Mom [OT]

JBHajos wrote:


How about lengthening it? My Cajun dad gave me the French spelling,
Jeanne. I can't count the number of times I've been called "Jeannie."
Hey, there's no "i" in it, for Pete's sake, and I hate it with a
purple passion. (One possible reason may be because an uncle sang an
off-key "I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair" *every* time he
came in the door when I was a kid, and I came to dread his visits!)
Equally disconcerting is being called "Jee-Anne", a rare occurrence
but it happens.



Pronounced Je-nay? It's hard to mess up Pam, but people try. Shirk,
however, is one of those that they have a field day with. Shirk, ****,
Shark, Shirt, Shirle, Shank, Stank, Stink, Shink, Shrek and so forth.
Sometimes the adults are worse than the kids. And the adults aren't
trying to be funny.

Pam S.

Kreisleriana wrote:

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:09:52 +0300, CK yodeled:


wrote:


CK wrote:

Not quite like croon and not quite like creen, but the vowel sound is
longish due to the following h, maybe something between a "oo" and a
"ee", the "ee" version actually being closer to correct. I just recently
realized the English language doesn't seem to have the y-sound like
German, Swedish, Finnish etc. have it.

When I studied French, the teacher taught us how to say the French "u"
sound in this way: position your mouth as though you're going to say "oo",
but then say "ee" (without changing the position of your lips or tongue).

Would the German or Finnish y-sound be like that?

Joyce

Yep, that's the closest we're gonna get. Theresa (Kreisleriana) used
that pronounciation aid too, which had Pam...err... Mrs. Shirk try it
out by her 'puter, making her DH wonder what she was up to.


Ahh, Usenet. We inform, we entertain, we make you look nuts in fromt
of your family.



So what else is new? My family decided I was nuts long before I
discovered Usenet. Usenet just confirmed their opinions.

Pam S.

ellis92 wrote:

In article ,
says...

badwilson wrote:

In Thailand you can't be a pilot in the military if you have any
fillings or unfilled cavities. Sure weeds out a lot of applicants!

And the reason is...?

Joyce


Air trapped in a cavity or loose filling may expand when increased
altitude causes it to expand. It could be very painful.

marv

Hum, that's why Rob came home once with a huge ballooned tooth, NOT!

I suspect it would be a way to weed out those from a lower social
strata, the ones who can't afford the better diet or have inferior
genetics. How about pulled teeth, Britta? Do they alow people with
gaping mouths to crew aircraft?

Pam S.

Steve Touchstone wrote:


Well, and maybe choice in clothes, too. I can't understand the boys
wearing pants halfway down the buttcheeks, and some of the outfits
girls copy from MTV. OTOH, I'm seem to remember my parents felt the
same way about high schoolers in my day.

LOL, the saggy baggies, as I call them, make the guys look like they
need a diaper change. I often find myself laughing at the more extreme
forms of dress.

Pam S.

David Yehudah wrote:

I guess it depends on which kids you're exposed to. When I taught 8th
grade English and Spanish here in SoCal, some of them seemed to go out
of their way to be obnoxious and bratty. Of course, not all did; some
were a pleasure to be around.



Eighth graders are humans?!! I'm impressed that you think so.
Actually, most eighth graders I've worked with are fairly decently
behaved. As I said earlier, there's always that 5% that are so asocial
that they shouldn't be allowed out without a leash and muzzle.

Pam S.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:47:52 -0500, Kreisleriana
wrote:


Don't they have curses in Arabic like "Son of fifteen dogs and
twenty-five monkeys, and a pig with loose morals"?

Theresa
alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal
claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
(Aldous Huxley)

I don't know if this is a real Arabic curse, but I heard it in
college, and it's my favorite:

"May the fleas of a thousand camels come to nest in your crotch!"

Ginger-lyn

JBHajos wrote
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:13:20 +0000 (UTC), David Stevenson
wrote:

GraceCat wrote

One more point was that I never did say entire Europe. I personally know
better than to assume that the whole of London, Paris or Berlin does a
simultanous "yuck" whenver they here "Mom" on an American tv show.

"Over there" sounded as though it was said to include rather more than
just me. My views are my views.

Dear David, I'm sorry you feel you've been misunderstood. I think
I was misunderstood also. I was the culprit who seemed to imply that
your views extended to all of Europe with the remark "over there." I
*did* mean *you* over there, absolutely *not* including an entire
continent. The thought had not crossed my mind. My quirky way of
speaking of a person to our west as "out there" or to the north as "up
there." Though I was stunned by your interpretation, I concede it was
a poor choice of words and I *do* apologize. (Perhaps a small case of
our being "separated by the same language.")

I also misunderstood you in that the words "brat", "yucky", and "Mom"
being an inferior word, suggested a much stronger reaction than mere
"annoyance." Sorry about that.

No matter. I have two cats who are extremely bored by the whole
thread - even the interesting bits!!!!

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David Yehudah wrote:

That's when I had my first heart attack. They carried me out of the
classroom on a stretcher into a waiting ambulance, and the kids were
celebrating.



The little b*ggers were probably already planning the grief they were
going to give the sub. I hope they gave the kids grief instead. You
made them work, Dave, and some kids are totally lazy no matter what you
do.

My first year as a sub, I covered Spanish (of which I speak nada) at a
year around school, for seven weeks. The original teacher had to quit
the second week of school due to family illness, and none of the subs
they had lasted longer than a week. I told the kids that there were
several ways I'd leave them. On a stretcher, by getting fired, or when
they finally got a good replacement who was going to finish out the year.

The third replacement teacher they brought in was from Costa Rica and on
an international teacher's exchange. In short, she couldn't quit. I
went back to working for different teachers at that school as well as
others. The students celebrated when they learned that the new teacher
would be taking over the next day. I was too mean, and had made them
work (I was usually one lesson ahead of them) and was harder than was fair.

The Costa Rican teacher had a fit when she learned that she couldn't use
corporeal punishment on those who acted up, tried to turn the creative
writing class into a spanish creative writing class, and was able to
work with difficulty with the students.

A month or so later I was working at the same school for another
teacher. A bunch of kids came up to me during the course of the day and
told me that they really wished I was back there teaching the class.
Not only couldn't they understand what she was saying, but she was
making them work harder than I had, had given most of them detention,
and had failed most of them on a test she'd given because they couldn't
spell the words correctly. I just smiled. One of the students told me
that I was strict but fair, and that the new teacher wasn't fair, just
strict.

Pam S.

Yoj wrote:


I think 8th grade has to be the very worst age - to be, or to be around.



At the top of the heap in middle school and the dregs of the earth for
high school. High school freshmen are as hard to work with.

Pam S.

Yoj wrote:


I can understand that feeling. I take a wicked sort of delight when
someone calls and asks for my husband by his first name. The call ends
quickly when I reply, "He is deceased." I don't bother to tell them he
died 18 years ago, and that they need an updated directory.



A salesman asked to speak to my mother once. I told him that he needed
to call Mountain View Cemetary at Davenport, Washington. He hung up.

Pam S.