Home for Random Thoughts

[Burning Petard]

Might be a good rule to always stay behind somebody who is carrying a shotgun, not just Cheney or Sec'y of Homeland Security Noem.

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[BoSoxGal]

Just another day waking up and feeling like all things considered, Osama Bin Laden won.

[Crackpot]

What If JD Vance gets elected President for no other reason than that he’s infinitely memeable

[Joe Guy]

Is the word abbreviation some kind of oxymoron?

[tyro]

In the news today: the pedophile previously known as prince.

[Joe Guy]

[MajGenl.Meade]

If your parents name you Colin but mispronounce it CO-lin . . .

is that worse than . . .

your parents calling you COL-in but misspell it Collin?

[Joe Guy]

Too bad you can't ask Colin Powell.

His parents named him Colin, called him cah-lin and he pronounced his name coh-lin.

[MajGenl.Meade]

I suppose the cah-lin to be an accent thing rather than pronunciation - paahk the caah kind of thing. . But he was the one that came up with CO-lin, eh? (Or Coh-lin if you must). I wonder why.

Maybe he never heard of the millions of Col-ins through the centuries (including Col-in the Dachshund of course)

[Joe Guy]

Google says this: "Powell adopted the "KOH-lin" pronunciation during his childhood in New York to honor World War II hero Captain Colin P. Kelly Jr."

I learn something new every day.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Thanks. So it was the other guy who didn't know how to pronounce Colin. But the question remains: is that worse than spelling Colin as Collin?

[MajGenl.Meade]

When did my wife and become "you guys" in so many restaurants? Or is just she who became a guy?

"How is everything, you guys?" "What can I get for you guys?"

[Joe Guy]

How about when the waiter asks, "Can I take you guyzez orders?"

[BoSoxGal]

It’s when you’ve gotten so damn old that the servers assume it would hurt your feelings to be called sir and ma’am and you’d rather be made to feel a bit younger and less creaky.

[Big RR]

That must be a regional things; I've never heard "you guys" in a restaurant, whether fancy or budget. Usualy it's just second person "What can I get you?" or "have you decided?" or "would you like to order?". but I have heard guys in other venues like the multiplex movies--"What theater are you guys looking for?".

[Sue U]

Unfortunately, "you guys" is often used inappropriately when the better word choice is simply "youse" (or "yinz" if in the Pittsburgh area.)