flopsymopsy 
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I always spell moustaches with an O and I imagine AB does too, being a Canadian (they're bilingual in English), but I've discovered that one of the American llamas does too - we're taking the language back, one letter at a time!
Reply #2421. Jan 17 09, 4:27 PM
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_Morpheus_
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Hmmmm that's strange? Spelling smelling most times it doesn't matter but in this case it did!
A new young monk arrives at the monastery. He’s assigned to help the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand. He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript.
So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this; pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up. In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.
The head monk, says, “We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.”
So, he goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscript is held as archives in a locked vault that hasn’t been opened for hundreds of years.
Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot. So, the young monk gets worried and goes downstairs to look for him.
He sees him banging his head against the wall, and wailing “We forgot the R. We forgot the R.“ His forehead is all bloodied and bruised and he’s crying uncontrollably.
The young monk asks the old abbot, “What’s wrong, father?”
With a choking voice, the old abbot replies, “The word should be celebRate!”
Reply #2422. Jan 17 09, 4:54 PM
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AnneBonney
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LOL RJ! Good one!
We spell everything correctly in Canada and Britian, flopsy. ;) |
Reply #2423. Jan 17 09, 5:18 PM
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baban
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Well at least we do until the examination boards get hold of the language.
Here in the UK we spell the chemical element with the symbol 'S'- sulphur. Just as I was leaving teaching it was appearing on exam papers as 'sulfur' !
As you can imagine the kids thought it was a great hoot that they could get away with 'bad spelling' *grin*, even they thought it was a silly thing to do.
Grrr.
Reply #2424. Jan 17 09, 5:39 PM
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Qmel
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Call me crazy, but I can actually understand some British English!
Now for something completely different...I have discovered the Eurovision Song Contest and now love to watch vidoes from on different websites. Too bad it isn't shown here in America live.
Reply #2425. Jan 17 09, 9:15 PM
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flopsymopsy
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Oh dear heavens, Mel, be glad. If there's one time you should give thanks for being American, Eurovision is it.
At the moment we're having to live through the purgatory of picking the UK singer to sing a song Andrew Lloyd Webber hasn't written yet. Andrew Lloyd Webber courts publicity like a Hollywood starlet - someone should tell him we all know who he is already.
And then will come the humiliation of not winning, which for a country that has given the world some of the greatest rock/pop artists happens with monotonous regularity. Eastern Europe, freed from the domination of Soviet Russia and the Eastern Bloc votes for, well for the Eastern Bloc. We were always used to Malta voting for Italy, and for France never voting for Les Rosbifs, but I tell you, the Eastern Bloc is a BLOCK! "Royaume Unis: Nuls Points" - Lloyd Webber should use that as the song title!
Actually I say we have to live through it... no way am I turning that rubbish on.
Reply #2426. Jan 17 09, 9:26 PM
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Blackdresss
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Jane! Does your "new home" have anything to do with your new avator? If so, I'ma comin' to bust you outta there...
Reply #2427. Jan 18 09, 1:01 AM
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Blackdresss
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Flopsy, you are a darling. I'll toss up another HUGE avatar and maybe you can resize the danged thing for me.
Much money coming your way! I could even pay you in gold, if you prefer.
Reply #2428. Jan 18 09, 1:02 AM
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Blackdresss
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Shane, I have absolutely no relation to either Carolinas. I played as a free agent for awhile, deciding if I wanted to be on a team, and I noticed Marsalinator played in every tournament I play in, and I play in piles of them, so I wrote and asked if I could join his team, and silly them, they let me right in! And now I love my team!
It looks like being a bunny, llama or pirate would be fun, too. You are definitely a very lively group.
Reply #2429. Jan 18 09, 1:05 AM
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Blackdresss
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P.S. for Flopsy -- I swear I am polysyllabic! I just don't know how to resize those conflabbin' photos. But I take directions well. Try me! In the meantime, I will have to lean on you until you teach me, or I figure it out myself. Which would require reading directions, and that I don't do well, or at all.
Reply #2430. Jan 18 09, 1:07 AM
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Blackdresss
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Eurovision is to Elle as The Dark Tower Series is to everyone else. Not only do I not have a clue what it is, I'm not completely sure I want to know. Based on the questions I have seen, and the small amount of questioning I have done in some of the tournaments, it appears to be a very odd version of American Idol, but with a contestant from every country. I would go mad.
Also, NO ONE answered my "What do you call someone from Colorado or Montana" question! It wasn't rhetorical! A person from Montana, much like a Texan (but all similarities end here) is a Montanan. However! A person from Colorado is sometimes called a Coloradan, and sometimes called a Coloradoan, and I swear no one even notices that both are used. My local newspaper is called The Coloradoan. However, on the news on tv, or in the Denver Post, it is always "Coloradan." Go figure.
RJ, your joke was hilarious! It reminds me of the "Supplies!" joke!
Reply #2431. Jan 18 09, 1:15 AM
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Blackdresss
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And Anton? Who on earth is that pretty, pretty person in your new avatar, and may I have him? I'm just askin...
Reply #2432. Jan 18 09, 1:16 AM
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cyberhen
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Elle, you're very lucky not to have Eurovision. I agree with Flopsy, it never gets turned on in my house.
Reply #2433. Jan 18 09, 6:37 AM
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scubascott
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I can't stand any of the reality/singing/dancing whatever shows! They will not be turned on in this house ever! The commercials for them even make Me cringe! I'll admit to watching ice-road truckers and the deadliest catch on discovery and history channel but that's it!
Reply #2434. Jan 18 09, 7:13 AM
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cyberhen
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It's the same in my house Scott. No reality TV, except Ice Road Truckers and Deadliest Catch.I suppose we're lucky to get the over here.
Reply #2435. Jan 18 09, 9:26 AM
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scubascott
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The only thing lately they try in inject too much drama instead of letting reality provide all the drama! Still find Myself drawn to it and wonder what it would be like to try it! Maybe if I was 20 yrs younger?
Reply #2436. Jan 18 09, 10:12 AM
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_Morpheus_
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Thank your lucky stars mates and Llamas. I was going to say something controversial! Still might. We'll see.
Reply #2437. Jan 18 09, 11:43 AM
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baban
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Are you trying to tempt us RJ?
Reply #2438. Jan 18 09, 12:19 PM
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AntonLaVey
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My avatar is god himself, Randy Rhoads. You can't have him Elle. Nobody can. He is mine, all mine. :D
What do I call someone from Colorado? Depends. Is Colorado playing Nebraska?
Reply #2439. Jan 18 09, 1:30 PM
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_Morpheus_
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Hi baban,
What's shaking over their in metricsville....LOL
America is the only major country in the world that doesn't use the metric system as its predominant system of weights and measures—a fact that many citizens including me are just fine with.
After all, who knows what in the cockamamie heck a tonne is? Metrics just blow.
Well I’m a realist and I’m not intractable about switching but man what a job....I know, I know The journey of a thousand kilometers starts with a single decimeter. Poooooo!
Reply #2440. Jan 18 09, 2:52 PM
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