Not the only one here

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:16:06 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:56:05 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:


As much as "idear" grates on me, I think I'm equally offended by
"ideal"
when what a person really means to say is "idea". Maybe that was
only my
ex-spouse...

Like Ken, I never heard that, but unlike him, my mothers-in-law only
had
three-syllable ideas.


Perhaps that's because you've had more mothers-in-law than the single
one I've had.


Here's one of my favorite mother-in-law stories: she and my
father-in-law were visiting us one weekend, and I was doing the Sunday
NY Times crossword puzzle. I hadn't finished it yet, but I put it
down, and she asked "mind if I finish that for you?"

"Be my guest," I said, so she picked it up and started working on it.
She saw the definition that read "engineer" and said to her husband
"Len, you're an engineer, aren't you?" He said yes, so she wrote "Len"
in the puzzle.

If you think that sounds bad, you haven't heard the worst part. It was
a seven-letter word that the puzzle wanted.

My father-in-law was repairing some pipes under the kitchen sink. He
got onto his back and started working (my mother-in-law was in the
kitchen at the time). He drained the trap into a bucket and held it out
from under the sink and asked my mother-in-law to dump it. So she did,
right down the kitchen sink drain onto my father-in-law.

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:42:56 -0700, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:14:32 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:36:29 -0500, R. C. White wrote:

Hi, PAS.

I don't drink cawfee...

Here in Texas, too, there is no "r" in our "coffee". ;)

RC

I also take mine black, no sugar.

Of course, the pronunciations of talk, coffee, & dog have nothing to
do
with rhoticity[1].

Of course not. But RC knew that. g

I was referring to PAS's remarks...

I realize that, but it was fun to throw those into the mix, or as they
say in Brooklyn "trow dos inta da mix".

While we're on the subject of rhoticity, let me also mention the
"intrusive r," used by many non-rhotic speakers. For example they say
"the idear is ..." instead of "the idea is ...," so they don't have
to
say two vowels in a row.

And in Boston & environs, that R intrudes even when there's not a
vowel
following, as in JFK famously saying Cuber.

I once had a wife (isn't that a song?) who had been a high-school math
teacher in a Boston suburb. She's rhotic (does that make her a
rhotifer?), but she had to learn to say 'for' as one syllable and
'four'
as two (foh-wer). The students' dialect pronounced them as 'faw' and
'foh-wah', and saying the second as only one syllable confounded them.
The R didn't bother them, however. They probably didn't hear it...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 23:18:33 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:10:22 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:56:05 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:


As much as "idear" grates on me, I think I'm equally offended by "ideal"
when what a person really means to say is "idea". Maybe that was only my
ex-spouse...


I don't think I've ever heard that, but I remember my mother-in-law,
who said "idee."

That reminds me of the joke where a guy gets pulled over somewhere way down
South, and the Trooper asks him for his ID. The guy looks at the Trooper for
a bit, squints, pushes his toothpick over to one side of his mouth, and
answers, "'Bout what?"



LOL! I didn't know anyone else said "idee."

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:13:28 -0700, Gene Wirchenko
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:04:02 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

[snip]

Here's one of my favorite mother-in-law stories: she and my
father-in-law were visiting us one weekend, and I was doing the Sunday
NY Times crossword puzzle. I hadn't finished it yet, but I put it
down, and she asked "mind if I finish that for you?"

"Be my guest," I said, so she picked it up and started working on it.
She saw the definition that read "engineer" and said to her husband
"Len, you're an engineer, aren't you?" He said yes, so she wrote "Len"
in the puzzle.

If you think that sounds bad, you haven't heard the worst part. It was
a seven-letter word that the puzzle wanted.

Obviously, the answer was "LEONARD".


LOL!

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 23:16:37 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:04:02 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Here's one of my favorite mother-in-law stories: she and my
father-in-law were visiting us one weekend, and I was doing the Sunday
NY Times crossword puzzle. I hadn't finished it yet, but I put it
down, and she asked "mind if I finish that for you?"

"Be my guest," I said, so she picked it up and started working on it.
She saw the definition that read "engineer" and said to her husband
"Len, you're an engineer, aren't you?" He said yes, so she wrote "Len"
in the puzzle.

If you think that sounds bad, you haven't heard the worst part. It was
a seven-letter word that the puzzle wanted.

That's hilarious! Two jokes in one story. You should submit it to Reader's
Digest. They pay for gold like that.


It wasn't a joke, It was a true story!

On 9/18/14 10:05 AM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 23:16:37 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:04:02 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Here's one of my favorite mother-in-law stories: she and my
father-in-law were visiting us one weekend, and I was doing the Sunday
NY Times crossword puzzle. I hadn't finished it yet, but I put it
down, and she asked "mind if I finish that for you?"

"Be my guest," I said, so she picked it up and started working on it.
She saw the definition that read "engineer" and said to her husband
"Len, you're an engineer, aren't you?" He said yes, so she wrote "Len"
in the puzzle.

If you think that sounds bad, you haven't heard the worst part. It was
a seven-letter word that the puzzle wanted.

That's hilarious! Two jokes in one story. You should submit it to Reader's
Digest. They pay for gold like that.


It wasn't a joke, It was a true story!

Reader's Digest has, or at least had, a section just for those types of
stories.


--
Ken
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Firefox 25.0
Thunderbird 24.6.0
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and it's gone!"

On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:44:37 -0400, PAS wrote:

Of course, the pronunciations of talk, coffee, & dog have nothing to
do
with rhoticity[1].

Of course not. But RC knew that. g

I was referring to PAS's remarks...

I realize that, but it was fun to throw those into the mix, or as they
say in Brooklyn "trow dos inta da mix".

Great! You are now absolved!

But really, I should have realized you were playing...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:42:42 -0400, PAS wrote:

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:16:06 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:56:05 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:


As much as "idear" grates on me, I think I'm equally offended by
"ideal"
when what a person really means to say is "idea". Maybe that was
only my
ex-spouse...

Like Ken, I never heard that, but unlike him, my mothers-in-law only
had
three-syllable ideas.


Perhaps that's because you've had more mothers-in-law than the single
one I've had.


Here's one of my favorite mother-in-law stories: she and my
father-in-law were visiting us one weekend, and I was doing the Sunday
NY Times crossword puzzle. I hadn't finished it yet, but I put it
down, and she asked "mind if I finish that for you?"

"Be my guest," I said, so she picked it up and started working on it.
She saw the definition that read "engineer" and said to her husband
"Len, you're an engineer, aren't you?" He said yes, so she wrote "Len"
in the puzzle.

If you think that sounds bad, you haven't heard the worst part. It was
a seven-letter word that the puzzle wanted.

My father-in-law was repairing some pipes under the kitchen sink. He
got onto his back and started working (my mother-in-law was in the
kitchen at the time). He drained the trap into a bucket and held it out
from under the sink and asked my mother-in-law to dump it. So she did,
right down the kitchen sink drain onto my father-in-law.

I finally stopped laughing long enough to say "OMG! That's terrible!".

But that sort of plumbing situation can happen here, so I better
remember that story...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:42:31 -0500, "R. C. White"
wrote in

After junior college, I was at OU only 2 years, 1954-56 (in the middle of
the 47-game winning streak!), getting my BBA in Accounting. The main things
I remember about the engineers was that they painted everything green -
including their creatively-styled beards - on St. Patrick's Day. ;) I've
never been closer to NYC than Chattanooga - once.

Well, I haven't thought of the special affinity that the OU Engineers
had for Green and St. Patrick for many, many years. I never did
understand why the Engineering students/school adopted St. Pat as
their patron. St. Pat wasn't an engineer to my knowledge. They
didn't have engineers in those days.
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:05:39 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 23:16:37 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:04:02 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Here's one of my favorite mother-in-law stories: she and my
father-in-law were visiting us one weekend, and I was doing the Sunday
NY Times crossword puzzle. I hadn't finished it yet, but I put it
down, and she asked "mind if I finish that for you?"

"Be my guest," I said, so she picked it up and started working on it.
She saw the definition that read "engineer" and said to her husband
"Len, you're an engineer, aren't you?" He said yes, so she wrote "Len"
in the puzzle.

If you think that sounds bad, you haven't heard the worst part. It was
a seven-letter word that the puzzle wanted.

That's hilarious! Two jokes in one story. You should submit it to Reader's
Digest. They pay for gold like that.


It wasn't a joke, It was a true story!

I know, but that's exactly the stuff they pay for!

Likewise, with the wife dumping the trap back into the sink when her husband
was working underneath. It's stuff that a lot of folks can relate to. (I'm
sure that last sentence wasn't in a grammatically acceptable form, but I
write the way I speak, usually.)

"Char Jackson" wrote in message
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:05:39 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"

wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 23:16:37 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:04:02 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"

wrote:

Here's one of my favorite mother-in-law stories: she and my
father-in-law were visiting us one weekend, and I was doing the
Sunday
NY Times crossword puzzle. I hadn't finished it yet, but I put it
down, and she asked "mind if I finish that for you?"

"Be my guest," I said, so she picked it up and started working on
it.
She saw the definition that read "engineer" and said to her husband
"Len, you're an engineer, aren't you?" He said yes, so she wrote
"Len"
in the puzzle.

If you think that sounds bad, you haven't heard the worst part. It
was
a seven-letter word that the puzzle wanted.

That's hilarious! Two jokes in one story. You should submit it to
Reader's
Digest. They pay for gold like that.


It wasn't a joke, It was a true story!

I know, but that's exactly the stuff they pay for!

Likewise, with the wife dumping the trap back into the sink when her
husband
was working underneath. It's stuff that a lot of folks can relate to.
(I'm
sure that last sentence wasn't in a grammatically acceptable form, but
I
write the way I speak, usually.)

Fortunately, I don't write the way I speak or else my writings would be
full of slang. I always try to do gooder.

On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:17:34 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

It's stuff that a lot of folks can relate to. (I'm
sure that last sentence wasn't in a grammatically acceptable form, but I
write the way I speak, usually.)


You probably know what Churchill was supposed to have said when he was
told never to end a sentence with a preposition: "There are some
things up with which I shall not put."

On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:39:53 -0400, "PAS"
wrote:


Fortunately, I don't write the way I speak or else my writings would be
full of slang. I always try to do gooder.


And I always try to *be* a do gooder.

On 9/18/2014 1:52 PM, CRNG wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:42:31 -0500, "R. C. White"
wrote in

After junior college, I was at OU only 2 years, 1954-56 (in the middle of
the 47-game winning streak!), getting my BBA in Accounting. The main things
I remember about the engineers was that they painted everything green -
including their creatively-styled beards - on St. Patrick's Day. ;) I've
never been closer to NYC than Chattanooga - once.

Well, I haven't thought of the special affinity that the OU Engineers
had for Green and St. Patrick for many, many years. I never did
understand why the Engineering students/school adopted St. Pat as
their patron. St. Pat wasn't an engineer to my knowledge. They
didn't have engineers in those days.

Hmmm. Since "Patrick" was a "Saint", it's likely that status was
obtained AD. I doubt that the pyramids were built by folks who were just
guessing about how to do such things. ;-)
--
best regards,

Neil

On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:50:23 -0400, Neil wrote:

On 9/18/2014 1:52 PM, CRNG wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:42:31 -0500, "R. C. White"
wrote in

After junior college, I was at OU only 2 years, 1954-56 (in the middle of
the 47-game winning streak!), getting my BBA in Accounting. The main things
I remember about the engineers was that they painted everything green -
including their creatively-styled beards - on St. Patrick's Day. ;) I've
never been closer to NYC than Chattanooga - once.

Well, I haven't thought of the special affinity that the OU Engineers
had for Green and St. Patrick for many, many years. I never did
understand why the Engineering students/school adopted St. Pat as
their patron. St. Pat wasn't an engineer to my knowledge. They
didn't have engineers in those days.

Hmmm. Since "Patrick" was a "Saint", it's likely that status was
obtained AD. I doubt that the pyramids were built by folks who were just
guessing about how to do such things. ;-)

They obviously had help from visiting alien astronauts. People back in
those primitive days obviously couldn't have built the pyramids without
alien help...

A couple of thoughts:

1. The smart engineers of the 21st century are still trying to figure
out how the pyramids and Stonehenge were built. Some ideas have emerged,
but we ain't there yet. Alien visitors are not part of the guesses,
however :-)

2. Heck, after all, they *were* humans back in those days...

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)