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The Silent Acolyte
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Originally posted by Gill H:
Not to a Brit. We pronounce fillet as it's spelt - to rhyme with skillet.
Filet, spelt the French way, would be pronounced fil-ay, but you only see that on restaurant menus.
It was only recently that I figured the name was a pun.
That would have been the point of my post—to make you stumble into chick-fil-let—were you to have been able to glimpse across the supercilious spelling conventions immuring your blinkered isle. Here, spelt is a kind of grain.
Despite the redoubtable RooK's assertion, American can spell. quote:
From one source:
Fillet and filet are another traditional bone of contention. Though they’re variant spellings of the same word, some editors have chosen to use fillet for fish and filet for meat. But not the AP [Associated Press style guide]: Here it’s fillet (“a boneless cut”) either way, except in filet mignon and, of course, Filet-O-Fish.
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Mere Nick
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Originally posted by deano:
Oh, and OP... when he got to your table, why didn't you ball up a fist, summon up your courage and... twat the bastard?
That would be gutsy. What if he really was a Mormon missionary. Everybody knows it ain't nuthin' for a Mormon missionary to whup a man's ass.
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Kelly Alves
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Preach. Why do you think they wear short sleeved dress shirts? so they don't have to roll their sleeves up...
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Leaf
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Originally posted by The Silent Acolyte:
Despite the redoubtable RooK's assertion, American can spell.
No it can't.
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Kelly Alves
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Nice fucking job, TSA. Think the UK grammar police will ever let us forget that one? Nope.
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Tubbs
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Nice fucking job, TSA. Think the UK grammar police will ever let us forget that one? Nope.
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Mere Nick
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Originally posted by Doc Tor:
Damn right. Just trying to parse that sentence made my eyes bleed.
It seems to me a good treatment for bleeding eyes is to drink beer. Your eyes will still bleed but beer tastes good.
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ThunderBunk
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Originally posted by Tubbs:
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Nice fucking job, TSA. Think the UK grammar police will ever let us forget that one? Nope.
Tubbs
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The Silent Acolyte
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Nice fucking job, TSA. Think the UK grammar police will ever let us forget that one? Nope.
But it's not really a fucking grammar problem nor a fucking spelling problem is it? It was a fucking typographical or editing problem.
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Kelly Alves
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Don't be so fucking picky.
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mousethief
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
A proper, handmade pork pie, with choice cuts of pork and short, glazed pastry: it's a thing of beauty, I tell you.
Is something made with "choice cuts of pork" truly a pork pie? Most things like meat pies were made from cheap shit -- a way to use up leftovers and cheap cuts that aren't good enough to stand on a plate on their own. I'm having a hard time thinking that a pie made with "choice cuts" is anything like authentic.
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Palimpsest
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The cheap cuts go into the sausages... and that short pastry.
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mdijon
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As the dodgily-attributed-to-Bismarck quote goes, "to retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making."
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Doc Tor
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Dons hostly furry hat
Miss Amanda has petitioned the Commissars for the closure of this now-pie-and-sausage-infested thread. We have concluded that pork pies are nothing but a tool of Capitalist lackeys, and the less said about those decadent wurst the better.
To the gulag with them both. Thread closed.
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