mark your calendars, tomorrow (09-19-04) is...

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:17 pm

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... SFSI22.DTL

Won't this nightmare ever end. Put a stake through its stoney little heart!

emily sparkle · Post by **emily sparkle** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:58 pm

love the patch dvd. nice work alpha!

sparkletarte · Post by **sparkletarte** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 5:51 pm

I'm going to be a pirate for Hallowe'en. I just picked up an old brown leather coat to make some leggings from. Yes. Should be good. Need to find a pirate name. And a sword.

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:40 pm

the sparkled one wrote:love the patch dvd. nice work alpha! :)

thanks! Where abouts in Boston? I lived in Cambridge for a couple years... loved it but the weather in SoCal is a little more accomodating. :-)

emily sparkle · Post by **emily sparkle** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 8:43 pm

i'm in framingham... or as i like to call it, the 'ham.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 8:51 pm

i'm wearing my patch forever.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:43 am

For those of you for whom one day will never be enough, try this

the sidebar missed my favorite (with the possible exception of Stevenson's ur-text) Pirate Novel.

(Powers has written some other killer books, including one on Las Vegas.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:42 pm

emily sparkle wrote:i'm in framingham... or as i like to call it, the 'ham.

:)

wowie zowie! I grew up in Worcester (Woosta)

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:52 pm

cowboyangel wrote:
emily sparkle wrote:i'm in framingham... or as i like to call it, the 'ham.

wowie zowie! I grew up in Worcester (Woosta)

Holy fuck, you resurrected this thread to tell us that? Now I'm doing it. Arrgh.

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:14 pm

cowboyangel wrote:Worcester (Woosta)

The most mispronounced city in all of the U.S., in my wide experience.

Sensei · Post by **Sensei** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:38 pm

Then you sir, haven't been to Butte, Montana.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:46 pm

how about La Jolla

sparkletarte · Post by **sparkletarte** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:54 pm

Tell me how you say this one: Ymir

It's my new town, and unless you are from around here or are familiar with Norse mythology, you probably don't know how to say it. Or spell it.

sparkletarte · Post by **sparkletarte** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:57 pm

Oh, my guesses would be:

-War-ches-ter

-Beaut as in beauty, although I prefer butt

-La Jol-a jol as in doll. Probably not right. My other guess, if it's in the south (close to Mexico...I don't know where it is) would be La Joy-a

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:20 pm

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:58 pm

Well, my metric goes by the greatest number of mispronounced (or dropped) syllables. Arbitrary? Probably.

What should be pronounced wor-chest-er is woo-sta.

La-Joll-a is just La-hoy-a, and at least makes sense in Spanish.

Dunno about Butte... "butt" ?? "byoot" ?

Ymir ("eee-mere" ??) is beyond me.

Anyway that's how I see the world. YMMV. :-)

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:30 pm

Alpha wrote:
cowboyangel wrote:Worcester (Woosta)
The most mispronounced city in all of the U.S., in my wide experience.

woah...what about cucamonga?

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:57 am

It's Rancho Cucamonga....

and not 'cyuc' like 'cucumber', but 'COOK-uh-munga' like 'kook'.

yeah i grew up in the inland empire....what??

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:00 am

ohhhhhhhhh

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:11 am

cowboyangel wrote:ohhhhhhhhh

what's that supposed to mean??

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:31 am

tisha2 wrote:
cowboyangel wrote:ohhhhhhhhh
what's that supposed to mean??

that's the guy slowly nodding his head in agreement

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:35 am

don't tell me you're from the inland empire??

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:26 am

nopw.....SF Bay all the way......(Back Bay in Boston too)

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