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Me, too. I just thought it pretty funny that the BBC made a howler like that.
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From the BBC news website:
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Even tropical Hawaii experienced -7C (18F), reports the Associated Press news agency, although that was at the peak of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano.
In other news: Hell freezes over.
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There's at least one town in Norway called Hell, which I suspect freezes regularly. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by St. Stephen the Stoned:
Hell freezes over.
I love how Michigan was pronounced!
Hmmm, it would be interesting to have a bit of fun saying various place names...in The Circus! Not here! (I appreciated the help I got from some natives who demonstrated the correct way to say Salisbury and Berwick-upon-Tweed while I was in England.) ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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It's gotten a little bit warmer here, yay!
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
... demonstrated the correct way to say Salisbury and Berwick-upon-Tweed ...
Now, if we could only get people on this side of the Pond (television chefs, I mean you) to pronounce "Worcestershire" (as in the sauce) correctly ...
The "Worcester" bit is pronounced Wooster, as in the P.G. Wodehouse character Bertie Wooster (rhymes with "rooster"); the "shire" bit is left out.
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I was taught WUS-tuh-shur. am I close?
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I pronounce it A1.
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bah-doom-tsh!
(nicely done!)
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I had heard it's said "Whassishere"(What's this here sauce?)
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Piglet
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Originally posted by comet:
I was taught WUS-tuh-shur. am I close?
That's pretty close, Comet - it's how you'd pronounce Worcestershire - the county where it comes from.
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I call it "Lea and Perrins" and avoid any problems.
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Lease on duck blind: $2,500
Case of 12 ga shells: $250
Look on the face of a young lady dropping her first greenhead: priceless.
Good weekend hunting. Made some new friends. Got to freak out a city boy with manicured nails by teaching him to clean ducks. Added about 10 lbs of meat to the stash in the freezer. Life is wonderful in Bess World this afternoon!
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I adore the taste of duck, but I'm afraid I'm a "manicured city-piglet" and would rather not contemplate what happens between us feeding them on the pond on a sunny afternoon and them being served with sour-cherry sauce and sauteed French beans.
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not to mention what happens to manicured, city piglets.... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
personally, I don't really enjoy hunting (other than the nice long hike in the woods part) but I love the results enough it's worth it.
most of the time.
especially if I can con someone else into the plucking.
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I must confess, I made the whole process much gorier than it really needed to be. Old boy had been a complete jerk earlier in the day, so my reward to my self for not punchnig him in the nose was to get him covered in guts and feathers
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and THAT is how you do it. well done!
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Yesterday morning, hubby taught our nephew (he's 10) an important lesson in bouyancy, fluid dynamics, and vocabulary. By that I mean, they loaded five adult sized people, one full grown black lab, 300 lbs of shotguns and blind bags, and a car battery into a small boat without even trying to balance out the load. About 50 feet from the blind, down she went. Gun bags floating everywhere, blind bags sinking like stones to the bottom and the dog, thinking this was a fun new game (she's young and still in training) swimming around being 'helpful'. So nephew learned how not to load a boat as well as the proper use of several colorful new words and phrases. Sister-in-law, upon learning of the morning's adventures, was NOT impressed
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Bess, I have always thought that women got the "common sense" gene and men have the "I've lose my total mind due to over or under estimating" gene.
And, as God is my witness, I have met very, very few or no exceptions to this corollary over my many years.
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My poor Eastern friends,
I'm so sorry that you are having these awful storms and some of you are stuck inside the house. Those of us in drought areas wish that we could take some of the snow from you, but we can't seem to catch a break with the weather. ![[brick wall]](graemlins/brick_wall.gif)
Remember, SPRING comes in 55 days.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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Found a cool widget for you to "think spring" :
SPRING COUNTDOWN
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No Spring allowed unless it brings April Showers. We are in big trouble here in the West, no rain so far this year.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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It's not often we have a long-lasting snow cover here (southern PA). We have plenty of snows, but usually within 2 days it's pretty much gone. We've had no melting at all. And back to single digit or low teens for highs this coming week.
One of my sons is experiencing his first winter in North Dakota. They have snow often, but it's 'dry', and blows away toward Minnesota.
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Nicolemr
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More snow here today. It looked lovely, but was rotten for travel.
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Piglet
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That's the trouble with snow, isn't it? Looks gorgeous for about half an hour, then looks a complete mess.
Although it was very cold here today (-6°C) we still seem to be in "January thaw" mode*, and it's forecast to go back up to +6° tomorrow with rain.
That's fine - you don't have to shovel rain ...
* for the moment anyway.
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Ship's Wake
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We kuruzaps just had a name the fifty states of the USA challenge. We apologize to the people of Connecticut who we remembered last, and even more to the people of New Jersey who we forgot altogether. I reckon Maryland was the hardest. We will accept our bribe moneys from the peoples of Baltimore, who we promoted to statehood at the expense of New Jersey.
I suppose I could ask y'all to name the provinces of NZ now!
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I'm impressed! it would take some work for my family to do that.
that being said, you've traveled the lower 48 more extensively than I have.
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side note: I'm producing and directing a show with my drama kids this saturday. it's meant to showcase the work they've done over the year, plus we have to raise an obscene amount of money to get the team to state championships in Anchorage.
I'm a nervous wreckasaurus. will my planned 2 act show come together? will the community like it? will the kids manage to PROJECT FOR GAWD'S SAKE?!? will we raise enough? will I manage to drive the little shits to Anchorage and back without a) getting in a horrific wreck and b) killing them all after the 14th hour of teenageriness?
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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quote:
Originally posted by Pearl B4 Swine:
It's not often we have a long-lasting snow cover here (southern PA).
This is why I left Pittsburgh 10 years ago. I just couldn't take the snow and the ice storms, so it wasn't hard to leave. I didn't realize how much better I would feel with lower humidities.
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Og, King of Bashan
Ship's giant Amorite
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You know you have been playing too many Sporcle geography games when you remember Kyrgyzstan and Nauru but forget (as I have in that game) Hungary.
I am always a little surprised when I meet people from the USA who not only can't name all 50 states, but can't do it in alphabetical order. I just assumed everyone learned the "50 Nifty United States" song at one time or another. (When I was in preschool, that was the trick that my parents would trot me out to perform for guests.)
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churchgeek
Have candles, will pray
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I'll make a thread about it when the time gets closer, but I'll be moving back to Detroit at the end of April, and would love to visit with shipmates along the way home (I'll be driving). "Along the way" can be interpreted rather generously, as there are many ways to drive from Oakland, CA to Detroit. In fact, I might pop down to Santa Barbara first. If you live along my "flight path" (well, driving path), feel free to PM me or wait for the future thread, coming in April.
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basso
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quote:
Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:
I am always a little surprised when I meet people from the USA who not only can't name all 50 states, but can't do it in alphabetical order. I just assumed everyone learned the "50 Nifty United States" song at one time or another.
The ship has exposed another gap in my education. I can name all 50, but I have to hold a picture of a map in my head and do it by geography. (I start with Maine.)
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Moo
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quote:
Originally posted by basso:
quote:
Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:
I am always a little surprised when I meet people from the USA who not only can't name all 50 states, but can't do it in alphabetical order. I just assumed everyone learned the "50 Nifty United States" song at one time or another.
The ship has exposed another gap in my education. I can name all 50, but I have to hold a picture of a map in my head and do it by geography. (I start with Maine.)
I can name all fifty alphabetically, but your way is better. Alabama and Alaska come next to each other alphabetically, but there are many states that lie between geographically.
Moo
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Piglet
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When I was in Primary 7 (the last year of elementary school) the big class project was "America" and one of the things I learned in the course of it was not only all the states, but also all their capitals.
I certainly couldn't reel them off now; it was about 40 years ago ...
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Welease Woderwick
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...which makes me approximately Pre-Cambrian!
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Kelly Alves
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quote:
Originally posted by churchgeek:
I'll make a thread about it when the time gets closer, but I'll be moving back to Detroit at the end of April, and would love to visit with shipmates along the way home (I'll be driving). "Along the way" can be interpreted rather generously, as there are many ways to drive from Oakland, CA to Detroit. In fact, I might pop down to Santa Barbara first. If you live along my "flight path" (well, driving path), feel free to PM me or wait for the future thread, coming in April.
Can I just take this moment to publicly say "
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I mean, obviously, I'm glad you are going back to the place you love best, but as I said to Hart when he &%$#ed of to Notre Dame (
) "You'll always be a NoCal-er/"
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quote:
Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:
You know you have been playing too many Sporcle geography games when you remember Kyrgyzstan and Nauru but forget (as I have in that game) Hungary.
I am always a little surprised when I meet people from the USA who not only can't name all 50 states, but can't do it in alphabetical order. I just assumed everyone learned the "50 Nifty United States" song at one time or another. (When I was in preschool, that was the trick that my parents would trot me out to perform for guests.)
Yes, I fear the only thing I know about Kiribati (besides that it's in the Pacific Ocean) is that it's the least-known nation on Sporcle.
I'm pretty sure I could name the 50 states, but definitely not in alphabetic order. I've heard the song before, but certainly never learned it.
(Mamacita, am I the only person thinking we should have a Chicago meet if churchgeek can come through Chicago?)
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Pearl B4 Swine
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I'm sure glad I didn't go to school in Pennsylvania- - 67 counties ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif) In Maryland (yes I'm a Baltimoron) we had to be able to recite or write the 24 counties, and spell them correctly, too. And of course, locate each on a map.
A few years ago I helped my gr'son learn the countries of Africa, and ID them on a map. Let me tell you, that was a struggle. And I told him, they're likely to change without notice LOL. He didn't geddit.
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quote:
Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:
You know you have been playing too many Sporcle geography games when you remember Kyrgyzstan and Nauru but forget (as I have in that game) Hungary.
Good to know I'm not the only Sporcle addict here! Actually, I knew that, because I learned about Sporcle from SoF.
quote:
Originally posted by Gwai:
(Mamacita, am I the only person thinking we should have a Chicago meet if churchgeek can come through Chicago?)
Well, now I'm thinking it too! And I love Chicago. I'll be driving a van full of all my worldly goods, so I'll just need somewhere safe to park it.
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Can I just take this moment to publicly say "
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I mean, obviously, I'm glad you are going back to the place you love best, but as I said to Hart when he &%$#ed of to Notre Dame (
) "You'll always be a NoCal-er/"
Aw! ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
Keep in mind I'll be flying back out here a few times for school-related things. Any time I do, if I can find a place to crash, I'd be so happy to see you and others from the Bay Area!
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quote:
Originally posted by Pearl B4 Swine:
I'm sure glad I didn't go to school in Pennsylvania- - 67 counties
Well, I did. Then I moved to another state with 67 counties! But I didn't have to learn them! It's good to be out of school, and I hardly ever have those dreams about being in school and not having a clue where my classes are anymore.
Getting older is great!
[Old enough to forget a word.]
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
When I was in Primary 7 (the last year of elementary school) the big class project was "America" and one of the things I learned in the course of it was not only all the states, but also all their capitals.
I certainly couldn't reel them off now; it was about 40 years ago ...
ancient piglet
I'm much older but, I'm with piglet, on learning all the state capitals. Geography, reading, Arithmetic was really important in school, as was printing and writing well........ Now, not so much.
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monkeylizard
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quote:
Originally posted by basso:
The ship has exposed another gap in my education. I can name all 50, but I have to hold a picture of a map in my head and do it by geography. (I start with Maine.)
Me too, but I do it left to right. I start with Alaska.
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LutheranChik
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I am always a little surprised when I meet people from the USA who not only can't name all 50 states, but can't do it in alphabetical order. I just assumed everyone learned the "50 Nifty United States" song at one time or another.
I learned them geographically, not alphabetically.
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Piglet
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I didn't know the song (maybe it didn't cross the Pond); IIRC when I knew them it was alphabetically.
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I had never heard the Fifty Nifty United States song but, knowing the way my brain works, learning the song would be the only way I would be able to learn a list like this. I was useless at the books of the Bible until I had to teach them and learned the songs with my students.
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And of course, if you're studying chemistry and you need to know the elements of the Periodic Table, you can always get help from Tom Lehrer.
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Nicolemr
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I learned the planets by a catchy little song called The Wandering Stars. I still use it to remember their order.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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Originally posted by Nicolemr:
I learned the planets by a catchy little song called The Wandering Stars. I still use it to remember their order.
Nicole, I looked up Wandering Stars in Google and only came up with a cowboy lyric.
Could you write the lyrics for me? I am fascinated.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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Since we are talking about geography
here's a 10 year old, who sings the FIFTY STATE SONG
It took my breathe away (and hers, too!)
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