Mike A
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Promoted to Glory Now with the Choir Invisible
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One of my wife’s cousins is a veritable fountain of these type of words. Words like “conversating” and “confrontatious”. For those of us old enough to remember he sounds like the character Kingfish from the TV show “Amos ‘n Andy”.
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Sounds like a name of a farmhand on “Green Acres”.
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Zod reminded me of that gawd-awful movie “Zardoz”.
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My father was from Greece and my mother was from Germany. After I started kindergarten, the teacher told them they should speak English at home so I wouldn’t fall behind the rest of the class. In the 3rd grade, we learned California history. I was assigned to stand up and read a passage from it. When I came to the word “vegetable” the class erupted in laughter. When I looked up and around the room, I had a big dumb grin on my face, wondering what the joke was and how did I miss it. The nun said “The word is pronounced VEJ-teh-bul.” I had pronounced it “veh-jeh-TAY-bell”, the way I learned it from my mother.
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My wife always goes on about Liberty of London, when she went to England several times many years ago.
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Florida woman goes (actually is) Postal.
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https://youtu.be/iBcSu91X8sY?si=8R4bJphgR_bnZvow&t=105What a trooper; the show must go on!I also remember when I was a little kid reading Dick Tracy in the newspaper. The Sunday paper was in color and the Dick Tracy strip included a small box on top called “Crime Stopper’s Notebook” that would have crime/safety tips. The only one I can remember, because I had a such a strong reaction to it, was a drawing of a man falling out of an airliner’s open door mid-flight with the tip: “Be careful while watching a movie on an airplane: don’t go outside looking to buy popcorn”. I remember feeling insulted and thinking “Does Dick Tracy think we’re all r-e-t-a-r-d-e-d?” Same feeling when Ralphie in “A Christmas Story” finally got his Little Orphan Annie decoder pin, and the first message he decoded was “Drink Ovaltine” and he thought “Drink Ovaltine? It’s a crummy commercial!”There was a 3 Stooges episode where Shemp did a variation of it. I just can’t remember what the word was, searched on YouTube but couldn’t find a clip, but he said “(word I can’t remember) is Natures spelled sideways”.I was about to say where is the guillotine, but I found it 😆.
