pronunciation meme from ciderpress & isilya

[cimorene]

I thought it would be fun to do it with Wax, so we did.


- your name and/or username
- where you're from
- the following words:

Aunt, Roof, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting Image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught, Orange, Coffee, direction, naturally, aluminium and herbs

- what is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
- what is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
- what do you call gym shoes?
- what do you say to address a group of people?
- what do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
- what do you call your grandparents?
- what do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
- what do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
- what is the thing you change the TV channel with?

Comments

[tenshinochouwa]

When it rains when the sun is shining it's called a sunshower! I did not even know that that was a regional/non-universal thing until I read the comments on someone else's one of these (the person was like "sunshower is so not a word" or something and I was amazed. I'm Canadian, btw, and so was the person doing it).

[copracat]

I'm Australian and we also call it a sun shower.

[copracat]

You know how sometimes people sound nothing like you expect them to sound, even if you've never imagined them sounding like anything? You guys sound just like yourselves. I'm not sure what that means. Possibly that you write like you speak?

[cimorene]

Haha. I probably do! Or else you've heard me before somewhere & forgotten it consciously but remembered subconsciously. But I do think I write sort of serious/excitable/muppetlike as well as sound that way.

[isilya]

You and Wax are like a pile of kittens snuggling on top of a pile of puppies and ducklings. In other words ADORABLE.

I feel instantly transported back five years, to our cosy livingroom chatroom. No time has passed at all!

Meet me under Big Ben after the apocalypse!

(Wax: I think the aliens will probably destroy Big Ben FIRST.)

[cimorene]

Does that mean our meeting will take place in the ruins of Big Ben?

[isilya]

I don't know! The whole plan falls apart at the step where I have to paddle a canoe across to Indonesia.

[cimorene]

Maybe you can just gather up some old rusty parts and cobble together an outboard motor. It would have to be solar-powered, probably.

This is after you've found the time to squeeze in a basic and intermediate engine maintenance class on the weekends and learned all about motorboats of course.

[isweedan]

Aww. You guys and your tangents. I love how wax says 'Iron' it is totes adorbs and I've never heard it that way before.

About those questions where sometimes your only response can be 'People have words for this? I have no words for this' - since the meme was based on some American dialect studies there are geographic distribution maps of all the answers people gave!

Here's the webpage opened to 'Sun shower/ The wolf is giving birth/ The devil is beating his wife/ Monkey's wedding/ etc etc'

[paintedmaypole]

you have actually toiletpapered someone! !! i was beginning to think this was a fictional thing that no real people actually did. ha!

[cimorene]

Oh yeah, it's normal in football-playing parts of the country, a typical form of urban hooliganism akin perhaps to cow-tipping in rural areas. Although not as bad, since cows can actually be hurt. Are you American? And from a suburban-type area? Because if so I'm surprised that you've never spotted a post-TPing house with the streamers still danging from the bushes and trees and fluttering across the lawn. I'm not sure how much paper they'd use for that. We used quite a lot on just an ordinary sedan.

[paintedmaypole]

yeah, you're right. i grew up in the city, and a fairly lefty, east coast city at that. so there was less of that lovely football culture lurking around to teach us these things. :D

although, we did have this "trick night" tradition growing up where kids would egg houses and put ketchup on cars late in the evening on halloween. not quite the same thing though.

[cimorene]

None of my friends really came from it either - we were all the overworked IB students taking an occasional 1-evening break from our full-time studying for fun, which more often was watching movies, or getting icecream. Tuscaloosa is a university town, and our social group (and indeed the IB program) was almost entirely made up of non-southerners whose parents were connected with the university in some way. I think we had about five southern accents out of 17 in our graduating class. But I suppose there was enough social group overlap for some of them to have been indoctrinated into the local traditions. I wasn't the only one present who'd never done it before, but quite a few of them had. Still, what we did was a really tame, and much less malicious version of the typical rolling process. Nobody even brought any alcohol.

[paintedmaypole]

also, the nice thing about toilet papering/rolling? no cows are tipped in the process!

poor cows. some day i want to ask a person who grew up with cow tipping how on earth they pulled it off without the cows attacking them en masse. :D

[cimorene]

I believe cows are pretty mellow creatures. And also not very limber, or capable of very fast movement. Or very organized...

[waxjism]

You city peeps have clearly never seen an angry cow. Or a happy cow. They look lethargic but they do run faster than a person.


Their organisation is not very well suited for war campaigns, however, that's true. But oh boy when they learn...

[cimorene]

I have too. In the Mama Mu books.

Or did you mean a real angry cow...?

Anyway, I don't think it's hard to sneak up on cows, otherwise cow-tipping would be a lot less popular! And once they're lying down they can't do anything.