Topic: A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME (Read 21028 times)

George · « **Reply #60 on:** September 08, 2004, 09:32:11 AM »

And one for Mahler!

bk · « **Reply #61 on:** September 08, 2004, 09:48:16 AM »

Just booked the moving company even though we don't know exactly when the move will take place. However, they're coming tomorrow to box up all the CDs, books and DVDs plus all the junk in the garage, so all that will be left is the big stuff the day of the move. I did not want to deal with boxing up over 5000 CDs and 2000 DVDs - not my idea of a good time.

Ben · « **Reply #62 on:** September 08, 2004, 10:03:43 AM »

There is an early episode of Friends when the downstairs neighbor dies and leaves all his possessions to Rachel and Monica where Joey muses on the pronunciation of supposedly. It's a cute moment.

I, being born in the second month of the year, and being the anal retentive type that I am, always have and always will pronounce my natal month as February.

William E. Lurie · « **Reply #63 on:** September 08, 2004, 10:47:39 AM »

I made it to work. What normally is an hour and ten minutes when I can sit back and read was the subway ride from hell... three hours. If it was not the day I have to pay everyone I would not have bothered, but most of those factory workers live from day to day... and on what we pay them (no - I have no control over that) I don't know how they do it.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #64 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:00:21 AM »

Some favorite pet peeves of mispronunciation of mine:

The mispronouncing of "eclectic" with emphasis on "ec" -- as in "ek' lek tic". It should be "e 'klek tik".

And what's the damage with "jewelry"? I keep hearing folks say "jew uhl er ee" as if the word had four syllables!

Tsk!

And don't get me started on "I could care less." This, obviously, means someone does CARE a bit.

The phrase should be...ALWAYS..."I couldn't care less."

It has NO MEANING in any other form.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #65 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:03:02 AM »

Quote from: Ben on September 08, 2004, 10:03:43 AM

There is an early episode of Friends when the downstairs neighbor dies and leaves all his possessions to Rachel and Monica where Joey muses on the pronunciation of supposedly. It's a cute moment.

That was a good one. He was musing over the non-word "supposably" when the actual word wouldn't come to him.

Jane · « **Reply #66 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:07:59 AM »

Matt H I’m glad you made it through the storm okay. Continued good fortune for today.
At the time I think you made the right decision staying put in your own home.

JRand I had the same thought as WEL but decided the guy with his pants unzipped, vs the guy with the bandage must be the nerd.

Ben & Panni, thanks for the vocabulary lesson.

Michael Shayne I’m pleased your home is still standing.

Jane · « **Reply #67 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:10:09 AM »

RLP, I agree, however, I could care less just flows better than I couldn’t care less.

Bruce-good idea getting some of the packing done now, and letting the movers do the packing. Are you going to watch so everything makes it into the boxes? I doubt your CD collection will be as interesting to packers as our boy’s baseball card and comic collections were.

Jennifer · « **Reply #68 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:20:08 AM »

Can someone please stop me from hurting the waterbed man. He said he was going to give me a quote if I told him which mattress I want & my address. I gave him 2 mattresses that I was choosing from and my address. And he had the nerve to email me back asking if I could give him the mattress I want and address.

I GAVE HIM MY ADDRESS.

AND I TOLD HIM 2 MATTRESSES. CAN'T HE GIVE ME A QUOTE FOR EACH???

Jrand73 · « **Reply #69 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:23:49 AM »

Another picture and short article about THE NERD can be found here!

http://www.bannergraphic.com/

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #70 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:24:44 AM »

Pronunciation peeves:

Foilage (for foliage)
Ashphalt (for asphalt)
and, yes,
Drownded

Jane · « **Reply #71 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:25:27 AM »

Jennefier, you would think two quotes wouldn't be too difficult. I don't even know how to respond to the missing address.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #72 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:25:37 AM »

DRJENNIFER - he is a man who asked a specific question and you gave him an answer he wasn't expecting.... What can I say?

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #73 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:33:52 AM »

Nice article and picture, JRand.

The line "The nerd himself, Rick Steadman, is played by Jack Randall Earles"

made me think of "The Kid Herself" (A Flora the Red Menace (off-Broadway version) reference).

Is it okay to say "best wishes" for a rehearsal? Note, I'm not saying it - I'm asking it.

George · « **Reply #74 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:35:15 AM »

One of the women from the first season of The Apprentice was on a talk show earlier this year and said that she was "casted" in the show...for whatever reason she was "casted." She said it again in an on-line interview that I read and it even corrected her saying "you were cast because...(whatever)" and she said "Yes, they casted me..."

Jrand73 · « **Reply #75 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:39:12 AM »

Thanks DiT - I will take all the good wishes/vibes I can get. The Nerd himself....I guess that makes me the titular character, a part usually played by Jayne Mansfield.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #76 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:40:09 AM »

DRGEORGE I have heard a lot of people use "casted" that way as well. It does no good (usually) to correct said person.

Panni · « **Reply #77 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:40:29 AM »

Pronunciation... My DD spent a great deal of time with her grandmother - my mother - whom she adored. As I've posted before, my mother was a larger than life Hungarian Auntie Mame with a thick Hungarian accent. Up until a few years ago, DD, when speaking of facial hair over a man's lip would pronounce it as MOOSETASH. That's because she learned to say it as a tyke from my mother the Magyar. I never had the heart to correct her. It was so sweet.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #78 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:42:18 AM »

A house is NOT a home....

Did I miss the posted photo of the Miss Allison Hayes abode, or am I being pushy?

Jennifer · « **Reply #79 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:43:08 AM »

DR TomFrom Oz I love those garden photos!

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #80 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:46:15 AM »

http://i23.ebayimg.com/03/i/00/c1/b1/b5_1.JPG

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #81 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:47:24 AM »

Best of vibes to the titular character and the entire cast of

The Nerd

Ben · « **Reply #82 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:48:49 AM »

D-I-T, great image! I love the tag line.

"Your wife's BEST friend"

Jrand73 · « **Reply #83 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:51:29 AM »

LOL....I hope you can hear me laughing!

Jane · « **Reply #84 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:53:17 AM »

I have a friend who once in awhile has to “itch” herself. I cringe every time she says it.

JRand I can’t read the section about you. I keep getting a black band across the middle of the page.
Regarding your response to Jennifer-

Jennifer · « **Reply #85 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:54:57 AM »

Quote from: Jane on September 08, 2004, 11:25:27 AM

Jennifer, you would think two quotes wouldn't be too difficult. I don't even know how to respond to the missing address.

Well it turns out he doesn't think my city is a real city. So that was the problem with the address.

He wrote back after saying, "we need the name of city, D.D.O means nothing to us".

I'm not sure how you get quotes from UPS, Maybe I am wrong and you need to find a city that actually appears in their system.

But I suspect the guy is just unintentionally giving me a hard time. I mean I know D.D.O is an abbreviation. But I didn't just make it up to bother him.

That is what everyone uses when sending mail.

Anyhow you'd think a postal code would be enough.

Anyhow2, I told him the full name was Dollard Des Ormeaux and that it was a suburb of Montreal. That seems to have appeased him for now.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #86 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:56:05 AM »

Hmmmmmmm....DRJANE....hmmmmmmm

maybe try accessing it directly at

www.bannergraphic.com rather than using the link...but who knows?

Elan · « **Reply #87 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:56:12 AM »

Of course, regional pronounciation makes things fun. The missus, a native New Englander, has learned never to say "roof" or "broom" around me, unless she wishes to undergo much gentle mocking ("what's a 'brum'?"). Then again, I refer to the hahrible hurricane in Flahrida, which must ruin lots of ahranges (and makes my fahrhead hurt just thinking about it), so I guess I really shouldn't.

And if you wanna get snotty, you can sneer at those who pronounce the word "forte" (as in someone's strong suit) with two syllables.

William F. Orr · « **Reply #88 on:** September 08, 2004, 11:59:25 AM »

Words, words, words! (Oh, a My Fair Lady reference!)

Words, words, words. (Oh, a Hamlet reference!)

My Joe has some problems with pronunciations, which drives me absolutely buggy. Pacifically, I get almost afffixiated.

But still, he knows nuclear from "nucular", something George W. Butch hasn't yet mastered.

And of course, ever since newscasters got redfaced at their inability to distinguish U-ranus from Ur-anus, everyone has decided that Urine-us is more acceptable.

Jennifer · « **Reply #89 on:** September 08, 2004, 12:05:51 PM »

Okay just to be a smartass, I went to ups.com and put in D.D.O, which was accepted.

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