades for the 15' bush hog.

Well, that night, I realized I had the worst sun burn on my arms I'd ever had in my life. It was a bitch.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 02:06 AM (Mzdiz)

844 Years of welding teaches one to not fear frying bacon in the nude.

It's hardly a bother.

*does St. Vitus' dance when bacon grease blesses the dangly bits!* lol

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 25, 2022 02:07 AM (tkOps)

845 # 838

We used to call them "skylabs".

Posted by: Niagara Falls at August 25, 2022 02:08 AM (255p5)

846 One time, I fucked up. I got some hard-facing rods to play, and decided I was gonna hard-face me some bush hog blades, and see how that did.

I did some prolonged welding in my shirt sleeves, laying down hard face beads on the edges of six big blades for the 15' bush hog.

Well, that night, I realized I had the worst sun burn on my arms I'd ever had in my life. It was a bitch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 02:06 AM (Mzdiz)

Did the hard-facing do any good? I have some hard-face electrodes. Maybe i could do the blades on the Dixon mower?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 02:09 AM (U8zjK)

847 Blessed Gamble Rogers had a song:

Is it peecan or pecon?

It depends on where your from...

Posted by: pawn at August 25, 2022 02:09 AM (wsHtO)

848 All kidding aside.

Have it checked.

We need you in this fight.

Posted by: Niagara Falls at August 25, 2022 02:10 AM (255p5)

849 I knew there was term for it, and had to look it up. Lyapunov time. That's the time period over which a dynamical system becomes chaotic. For the solar system as a while, that time is just 5 million years.

Within the Lyapunov time, your system is predictable. After that, things begin to get iffy. After so many Lyapunov times, your predictions become utter noise.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 12:4
---
Who the f#ck thinks up this stuff and who pays them? Predictions about 5 million yrs rank in the Nostradamus category.

Posted by: Farmer at August 25, 2022 02:10 AM (55Qr6)

850 I know of an office located at 20 20th Street, which would not be so odd except that it is the *only* numbered street in the whole town, and '20' is the only address on that street.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Just north of the city limits of Motley, MN, is 126th street.

Just south of the city limits, 385th street.

The distance between them is about 2 miles. About 700 people live in Motley.

Posted by: mikeski at August 25, 2022 02:10 AM (P1f+c)

851 I set my father on fire with a plumbing torch on a job one day. He was on a step stool soldering a pipe in a basement and handed me the torch. I brain farted and was watching what he was doing instead of where the torch was pointing and didn't realize I started burning a 3 inch hole in his flannel shirt and just started burning through his T shirt. I looks down and starts patting the burning spot on his side and calmly says Hey, hey, you got me on fire here. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2022 02:11 AM (VwHCD)

852 >> Did the hard-facing do any good? I have some hard-face electrodes.

Yes, they did. Sharpening it is a bitch, of course. Tiny little dull red sparks with the side grinder to put an edge on it. So try to get as sharp shaped as you can with the hard facing.

It's pretty brittle, depending, and hitting a rock can knock some chunks out of it. You want hard, but no too hard.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 02:11 AM (Mzdiz)

853 We need you in this fight.

Posted by: Niagara Falls at August 25, 2022 02:10 AM (255p5)

Seconded!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 02:12 AM (U8zjK)

854 About 10 days ago we had:
Can you deliberate to deliberately deliberate to deliberate without a quorum? Deliberately?

Posted by: Ciampino - yes, done on purpose at August 25, 2022 02:12 AM (qfLjt)

855 Shop teacher 8th grade caught his lab coat on fire using an arc welder. "Mr. Gribble. Mr. Gribble! MR. GRIBBLE!!!" He was ok though his psyche was horrifically scarred from mortification.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 25, 2022 02:13 AM (KAi1n)

856 Bers and Jim are both here! You know we three are supposed to share a booze box drink at the MoMe right?? I only mention this because my Old Overholt is now gone.

publius, All this talk tonight about cider and you failed to mention the Columbo episode with the hanging of the cider solving the mystery, you must have a wedding on your mind, please give Miley my best.

Infidel, I hope that you feel better soon.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 25, 2022 02:14 AM (a4EWo)

857 >> All this talk tonight about cider and you failed to mention the Columbo episode with the hanging of the cider solving the mystery,

I actually did think of it, just didn't post anything. Any time I hear "cider" I think of Patrick McGoohan and Columbo and the cannon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 02:15 AM (Mzdiz)

858 Bers and Jim are both here! You know we three are supposed to share a booze box drink at the MoMe right?? I only mention this because my Old Overholt is now gone.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 25, 2022 02:14 AM (a4EWo)

Doona you worry, we goonna share a shit load of drinks.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2022 02:15 AM (VwHCD)

859 ..It's pretty brittle, depending, and hitting a rock can knock some chunks out of it. You want hard, but no too hard. Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 02:11 AM (Mzdiz)

Air-Temper that shit. Rosebud torch, moving the length constantly. When light amber color appears, remove heat, and let cool.

It'll still be hard and strong. But it'll lose some of that brittle, in the process.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 25, 2022 02:15 AM (tkOps)

860
Miley has been dead asleep since about 8PM. She had to take my mother to a doc's appointment, then had her own dentist's appointment this afternoon. She said she was gonna take a nap. And that nap is still going, and will last until morning.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 02:17 AM (Mzdiz)

861 Thanks Debby. Just really tired, but not sleepy. I know I need to go to bed. the garage door opener repair guy is coming tomorrow. Drinking a little whiskey to relax.

Posted by: Infidel at August 25, 2022 02:17 AM (QgnTJ)

862 well

The Enemy flak was dispersed, but ultimately effective.

I managed to crash land near a small Hungarian village.

There is this one cute girl, who smiles at me.

This might work

Posted by: Oliver Wendel Miklos at August 25, 2022 02:19 AM (LyVHa)

863 I peaked and stand corrected:

It must be recognized that they and we, in parting some hundreds of years ago, started on slightly divergent roads in language long before we did so in politics. In the details of divergence, they have sometimes had the better of us. Fall is better on the merits than autumn, in every way: it is short, Saxon (like the other three season names), picturesque; it reveals its derivation to every one who uses it, not to the scholar only, like autumn; and we once had as good a right to it as the Americans; but we have chosen to let the right lapse, and to use the word now is no better than larceny.
_ Reference > H.W. Fowler > The King’s English, 2nd ed. - AMERICANISMS

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 25, 2022 02:19 AM (gi0xn)

864 Debbie Doberman. I remember that promise. I'll buy the box wine. White, Red or WTF?

Regardless, ANY time me and Berserker are hangin' out, there's GOING to be some drinking going on. It is written in the Horde Style Guide.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 25, 2022 02:20 AM (tkOps)

865 "It never fails to fail to fail"

(That's a lyric from "Ragamuffin Dumplin' " by Stalk-Forrest Group, circa 1970.)

Posted by: SFGoth at August 25, 2022 02:20 AM (KAi1n)

866 >>>Also, what is the plural possessive? Attorneys General’s? Attorneys’ General?

Whoa! You guys really know how to party.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 25, 2022 02:21 AM (yHsuS)

867 Thanks Debby.

The World thanks Debby

We lubb our Deebees

*NO SNARK*

Posted by: Actual miklos at August 25, 2022 02:25 AM (LyVHa)

868 Hopefully just a roach burn.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 01:38

LMAO AOP, good one.

Posted by: Farmer at August 25, 2022 02:26 AM (55Qr6)

869
Whatever you do, never weld with tennis shoes, or running shoes. I've never made that mistake, always wear some heavy work boots.

Little sparks aren't a problem, but the occasional big glob of molten shit is, especially when trying to weld upside down, or sideways.

One of those globs lands on your shoes, if they're tennis shoes, it will burn right through, stick, and sit on the top side of your foot and you've got problems.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 02:27 AM (Mzdiz)

870 DDS

Brings the "heat".

Posted by: Niagara Falls at August 25, 2022 02:29 AM (255p5)

871 Knew a guy who was welding beams high on a skyscraper, when his beard caught fire. It was pretty funny hearing him talk about it later...after the fact.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2022 02:30 AM (aSWOS)

872 Shop teacher 8th grade
Posted by: SFGoth

That could easily be a 1000 co0mmnet thread.

Now about my shop teacher, who knew how to blow commie snipers out of trees with Grenade Projector.

Posted by: iklos was trained reasonably well at August 25, 2022 02:31 AM (LyVHa)

873 Miklos, How are you doing, how is Mama, not pickling any more of your produce too early I hope.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 25, 2022 02:32 AM (a4EWo)

874 publius. I've always been pretty good with a Long Arm Extension technique, and keeping my body, legs and feet out of the shower zone.

That said, I've NEVER done "production" welding, where you've just got to run bead until you can't run bead no more.

There are differences, and I RESPECT those differences.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 25, 2022 02:32 AM (tkOps)

875 Now about my shop teacher, who knew how to blow commie snipers out of trees with Grenade Projector.
Posted by: iklos

Those would be good stories.

Posted by: Infidel at August 25, 2022 02:33 AM (QgnTJ)

876 Well, it's past 0030 here. Time for me to get some shuteye. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2022 02:34 AM (U8zjK)

877 Those would be good stories.
Posted by: Infidel

Very Short Stories

Only the Aftermath important

Posted by: iklos was trained to remember at August 25, 2022 02:35 AM (LyVHa)

878 Night, AOP.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 25, 2022 02:35 AM (a4EWo)

879 I said "Aftermath".

Sorry

Posted by: NO MATH MIKLOS at August 25, 2022 02:36 AM (LyVHa)

880 You know Publius, I'm Impressed.

You've done the right thing.

Ace first banned me in 20008.

For calling micheal a "wookie" or "klingon".

I can't remember.

Just as time machines were being developed.

Posted by: Niagara Falls at August 25, 2022 02:40 AM (255p5)

881 How are you doing, how is Mama, not pickling any more of your produce too early I hope.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

*prays on knees for Miz Doberman, I pray a Lot*

Well.

Old Mama is getting new help, hip replacement , and I am going camping and goulash cooking and then to a Making an honest Man and Woman of Each Other type event.

Posted by: Miklos, more honest, nicer, and less handsome that they say at August 25, 2022 02:43 AM (LyVHa)

882 Those pothole mosaics: After they wear down a bit, I can see the little pieces go flying when tires get purchase on them.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2022 02:44 AM (1vmZ4)

883 Ace first banned me in 20008.

Just as time machines were being developed.
Posted by: Niagara Fall

"in the Year 2525, if Comments are still alive..."

Posted by: The Former and Future miklos at August 25, 2022 02:46 AM (LyVHa)

884 >> Making an honest Man and Woman of Each Other type event.

Sweet corn, and okra is on the menu. I put bacon grease in the corn. Some like butter, good yellow Irish butter. I can do that if preferred over the bacon grease.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 02:46 AM (Mzdiz)

885 As an owner of a restaurant in the suburbs of Portland I can say it even sucks out there. Inflation is hurting people bad in the burbs. In Portland I have a pop up that sells once a week. On this last nice sunny August Saturday I was down around %80 in sales over pre Trump riot times.

Posted by: KarlHungus at August 25, 2022 02:48 AM (3facv)

886
The okra will keep going until the first frost, so we can do some fresh okra, fried. I think that night of the Honest Making, we'll have some broiled catfish, sweet corn, okra, and something else. Some boiled okra, little tender pods if you like that, slathered in Irish butter.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 02:49 AM (Mzdiz)

887 ..I put bacon grease in the corn. Some like butter, good yellow Irish butter. I can do that if preferred over the bacon grease. Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 02:46 AM (Mzdiz)

50/50, melt it in a saucepan, apply liberally. Embrace the healing power of "and" !

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 25, 2022 02:50 AM (tkOps)

888 149 Me: "F-a-c-e-t-i-o-u-s."
Posted by: Pascal at August 24, 2022 10:23 PM (JPCC1)

This is the only English word with all five vowels in alphabetical order.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 24, 2022 10:24 PM (llON

Well, that's cool.

Posted by: m at August 25, 2022 02:52 AM (1vmZ4)

889 I used to drive up the 'charles' river unhindered.

I miss those days.

Young and stupid,
full of bravado.

I just wanted to be left alone.

they have other plans.

Posted by: Niagara Falls at August 25, 2022 02:54 AM (255p5)

890 1000 is possible

If necessary, I will invite the mathematics Faculty.

And Philosophers from Wollamallo.

Questions.

Answers.

It's already mid-morning for us.

Posted by: Do not tempt the happy Fun University of Miklos ball at August 25, 2022 02:59 AM (LyVHa)

891 >> Embrace the healing power of "and" !

I think I will.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 02:59 AM (Mzdiz)

892 885 not to shame you. I have been in the swamp of dc. Butt that area is to me what the devil’s arsehole is. There are parts of Hell I would prefer to the Swamp. In the end we make our own choices though I have been around. When I leave DC will be in my rear view mirror. Portland would be about 100 on a map of the 100 places I would go to.

Posted by: Quint at August 25, 2022 03:01 AM (O/xv0)

893 Unencumbered.

Posted by: Niagara Falls at August 25, 2022 03:02 AM (255p5)

894
I've got 4 rows of okra out in the garden. Two of those are pretty big and foliated nicely. Other two seem sort of short. But the poorer looking rows are putting on as much as the big ones. Go figure.

I need some lime on the garden spot. I'm gonna make another garden spot next year. I'll use both. What I need to do is get some soil tests to Clempson Cow Collidge Extensionmum Service. I know it needs lime, may need some other shit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 03:02 AM (Mzdiz)

895 https://youtu.be/5apEctKwiD8

That's for you, Niagara Falls.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 25, 2022 03:05 AM (a4EWo)

896 Unencumbered.
Posted by: Niagara Falls

Cucumbers

Thanks, picklin' time

Posted by: Miklos notes that "Cucumber season" is about politics at August 25, 2022 03:05 AM (LyVHa)

897
Old joke about Clempson Cow Collidge Extensiomum Service. Story was they're getting sort of peeved at all these suburban gardener types with little plots asking them all sorts of questions and stuff. Like why are my 'maters not doing right. Well, ma'am, could be all sorts of things. You need a soil test.

So, one time, a couple of Caronlina Gamecocks boys decided to start raising chickens. They got 'em some eggs and planted them. Eggs didn't come up with any chickens. One of the Gamecock boys said maybe we planted the eggs upside down. So they got 'em another batch of eggs and planted them the other side up.

Still didn't come up. They hated to do it, 'cause Clempson rivalry and all, but they asked the Clempson Cow Extension agent what might be wrong.

He listened to the story, and said, "Well, boys, I cain't tell you nothing without a soil test."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 03:09 AM (Mzdiz)

898 THERE SHALL BE 1000 COMMENTS

IS THE WAY OF OUR PEOPLE

Posted by: Skip's Viking Ancestors at August 25, 2022 03:09 AM (LyVHa)

899 e listened to the story, and said, "Well, boys, I cain't tell you nothing without a soil test."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

Tulane and LSU have better "Culture vs. Agriculture " jokes.

Posted by: Nitrogenated Dr. Miklos, kinda Gamecock too at August 25, 2022 03:16 AM (LyVHa)

900 He listened to the story, and said, "Well, boys, I cain't tell you nothing without a soil test."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

After a moment, I expected the Carolina/Clempson story about the two story outhouse

Posted by: Miklos searrches braaaiin at August 25, 2022 03:20 AM (LyVHa)

901 Miklos, I am really glad that you are getting a respite, long overdue for you. Enjoy your camping and your goulash and your wedding.

Good morning, Skip, fire up some breakfast and let's get to 1000.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 25, 2022 03:21 AM (a4EWo)

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Posted by: Sarah at August 25, 2022 03:21 AM (rahkI)

903 No comments, Ima hafta burn all y'all on boats.

Tear It Up, It's paid for

Posted by: Redneck Vikings at August 25, 2022 03:23 AM (LyVHa)

904
I like the jokes where it starts out that one is really stupid, but the punch line is the other is even stupider.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 03:24 AM (Mzdiz)

905 goulash and your wedding.

Good morning, Skip, fire up some breakfast and let's get to 1000.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

the Guyasleves is mine.\\The wedding is not

And I was being so nice

Posted by: Miklos say Lord Almighty, no Court Ordered nothing at August 25, 2022 03:26 AM (LyVHa)

906 Well if we are ever going to get to 1000, Sarah is going to have share a lot more of her business acumen with us.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 25, 2022 03:28 AM (a4EWo)

907 This.....

Is not for meet Quota

Posted by: Miklos the Stakhanovite at August 25, 2022 03:29 AM (LyVHa)

908 No offense, Portland is a shit hole, but it's where I'm at

Posted by: KarlHungus at August 25, 2022 03:29 AM (zB2xb)

909 I didn't mean your wedding, I meant the wedding at which you would be in attendance, sorry, worded poorly. Is Darleen going camping with you??

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 25, 2022 03:30 AM (a4EWo)

910
Sarah needs a soil test. Also a Lyapunov time assessment.

And maybe a cucumber.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 03:31 AM (Mzdiz)

911 Personally, I would like to be at The Bowery in Myrtle Beach.

Dollar beers, even when the Yankee my Wankees are there.

Posted by: Miklos is a modest man, who requires very little at August 25, 2022 03:32 AM (LyVHa)

912 Sarah's link was a let down, I'm still not making $88/hr..

Posted by: KarlHungus at August 25, 2022 03:33 AM (zB2xb)

913 And maybe a cucumber.
Posted by: publius, Rascally

"english seedless long cucumber"

Posted by: Miklos out at the State Farmers Market at August 25, 2022 03:35 AM (LyVHa)

914 If I have to do it myself.

Kind of like Niagara falls..........

Posted by: Water at August 25, 2022 03:35 AM (255p5)

915 Sorry Horde, my eyelids grow heavy, you'll have to reach the summit on your own. Night all.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 25, 2022 03:37 AM (a4EWo)

916 Pain is just weakness leaving the body.

Sweat is just fat crying.

C'mon you peleton fags'.

Posted by: Water at August 25, 2022 03:38 AM (255p5)

917 Wow! Busy ONT.

Mornin', all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 25, 2022 03:39 AM (E6YnX)

918 If I have to do it myself.

Kind of like Niagara falls..........
Posted by: Water

Your 10,000 dollar student barrel is covered .

Posted by: Miklos, unelected administrator at August 25, 2022 03:41 AM (LyVHa)

919 Not everyone has a furry friend.

I get it.

But hugs are important.

Posted by: The weak shall not be named at August 25, 2022 03:44 AM (255p5)

920
One time, back in the early '90s, there was some sort of strange grass weed that popped up in a certain field. When we plowed it, there was some odd, sort of spiral looking noodle things on the roots.

What the hell is that? We got the local Clempson Extenion agent out, Hank Kimball. He said, what the hell is that, too. He took a sample off, and had some big shot experts look at it.

I remember they classifed it as some "tuber nut grass". It was not known to be in our area, and I think one of 'em wrote something up about that species being first seen in this area.

Tuber nut grass. Some of it is edible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 03:45 AM (Mzdiz)

921 My Life is Insanity

*Almost all of the last of the Coffee with Chicory presented*

Posted by: Miklos, if he wants more, will apparently have to go and do it myself, but they love me so OK at August 25, 2022 03:46 AM (LyVHa)

922 You snuggle with an animal.

It's forever.

Posted by: The weak shall not be named at August 25, 2022 03:47 AM (255p5)

923 The Republic is under attack.

Zips in the wire.

Posted by: On a more serious note at August 25, 2022 03:49 AM (255p5)

924 But hugs are important.

I think I love you

Except for my parents I am still a virgin

TXT ME

Posted by: Greta Scoldberg, now legal at August 25, 2022 03:50 AM (LyVHa)

925 This is why I enjoy,

Where Eagles dare, so much.

Not fully briefed.

Brought along, just to make sure.

Posted by: On a more serious note at August 25, 2022 03:53 AM (255p5)

926

Where Eagles dare, so much.

Not fully briefed.

Brought along, just to make sure.
Posted by: On a more serious

*Clint Eastwood squint*

Posted by: Where Miklos dares at August 25, 2022 03:55 AM (LyVHa)

927 Is it, can we? run out of tribes?

Posted by: Last of the mohicans at August 25, 2022 03:58 AM (255p5)

928 pixy is not coming is he?

Posted by: Last of the mohicans at August 25, 2022 03:59 AM (255p5)

929 Is it, can we? run out of tribes?
Posted by: Last of the mohicans

paleface make joke

Posted by: The entire MOPAR division at August 25, 2022 04:01 AM (LyVHa)

930 Sometime this hour

Posted by: Skip at August 25, 2022 04:01 AM (k8B25)

931 I'm taking names and what not.

All you pretend chickens are soon to be home.

200 years is not a long time.

Posted by: Last of the mohicans at August 25, 2022 04:02 AM (255p5)

932 I keep dozing off.
Good thing for alarms.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 25, 2022 04:03 AM (E6YnX)

933 They are selling MOPAR to china.

With 1000 suns times a 1000.

Unless there is a Trump card!?

Posted by: Trump said no to MOPAR at August 25, 2022 04:05 AM (255p5)

934 msn sucks donkey dick.

Posted by: Infidel at August 25, 2022 04:06 AM (QgnTJ)

935 I must point out, That Fred Schneider of the B-53's, was a MOPAR man.

"I've got a Chrysler as big as a whale.."

All B-52's songs involve several kinds of hairdo-s and only ONE kind of car.

Posted by: The entire Miklos MOPAR division at August 25, 2022 04:06 AM (LyVHa)

936 932 I keep dozing off.
Good thing for alarms.
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 25, 2022 04:03 AM (E6YnX)

Are you hitting the snooze button?

Posted by: m at August 25, 2022 04:10 AM (1vmZ4)

937
Well, I'm about ready to go to bed. Miley just got up from her nap a few minutes ago. She got up, went in the kitchen and turned the oven on. Then she started slicing some 'maters. She's doing some dried, roasted 'maters thing.

We've got a shit ton of 'maters coming in.

We ain't normal here by a long shot. Up at 4 AM an roastin' 'maters. I'm gonna hit the sack and watch the Barnaby Jones episode on MeTV. Miley will be roastin' her 'maters.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 25, 2022 04:11 AM (Mzdiz)

938 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 25, 2022 04:11 AM (1vmZ4)

939 >>*Almost all of the last of the Coffee with Chicory presented*
Posted by: Miklos, if he wants more, will apparently have to go and do it myself, but they love me so OK at August 25, 2022 03:46 AM (LyVHa)

Thanks, Miklos. I think i'll need coffee today. (Been cutting back on coffee)

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 25, 2022 04:11 AM (E6YnX)

940 Who is quebec.

Built on stolen land.

Dominion of canada and all that

Bunch of long lots', laid out against the river.

Queen gave canada that land.

They own nothing/

Posted by: Electric at August 25, 2022 04:12 AM (255p5)

941 Everyone who comments in the next 100 comments will be be entered to win win WIN a FRee ALL or NOT Weekend at Pedro's.

Right off 95 South. or North

Posted by: Pedro and Miklos sez at August 25, 2022 04:13 AM (LyVHa)

942 >>Are you hitting the snooze button?
Posted by: m at August 25, 2022 04:10 AM (1vmZ4)

No! I have 4 alarms set. (Last one at 3 a.m.)

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 25, 2022 04:13 AM (E6YnX)

943 Late start today, nice and cool out so have window open

Posted by: Skip at August 25, 2022 04:14 AM (k8B25)

944 Windows open, even though it's raining pretty hard now. We need the rain

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 25, 2022 04:16 AM (E6YnX)

945 sarah should do it.

Take one for the team.

Posted by: I Think at August 25, 2022 04:18 AM (255p5)

946 Thanks, Miklos. I think i'll need coffee today. (Been cutting back on coffee)
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

Coffee with chicory is less strong, more calming. But still covfefe.

I will be happy to send you some.

Posted by: Miklos does not dress as well as Coffee King Harv at August 25, 2022 04:18 AM (LyVHa)

947 >>I will be happy to send you some.
Posted by: Miklos does not dress as well as Coffee King Harv

*holds coffee mug up to USB port*

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 25, 2022 04:23 AM (E6YnX)

948 Slavery is freedom

Posted by: sarah fake at August 25, 2022 04:23 AM (255p5)

949 conspirit is false info.

Posted by: sarah fake at August 25, 2022 04:25 AM (255p5)

950 Trust your gut.
It
's all fake.

Would you go over Niagara falls for you cat?

Posted by: sarah fake at August 25, 2022 04:30 AM (255p5)

951 Your driving in the wrong lane!

Posted by: newly integrated at August 25, 2022 04:32 AM (255p5)

952 I'm not getting any help at all.

This is weak I trained you all better

Posted by: kittens & unicorns at August 25, 2022 04:35 AM (255p5)

953 Would you go over Niagara falls for you cat?
Posted by: sarah fake

If the cat were named Niagara...

Posted by: Miklos inquires at August 25, 2022 04:39 AM (LyVHa)

954 Pixy will put all of this down on your Permanent Records..

Posted by: Principal Miklos at August 25, 2022 04:42 AM (LyVHa)

955 sarah

txt me now

if yer a girl or whatever

Posted by: raimondo at August 25, 2022 04:45 AM (LyVHa)

956 If the cat were named Niagara...

Who pounced a box of Viagra

Posted by: Miklos summons the Muldoon at August 25, 2022 04:48 AM (LyVHa)

957 On this Day in 1066, The Duchess of Normandy seriously pissed off the Duke.

"Fine, I'll just go fishing"

"Like in England? I hate those boats, why do you even have boats? And England. What the fuck is that"

Fucck this, conquers the Saxons 'cause dat bitch

Posted by: William the hen-pecked Norman , like every other guy named Norman at August 25, 2022 04:57 AM (LyVHa)

958 The phrase "Summertime Solders " comes mind

Posted by: Pretty nice weather here among the Valley Forge ONT patriots at August 25, 2022 05:03 AM (LyVHa)

959 Pedro Sez Quint can only take 20 minutes.

Posted by: Quint at August 25, 2022 05:05 AM (j/Hj7)

960 "let it not be said, that he said less"

Posted by: Bismarck's oration over the Tomb of the last of the Immortaal but Forgottem Miklostein at August 25, 2022 05:07 AM (LyVHa)

961 This thread is not 1000 worthy.

Your time at ONT is not finished

Grasshoppers must learn

Posted by: Blind ONT Monk Miklos at August 25, 2022 05:20 AM (LyVHa)

962 I will continue to say HY-per-boll until I'm room temperature.

Posted by: cthoms at August 25, 2022 10:41 AM (U3Aln)

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