"In English, variations tell you where people come from," says Linguistics professor Charles Boberg. As for the above sentence, most North American English speakers pronounce the words m/ary/erry/arry the same way, save for us Montrealers, who distinguish between "merry" and "marry," and our New York cousins, who differentiate them all, just like the British.
Jennifer, are you saying if we click on boo it will reduce the number of Karma points?
QuoteMerry as in berry
Mary was in wary
Marry as in carry.
Of course, if you pronounce all the second words the same way, we're back to square one.
Ahhhh!!!!!! I DO pronounce them all the same! These last two days discussions have made me decide that the Northwestern US accent has to be the most boring of all.
so all of you pronounce the name "Harry" to rhyme with "hairy"? That's just mean!
DR Andrea, if you are from Montreal then why is your Harry hairy? :)
Some of the old posters from days gone by were famous for their poop material, people like FreedUnit. He was also a cake fancier and presented us with some wonderful desserts. He popped in a couple of times a few months ago, but he seems to have fallen off the face of the Internet.
Quite frankly it feels like I've been here forever! But really I discovered this site when DR Jennifer posted on All That Chat that she was taking the banned "American Idol" talk to some weirdly named and then unknown to me site (this one in fact).
I heard about this site from DR Kerry, and wondered to myself "what can be so interesting about reading some kind of narrow grey column, with black borders, that seems to scroll on forever, written by people that you don't know??"
Happy Anniversary to us all.
.... I discovered this here site. I now come here every day. Amazing. I never thought I would be so attached to a site. I rarely read or post at other boards because there seems to be an unwritten rule that you have to be nasty and flame people. I get enough unpleasantness in the outside world. I don't want to enter into arguments and be called vile names by people I don't know just because I had the temerity to disagree with them about something. This is a very civilized place with pleasant, intelligent people and I enjoy that....
Now that you've read today's notes (you have read them, haven't you?), it is time to get this party going. Let's break more records on this, our second anniversary. Let's smash those records to smithereens, shall we?
Yes Jennifer... you are a HHW-Missionary!
Thanks! :)
But enough about me - let's have more tales! What are your favorite moments that we've had here at haineshisway.com? Tales, I say, we need tales.
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There are SEVEN LEVELS of MEMBERSHIP. This according to Br. Mark Bakalor (referencing, again, the imagery of him as Jesuit priest...possibly in charge of discipline at a Jesuit High School).
Isn't that GREAT?!! A REASON to LIVE!!!!
Levels of Membership: Br. Mark Bakalor did not say what the levels above Sr. Member are.
Is it time to SPIKE THE PUNCH???????
Levels of Membership: Br. Mark Bakalor did not say what the levels above Sr. Member are.
Ron - I believe that if you re-read that post on the Tech board, you will find that the 6th and 7th membership levels are the "Global Moderator" and "Administrator" levels reserved for the types of BK, Mr. Mark Bakalor, and Craig.
DR Ron, one of the local stations here played MY LITTLE MARGIE reruns in late afternoon hours before the local news. Then, in the late 60s, early 70s, a local CBS station started featuring old black and white TV episodes on Friday nights after the local news since CBS had no late night variety show then. MY LITTLE MARGIE was one that seemed to be asked for a lot, so I saw probably a dozen episodes of it along with old OUR MISS BROOKS, DECEMBER BRIDE, I MARRIED JOAN, BURNS AND ALLEN, and THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM. Once they had run those into the ground, they started showing old serials like FLASH GORDON which also took off in the ratings. Amazing what they used to show, all this eons before TV LAND.
My free-for-all question is: what is the "Privacy Report" subscript that appears here now before a page loads? I've never seen it on any other site.
I guess someone will find out all the levels and let us know definitively...but it seems to me that it might be more fun to wait and find out.
DR Ron - I think there is a DVD set of My Little Margie episodes, although Oh!Susanna! is only available from private collectors.
I have MLM Set 1 on Vhs....is there a particular episode you are fond of?
Now, where in tarnation is Swishy Sarah - do you think she got "found out"? Not like her to miss out on our big celebration.
Jennifer: I never get cool stuff like that in my Publi-Sac. Although since my little sister is normally the person who goes through the baggie, it's possible she is hoarding all these snacks for herself and then doesn't tell the rest of us.
There are SEVEN LEVELS of MEMBERSHIP. This according to Br. Mark Bakalor (referencing, again, the imagery of him as Jesuit priest...possibly in charge of discipline at a Jesuit High School).
Moving along, Newbie, Junior Member, Full Member and Senior Member are the first four levels.
In order to reach the 5th Level, one must exceed 500 posts!
Isn't that GREAT?!! A REASON to LIVE!!!!
Spike the punch?
Punch the Spike:
OK. You guys are getting a little weird. Even for me.Jay, we're partying! Heartily! It's an anniversary! ! !
Didn't Laura II come on (or was it Maya) and tell us that Swishy's father found out about her internet sneaking and said he would not look the other way. Then one or the other came on to say Swishy got a B in algebra and was hoping to be back on HHW in a few days. Or am I dreaming this all? :
Does anyone else think that the British version of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, even with its tiny little bit of extra footage, is superior to the American cut? When I put the DVD in, it's always the British version that I watch now.
WOW!!! It's all Washingtonians.