Where the Kids Come to Mouth Off

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I still don't want to be here today.

I'm reading Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan right now. So far so good. I'm also reading The Beach by Alex Garland. I keep putting it down for awhile and then picking it back up, and I can't say I'm really into it.

Though I have a self-imposed ban on buying any more books due to a backlog, I'm always on the lookout for recommendations. Any suggestions? Has anyone read the most recent Jasper Fforde (released earlier this month) yet?

I haven't read the latest Thursday Next book (I've only read the first two, so am I missing one or two?), but I'm looking forward to it. Speaking of Alex Garland, I quite liked the Beach, but I LOVED The Tesseract. Not sure if it was just the mood I was in or what, but it seemed to hit so close to home. I think you'll like it RT.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Sure enough, aye.

I've always imagined dtb as having an Audrey Hepburn accent, and I imagine RT's accent as being just like Catherine Zeta Jones in Zorro. But then, I imagine RT as being Catherine Zeta Jones in Zorro.

Now Bilmore has one of those funny accents straight out of Fargo, obviously, Spookyfish talks like Urkel, and Hank speaks just like the Skipper.

Anyone else have an obvious accent on this board.

On this board, no. I relax a little when I'm on the Texas board, though.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
On this board, no. I relax a little when I'm on the Texas board, though.

I hear Charlton Heston when you write.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
I don't know how you felt, but I think NBC's coverage of the women's soccer match last night sucked. Granted, I didn't expect to see the whole entire game into overtime, but I did expect to see more than 2 minutes.

Having followed the game via matchtracker at the ussoccer.com website and having spent most of the evening out drinking, I was happy to get home in time to see the 2 minute highlight reel (thinking that the game got more coverage earlier in the evening). If that is all they showed of the game, that is pathetic. Did they have an Up Close and Personal clip featuring Mia and Nomar as happy homemakers? I'm hoping FSW will buy the rights and replay the game at a later date. After a summer of boring EPL reruns they owe us.

In this day and age of canned Olympics I'm annoyed that none of the women's soccer games were shown in their entirety via tape delay during the evening or early morning. I don't mind staying awake at odd hours, but most of the folks at BIG LAW Boston don't understand my absence in the middle of the work day.

No soccer, but plenty of handball, field hockey and water polo matches involving mostly obscure teams. Sure, they are interesting and I'm glad they are not being buried, but could NBC (or one of the other gazillion channels they own) please show a soccer game at night? Not all of us can take off during the middle of the day. Then again most of the pre-teen "MIA!!" screamers haven't started school yet.

Costas' interview was pathetic. Did they put up any glamour shots of the Fab 5 during the evening?


Soccer PSA - US plays El Salvador in a World Cup Qualifier at Gillette Stadium on September 4th! Get your tickets now! It's also a chance to see Freddy Adu. Following the WCQ the Revs take on Adu and DC United.


Anne
Anyone pre-ordered their gymnastics DVD from NBC yet? ITUIMMALB

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by dtb
Interesting. I am Hispanic (father only) and Jewish (both parents

So, is this your dad?



Thus, making your grandmother Epstein's mother, excuse-writer extroardinaire?

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
I haven't read the latest Thursday Next book (I've only read the first two, so am I missing one or two?), but I'm looking forward to it. Speaking of Alex Garland, I quite liked the Beach, but I LOVED The Tesseract. Not sure if it was just the mood I was in or what, but it seemed to hit so close to home. I think you'll like it RT.

I'm really enjoying Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi.

Anne
Yes, I'm a few years behind on my summer reading.

[str8outavannuys]

Probably not funny if you haven't heard it sung, but . . .

Mexican Americans don't like to just get into gang fights,
they like flowers and music and white girls named Debbie too.

Mexican Americans are named Chata and Chella and chemma
and have a son in law named jeff.

Mexican Americans don't like to get up early in the morning
but they have to so they do it real slow.

Mexican Americans love education so they go to night school
and take spanish and get a B.

Mexican Americans love their Nana's and their Nono's and their
Nina's and their Nino's........ Nano Nano Nina Nono!

Mexican Americans don't like to go to the movies where the
dude has to wear contact lenses to make his blue eyes brown
cause don't it make my brown eyes blue.....

"And thats all i got, how do ya like it?"

*phone rings*
Mexican Americans like to answer telephone calls and say hello
to whoever's on the other end

[dtb]

Originally posted by spookyfish
So, is this your dad?



Thus, making your grandmother Epstein's mother, excuse-writer extroardinaire?

No, not exactly. While I am "ethnic", I don't exactly look ethnic. (Hispanic can be of any race.) But before you jump in, my husband doesn't look "ethnic" either. He just looks Jewish (which he isn't).

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Not Bob
I have noticed that accents that are outside the norm for a given area seem to generate all sorts of presumptions and assumptions about intelligence (or lack thereof) and character (or lack thereof).

When I lived in the South, I used to enjoy hearing the people there say that Yankees all sounded so stooooopid.

Being an uninflected Californian, I can say with equanimity that both the Brooklyn and the Birmingham sound equally fucktarded to the unprejudiced ear. However, I am favorably disposed toward the South because I've come to realize the famously sweet dispositions of Mayberry and Hooterville residents are largely true, but the sweet dispositions of the Sweathogs were an invention of television writers.

Also, when someone can show me a castmember of "Petticoat Junction" who converted to Scientology, I'll conclude the average stupidity of the regions is equal.

[bilmore]

Sometimes, when you find a new link, you just have to share.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Spookyfish talks like Urkel.

Anyone else have an obvious accent on this board.

Damn, that hurts. I go away for a little while and come back to this.

I have an obvious, flat, Midwestern accent, for the record.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
When I lived in the South, I used to enjoy hearing the people there say that Yankees all sounded so stooooopid.

Being an uninflected Californian, I can say with equanimity that both the Brooklyn and the Birmingham sound equally fucktarded to the unprejudiced ear. However, I am favorably disposed toward the South because I've come to realize the famously sweet dispositions of Mayberry and Hooterville residents are largely true, but the sweet dispositions of the Sweathogs were an invention of television writers.

Also, when someone can show me a castmember of "Petticoat Junction" who converted to Scientology, I'll conclude the average stupidity of the regions is equal.

And I imagine you speaking like a Valley girl. Uninflected Californian, indeed.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
And I imagine you speaking like a Valley girl. Uninflected Californian, indeed.

Okay, Good Will Hunting.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Well, no shit. I can't imagine a parent in the world (except maybe Hank) who would accept "C"s on a report card with the excuse that your boyfriend/girlfriend was really hot, and you never could seem to get out of bed.

I'd be pissed if my daughter picked up the guy working on our street though.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Damn, that hurts. I go away for a little while and come back to this.

I have an obvious, flat, Midwestern accent, for the record.

I sound like the girl/robot from Small Wonder.