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I was watching This Old House and someone's garden was being fixed up with new plants. So Tom Silva said to upend the pot, take out the root ball and use your clore to tease out some of the roots. And I'm thinking "what's a clore?" because I thought I owned every garden tool ever made. Then he picked up the tool to do the job... it was a CLAW.

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Met a guy from 'Vaginya' one time, thought he had a speech impediment but it was just his accent. Asked a Tixan where he was from and he said 'Dintin', looked it up and it was Denton.

Ohh geeze don't forget Sarah and all those cheese heads doun't cha no.

How did they name Canada?
they threw all the letters of the alphabet into a hat. They pulled the first one and said 'C' eh. The second was 'N' eh. the next was 'D' eh...
Ohh geeze, went to a fight and a hockey game broke out eh.

gotta love accents
 
Crashk said:
Met a guy from 'Vaginya' one time, thought he had a speech impediment but it was just his accent. Asked a Tixan where he was from and he said 'Dintin', looked it up and it was Denton.

Ohh geeze don't forget Sarah and all those cheese heads doun't cha no.

How did they name Canada?
they threw all the letters of the alphabet into a hat. They pulled the first one and said 'C' eh. The second was 'N' eh. the next was 'D' eh...
Ohh geeze, went to a fight and a hockey game broke out eh.

gotta love accents
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That Canada one is funny. I was in Texas this past weekend and I loved talking to the locals with accents. "Y'all" is one of my favorite words. Throw in something like "what are y'all fixin to do" and I love it.
 
Superfreak said:
I don't know why, but out of all the words that get f'ed up.... that one bugs me the most. 'Warsh'... nails on chalkboard is a more pleasant sound
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Oh man. That one is pure Ohio hillbilly. My mother says "Warsh" when she means "Wash", Crick, when she means Creek and "Feesh" when she means "Fish" and "Choirpractor" when she means Chiropractor. The later being particularly annoying to my father who happens to be a Doctor of Chiropractic.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
My mom was a life long New Englander and she did the same, but with some twists too.

She would never order a Taco at a restaurant, it was always a Tarco...and I swear she is the origin of people who say they are going to warsh the car.
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My Mom was from Australia and she said the same thing, among others..LOL
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Oh man. That one is pure Ohio hillbilly. My mother says "Warsh" when she means "Wash", Crick, when she means Creek and "Feesh" when she means "Fish" and "Choirpractor" when she means Chiropractor. The later being particularly annoying to my father who happens to be a Doctor of Chiropractic.
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Ha! southern ohio and wes (by God) verginya accints! My youngest sister spent too much time there and talks just like that, except she drags out some words like ' ah reely loovvve hilm'.

Whats the plural of y'all?
I'll use it in a sentence.

Fuck all y'all.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Oh man. That one is pure Ohio hillbilly. My mother says "Warsh" when she means "Wash", Crick, when she means Creek and "Feesh" when she means "Fish" and "Choirpractor" when she means Chiropractor. The later being particularly annoying to my father who happens to be a Doctor of Chiropractic.
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Being from the state of Iowa, almost ALL my relatives sound like that. It drove me crazy as a child.
 
Peeves:

Cancer of the prostrate.

Using 'drug' as the past tense of 'drag'.

Using 'exasperate' to describe 'exacerbate'.

Idiots who say they need to 'nip it in the butt'.

'What's the takeaway?" - moronic phrase to ask what positive outcome or lesson was learned from a situation.
 
Bijou said:
Peeves:

Cancer of the prostrate.

Using 'drug' as the past tense of 'drag'.

Using 'exasperate' to describe 'exacerbate'.

Idiots who say they need to 'nip it in the butt'.

'What's the takeaway?" - moronic phrase to ask what positive outcome or lesson was learned from a situation.
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OMG I hate "takeaway"! Whatever happened to good old "result" or "outcome"?

Even NPR uses it for one of their programs: The Takeaway. I can't stand it!
 
Why does President Obama always repeat "is" when speaking?

The point is is that global warming is is dooming us...
 
Bijou said:
Peeves:

Cancer of the prostrate.
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LOL The image is funny.

Using 'drug' as the past tense of 'drag'.
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Drugs are cooler.

Using 'exasperate' to describe 'exacerbate'.
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LOL. Again the picture amuses me.

Idiots who say they need to 'nip it in the butt'.
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What's wrong with a mouthful of butt? lol

'What's the takeaway?" - moronic phrase to ask what positive outcome or lesson was learned from a situation.
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Idiomatic expression, you have to be very anal retentive to get upset over those.

My personal peeves:

1. irregardless (it's regardless, and putting it in the dictionary doesn't change that you sound like a moron when you say irregardless).
2. newkewler instead of nuclear. (Again, just because so many got it wrong they gave up and added it to the dictionary doesn't change the reality, it is nuclear... It isn't that hard to say).
3. Eggsception instead of exception.
4. Eckspecially instead of especially.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I'll tell you one that's interesting. In my Flipina wife's native langauge (Tagalog) there are no gender specific words. So when she speaks English she constantly confuses, he/she, him/her, etc. It can sometimes be quite humerous. For example, a friend who's into body building struck a pose and asked her what she thought. She turned to me and said "Wow, she looks hot!" I laughed my ass off!
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Even better, I think, is the f/v, p/b problem. My friend's driver was taking us out on the lash a couple of years ago.

'Have you always been a chauffeur?' I asked.
Oh no sirr, he replied, I used to have a ban'.
'Oh,' said I, 'was that a rock and roll band or a hotel lobby sort of band?'
'No, It was a delibery ban, sirr.'
 
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