Bubbacat
Jun 17, 2004 @ 12:28 pm
Hey, I'm the French, too.
And, M. Darcy, I think it's "I fart in your general direction." But that could just be the warped way we used to say it.
piperdown
Jun 17, 2004 @ 12:31 pm
I'm French too! That's why I post with this ridiculous accent.
And it's definitely fart
Mama Tiger
Jun 17, 2004 @ 12:33 pm
I'm also the rabbits. The rabbits here seem to be multiplying. Hmmm....
The Last Dodo
Jun 17, 2004 @ 12:35 pm
Hey, I'm the French, too.
Moi aussi!Holy tamale, LastDodo, it never struck me that Devon wouldn't be pronounced Di-VAHN Avenue. But I know that the name is "Dee-von". It's just instinctive...
Well, what did it for me was reading
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, where people were murdered according to the nursery rhyme "Ten Little Indians," which is also an alternate title for the book. When I got to
Eight little Indian boys traveling to Devon;
One got left behind and then there were seven.I was all, "Huh? That doesn't rhyme at all!"
(And come to think of it, here in New York I'm not far from HOW-ston, as opposed to "Houston", Street.)
And congrats on the Madonna tickets! If I had a spare $300+ lying around, I'd love to go. I had like 20th row tickets to her Who's That Girl tour in 1987, and then I wound up in the hospital with pneumonia, damn it all to hell. Fortunately for my wallet, my Aimee Mann ticket for Tuesday was significantly cheaper. Actually, it just hit me how appropriate it is to see her on a Tuesday.
marooned
Jun 17, 2004 @ 12:42 pm
I'm King Arthur.
I never quite figured out how to pronoune Chicago's Goethe St. 'Cause it's not right, but just how wrong it is I never remember.
And darn it, skagirl, now I've got the Empire carpet jingle going through my head on a continuous loop!
brave little toaster
Jun 17, 2004 @ 12:47 pm
I'm the French.
Bunnicula rules. I heard that that book is out of print, which is such a shame.
macaddict
Jun 17, 2004 @ 12:56 pm
I'm French, too, naturally. And I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
SheriffTruman
Jun 17, 2004 @ 12:57 pm
I never quite figured out how to pronoune Chicago's Goethe St. 'Cause it's not right, but just how wrong it is I never remember.
If you're on the #22 Clark bus, it's Go-thee. Pause here to permit native German speakers to roll their eyes. :)
If it's any consolation, New Orleans has precisely the same problem with the French place names. They're all pronounced phonetically.
Hildy
Jun 17, 2004 @ 12:58 pm
Count me in as another rabbit. Although I've never seen the whole movie, so that tells me not very much.
ThatGrrl
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:04 pm
Hildy, as the rabbit, we are all killed by the Holy Hand Grenade. Not very sporting...
brave little toaster
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:05 pm
Are you deceptively cute and sweet then surprisingly vicious?
Rabrab
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:05 pm
hee. I'm Lancelot. I'm vicious and make a lousy wedding guest.
Bubbacat
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:06 pm
I just checked to see what
"Princess Bride" character I am. And guess what? My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!
GinevradiBenci
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:08 pm
Tchoupitoulas
This street name made me so happy on my first visit to New Orleans this past May. I'd just say it to myself, over and over again.
Which may be why nobody approached me.
ThatGrrl
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:11 pm
I'm Buttercup and the rabbit?! Well how in the hell am I ever supposed to scare anyone?! I feel so impotent. Hmm. Although, I could use a pretty Farmboy to answer "As you wish" to me, lots and lots...
ETA, okay, I feel better now. Went back to reread the Holy Hand Grenade scene and found the rabbit referenced as "the most foul, cruel and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes upon." Ahhh. That makes me feel better.
iMissEthan
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:13 pm
I'm French and I'm Buttercup. Speaking of BC, has anyone else seen the previews for the film with Robin Wright and Colin Farrell? Robin has really aged, but the film looks cool.
brave little toaster
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:13 pm
Okay, I was wrong, Bunnicula is not only in print, there is an unabridged audio version read by spy daddy Victor Garber.
I saw the trailer for that film [something about a home? a home at the end of the world? something like that?] and it also features our local celebrity, Sissy Spacek.
Hildy
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:15 pm
I am Wesley (The Dread Pirate Roberts) Drop your sword!
Hee! I don't know about deceptively, but I sure am vicious, bravelittletoaster....
bungle3358
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:16 pm
I am Lancelot! Where's that Guineviere woman? ;-)
I don't know if I'm a normal guy, (very doubtful), but I always checked out that personalized crap to see if my name was there. But I don't know why. I never ever bought any of it.
ETA: I'm frikking Buttercup?! No way!
PButtercup
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:22 pm
I'm Miracle Max - how did that happen?
BermyTryangle
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:24 pm
What a coincedence - I watched the Monty Pyton and the Holy Grail DVD last weekend. Awesome. Nice to watch old British comedies.
I turned up as Arthur. And I feel like finding some coconuts.
GRBecca
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:26 pm
I'm Valerie...I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Hildy
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:27 pm
Man, now I'm gonna have to go dig that book up and read it again. What a wonderful book that is.
DariaG
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:28 pm
Vizzini is an awfully Italian name for someone whose already been proven to be French. I'll develop an identity crisis at this rate.
JenEx
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:29 pm
Yeah, I'm French too. Now go away before I taunt you a second time.
When I moved to Columbia SC, the main road I traveled to get to school was Huger. When I said something about "Hu-jay" to someone, they laughed. It's "u-jee." South Carolinias can't even mispronounce things in a typical way.
Also, I worked in a public library in dinky little Milan, Michigan. That's "My-lynn." We used to crack up when people called us from out of town and pronounced it like the Italian town.
M. Darcy
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:31 pm
Damn, I am deeply shamed that I misquoted Holy Grail. I am having the day from hell at work so that is my excuse.
But cool - I am Vizzini! I know, everyone is thinking "Inconceivable".
Fields of Gold
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:32 pm
I'm Vizzini, and to that I say "Incontheivable", and yes, I do know what the word means. See, now, this is a good one as my husband and I sit around and quote parts of "The Princess Bride" to each other. He offers me a peanut and I reply "no more rhymes now, I mean it". I just wish ROUS' was one of the results. I love those rodents of unusual size. And hey,if your Miracle Max, you get to say "have fun storming the castle"
Bubbacat
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:32 pm
Vizzini is an awfully Italian name for someone whose already been proven to be French.
I have kind of the same problem,
DariaG. How can I be Inigo (who's Spanish) and the French at the same time?
And isn't anyone Fezzik? Inigo just isn't the same without Fezzik.
col1999
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:32 pm
I'm Valerie...I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
I'm Valerie too, so it must be good.
Aisling
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:35 pm
Heh. The French and Vizzini here too. Say it with me: "Inconceivable!" Yep, it's already been done to death, but it's still fun. Also, I must say, never go against a French Sicilian when DEATH is on the line!
Doesn't have the same ring to it, does it? I'm going to have to pull out my DVD this afternoon.
erinjsnark
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:45 pm
I feel like such an idiot, but I have never found Monty Python to be so funny. I've only seen Holy Grail and perhaps it was just the company I kept at the time, but I just did not. get. it.
*Sigh* I feel so left out.
Red Targetter
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:51 pm
Holy crap, I'm Bedevere. How completely useless and irrelevant of me. I burn witches and construct large badgers (oh, so that was a badger, was it?).
(actually, I'm pretty pleased about this, so I stuck it on my blog).
auntlada
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:52 pm
And hey,if your Miracle Max, you get to say "have fun storming the castle"
Well, then, have fun storming the castle. I'm not sure how I got to be Miracle Max, but there you go. I'm also the Black Knight -- apparently because I'm too stupid to know when I've been defeated. That's probably true. My mother always said I was like a bulldog and once I got hold of something, I wasn't letting go.
sparky1
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:53 pm
So we've moved on to place names. Up near Rochester, NY there's a town called "Chili". However, as I learned when I went to college in the region, it's pronounced Ch-eye-L-eye.
A few weeks ago, I was watching the news, and some reporter, supposedly on location (there was some freak murder or something going on), pronounced it like the food. Dude, if you're going to pretend to have actually gone there and spoken to people? maybe you should at least put in a phone call to the local library to find out how to pronounce the name of the town.
Hildy
Jun 17, 2004 @ 1:56 pm
I'll join you over there in the dunce cap corner, erinj. That's why I never saw the entire movie. I loved Monty Python the series, but the movies always proved a bit much for me.
miri
Jun 17, 2004 @ 2:09 pm
Man, you guys post a lot while I'm at work. ;)
Yes, the middle name is Ann - sans e. The only way one could end up with a plainer name than mine was if their last name was Smith or Jones. Plain first name, plain and common middle name, plain and common last name. The weird thing? Was that all of the alternate name my parents came up with were odd. And we won't even go into what my name would have been if I were a boy.
Oh, and I fart in all y'alls general directions because I am the French.
The Last Dodo
Jun 17, 2004 @ 2:13 pm
Heh. The French and Vizzini here too.
Here too!
I never quite figured out how to pronoune Chicago's Goethe St. 'Cause it's not right, but just how wrong it is I never remember.
If you're on the #22 Clark bus, it's Go-thee. Pause here to permit native German speakers to roll their eyes. :)
They may as well just give up and name it "That Street". Everyone pronounces it differently and everyone is convinced they're right. I used to just try to avoid saying it altogether whenever possible.
legis
Jun 17, 2004 @ 2:14 pm
I'm Fezzik. I'm depressed; I'd rather be Inigo Montoya. Aren't there any other Fezziks?
skagirl77
Jun 17, 2004 @ 2:30 pm
Dodo, mad cheap tickets on Ebay - I wasn't paying no 300 bucks and we gots phat seats. Plus she's got like 400 shows here (to kick of pride, I guess) so you have multiple opportunities. Or you can just stand outside MSG and look cute.
DuchessKitty
Jun 17, 2004 @ 2:34 pm
I'm Fezzik too, and who knew I came from France?
LawDog
Jun 17, 2004 @ 2:37 pm
Quick question: I know people post the TARCon photos on Ofoto & Snapfish - which is better & is it worth AND safe to download the software they offer?
My mom recommends Snapfish; it appears to be free (basically -- you have to purchase something once a year) and it's fairly user friendly. I just upgraded to DSL so I may actually, you know, put up my pictures from TARcon4, including a shirtless Oswald. If anyone is even still interested at this point.
Rachel RSL
Jun 17, 2004 @ 2:41 pm
I feel like such an idiot, but I have never found Monty Python to be so funny.
I'll join you in that corner
erin. I've never found Monty Python even remotely funny. It doesn't offend me or anything, there's just nothing about it I've ever found the least bit amusing.
But I'll still fart in your general direction because that's what everyone else is doing and if they jumped off a bridge, I would do it too.
moongirl
Jun 17, 2004 @ 2:47 pm
I'm King Arthur too!
Oh, additional unfortunate name thing - my middle name is a mistake. My mom thought she was naming me after my Dad's mother, but she didn't. Apparently my grandma had been doodling one day and for some reason wrote her name with a y instead of an i, so my mom thought that was how she spelled it. So now I have this goofy y in the middle of my middle name for no reason at all. In retaliation I've told my mother that if I ever have a son I'm going to name him after my dad and her beloved grandfather who died when she was in her teens. You'd think she'd like that, but my dad's name is William and her grandfather's name was Icy, and I fully intend to call the kid Chilly Willy.
devajd
Jun 17, 2004 @ 2:55 pm
If it's TARCon photos, you can always post them over at
TARFlies.
Yet another bunny over here! And I am also Inigo Montoya - who I love, so that is good.
My name is not very common, according to the social security site it is consistently below 500. Which means many people haven't heard it so they usually think my name is Janet. The name I want for my future daughter, that I thought was quite uncommone, is number 92 for 2003. *Sob!* I should have known something was up when my best friend expressed a love for the name (Maya) as well.
SheriffTruman
Jun 17, 2004 @ 3:02 pm
They may as well just give up and name it "That Street". Everyone pronounces it differently and everyone is convinced they're right. I used to just try to avoid saying it altogether whenever possible.
Ger-ta. I promise. If we do not carry the banner, then who?
The Last Dodo
Jun 17, 2004 @ 3:15 pm
Dodo, mad cheap tickets on Ebay - I wasn't paying no 300 bucks and we gots phat seats. Plus she's got like 400 shows here (to kick of pride, I guess) so you have multiple opportunities. Or you can just stand outside MSG and look cute.
Oh man, that is
so tempting. However, given that I have no idea how long it'll be until I make my first commission, I shouldn't really splurge on even an eBay level. Ah well.
Ger-ta. I promise. If we do not carry the banner, then who?
But even with that school of thought, people seem split between "GRRRRR-tuh" and "GAIR-tuh". But I agree that it seems more correct than others I haven't seen mentioned yet, like "Goth", "Gothy", and "Go-EETHE". I still say we just rename it High Maintenance Parkway.
piperdown
Jun 17, 2004 @ 3:21 pm
Double Post??? That hasn't happened in awhile
piperdown
Jun 17, 2004 @ 3:22 pm
OK Princess Bride Question... Has it always been Westley? I've thought for years and years that it was Wesley.
Red Targetter
Jun 17, 2004 @ 3:34 pm
In the West the mangled names often turn out to be of American Indian origin, and the French place names tend to be pronounced almost correctly (with the exception of the Grand Tetons, maybe). In Washington state, newcomers have to do battle with Puyallup and Sequim (pronounced pew-allup and skwim, respectively) but get off lightly if they say Coeur D'Alene or Nez Perce in the French manner - except "coeur" comes out more like "cur").
Maybe we're more French-friendly in the West...?
GRBecca
Jun 17, 2004 @ 3:36 pm
OK Princess Bride Question... Has it always been Westley? I've thought for years and years that it was Wesley.
In the book, The Princess Bride, by William Goldman, it's spelled Westley.
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