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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: ShimmrBlu Date: 01 May 99 - 09:35 PM Just the other day I was trying to make a list of flower names and my friend described one that she couldn't remember the name for and I said, "Oh! Drangonsnap!!" |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Tucker Date: 01 May 99 - 09:14 PM Guy,just enjoy those times when you screw up and no one knows it. Like playing Dixie when it should be the Star Spangled Banner, smile, sing, laugh and giggle all the way home |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Guy Wolff Date: 01 May 99 - 07:51 PM AT one point while visiting my pottery teacher{an elderly woman} in New Hampshire I made the small joke that I was so bald I was "fallicly impered" but I think I misspronounced it alittle......She just looked at me with out cracking a smile and said "I'm so sorry"......Golly words can get one in such hot water,{espeicially when you can't spell.} I need a spell-check implant....Cheers Guy~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Alice Date: 01 May 99 - 09:18 AM the term for your hair when it is all messed up after sleeping (especially toddlers after their nap)= pillow perm. |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: katlaughing Date: 01 May 99 - 08:08 AM My youngest daughter, now 21, has always mixed up certain words, with a very slight dyslexia, we thing. Anyway, when working at the stables, she always used a "forkpitch" or, sometimes, a "porkfitch" to clean out the old straw. When she was 7 yrs old, after watching the movie, "Beckett", and seeing his his effigy near the end, she asked,"What did they do? Did they pour cement all over him?" |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: ShimmrBlu Date: 01 May 99 - 02:33 AM One time my friend was trying to sleep and she kept getting woken up by another friend calling over and over. Finally she yelled into the phone, "Kevin, I was aspleet!!!" Another time I was telling someone about a dream I had over the phone and I said, "It was such a fierd weeling!" A friend's mom teaches her kids to call it "traf"... (read it backwards...) |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Tucker Date: 30 Apr 99 - 11:11 PM When my kids were wee I invented a monster named Gordy to keep them from the basement. I did this by making a pretense of going into the basement for something and then making sounds ( my best theactrics(?) of the monster attacking me. It worked too well. My poor basement is known city wide as the home of Gordy. My stories to my children and nephews are now local folklore. Such is language. Nothing is so lasting as to hear a tale you made up retold by a young adult to his/her child embellished with their own ideas. Poor Gordy was never really mean, and my children knew it. He and Puff are to this day docile dragons, still magic. |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Bert Date: 30 Apr 99 - 05:06 PM Uh Oh! now we're onto pseudo swear words. We used to use "metamorphosing polliwog" Bert. |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Barbara Date: 30 Apr 99 - 04:55 PM The humor writer Patrick McMannis calls people "elbows" as in "Sometimes my friend Retch can be a real elbow." Fake swearing from Walt Kelly (creator of Pogo for those of you old enough to know better) "Razzlefratz, blagdrabit, RAlph!" |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: katlaughing Date: 30 Apr 99 - 04:50 PM Oh, Cara, but you see, mon cher, I have the last name to prove it: LaFrance! Instruments at forty paces? I warn you, I wield a wicked fiddle bow!**Big Grin** Actually, I didn't hear it until about 6 years ago when I moved back to here and my gyrlfriend brought up going there one day. We had an orange cat who topped the scales at 18-20lbs, depending on how much he ate that day. His name was Hawkeye (the kid's loved MASH) and he was a gentle giant. Our favourite nickname for him was "Lil' Kittl'" which he loved. My gyrlfriend added the letters "een" to the end of her cats' names, so we did, too. Now my Kelpie (black with gold shot through her beauteous coat)comes to Kelpeen; she loves the singsongy way it rolls out. My gyrls and I used to try to figure out words to go with the three letters on people's license plates in CT. One day we saw one that looked like PKU, instead of using the "f" word, from then on we said "Puck U"! There is a flying horse or something in a children's book series which is called Flutterby. Has anyone ever seent eh kid's book called "CDB", as in "See the bee"? The whole book is like that, quite entertaining. We went to a high school variety show where a woman read the story of Cinderella, but the first letter of various words was always switched around. Ever after, we teased our dog about being a "prandsome hince"; that progressed to my mom being Harry Mudson; me being Lat KaFrance...well...you get the idea. It's a lot of fun; try it! latkaughing |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Cap't Bob Date: 30 Apr 99 - 04:34 PM NOT EXACTLY A NAME FOR SOMETHING, RATHER AN EXPRESSION I USE WHEN I LOSE SOMETHING (which is quite often due to being completely disorganized). Rather than turning the air blue when something is lost I usually shout "LOST, GONE FOREVER, GONE THE WAY OF THE GREAT GUANO BIRD". I developed this expression when the kids were around. A few weeks ago I went over to our daughters house and as I walked across the porch I heard her shouting ~ You guessed it "LOST, GONE FOREVER, GONE THE WAY OF THE GREAT GUANO BIRD". CAP'T BOB |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Allan C. Date: 30 Apr 99 - 03:25 PM SNARF - is what I call aerosol whipped cream. "W" SAUCE - is what I call the steak sauce because I got tired of arguing about how to pronounce it. RADA FRADA FORDA SEEDIS SAW - I had a friend years ago who taught me this. It makes an excellent phrase of many uses. Said loudly, it can make swearing nearly obsolete. But my friend's favorite thing to do was to whisper it urgently into someone's ear and wait for a reaction! RATTSHMINKLES! - is another favorite pseudo-swearword. FRAMUS - the name given to any unidentified mechanical part. BERMIS - the name given to any body part for which a name is not known or remembered. BLOP - a measurement of anything having the consistency of mayonnaise - not unlike a dollop |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: John Wood Date: 30 Apr 99 - 03:12 PM A friend of mine was standing in front of the mirror fixing her face,when her young son asked ``Mummy,why do you use fakeup ?´´ |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Jerry Friedman Date: 30 Apr 99 - 02:42 PM On this subject, friends of mine used to say, "I have to zim" when they needed to relieve nature. From "zimmer", from mispronounced (and incorrect?) German "Frauenzimmer", meaning "ladies' room". Take that, Roger! One of those friends pronounced "Target" in French 15 years ago. You might not have been the only person to invent it, Cara. Speaking of which, "flutterby" is so common that I was told as a child it's the origin of "butterfly". (It's not.) "Willie the Shakes" is in a Joni Mitchell song, I forget which. I don't know whether she invented it. "Fix Or Repair Daily" is indeed old, and so is "Fix It Again, Tony". |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Barbara Date: 30 Apr 99 - 11:54 AM Which reminds me, my same friend who calls Canned Foods stores Deadfood store, when we're traveling together, asks to stop at a "Peezit". |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: katlaughing Date: 30 Apr 99 - 11:39 AM Margie, yer right, of course, Kathleen IS a gyrl's name and I own up to it most o'the time, tho I was a 'tomboy" Here's what shoulda been:"I suggested giant litter boxes behind strategically placed shrubs, as young men were constantly using my backyard to pee in, when visitng the nextdoor minimart! " It was a hoot! One time when my youngest was brand new and I'd just gotten her to sleep, we lived in a little house behind a bigger one. The alley ran right by our garage. Jr. High boys used to come stand between my house & garage and carry on. Well, one day they went too far. As I said, I'd just gotten her to sleep and I was GOING to take a nap! I heard these two out there and one of them started to urinate! I got up, picked up my now ex's huge old black powder UNLOADED pistol, opened up the window shade and told them they better put it back in their pants and never try that again! I have NEVER seen anybody take off so fast like a jackrabbit! And, they never did come back; my yard was "pee-free"! kat
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Margo Date: 30 Apr 99 - 11:23 AM Kat, I don't care about typos, but this ". I suggested ginat litter boxes behind strategically places shrubs, as young men we constantly using my backyard to pee in, when visitng the nextdoor minimart! " had me wondering for a second if you were a guy. I thought, Kathleen? Naaaaaah. Margie |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: katlaughing Date: 30 Apr 99 - 06:38 AM Well, I have to say, Tucker, I never wrote on the darn things, even being a would-be writer!:-) And, you can't tell it from the above, but I DO know how to spell and use good grammar. Sorry, everybody, for all the mistakes, but I get impatient and miss the spontaneous outburst of *ahem* brilliance, if I go out to the WP then bring it back in here! katlaughing and casting her spell....checker, NOT! |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Tucker Date: 30 Apr 99 - 03:04 AM Hey Kat, you brought up a really good point. Everyone is out for the tourist dollars but what's a tourist to do when he/she has to go? Lord knows we all hate those portapottys. When I am in a strange but facinating town I love to walk around and take in the sights'n things. Eventually though nature calls. What's a person to do? In a way I can't blame communities for not putting up more facilities. For some reason bathrooms (W/C's) are targets for vandals and would be writers. It would be nice though if places with a lot of tourist draw had a place to stop. Ok, to the topic/thread maybe a "needapee" |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: katlaughing Date: 29 Apr 99 - 09:53 PM Oh, you guys are good!!! guy, living in New England inspired one of my more humorous editorial, called the "NO Relief Zone". It's about the fact that there are no public facilities from the border of RI, through to Groton, CT, for the casual traveller who chooses not to go into an eatery and partake for the privilege of using the resident potty. Mystic had a great debate about putting some in downtown and never could get together on it, partly due to aesthetics. Last time I was there, it was still potty-less. In my ed. I suggested giant litter boxes behind strategically places shrubs, as young men were constantly using my backyard to pee in, when visiting the next door minimart! If you'd like copy, I'd be happy to email it to you. Hell, its been published, Maybe some day I'll submit it to Yankee Mag! Out here, any sagebrush is happy to oblige, but they still put in these wonderfully, environmentally friendly "rest stops", but that's just cause there's so few towns. katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Margo Date: 29 Apr 99 - 09:49 PM Jack used to work for Safeway grocery store, of course he calls it "Slaveway". Shakespeare is "Willy the Shake". |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Barbara Date: 29 Apr 99 - 09:26 PM And the folks in the Hysterical Society have an Edifice Complex? |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Alice Date: 29 Apr 99 - 09:09 PM Hey, we call the historical point signs on the highway "hysterical points"... what a co-inkadink!! |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Guy Wolff Date: 29 Apr 99 - 08:26 PM I live in a very pritty, old new england town where zoning is very strick to hold onto the feel of traditional archuecture and the rest of it.I have heard some irratable types call the historical so."the Histarical So."....................... |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Matthew B. Date: 29 Apr 99 - 07:12 PM Tucker - Williwong is recognizable because it's a composite of two pre-existing nicknames. How about some more?
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Tucker Date: 28 Apr 99 - 08:40 PM Matt, I didn't mention williewong did I? It's been my lawyer's favorite name that I invented. He wants me to go into publishing. |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Matthew B. Date: 28 Apr 99 - 06:59 PM Back to the subject of alternate names (as opposed to endearing malaprops by children and others), let me try to make some up right now: Juice strainer (my teeth) Spot catcher (my tie) Sunglass holders (my ears) Mobile home (my briefcase) Face warmers (my cats) Trouble maker (my... oops, forget that one) |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Tucker Date: 28 Apr 99 - 06:28 PM mangled lyrics.....how bout, all the head lice on the highway (some people actually seem to hear this in the song) for head lights on the highway. I started thinking about my original thread idea here and realized that I had forgot one of my favorite self created words. Having once cussed like a drunken sailor it finally dawned on me in my later years that it is sometimes impolite (!!!!!!). I changed my speech to include "Balderdash and Poppycock to substitute for some of them but it just didn't fill all the void. One day I was helping my daughter draw pictures when my crayola broke, hence now my favorite expletive "Crapola". |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Cara Date: 28 Apr 99 - 02:04 PM My cousin Taylor insists that the words to that Beatles song are "Strawberry fields for rabbits". And so now they are, within the fam. Speaking of mangled lyrics... |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: sharon Date: 28 Apr 99 - 01:07 PM My granddaughter loves it when I mow the grass, because she likes to go walk in the "bunnygrass"......her word for the new mown grass. My daughter, many years ago, said I should learn how to make "old rotten potatoes" like they have at school (au gratin) |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: annamill Date: 28 Apr 99 - 01:01 PM I had to change my name because when I became a member there already was an "anna". I think it was me. Well, anyway.. Here in NY we call Chemical Bank, Comical Bank. My friend Dan, calls OfficeMax, OrficeMax and sometimes I refer to FORD product as "Fix Or Repair Daily". That ones probably old. When my son, James, was 3 or so, we had a cat named Pywacket from Bell, Book and Candle. One day, when I served him Apple Pie and told him to eat his pie, he was very confused as he looked down in puzzlement at poor Py. Thank you, ddw, glad you liked them. I thought they were cute too. This is fun! Anna
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Steve Parkes Date: 28 Apr 99 - 12:35 PM One of my mother's favorite tunes is "Peanut Bender"! |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Roger the zimmer Date: 28 Apr 99 - 11:11 AM My late mother bought a shiny top in what she described (in company)as "gold durex" (lurex). She never understood why my dad & I had hankies stuffed in our mouths to suppress giggles. (note to Americans like calling it Trojan, didn't mean to resurrect condom theme!) |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Cara Date: 28 Apr 99 - 10:18 AM Our paper, The Newark Advocate, was the Aggravate. Taco Bell was Toxic Hell, and I want credit for inventing the frenchification of Tar-zhet please Kat! |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Tucker Date: 28 Apr 99 - 10:10 AM One of our local papers is " the community common" or as I call it " the community communist". The Portsmouth Daily times just rates "Rag". I think we could start a different thread about papers. We all have some pretty solid thoughts on those eh? |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Alice Date: 28 Apr 99 - 09:47 AM Newspapers, ah yes, easy to poke fun at, just like the discount stores. People call our daily paper, the Bozeman Chronicle, the Bozeman Comical. And I thought I made up "flutterbies" when I was little! |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Banjer Date: 28 Apr 99 - 06:46 AM Having just read and caught up to this thread I can draw naught but a blank right now. The only thing that does come to mind readily is the more descriptive term I use for butterflies, FLUTTERBYES. I will write down anything that comes to me and post here later. This IS fun... |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: KingBrilliant Date: 28 Apr 99 - 06:26 AM My dear mother sends parcels via postal farce (parcel force actually). My Japanese nephews can't pronounce 'Amoret', and laughed like drains because it sounds exactly like Omlette to them. Crying at thing which are sad or particularly moving is called 'Daddy disease' - because our strong silent type head of the house is apt to get very wet around the eyes when watching tear-jerking TV or listening to favourite songs.
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: katlaughing Date: 28 Apr 99 - 05:19 AM And poor old Vernal, Utah gets called Venereal. |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Barbara Date: 28 Apr 99 - 04:14 AM Newspapers always catch it, don't they? We have one called the Statesman Journal (Urinal) and another the News Register (Resister). That second one is pretty accurate, and the first is a Gannett McPaper, so call it what you like. |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: katlaughing Date: 28 Apr 99 - 04:00 AM Ah, the one I grew up with is still in existense. Instead of the Daily Sentinel, we called the Daily Senile. |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Craig Date: 28 Apr 99 - 02:10 AM Where I live we used to have a couple of newspapers that are now defunct. One was The Vista Press which we would call The Vicious Press and the other one was the Coast Dispatch which became the Coast Disgrace. Craig |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Tucker Date: 28 Apr 99 - 01:52 AM Cuilionn, I love tae storie lass, wae ya believe there aer siml'r accents hae in me hielands? Loved yer tale. Mick, even though I love ketchup I am more that willing to accept Kowpoose as it's offical name. I would have named it Rolaidsstuff but kowpoose is better. Next time I'm in Burger Death I'll tell them " Hold the Kowpoose, Hold the lettuce, only your burgers upset us" DDW, this was a lark and I must confess it is much more fun than my futile gas boycott joke. Loved your story. Once as a young janitor our city was celebrating it's 150 birthday so they made it an impromtu law that it was illegal to shave. I was 14, at my first job. My boss was in his middle 40's and was growing his first beard to join the civic spirit. In front of him his son ask how I thought his beard looked. My brain said one thing, my mouth another. I meant to say it didn't look like a fake....fill in the rest. Lucky for me, Roger had a sense of humor. We laughed about the gaff all summer but I still get embarrassed to this day when I think about the look on his face when I first said it. |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: ddw in windsor Date: 28 Apr 99 - 01:07 AM Years ago my sister and her husband lived in Hickory, NC and there son, Criss, used to play with a little boy next door who had a speech impediment -- an "F" substitution for anything that started with a consonent plus and R. Nobody thought too much of it -- just something a three-year-old would grow out of -- when he called my nephew "Fiss," but I'm told it caused quite a stir when the pastor from their church stopped by and Sonny began explaining to him how angry his mother was when his dad brought home his new truck. True story? I'm not sure, because my brother-in-law was pretty good at dreaming up tales like that, but Sonny really did call Criss "Fiss" -- that I heard.... Anna... Great list. cheers, ddw |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Big Mick Date: 27 Apr 99 - 11:43 PM When my oldest daughter, Cass who is now 23, was a darling three year old she referred to ketchup as cowpoose. It has been that ever since, and everyone in the family still calls it that. Mick |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Cuilionn Date: 27 Apr 99 - 11:27 PM Ma sister is disabled an' cannae speak muckle, but she hears verra weel. When she wis wee, she usit tae try an' get her ideas across wi' a combination o' sign language an' partial sounds an' whate'er else she cuid come up wi'. She's 21 year auld, th' noo, an' still maistly non-verbal, but an excellent poet, wi' an acute sense o' th' power an' beauty o' language. When she wis a wee bairn, tryin' tae let us ken what she wantit aroond th' hoose, she stairtit pointin' tae her elbow an' then luikin' at us wi' a hopefu' expression. We cuidnae unnerstand ava'. Finally, ane day, she pointit tae her elbow, then grabbit ma hand an' marchit me intae th' kitchen. She then pointit imperiously at th' fridge. I openit th' door o' th' fridge, an' she luikit up at me, pointit tae her elbow, an' then pointit meaningfully at th' jar o' applesauce on th' top shelf. She'd been hopin' we'd figger oot th' pun... We've referrit tae that particular substance as "Elbowsauce" e'er since!!! --Cuilionn |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Twilight Date: 27 Apr 99 - 10:17 PM My baby brother (he's twenty six now and would kill me if he saw this : )) used to pronuonce the letter 'W' as woubble-you, a helicopter became a humflicopter and spaghetti was bassketti.
There was also the child who every night religiously reeled of 'Gentle Jesus meek and mild' and whenever he got to the bit 'pity my simplicity' he always wondered why we should pity mice in particular, and where exactly *was* Plicity... Vibeke :) |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Guy Wolff Date: 27 Apr 99 - 07:11 PM I went to a Prep school named High Mowing School in Wilton New Hampshire {The name came from the fact that the school had been a farm on top of a hill}. WE sent a letter there as follows ........John Dow... Hide Molting School... Wilting...Nude Hampsters.. Later I sent a second to John Dow.... Hide Molting School ...Willing.. Nude Hampsters .They both arived fine........My daughter did not see TV so had no back ground to McDonalds but her first words were "Yellow Store ! Yellow Store!" spocken at high desables pointing out the window of the car at those lovely archs...GO figure...My three year old calls a Helacopter a hopper-plane or Hopping-plane .......All my best to everyone Guy...........`````````````.... |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: katlaughing Date: 27 Apr 99 - 06:15 PM hey! I worked at a Gibson, in another incarnation! My son called Taco Bell, Taco Hell, because he had to work there. My brother called Holyoke, MA, Holysmokes and we never pronounced Groton CT like it supposed to as in Grawtun. we always tried to croak it like a frog, so it came out Grrrotn, sorta. The local Target store has a little bit better stuff than walmart, whcih we call Walsmart, so those of us who are a cut above call give it a French sound by calling it Tar shay. I know there are more family one, just gone blank; no on cue clues! kat |
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Subject: RE: Creating your own name for something From: Alice Date: 27 Apr 99 - 06:08 PM I haven't heard "famdamily" since I was a kid. Reminds me of home.
The only two I could think of are names for discount stores (why is it common to rename stores with your own word?)
We call K-Mart, Came-Apart and Gibson's, Gib-Junk. |
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