tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434495502175776916.post6852663880378037577..comments2023-04-06T02:43:43.759-07:00Comments on Bitching my way to the Brightside: SesquicentennialCrankyOtterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02863609824154763580noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434495502175776916.post-25046788799748691322007-09-06T06:28:00.000-07:002007-09-06T06:28:00.000-07:00heh - my dad always called avocados alligator pear...heh - my dad always called avocados alligator pears.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434495502175776916.post-47354844865454907242007-09-03T20:18:00.000-07:002007-09-03T20:18:00.000-07:00Whee! So much fun to play with words. I also wan...Whee! So much fun to play with words. I also want to toss in calling avocados "avagadros". An Avagadro being the number of atoms in a mole of some element, this is sometimes entertaining to math and science geeks.<BR/><BR/>But I think I'll go off and do a new blog and try not to be polydiot.CrankyOtterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02863609824154763580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434495502175776916.post-70551225974062431772007-09-01T19:30:00.000-07:002007-09-01T19:30:00.000-07:00somehow absotively posilutely has come to mean tru...somehow absotively posilutely has come to mean truly true around here. daughter #1 is very fond of puns and the whole family spoonerizes things more or less on purpose, so a good deal gets mangled as we beat through lifeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434495502175776916.post-30462812200092250062007-08-31T21:03:00.000-07:002007-08-31T21:03:00.000-07:00LemonStand ~ in Southern California anything good ...LemonStand ~ in Southern California anything good is *bomb* to teenagers....never *the bomb*, I find it very awkward and dorky myself.<BR/><BR/>QLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434495502175776916.post-57067393105218523752007-08-31T17:05:00.000-07:002007-08-31T17:05:00.000-07:00I was wondering just today if english speaking for...I was wondering just today if english speaking foreigners could understand our teenagers. <BR/><BR/>The use of 'shut up' to express disbelief instead of to stop talking. <BR/><BR/>The use of the word 'sweet' as an exclamation of approval instead of an adjective to describe either taste or kindness. <BR/><BR/>The use of the phrase 'the bomb' as a means to describe great appreciation instead of an explosive device.<BR/><BR/>With four kids, I could make quite a list of these.Lemon Standhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05963800782047571734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434495502175776916.post-81362828424854166452007-08-31T08:50:00.000-07:002007-08-31T08:50:00.000-07:00Polydiot made me think of 2 insults that are near ...Polydiot made me think of 2 insults that are near and dear to my tiny blackened heart...my husband was meeting a real estate agent who was late for their appt. *because of an appt that ran long*, what didn't lead credence to this story was the powdered sugar ringing her mouth, hence the term ~donut eaters~ was born for liars or slackers.<BR/><BR/>~ya mon~ was our code phrase in Jamaica for those unfortunate white women who got their hair braided into corn rows (no one looked like Bo Derek) or men in crazy get ups, it was more subtle than pointing at the fellow in speedos, a scarf tied on his head ala a pirate with a shirt tied in a knot just below his nipples.<BR/><BR/>QLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434495502175776916.post-17606608615545938792007-08-31T06:34:00.000-07:002007-08-31T06:34:00.000-07:00When Texas had its sesquicentennial in 1985, I kep...When Texas had its sesquicentennial in 1985, I kept thinking that celebrating it was just silly. It was hard to say, and didn't quite have the punch of a centennial or a bicentennial.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05727356170614028789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434495502175776916.post-50012206610947457422007-08-31T03:39:00.000-07:002007-08-31T03:39:00.000-07:00My father made up "polydiot" for someone who can b...My father made up "polydiot" for someone who can be an ass in several different languages. A family fave.Noemihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16163306354973376919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434495502175776916.post-79602268909110460922007-08-31T01:08:00.000-07:002007-08-31T01:08:00.000-07:00Dude, I love you.Dude, I love you.CrankyOtterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02863609824154763580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434495502175776916.post-59717446631291557962007-08-30T23:22:00.000-07:002007-08-30T23:22:00.000-07:00Dude, I stole prezactly from the Jim Thompson Pop....Dude, I stole prezactly from the Jim Thompson Pop. 1280 book...I forget the context but the fellow talking was one of them thare know it all country fellers who doesn't take kindly to city folk...so in my head it is drawn out like preeezactly.<BR/><BR/>I was well into my 20s before I figured out my mom had made a hybrid of flustered and frustrated and that flustrated was in fact NOT an actual word. I just hope she wasn't wrong about vajayjay being the clinical term for hoo-hah.<BR/><BR/>QLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com