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sweeperbravo posted:My mom made fun of me when I was like 10 years old bc i told her excitedly about some cheat code in one of my game manuals where you could hold down sitrel and the arrow keys at the same time to make the character run. My dad couldn't believe that in (American) Super Mario Brothers 2, holding down until your character glowed made you jump higher was a legitimate thing. He thought it was a glitch and forbade us from doing it because it might break the game. To be fair, my dad worked in IT, so his assumption that glitches threatened stability wasn't always too far off. (I did the see-mon thing too, and as a kid I thought the Street Fighter character was Goo-lee. In my defense, 100% of my Street Fighter knowledge came from Gamepro, nowhere around us had a SF arcade.)
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ArtIsResistance posted:this is the first time a peanuts strip has elicited any kind of humour-related reaction from me Have you never seen the very first Peanuts strip?
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Charlie Brown having hair is weirding me out. Now I'm wondering what I thought was on his forehead this whole time.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Have you never seen the very first Peanuts strip? why would you not post it???
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ArtIsResistance posted:why would you not post it??? Oh, sorry, I'm actually sorry but I'm extremely drunk. Here it is and it's drat good:  e: What happened to your pebmnus?
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sweeperbravo posted:My mom made fun of me when I was like 10 years old bc i told her excitedly about some cheat code in one of my game manuals where you could hold down sitrel and the arrow keys at the same time to make the character run. You're okay, Homer Simpson pronounced it k'tarl and he doesn't have the excuse of having been ten years old
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Titus Sardonicus posted:You're okay, Homer Simpson pronounced it k'tarl and he doesn't have the excuse of having been ten years old K'tarl is what they have on Klingon keyboards
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It took me WAY too long to realize that epitome and, I suppose, "ep eh tomb" were the same word. I had read the former and heard the latter. I knew they meant the same thing but never pieced it in my head that the pronunciation was wrong and they were one in the same. I also pronounced "respite" as "re-spite" for a while.
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Inzombiac posted:It took me WAY too long to realize that epitome and, I suppose, "ep eh tomb" were the same word. Bone app the teeth.
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Inzombiac posted:It took me WAY too long to realize that epitome and, I suppose, "ep eh tomb" were the same word. What about revel? Is it "reh-vel" or "ruhvuhl"?
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As a kid reading Calvin and Hobbes, I was always confused by what "I dunno" meant. Wasn't until years later that I realized I was putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable.
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Inzombiac posted:It took me WAY too long to realize that epitome and, I suppose, "ep eh tomb" were the same word. My folks still laugh at me for saying "JIN-jam" for "gingham" when I was little. My grandma got laughed at in school when she pronounced it "deb-you-TAHN-tay". You think you know a word...
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I still maintain that "sleight" (as in "sleight of hand") should rhyme with "weight" and not "height".
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The Mighty Moltres posted:As a kid reading Calvin and Hobbes, I was always confused by what "I dunno" meant. Wasn't until years later that I realized I was putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable.
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Nov 8, 2017 04:25
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The big one that always sticks in my craw for me was how long it took me to pronounce "Chimera" considering how many fantasy novels I read as a kid.
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Choco1980 posted:The big one that always sticks in my craw for me was how long it took me to pronounce "Chimera" considering how many fantasy novels I read as a kid. I called it SHIM-er-rah, for far, far too long.
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I said CHIM-er-ah, so I was just as wrong. I think I watched Mission Impossible 2 and they were talking about the ki-MEER-a virus and my thought process was, "wtf is that word. Wait, what?"
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Jerry Cotton posted:Oh, sorry, I'm actually sorry but I'm extremely drunk. Here it is and it's drat good: I think the : ) look on charlie brown's face is what gives me the giggles, shulz was a master of expression. I dunno I woke up one morning to this title and then I looked down and was like "oh well I'll be damned"
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Memento posted:I said CHIM-er-ah, so I was just as wrong. I think I watched Mission Impossible 2 and they were talking about the ki-MEER-a virus and my thought process was, "wtf is that word. Wait, what?" As a youngin' I was playing Gauntlet with a friend who impulsively read every thing on TV. He pronounced it that way and l, after I corrected him, he locked himself in his room and I walked home.
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The temperature of the water you use to wash your hands doesn't matter. The important thing is the soap.
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dirksteadfast posted:I had an interesting morning. I suddenly realized that Bernadette Peters was a singing cat on Animaniacs as a subtle nod to her being a singing cat on Broadway. And then after a quick check online to see if that was the intention, I just found out that she was never Grizabella in CATS...which I have believed her to have been for many, many years. Are the Animaniacs really supposed to be cats? Huh.
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walrusman posted:Are the Animaniacs really supposed to be cats? Huh. No the cat is a cat http://animaniacs.wikia.com/wiki/Rita
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Leavemywife posted:The temperature of the water you use to wash your hands doesn't matter. The important thing is the soap. The warmer water also removes oils/gunk from your hands easier. It just doesn't have an antibiotic temperature.
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walrusman posted:Are the Animaniacs really supposed to be cats? Huh. They're not any specific kind of animal. Creator Tom Ruegger said their species is “Cartoonus Characterus.”
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Inzombiac posted:It took me WAY too long to realize that epitome and, I suppose, "ep eh tomb" were the same word. Google image search "epitome records" and you could see why a young me assumed "tomb" was part of the pronunciation. Or at least "tome" as in an old spooky book. Jerry Cotton posted:Bone app the teeth. I always knew how to pronounce hors d'oeuvres the right way but I've gotten Homer Simpson's pronunciation "horse doovers" stuck in my head so hard I forgot the original. syscall girl has a new favorite as of 08:39 on Nov 8, 2017 |
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Memento posted:I said CHIM-er-ah, so I was just as wrong. I think I watched Mission Impossible 2 and they were talking about the ki-MEER-a virus and my thought process was, "wtf is that word. Wait, what?" huh thought it was kai meer uh
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Leavemywife posted:The temperature of the water you use to wash your hands doesn't matter. Do not wash your hands in scalding water TIA.
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Besesoth posted:I still maintain that "sleight" (as in "sleight of hand") should rhyme with "weight" and not "height". Until reading this very thread a few years back, I thought there there existed in English the verb "to misle" Apparently I had been misled.
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I used to pronounce Banal to rhyme with Anal. I still want to.
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Leavemywife posted:The temperature of the water you use to wash your hands doesn't matter.  "Comfortably warm" is the current CDC recommendation because too hot/cold will irritate the skin and make people less likely to wash their hands for long enough to actually be effective. Cold can also cause the skin to dry out faster, leading to cracking, which further increases the risk of infection. A good vigorous washing of all hand surfaces with mild soap and comfortably warm water for a minimum of 15 seconds is the standard to effectively remove soils and skin-borne pathogens.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:
So 'comfortably cool' would be just as effective, then
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purple death ray posted:So 'comfortably cool' would be just as effective, then
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Cavenagh posted:I used to pronounce Banal to rhyme with Anal. I still want to. Um how are you supposed to? Banal = bay-null, banality = buh-nalitty. Right? Right!?!?!?!?
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ArtIsResistance posted:Um how are you supposed to? Banal = bay-null, banality = buh-nalitty. Right? Right!?!?!?!? buh nahl Though generally I've heard it with a shortened first a so it's more like b'nahl.
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I keep thinking it sounds wrong when people correctly pronounce 'lever' and I don't know why e: oh, it's actually an American/British thing.
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That you can keep playing Skyrim after you beat Alduin. 
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Randaconda posted:That you can keep playing Skyrim after you beat Alduin.  sorry, couldn't help myself
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Phlegmish posted:I keep thinking it sounds wrong when people correctly pronounce 'lever' and I don't know why Well, better late...
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Memento posted:
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