Topic: I LED THREE LIVES (Read 20928 times)

bk · « **on:** October 17, 2006, 12:14:04 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes led three lives, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're dining on a duck-billed platypus right now.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** October 17, 2006, 12:17:14 AM »

And the word of the day is: OBJURGATE!

S. Woody White · « **Reply #2 on:** October 17, 2006, 03:20:45 AM »

Casey would waltz
With a strawberry blonde
And the band would OBJURGATE
Because they thought he should let her lead every once in a while.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #3 on:** October 17, 2006, 03:54:23 AM »

It's too early. I had to get up too early today, in order to be awake when I go to work.

Phooey.

FJL · « **Reply #4 on:** October 17, 2006, 04:35:08 AM »

Early for us too. We had a delivery set for between 7:45 and 9:45, and the thing came at 7:20.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #5 on:** October 17, 2006, 04:53:03 AM »

TOD:

Too early for me, I was up very late and haven't had coffe yet. I'll have to think about the word on my drive in to work, providing I don't fall asleep.

But I will say that I am always amused by the word "phlegm" in the movie Cabaret, which Maria Schneider pronounces "fleg-um".

I'd think "phlegm" would be a dirty word to most singers!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #6 on:** October 17, 2006, 04:55:20 AM »

When I awoke this morning, I was dreaming the phrase "The later the day, the shinier the fish", which I must have made up, because it makes no sense. But it did in my dream. Perhaps it's because now I know the origins of "What is it, fish?"

td · « **Reply #7 on:** October 17, 2006, 05:33:29 AM »

like Doris, I spend a lot of time "stubulating."*

*THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT

elmore3003 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 17, 2006, 06:22:54 AM »

Good morning, all! The Mac Man came over and updated my OSX to OS10.4, and suddenly my computer is dancing around like a gazelle in a tutu. I have programs within programs, I can watch movies on my iTunes, and now I have something called a Dashboard on my dersktop: scary!

My associates in Toyland are back from Italy today and I look forward to tales and perhaps photos. There's something afoot with a recording release as well and I look forward to that news.

TOD: I need to think, so it may be a while.

Matt H. · « **Reply #9 on:** October 17, 2006, 07:18:16 AM »

Good morning!

It's gray and drizzly here, very much an autumn day. Didn't get too cold last night (50s) and isn't going very high today (low 60s), so it's just what I would expect for a mid-October day.

Matt H. · « **Reply #10 on:** October 17, 2006, 07:18:43 AM »

My favorite wacky word:

nincompoop

Matt H. · « **Reply #11 on:** October 17, 2006, 07:21:32 AM »

In the "I Told You So" Department:

ABC has picked up the new series BROTHERS & SISTERS for a full season run, the fourth new series given a full season order. This is in line with my prediction last week.

I'd say right now that 1 VS. 100 will be the next one to get picked up, but I think NBC will have to see a second week of ratings numbers on it before doing that. Last week's night winning score might have been a fluke or mere curiosity.

So, in light of that, I'll predict that the next new show to get the green light for a full season will be CBS' SHARK.

Matt H. · « **Reply #12 on:** October 17, 2006, 07:23:49 AM »

Read an interview with one of the series directors of SHowtime's DEXTER (who also directed some SIX FEET UNDER episodes as well as the feature films L.I.E. and 12 AND HOLDING). Interesting interview and makes me eager to see DEXTER first this afternoon when I fire up the home theater for afternoon viewing.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #13 on:** October 17, 2006, 07:59:51 AM »

TOD: There are so many words that amuse me that it's hard to choose. Lots of musical terms are funny to me: hypophrygian or hypomixolydian, semiquaver, melismatic...

Colloquialism is also fun to say. I saw a play once (can't remember the name but I'm dure our DR's would know) where, as a running joke, a character kept referring to words as a "local colloqualism". I liked the way that rolled off the tongue, or rather, ensnared by the tongue.

In the local colloquialism department, Greg and I often adopt words that are misprounounced by our neighbors: words like "chimbley" (chimney) and "whelps" (welts). There are so many and we use them so often that we forget that this is not how the words are pronounced. I'm waiting for the day when someone hears us talking this way and thinks we're "ignunt".

JMK · « **Reply #14 on:** October 17, 2006, 08:03:55 AM »

Syzygy

Edisaurus · « **Reply #15 on:** October 17, 2006, 08:04:11 AM »

DR Lar, congrats on graduating to a higher OS! I'm stuck with OS10.2.8 and can't upgrade until I get more projects out of my editing system. I have Tiger or whatever cat they're up to now waiting to be installed. Is it a very involved procedure or do you think a Luddite (me) could handle it?

Edisaurus · « **Reply #16 on:** October 17, 2006, 08:10:42 AM »

DR George,

I was dismayed and then immediately relieved, since I read the whole story arc of Ebonie's adventures at once. I know moving will be a difficult adjustment for my cats, especially Bailey, who is the big alpha love cat but hides under our claw foot tub when there's a hint of thunder. The new house has a tub with a skirt so he'll have to formulate a new duck-n-cover plan. And there's no logical place to put a litter box, the house is so small. They all have their separate domains in our current (also small) house, so I'm sure there will be some turf wars once we all move.

Congratulations on your new place and the re-emergence of Ebonie! Sounds like you need a trim carpenter, though. Hmmmm...o where could we find one?

Edisaurus · « **Reply #17 on:** October 17, 2006, 08:13:00 AM »

Quote from: JMK on October 17, 2006, 08:03:55 AM

Syzygy

Would you like to buy a vowel?

Edisaurus · « **Reply #18 on:** October 17, 2006, 08:23:57 AM »

Re: today's notes--

Graham Greene must have spent some time in Brighton. "Brighton Rock" is, among other things, a delicious candy confection--a hard stick about a foot long with a center the has a design running through the stick. The center has an indescribable texture. Yum! Brighton is the only place I know of where you can buy the edible Brighton Rock.

And "The End of the Affair", the movie based on GG's novel with the yummy Ralph Fiennes, had scenes that took place in Brighton. It's a wonderful little town!

Matt H. · « **Reply #19 on:** October 17, 2006, 08:27:43 AM »

DR Edie, you are very close to becoming an HHW God. (I believe it takes 501 posts to achieve that status). We look forward to your joining us in Valhalla very soon.

Jeanne · « **Reply #20 on:** October 17, 2006, 08:27:48 AM »

I'm glad I saw THE 5000 FINGERS OF DR T (thanks to this site) or I'd be quite PUZZLED indeed by Edisaurus' new avatar!

JMK · « **Reply #21 on:** October 17, 2006, 08:28:07 AM »

Quote from: Edisaurus on October 17, 2006, 08:13:00 AM

Would you like to buy a vowel?

Have you ever read that hilarious Onion article about the U.N. efforts to airlift vowels into eastern European countries?

Matt H. · « **Reply #22 on:** October 17, 2006, 08:28:43 AM »

And with that, I must head downstairs to straighten up a few things and then get lunch preparation underway.

WBBL.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #23 on:** October 17, 2006, 08:30:44 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on October 17, 2006, 08:27:43 AM

DR Edie, you are very close to becoming an HHW God. (I believe it takes 501 posts to achieve that status). We look forward to your joining us in Valhalla very soon.

Oh boy! I was wondering what it took. "Senior Member" makes me feel so OLD!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #24 on:** October 17, 2006, 08:32:51 AM »

Or maybe Sr. Member means "Señora Member"?

(racing towards God status)

Edisaurus · « **Reply #25 on:** October 17, 2006, 08:42:58 AM »

Quote from: JMK on October 17, 2006, 08:28:07 AM

Have you ever read that hilarious Onion article about the U.N. efforts to airlift vowels into eastern European countries?

No, but I'll look for it.

Love the onion...and "Cry Onion"!

Jeanne · « **Reply #26 on:** October 17, 2006, 08:45:55 AM »

Edisaurus,
Like you, I have someone I often play words game with, deliberately mispronouncing certain words. Yes, it is quite easy for the mispronounciations to become part of one's normal vocabulary! Given your examples, you must have some very colorful material to work with!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #27 on:** October 17, 2006, 08:48:03 AM »

Quote from: Jeanne on October 17, 2006, 08:27:48 AM

I'm glad I saw THE 5000 FINGERS OF DR T (thanks to this site) or I'd be quite PUZZLED indeed by Edisaurus' new avatar!

Isn't it grand? And full of more silly words than any other movie, I'm sure!

bk · « **Reply #28 on:** October 17, 2006, 09:03:52 AM »

I'm up, I'm up. Guess what awakened me? The ringing of the telephonic device, that's what.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #29 on:** October 17, 2006, 09:05:21 AM »

Quote from: Edisaurus on October 17, 2006, 07:59:51 AM

I'm waiting for the day when someone hears us talking this way and thinks we're "ignunt".

Which brings to mind two Tom Lehrer Lyrics:

From I Wanna Go Back To Dixie

Quote

I wanna go back to Dixie
I wanna be a dixie pixie
And eat cornpone 'til it's comin' outta my ears
I wanna talk with Southern gentlemen
And put my white sheet on again,
I ain't seen one good lynchin' in years.

The land of the boll weevil,
Where the laws are medieval,
Is callin' me to come and nevermore roam.
I wanna go back to the Southland,
That "y'all" and "shet-ma-mouth" land,
Be it ever so decadent,
There's no place like home.

And from It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier

Quote

Our captain has a handicap to cope with, sad to tell.
He's from Georgia, and he doesn't speak the language very well.

der Brucer

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