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Title: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Lannis on September 29, 2015, 07:58:08 PM
Number 3 - Saying "Don't Call Me Shirley" whenever anyone uses the work "surely".     Jeez, it's been 30 years already .....

Number 2 - Dolly Parton.    No matter why her name comes up, country music singer, businesswoman, Dollywood, whatever, EVERYONE makes the mammary jokes and never stops.

And Number 1 -

Bestiality jokes whenever "Sheep" are mentioned.    Yes, it was funny the first through the 8 millionth time, but .....?


The next one on the list will be mentioning "that" song whenever someone says "Vincent" ..... !!   :violent1:

Lannis relaxing after a big meal of spaghetti, bruschetta, and Jamaican Guinness Punch for dessert .....
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Triple Jim on September 29, 2015, 08:31:39 PM
Here's a motorcycle related one:  Making jokes about someone wearing "Assless Chaps".  I see it regularly on boards, but by definition, chaps are leg coverings and aren't supposed to cover the ass.

Have you noticed that people born in the early part of the 20th century or before tended to have a repertoire of jokes, words, poems, and sayings?  A few that I used to hear, or still hear from people close to me:

* Always using the word "ornamental" instead of "Oriental"
* Asking if you were hatching it if you answer the phone on the 1st ring
* When asked how much something costs, they say "A buck three-eighty" or something equally clever
* Whenever someone coughed or talked about coughing, I'd hear "It's not the cough that carries 'em off, it's the coffin they carry 'em off in."

etc.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: sib on September 29, 2015, 08:33:57 PM
Claiming that the V7 would be perfect if it only had another 100 cc displacement, 25 more hp, and better suspension.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: oldbike54 on September 29, 2015, 08:37:00 PM
 Oh boy , another pet peeve thread  :popcorn:

  Dusty
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: fotoguzzi on September 29, 2015, 08:41:19 PM
people who believe their "facts" over truth/science.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Kent in Upstate NY on September 29, 2015, 09:23:08 PM
Those who say "Joolery"
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Bisbonian on September 29, 2015, 09:31:42 PM
Those who say "Joolery"

Ah, but that used to be an acceptable pronunciation and was even spelled in such a way to be correct. I used to make fun of my wife until I was set straight.

I shouldn't have been making fun anyway.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: oldbike54 on September 29, 2015, 09:34:23 PM
Ah, but that used to be an acceptable pronunciation and was even spelled in such a way to be correct. I used to make fun of my wife until I was set straight.

I shouldn't have been making fun anyway.

 Yep , kinda like critter was probably the way creature was pronounced in England 200 years ago .

  Dusty
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Robert on September 29, 2015, 09:37:55 PM
Just Who was that "Assless Chap"?
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Rich A on September 29, 2015, 09:38:53 PM
Rabbit ears behind someone's head in a photo (now image).

Rich A
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: fotoguzzi on September 29, 2015, 09:39:47 PM
my wife keeps calling Minnehaha Creek a Crick .. and she grew up on it's shore..
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: oldbike54 on September 29, 2015, 09:42:57 PM


Have you noticed that people born in the early part of the 20th century or before tended to have a repertoire of jokes, words, poems, and sayings?  A few that I used to hear, or still hear from people close to me:

* Always using the word "ornamental" instead of "Oriental"
* Asking if you were hatching it if you answer the phone on the 1st ring
* When asked how much something costs, they say "A buck three-eighty" or something equally clever
* Whenever someone coughed or talked about coughing, I'd hear "It's not the cough that carries 'em off, it's the coffin they carry 'em off in."

etc.

 Those may be regional Jim , never heard any of them .

  Dusty
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Guzzistajohn on September 29, 2015, 10:08:02 PM
Or those who refer to a subject as a MUTE point.

IE, Half the subjects on Wild Guzzi. Like, adding another 100cc's to a V7 is really a moot point because those dang I-talians don't give a crap!

 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :boozing: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Lannis on September 29, 2015, 10:13:43 PM
Or those who refer to a subject as a MUTE point.



Actually, I just realized that calling something "Played" is probably played by now .....
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Lannis on September 29, 2015, 10:16:38 PM
people who believe their "facts" over truth/science.

Well, I'd rather believe my facts than your "truth" (note that YOUR "truth" is in quotes now   :grin:. )   Who gets to decide?    :lipsrsealed:
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: johnr on September 29, 2015, 11:13:56 PM
sigh... using "use" as a plural of "you"
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: oldbike54 on September 29, 2015, 11:23:30 PM
sigh... using "use" as a plural of "you"

 They spell that You'se , as in you'se guys in the state of New Jersey  :grin: How do you feel about ya'll John ? :grin:

  Dusty
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Guzzistajohn on September 29, 2015, 11:26:37 PM
sigh... using "use" as a plural of "you"

That's youz guys, that's a little different.

How 'bout "axe" for ask then?   As in, "let me axe you dis question" :undecided:
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: oldbike54 on September 29, 2015, 11:32:41 PM
That's youz guys, that's a little different.

How 'bout "axe" for ask then?   As in, "let me axe you dis question" :undecided:

 Actually pronouncing ask as axe goes back to the 18th and 19th centuries and is a pidgin English form of the word .

   Dusty
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Triple Jim on September 29, 2015, 11:38:07 PM
I have heard that one, with "A dollar two ninety-eight" as well.

Me too.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Triple Jim on September 29, 2015, 11:42:22 PM
sigh... using "use" as a plural of "you"

My mother's mom and dad came from the old country, and settled in Ohio, across the river from Wheeling, WV.  People from that area had a plural of "you" which was you-uns, but usually pronounced approximately "yoontz".  When they hung a baited hook in the water, they were feeshin', and after dinner, they washed the deeshes.  It was all European influence on the language.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on September 30, 2015, 03:40:36 AM
They spell that You'se , as in you'se guys in the state of New Joisey 

  Dusty
   Fixed it for ya.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: twhitaker on September 30, 2015, 06:10:20 AM
you do realize that ya'll is singular. The plural is all ya'll.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Rough Edge racing on September 30, 2015, 06:49:59 AM
 Uh, are use guys really anal about stuff like this or just being sarcastic ?   My wife's uncle calls the stove pipe a "chimley" and when asked when he was born, he says "bornded".  Makes me laugh inside.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: sib on September 30, 2015, 07:08:00 AM
Well, I'd rather believe my facts than your "truth" (note that YOUR "truth" is in quotes now   :grin:. )   Who gets to decide?    :lipsrsealed:
Or, as Wanda Landowska said to another harpsichordist who had a different take on the Goldberg Variations "You play it your way, I play it Bach's way".
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Cam3512 on September 30, 2015, 07:21:39 AM
How about when morons interchange "BOUGHT" with "BROUGHT",  "BROUGHT with "BOUGHT"?
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: lucian on September 30, 2015, 07:25:09 AM
Try living in Maine and hearing A YuH  as the response to every thing. And wicked , every things wicked a yuh.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: oldbike54 on September 30, 2015, 07:43:12 AM
Uh, are use guys really anal about stuff like this or just being sarcastic ?   My wife's uncle calls the stove pipe a "chimley" and when asked when he was born, he says "bornded".  Makes me laugh inside.

 Not really , however the myriad ways that Edelbrock and Mikuni are spelled  on CL ads is quite amusing  :laugh:

  Dusty
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: blackcat on September 30, 2015, 08:16:01 AM
Axed vs. Asked as in "I'm not Axeing you, I'm telling you"
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on September 30, 2015, 08:56:57 AM
Quote
Jamaican Guinness Punch for dessert

Shirley you didn't drink that...  :evil:
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Lannis on September 30, 2015, 09:19:35 AM
Shirley you didn't drink that...  :evil:

I did, and it was shirley very tasty .....
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Guzzistajohn on September 30, 2015, 09:23:32 AM
And don't forget the widely accepted ozark vernacular "youns"


Youns can come over for supper if youont to :laugh:
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Tobit on September 30, 2015, 10:43:05 AM
So Dolly Parton walks into a bar with her sheep named Shirley....

 :copcar:
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Lannis on September 30, 2015, 10:57:47 AM
So Dolly Parton walks into a bar with her sheep named Shirley....

 :copcar:

Go on then, don't stop there ....  :grin:
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: PJPR01 on September 30, 2015, 12:42:14 PM
Any politician who says Nukular instead of Nuclear should be fired on the spot...particularly those who are involved in negotiations on the same bloody subject.

Any real estate agent who calls themselves a RELAtor instead of a REALtor...run away!

School officials who frequently say libary instead of library, or Febuary instead of February...

Irregardless, incent or incentivize, paradigm shift, pick off the low hanging fruit and all the rest of the over used buzz phrases.

Crick vs. Creek...that seems be more of a country vs. city pronunciation I have noticed, or folks who confuse present and perfect tenses.  E.g. So there I was back in 1992 at the crick nearby Marshall's country store, and I come up on a possum layin on its side... :)

Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on September 30, 2015, 12:47:18 PM
In Indiana, we used to warsh our clothes down in the crick..
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: blackcat on September 30, 2015, 01:00:49 PM
In Indiana, we used to warsh our clothes down in the crick..

Yeah, we said that in Ohio.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: oldbike54 on September 30, 2015, 01:06:34 PM
 And people make fun of Okies  :shocked: :grin: Really , English is such a fluid language , warsh and crik were probably carried over from some region in England . Ever tried to read Chaucer ?

  Dusty
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Lannis on September 30, 2015, 01:12:29 PM
And people make fun of Okies  :shocked: :grin: Really , English is such a fluid language , warsh and crik were probably carried over from some region in England . Ever tried to read Chaucer ?

  Dusty

Here bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunterbury

       Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende .....

Well, "fluid" it is over a 600-year period .... Maybe not so hard to read, if you make some guesses .... !

Lannis
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Shorty on September 30, 2015, 01:15:39 PM
And people make fun of Okies  :shocked: :grin: Really , English is such a fluid language , warsh and crik were probably carried over from some region in England . Ever tried to read Chaucer ?

  Dusty

BUT, Okies ARE kinda funny. We  buy INsurance, call the POlice, put stuff on DISplay, go BERserk.  It's PURE D funny, I tell ya.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: kirby1923 on September 30, 2015, 01:18:28 PM
And people make fun of Okies  :shocked: :grin: Really , English is such a fluid language , warsh and crik were probably carried over from some region in England . Ever tried to read Chaucer ?

  Dusty



"Tee Hee quote she, and let flee a fart"

Canterbury Tales,

Quite clear me thinks
:-)
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: oldbike54 on September 30, 2015, 01:19:48 PM
BUT, Okies ARE kinda funny. We  buy INsurance, call the POlice, put stuff on DISplay, go BERserk.  It's PURE D funny, I tell ya.  :laugh:

 Don't forget "tars" , as in , "gonna hafta put some new tars on my pick up"

  Dusty
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: blackcat on September 30, 2015, 01:21:34 PM
It took me a bit to figure out Bubs for bulbs, guff for gulf but now that I know that some L's are silent I'm OK.

When I moved to NYC in the 1970's I dated a girl from Jersey City, NJ and it didn't last long because I couldn't understand half of what she was saying.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Shorty on September 30, 2015, 01:22:46 PM
Don't forget "tars" , as in , "gonna hafta put some new tars on my pick up"

  Dusty

Yep, don't forget to change the all every 3000 miles, too. "Ain't that right, Lamar?"
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: oldbike54 on September 30, 2015, 01:23:58 PM
 For a bunch of motorbike riders we are an amazingly literate bunch , not me mind you , but some of you other guys  :laugh:


  Dusty
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Lannis on September 30, 2015, 01:24:51 PM
Don't forget "tars" , as in , "gonna hafta put some new tars on my pick up"

  Dusty

And the Okie who laid 3 bouquets of carnations along the road when he was fixing the flat tar, like he learned in highway safety class ....
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Bonafide Bob on September 30, 2015, 01:31:44 PM
Yep, don't forget to change the all every 3000 miles, too. "Ain't that right, Lamar?"
Unless you are in some areas of New Orleans where oil is pronounced earl
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Cam3512 on September 30, 2015, 01:35:03 PM
So Dolly Parton walks into a bar with her sheep named Shirley....

 :copcar:

Shirley says "don't forget to TIT the Baaa-tender"!
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Lannis on September 30, 2015, 01:35:52 PM
Unless you are in some areas of New Orleans where oil is pronounced earl

Here, an earl is what the umpire gives the center fielder when he boots a ground ball ...
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Guzzistajohn on September 30, 2015, 01:42:53 PM
When I moved to Oklahoma in the 80's I was suprised everybody was "fixin" to do something all the time.

In south St. Louis people ride harses. And at one time a candy bar would cost you a quArter.  Two major highways in stl are farty far (44) and farty (40)
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Lannis on September 30, 2015, 01:45:18 PM
For a bunch of motorbike riders we are an amazingly literate bunch , not me mind you , but some of you other guys  :laugh:


  Dusty

Here's a literate "Walks into a Bar" joke, that even requires knowledge of British idiom.

A woman walks into a bar and asks for a double entendre.

So the bartender gives her one.

Lannis
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: oldbike54 on September 30, 2015, 01:49:58 PM
 Let's not leave our brethren in California out of this .

 "Like Dude , that's like so gnarly"  :laugh:

  Dusty
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: sib on September 30, 2015, 02:09:47 PM
[quote author=PJPR01 link=topic=79276.msg1246146#msg1246146 date=1443634934
Crick vs. Creek...that seems be more of a country vs. city pronunciation I have noticed, or folks who confuse present and perfect tenses.  E.g. So there I was back in 1992 at the crick nearby Marshall's country store, and I come up on a possum layin on its side... :)
[/quote]
You're prolly right.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: PJPR01 on September 30, 2015, 02:12:19 PM
Let's not leave our brethren in California out of this .

 "Like Dude , that's like so gnarly"  :laugh:

  Dusty
  For suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu urrre...and it was Awesome too man!!  :)
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: PJPR01 on September 30, 2015, 02:14:24 PM
Here's a literate "Walks into a Bar" joke, that even requires knowledge of British idiom.

A woman walks into a bar and asks for a double entendre.  So the bartender gives her one.Lannis
 

I'm going to steal this joke if you don't mind...with credit duly assigned of course! 
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: PJPR01 on September 30, 2015, 02:17:06 PM
BUT, Okies ARE kinda funny. We  buy INsurance, call the POlice, put stuff on DISplay, go BERserk.  It's PURE D funny, I tell ya.  :laugh:
  Damn funny and Oh so true down here in Texas as well, and even after living here for 18 years, I'm still not used to it!  Then there is of course Veee - HICK - El and for some reason a town called Humble, that is pronounced Ummmble...
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: rocker59 on September 30, 2015, 02:27:21 PM
Any politician who says Nukular instead of Nuclear should be fired on the spot...particularly those who are involved in negotiations on the same bloody subject.
 

Nothing in the world wrong with regional differences in the American English dialect.

Things would really be boring if we all sounded like some mid-western news anchor.

Oh, and "new-cue-lar"?  If someone with the credentials of Jimmy Carter can say it, that's fine by me.   



Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Triple Jim on September 30, 2015, 02:30:42 PM
Yeah, we said that in Ohio.

In that part of Ohio I was talking about earlier, across from Wheeling WV, "wash" was usually pronounced "woosh".

BUT, Okies ARE kinda funny. We  buy INsurance, call the POlice, put stuff on DISplay, go BERserk.  It's PURE D funny, I tell ya.  :laugh:

Those are all common here in rural NC.  Insurance is really more like INshornce, with only two syllables.  And any town name that ends in "ville" is pronounced with a "vul" at the end instead.  But this stuff isn't pet peeve wrong stuff, it's just interesting dialects.  Heck, how do you pronounce "Detroit"?    :grin:
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: blackcat on September 30, 2015, 02:34:26 PM
Unless you are in some areas of New Orleans where oil is pronounced earl

There is a thin line between a Brooklynese and New Orleans accent. I wonder if they both say Tourlet?
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: rocker59 on September 30, 2015, 02:36:35 PM
   Heck, how do you pronounce "Detroit"?    :grin:

DEE-troit    :popcorn:
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: blackcat on September 30, 2015, 02:37:55 PM
My wife is originally from Pittsburgh and she occasionally rolls back into the accent, especially when she's mad:
https://youtu.be/YcBiLDAfmVA
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: SteveAZ on September 30, 2015, 03:10:23 PM
"Dampening" when talking about suspension.

So, you made your suspension more moist?

Damping.  :violent1:
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Dukedesmo on September 30, 2015, 03:22:05 PM

Bestiality jokes whenever "Sheep" are mentioned.    Yes, it was funny the first through the 8 millionth time, but .....?


You're Welsh, aren't you?...  :wink:
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Penderic on September 30, 2015, 03:32:13 PM
That talking sheep over there? Dont listen to her. She's a liar!
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/Penderic047/sheep-eating_zpsvfhephvs.gif)

Return to topic: Bleeding Heart Types.

"It's for the Children!"
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/Penderic047/baby%20have%20a%20beer_zpsc9vuwpmh.jpg)










Anyone notice?  :azn:
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/Penderic047/apostrophe_zpsin6smrjd.png)
 :rolleyes: Proper Puncuation Police! RUN!
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Bonafide Bob on September 30, 2015, 03:33:33 PM
There is a thin line between a Brooklynese and New Orleans accent. I wonder if they both say Tourlet?

 I don't know about Brooklyn, but I sure hear it said that way here in New Orleans, another one I used to hear a lot was a sink be called a zinc.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: bad Chad on September 30, 2015, 03:39:50 PM
Nothing in the world wrong with regional differences in the American English dialect.

Things would really be boring if we all sounded like some mid-western news anchor.

Oh, and "new-cue-lar"?  If someone with the credentials of Jimmy Carter can say it, that's fine by me.

I'm with Rocker on this!

As for pet peeves, can we stop with, so and so, "don't hold back, tell us what you really feel!"   Good god, I have seen that phrase so many times  that if they were dollar bills, I head to a strip joint!    Pete gets it all the time on his threads!
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Neil on September 30, 2015, 04:13:58 PM
Weather or news  people (or anyone else for that matter) who refer to "7 AM in the  MORNING" ; over use of the prefix "pre" , e.g.  "pre-existing condition", referring to a particular railroad station in New York City as Grand Central Station, ( for those not familiar with NYC, it's Grand Central TERMINAL, Grand Central Station is the NYC Subway station a couple floors below).
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Triple Jim on September 30, 2015, 04:16:09 PM
Weather or news  people (or anyone else for that matter) who refer to "7 AM in the  MORNING"

Related, and I think the era of VCRs started it, 12:00 is not AM or PM, it's Noon or Midnight.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Shorty on September 30, 2015, 04:52:18 PM
  Damn funny and Oh so true down here in Texas as well, and even after living here for 18 years, I'm still not used to it!  Then there is of course Veee - HICK - El and for some reason a town called Humble, that is pronounced Ummmble...

I lived in Humble a year one month.....  :grin:
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: sib on September 30, 2015, 05:15:10 PM
Proper Puncuation Police! RUN!
Oh, I thought you were referring to prunciation.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: sib on September 30, 2015, 05:17:13 PM
Weather or news  people (or anyone else for that matter) who refer to "7 AM in the  MORNING" ; over use of the prefix "pre" , e.g.  "pre-existing condition", referring to a particular railroad station in New York City as Grand Central Station, ( for those not familiar with NYC, it's Grand Central TERMINAL, Grand Central Station is the NYC Subway station a couple floors below).
Who else but New Yorkers pronounce Houston "House-ton"?
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: johnr on September 30, 2015, 06:01:34 PM
They spell that You'se , as in you'se guys in the state of New Jersey  :grin: How do you feel about ya'll John ? :grin:

  Dusty

y'all ? Absolutely bizarre expression.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: oldbike54 on September 30, 2015, 06:06:20 PM
y'all ? Absolutely bizarre expression.

 Bizarre , well of course , but it is descriptive . All ya'll get in here and eat before it gets cold . My guess is that when Stephen Adams retires from the Thunder and returns home , ya'll will come into common use in NZ  :evil:

  Dusty
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Cam3512 on September 30, 2015, 08:53:56 PM
Who else but New Yorkers pronounce Houston "House-ton"?

Delaware - New-WARK.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Kent in Upstate NY on September 30, 2015, 08:55:21 PM
Read this book. (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Made_in_America-Bryson-Feb2005.jpg)
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: oldbike54 on September 30, 2015, 09:07:47 PM
Read this book. (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Made_in_America-Bryson-Feb2005.jpg)

 The Mother Tongue by the same author is also brilliant .

  Dusty
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: trippah on September 30, 2015, 09:10:21 PM
or don't buy that, it's so spendy!   aaaaarg.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: oldbike54 on September 30, 2015, 09:12:25 PM
 Geez , some of us are a bit , er , well , you know  :evil:

  Dusty
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Rich A on September 30, 2015, 09:18:10 PM
Delaware - New-WARK.

Hey! I used to live there.

More like New-ARK. We always wondered how it could be pronounced NEW-irk.

R
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Moto Fugazzi on September 30, 2015, 09:57:21 PM
How about pitcher instead of picture?
"I took a really good pitcher of you last night". I don't know what that means.
Ken
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Moto Fugazzi on September 30, 2015, 10:00:36 PM
The fourth thing is is overplayed is the word "Boom", or the term "Boom, you're roasted" every time you get someone with a bad joke or line.
Ken
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: rocker59 on September 30, 2015, 10:06:33 PM
"Boom, you're roasted"
Ken

Where would one hear that one?  I've never heard it before.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: oldbike54 on September 30, 2015, 10:10:52 PM
Where would one hear that one?  I've never heard it before.

 Mike , a lot of this is regional . Like we might say " That ain't gonna happen there Bubba "  :grin:

  Dusty
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: rocker59 on September 30, 2015, 10:12:00 PM
Mike , a lot of this is regional . 

Yeah.  Just wondering what region!
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Lannis on September 30, 2015, 10:24:51 PM
Mike , a lot of this is regional . Like we might say " That ain't gonna happen there Bubba "  :grin:

  Dusty

Hey, post number 37 for the day.

You
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Lannis on September 30, 2015, 10:27:02 PM
can
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Post by: Lannis on September 30, 2015, 10:28:03 PM
go for
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Post by: Lannis on September 30, 2015, 10:29:03 PM
40 if you
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Post by: Mayor_of_BBQ on September 30, 2015, 10:29:16 PM
Actually pronouncing ask as axe goes back to the 18th and 19th centuries and is a pidgin English form of the word .

   Dusty

AAVE
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Lannis on September 30, 2015, 10:29:58 PM
shorten them up some.   I see you've figured it out.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Mayor_of_BBQ on September 30, 2015, 10:34:55 PM
Heck, how do you pronounce "Detroit"?    :grin:

d'troit is how I say it but I feel like most North Carolinians say Dee-Troit
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: oldbike54 on September 30, 2015, 10:37:52 PM
 Lannis , kinda flattering that you keep count of my post count , thanks for caring  :thumb:

  Dusty
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Mayor_of_BBQ on September 30, 2015, 10:38:58 PM
Where would one hear that one?  I've never heard it before.

Only place I've ever heard it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQD95EEJxg4
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Triple Jim on September 30, 2015, 10:57:07 PM
d'troit is how I say it but I feel like most North Carolinians say Dee-Troit

You're probably right about most in NC.  I know almost everyone from the Pittsburgh/Wheeling/southern Ohio region says DEE-troit.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Triple Jim on September 30, 2015, 11:04:37 PM
Read this book. (Made in America, by Bryson)

Thanks, I just ordered it.  I've been looking for a good book for the "reading room".
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: blackcat on October 01, 2015, 04:15:20 AM
Who else but New Yorkers pronounce Houston "House-ton"?

"The street's name is pronounced "how-stən", unlike that of the city of Houston in Texas, which is pronounced "hyoo-stən". This is because the street was named for William Houstoun, whereas the city was named for Sam Houston."
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Rough Edge racing on October 01, 2015, 06:44:00 AM
Delaware - New-WARK.

 I grew up in and around Newark NJ..area residents say Nork .....I have a slight NJ Italian gangster accent, think Joe Pesci light.........But I don't say  Joisey............. ...
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: redrider on October 01, 2015, 08:04:32 AM
My current peeve/rant is the use of the word "got" as in "what you've got is...". Write it out-"What you have got is...". Let us leave got out of this. I generally abhor contractions.

My niece uses the word "like" in every other incomplete sentence. Maddening.

The locals here use "Leo-pold" instead of "Loo-pold" to name the optics.

A little education is a dangerous thing.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Triple Jim on October 01, 2015, 08:24:11 AM
My niece uses the word "like" in every other incomplete sentence. Maddening.

That one's interesting.  I remember it being around in the '70s, maybe before that.  It's one that seems more related to the age of the people saying it than the era.  Luckily, most kids that severely overuse it eventually stop.  My kids were home schooled, but as soon as my daughter got into college, she picked up "like".  It's not thoroughly ingrained, and I've pointed it out to her, so I *think* she's getting it under control.  My son didn't like hearing it, and doesn't overuse it.

I assume you're also bothered by "Where's it at?"     :grin:
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Post by: Moto Fugazzi on October 01, 2015, 08:51:36 AM
Where would one hear that one?  I've never heard it before.
Not regional by any means, but I did accidentally put a "'you're" in the phrase.
It's from the show The Office. I've seen it on national TV numerous times (other than the office), and I've heard people use it in public. You probably don't hang around with idiots like I do, so you don't hear it in public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQD95EEJxg4

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Boom+Roasted
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: redrider on October 01, 2015, 08:54:03 AM
I assume you're also bothered by "Where's it at?"     :grin:

Yes. Behind the "at".
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Rough Edge racing on October 01, 2015, 08:54:14 AM
Really , common vernacular doesn't bother me much , although the over use of the F word is a disturbing trend . Now , true that the GIs returning from WW 2 more or less brought the F word into common speech , but the word has lost all of its impact . Young people seem to believe it can be used as a noun , a verb , an adverb , and an adjective , and sprinkle it into their speech in a nonsensical way .

                                                                     The fookin fookers fooked

 As supposedly uttered by a Scottish aircraft mechanic in WW2 , should have real meaning , not be a dumbed down way of saying my car won't start , or this T shirt is the wrong size .

  Dusty

 I believe f*** is more commonly used by people raised in larger metropolitan areas and used in adverse conditions. It was the most often used profanity in the construction trades from my experience. I have noticed that many women use the word but not necessarily in the presence of their husband.. Me and my wife use the worst language in private but never in public conversations.
 But it does still have meaning...Like flying in a plane and the engine catches fire..."We are so fucked " says it all  :grin:
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Lannis on October 01, 2015, 09:13:03 AM
I believe f$!k is more commonly used by people raised in larger metropolitan areas and used in adverse conditions. It was the most often used profanity in the construction trades from my experience. I have noticed that many women use the word but not necessarily in the presence of their husband.. Me and my wife use the worst language in private but never in public conversations.
 But it does still have meaning...Like flying in a plane and the engine catches fire..."We are so fucked " says it all  :grin:

My French professor in college listened to all the prep-school college students saying "f*** this" and "f*** that" all the time.

It was 1973, and he had spent from 1965 to 1970 in the border country between Vietnam and Laos, teaching Montagnard tribesmen French along with weapons training so that the South forces could communicate with them as they "back-doored" the Viet Cong in North Vietnam.

He finally told the class "Yeah, I hear all of you.   But I can guarantee that not one of you has really seen a "F***" situation yet.   When you do, you'll know it ...."

Lannis
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Penderic on October 01, 2015, 09:17:57 AM
One of them has to be Karaoke.
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/Penderic047/karaoke_zpsxf3mcm1i.jpg)
Anyone can sing. hic.
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Post by: Lannis on October 01, 2015, 09:27:40 AM
One of them has to be Karaoke.
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/Penderic047/karaoke_zpsxf3mcm1i.jpg)
Anyone can sing. hic.

I can tell you that if I'm on the road, and I'm looking for a place to eat, and I see one that says "Karaoke" on a sign in any way, shape, or form, or future time .... I keep on down the road.   I don't want to take a chance that I might even get close to the time or place when it happens .... !    :laugh:
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Post by: PJPR01 on October 01, 2015, 10:30:26 AM
Young people seem to believe it can be used as a noun , a verb , an adverb , and an adjective , and sprinkle it into their speech in a nonsensical way .   Dusty

You have NO idea how accurate this is:  And for your viewing pleasure and a bit of heavy laughter...enjoy the following video...particularl y starting around 2:30 listen to the end and tell me you didn't laugh...just a bit!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D7rWLzloOI

Enjoy Sahib...a bit of humour for the morning!

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Post by: SteveAZ on October 01, 2015, 11:33:02 AM
You have NO idea how accurate this is:  And for your viewing pleasure and a bit of heavy laughter...enjoy the following video...particularl y starting around 2:30 listen to the end and tell me you didn't laugh...just a bit!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D7rWLzloOI

Enjoy Sahib...a bit of humour for the morning!

Beat me to it. I was just going to post that!
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: kirby1923 on October 01, 2015, 06:23:26 PM
Using the word physical to mean Fiscal..ugh

mike
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: johnr on October 01, 2015, 08:01:09 PM
Using "wasup" as a greating. (and even worse, expecting an answer)
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Post by: guzzisteve on October 01, 2015, 08:47:43 PM
How about saying "fixin" as in "I'm fixin to go riding"     When I hear this I respond "I ain't fixin anything anymore!!"

This the truth cause I signed up for my retirement at 62, 1mo & 1wk away.
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Post by: johnr on October 01, 2015, 08:50:30 PM
There are three things that have a similar effect on me to nails being scratched over a blackboard. They are (in no particular order)

--Current use of the work Like.
--Uptalk
--Vocal Fry
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: PJPR01 on October 01, 2015, 08:53:43 PM
Beat me to it. I was just going to post that!
  :)  Wow...not many folks seemed to do enjoy Guru Osho imparting his wisdom...I guess folks don't really have a sense of humour after all!  :)
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: Lannis on October 01, 2015, 08:58:21 PM
  :)  Wow...not many folks seemed to do enjoy Guru Osho imparting his wisdom...I guess folks don't really have a sense of humour after all!  :)

I like a wide variety of silly stuff, but I didn't get that video at all.   Sorry, didn't laugh!

Lannis
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: SteveAZ on October 01, 2015, 09:37:10 PM
There are three things that have a similar effect on me to nails being scratched over a blackboard. They are (in no particular order)

--Current use of the work Like.
--Uptalk
--Vocal Fry

Uptalk.....ugh. Agreed, it's terrible.

So much here in California. I was sitting in a conference for work a while back and a presenter was a rampant uptalker. I had to go for a walk outside.
Title: Re: Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...
Post by: 56Pan on October 02, 2015, 10:04:05 AM
There are three things that have a similar effect on me to nails being scratched over a blackboard. They are (in no particular order)

--Current use of the work Like.
--Uptalk
--Vocal Fry

I must more of a fossil than I thought.  I had to look up the last two, and agree.  Nails on a blackboard for me is seeing "your" used for "you're".  I don't think it's being too lazy to put in the extra keystrokes anymore.  It's ignorance.
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Post by: Lannis on October 02, 2015, 10:11:40 AM
I must more of a fossil than I thought.  I had to look up the last two, and agree.  Nails on a blackboard for me is seeing "your" used for "you're".  I don't think it's being too lazy to put in the extra keystrokes anymore.  It's ignorance.

I'm so much of a fossil that I don't know what the last two mean either, but I'm not going to look them up.   Probably just be something annoying that I already know about but don't know what it's called .... !

Lannis
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Post by: rocker59 on October 02, 2015, 12:37:10 PM
Uptalk.....ugh. Agreed, it's terrible.

So much here in California. I was sitting in a conference for work a while back and a presenter was a rampant uptalker. I had to go for a walk outside.

I know, right?  It's like so annoying when someone vocal frys and uptalks, like all in the same sentence.  You know what I mean?
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Post by: johnr on October 02, 2015, 06:04:21 PM
You can find examples of both 'uptalk' and 'Vocal Fry' on Utube Pan.
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Post by: 56Pan on October 02, 2015, 09:09:39 PM
You can find examples of both 'uptalk' and 'Vocal Fry' on Utube Pan.

Yeah, that's where I looked them up. Listened, and agreed with the opinions.  Don't hear much of it in North Carolina.  Thank God.