From: owner-oztori-digest@smoe.org (oztori-digest) To: oztori-digest@smoe.org Subject: oztori-digest V3 #88 Reply-To: oztori@smoe.org Sender: owner-oztori-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oztori-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oztori-digest Thursday, March 27 2003 Volume 03 : Number 088 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [oztori] OT: fascinating Green Eggs & Ham fact!!! [Nathan "®" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 02:11:14 -0800 (PST) From: Nathan "®" Subject: [oztori] OT: fascinating Green Eggs & Ham fact!!! from http://www.seuss.org/seuss/seuss.bio.html "In 1960 Bennett Cerf bet Geisel $50 that he couldn't write an entire book using only fifty words. The result was Green Eggs and Ham. Cerf never paid the $50, btw..." Nathan. ===== "in your life in my life there are secrets too dark to let out to let go of to get over" - Kate Bush, 'Be Kind To My Mistakes' ___________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 03:32:02 -0800 (PST) From: Nathan "®" Subject: [oztori] Is Juarez about the Village People? Is Datura an ode to Olivia Newton-John & golden showers? Find the answers within... 'as ne1 else noticed in Juarez: "the Indian is told the cowboy is his friend"? Could this not be a reference to 2 members of the Village People? Also.... has anyone else not noticed "golden shower tree" in Datura before? What about "Xanadu philodendron"? In the words of Madonna's "Die Another Day" (or as I am vaguely recalling from reading somewhere online once.. as I've heard the song about 1.5 times myself & can't really recall it all that well): "Sigmund Freud... analyze* this" [* the 'z' was used here as I was quoting an American artist**] [**the use of the word 'artist' is used rather liberally here when being applied to Ms Ciconne***] [***er, of course I technically mean Mrs Ritchie, but she ain't changed her 'stage name' to reflect that****] [****of course I realise that her 'stage name' has only ever been the singular Madonna, and not 'Madonna Ciccone'*****] [*****et cetera******] [******as a speech 'pathologist', I must say I've noticed (and it rather annoys me), that nearly everyone pronounces 'et cetera' as "eK cetera"... grrrrrrr. I reason they're doing this as the 't' and 's' sounds in eT Cetera are both alveolar ones (produced at the gum ridge) and hence making the transition between them in sequence is more difficult perhaps than making the transition from the velar (made at back of the mouth) 'k' sound to the 's'] Enough, Nathan :) ===== "in your life in my life there are secrets too dark to let out to let go of to get over" - Kate Bush, 'Be Kind To My Mistakes' ___________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:57:35 +1000 From: "Holly Williamson" Subject: Re: [oztori] Is Juarez about the Village People? Is Datura an ode to Olivia Newton-John & golden showers? Find the answers within... Naf: > >[******as a speech 'pathologist', I must say I've >noticed (and it rather annoys me), that nearly >everyone pronounces 'et cetera' as "eK cetera"... >grrrrrrr. I reason they're doing this as the 't' and >'s' sounds in eT Cetera are both alveolar ones >(produced at the gum ridge) and hence making the >transition between them in sequence is more difficult >perhaps than making the transition from the velar >(made at back of the mouth) 'k' sound to the 's'] > I, too, despise this particular trait in many Australians. I also despise 'dePrimental' instead of detrimental; PACific instead of specific, and a few others that I cannot a'member at this point in my life. holly. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Instant Messenger now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/hotmail_messenger.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:38:36 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Julian=20P?= Subject: Re: [oztori] Is Juarez about the Village People? Is Datura an ode to Olivia Newton-John & golden showers? Find the answers within... okay, okay, I can't resist adding my two biggest pronounciation peeves (both food related): 1. Capsican instead of capsicum; and 2. Snitzel instead of schnitzel. grrrrrr Jules Holly Williamson wrote:Naf: > >[******as a speech 'pathologist', I must say I've >noticed (and it rather annoys me), that nearly >everyone pronounces 'et cetera' as "eK cetera"... >grrrrrrr. I reason they're doing this as the 't' and >'s' sounds in eT Cetera are both alveolar ones >(produced at the gum ridge) and hence making the >transition between them in sequence is more difficult >perhaps than making the transition from the velar >(made at back of the mouth) 'k' sound to the 's'] > I, too, despise this particular trait in many Australians. I also despise 'dePrimental' instead of detrimental; PACific instead of specific, and a few others that I cannot a'member at this point in my life. holly. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Instant Messenger now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/hotmail_messenger.asp - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mobile - - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:20:29 +1000 From: "Holly Williamson" Subject: Re: [oztori] Is Juarez about the Village People? Is Datura an ode to Olivia Newton-John & golden showers? Find the answers within... Ohhh, here's another: using 'weary' instead of 'wary' and vice versa. Grrrr! i HATE that. "I'm a bit weary about that". "I feel so wary today". It's unpossibly annoyink that some persons can't spik good proper Englerish! OMG, and I know they covered this on Friends, but what about 'supposebly' instead of 'supposedly'?! Duh! Holly. > >okay, okay, I can't resist adding my two biggest pronounciation peeves >(both food related): >1. Capsican instead of capsicum; and >2. Snitzel instead of schnitzel. >grrrrrr >Jules > > > Holly Williamson wrote:Naf: > > > >[******as a speech 'pathologist', I must say I've > >noticed (and it rather annoys me), that nearly > >everyone pronounces 'et cetera' as "eK cetera"... > >grrrrrrr. I reason they're doing this as the 't' and > >'s' sounds in eT Cetera are both alveolar ones > >(produced at the gum ridge) and hence making the > >transition between them in sequence is more difficult > >perhaps than making the transition from the velar > >(made at back of the mouth) 'k' sound to the 's'] > > > >I, too, despise this particular trait in many Australians. I also despise >'dePrimental' instead of detrimental; PACific instead of specific, and a >few >others that I cannot a'member at this point in my life. > >holly. > >_________________________________________________________________ >MSN Instant Messenger now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to >http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/hotmail_messenger.asp > > >--------------------------------- >Yahoo! Mobile >- Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Instant Messenger now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/hotmail_messenger.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:43:44 -0800 (PST) From: Nathan "®" Subject: Re: [oztori] Is Juarez about the Village People? Is Datura an ode to Olivia Newton-John & golden showers? Find the answers within... Holly Williamson wrote: > I, too, despise this particular trait in many > Australians. I also despise > 'dePrimental' instead of detrimental; I don't think I've cum across that one actually! > PACific > instead of specific, lol that one is annoying... > and a few > others that I cannot a'member at this point in my > life. What about: 'secetary' for secretary 'arks' for ask 'anythink' for anything 'su-m' for something I saw a mom the other week who was telling me that she took her son to the "paedinutrition"... lmao. Also.. must add that approximately 99.8% of Austraaaaaaaaaayans apparently aren't aware that there is an 'l' sound in Australia. ...and to throw some Tori-content into this thing: It's THE Waitress... go and look on the back of your UTP CD's. And I hate how Tori abbreviates Natashya to 'Tash' but pronounces it 'Tarsh'. It's worse than Myra-Ellen imnsho. Nathan. ===== "in your life in my life there are secrets too dark to let out to let go of to get over" - Kate Bush, 'Be Kind To My Mistakes' ___________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:16:42 -0800 (PST) From: Nathan "®" Subject: [oztori] Doncha just love.... @forumzers who have 1,869 posts to their name, yet can't even get the lyrics to Precious Things right: http://www.atforumz.com/showthread.php?threadid=184956 SteveEwf @ctive member Joined: Feb 2000 Location: Columbus, Ohio Sometimes I think it is a trade off they make to the censors. Between the lyrics "just because you make me cum ...." and the crotch grab. __________________ Nathan. ===== "in your life in my life there are secrets too dark to let out to let go of to get over" - Kate Bush, 'Be Kind To My Mistakes' ___________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of oztori-digest V3 #88 ***************************