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Gomedome - don't feel bad (not that you did) about not under
standing my southern slang. Even southern folks can't understand me sometimes. When you hear me actually speak it's sooo much worse, I sound like I'm 8 years old. Half the time when someone calls, they ask if they can speak to my mommy.
posted by
Kiddo75
on October 11, 2005 at 8:08 PM
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Hemlocker -- I'm having trouble relating
there's a 30 year difference here.
posted by
gomedome
on October 11, 2005 at 6:49 PM
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gomer--
This tete a tete between you and CB is really hokey. We gotta watch this guy. He's an infiltrator; thinks he's a wise guy. Hemlocker
posted by
Hemlocker
on October 11, 2005 at 6:33 PM
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gome
have you ever tried just making stuff up? I sometimes speak giberish to see if anyone thinks I am from another country. When they ask what country I am from, I am going to say, "Ummm, America?" all sarcastic like, to make them think they're nuts for hearing english and thinking it was gibberish.
posted by
CB_Andrews
on October 11, 2005 at 6:07 PM
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Gome, my aunt calls me from France sometimes and I just freeze up
and can't think of the French words I need to speak. It's very embarrassing, especially since she knows no English...it's not like I can say the English word and have her ping pong back the French word to me...I get so stuck and feel so stupid. I almost dread the calls, so yes, I completely relate. The problem is, I can't write French at all...and I even took it in High School. LOL I still speak French to my dad and mix French and English to my brothers, LOL...that gets entertaining sometimes, especially since my brothers like to mock the French accents on words. LOL
posted by
Ariala
on October 11, 2005 at 6:02 PM
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gome
k...
posted by
CB_Andrews
on October 11, 2005 at 5:58 PM
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Ariala -- it's funny how the mind works when you lose a language
It takes reminders such as the phone call a few minutes ago to emphasize that my conversational fluency is shot, it's now nothing but a struggle. But the penchant to understand what is being said never leaves and writing a few lines allows one to sit and think about every word. Still our brains store stuff and bring it out at the weirdest times. I'm sure you have gone through this where the English word is subconsciously replaced by the French word but you don't realize it until the people you are speaking with screw up their faces and go.. huh?
posted by
gomedome
on October 11, 2005 at 5:57 PM
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CB_Andrews --let's look at the first couple of lines in your first comment
My wife did not leave her faith. She laughed because it was funny and is entirely ridiculous for people to be so insistant on a non receptive person joining them.
posted by
gomedome
on October 11, 2005 at 5:50 PM
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Gomedome, you write better French than I do, that's for sure...
posted by
Ariala
on October 11, 2005 at 5:50 PM
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Talion -- a funny thing happened just as I was reading your comment
the phone rings and now I'm struggling in French with my mother....so you can add French to "Southern" as languages I have trouble with.
posted by
gomedome
on October 11, 2005 at 5:41 PM
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CB_Andrews -- that's it -- the name escaped me
posted by
gomedome
on October 11, 2005 at 5:39 PM
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gome
sorry, i had a lot to say. it shouldn't be that hard to answer them. sheesh.
posted by
CB_Andrews
on October 11, 2005 at 5:38 PM
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"pecker"
didn't pecker have the kid from terminator in it? Edward Furlong? He was in American History X and Animal Factory too, I think.
posted by
CB_Andrews
on October 11, 2005 at 5:36 PM
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Kiddo75
You have to forgive Gomedome. He's Canadian. He does great with English, but he doesn't speak southern.
posted by
Talion
on October 11, 2005 at 5:36 PM
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CB_Andrews --- I've learned to let you finish leaving comments, then I can
answer them all at once....so here goes. No, no, maybe, possibly, yes and thank you. Too easy.
posted by
gomedome
on October 11, 2005 at 5:36 PM
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Kiddo75 -- now that you explain it I have heard that word once before
In a movie called "Pecker" (not porno) about a teenager who had the proverbial 15 minutes of fame happen twice in his family at the same time. He became a famous photographer, while his completely spun "memow" had a statue of the Virgin Mary that talked to select people.
posted by
gomedome
on October 11, 2005 at 5:33 PM
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lol... nope, it's a word. Actually, it's my Grandmother, she raised me. We call 'em "Memow"'s down here... "Memow" and "Mamaw".... grandfather is "Pepaw" and "Papaw,"...and some call em "Pawdad". Lord, this is so Beverly Hillbillys.
posted by
Kiddo75
on October 11, 2005 at 5:27 PM
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I
don't mind , really, the Man is really nice. THe xanax popping lady kinda trips me out, but it's just what my family has told them that makes them all, "heal her heal her".... always bringing me healthy foods to eat, and trying to get me to go to the health dept. I don't know WHAT thats about. can't anybody look like a stick and be OK?
posted by
Kiddo75
on October 11, 2005 at 5:25 PM
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Kiddo75 -- are you sure you're not on crack? -- I'm going to pray for you
Nope ... just kidding. There is a reason we live 5 hours away from the nearest festering nest of bible thumpers. Sometimes it isn't quite far enough but as you mentioned if I just bite my tongue and wait usually they go away. You used a word I'm not familiar with "memow" ...what is that? or was it a typo that I shouldn't be asking questions about?
posted by
gomedome
on October 11, 2005 at 5:25 PM
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kiddo
sorry that happens. that's totally not how it should be, not what they should do.
posted by
CB_Andrews
on October 11, 2005 at 5:21 PM
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Kiddo, I believe I'd be in the middle of the floor by then, frothing at the
mouth...that always works at getting rid of company at my house.
posted by
Ariala
on October 11, 2005 at 5:21 PM
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it's the "everyone believes in God" post
gomedome. thanks. by the way, I was watchin my Our Lady Peace dvd and thinkin of ya, since they are Canadian and all.
posted by
CB_Andrews
on October 11, 2005 at 5:19 PM
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well, if you only have to see them a few times a year, then do what I do around my family when they pray for me to A. Eat (they think I am anorexic or on crack because I weigh 99 pounds, can't be just because I'm skinny and severly depressed. Nope, depression is fine, anorexia and crack are not!)
B. Still haven't found happiness (WTF?)
C. Figured out what kind of disease is killing me
Find your happy place, make your tongue bleed by biting it (the shit you have to go through for telling them off isn't worth it) and just remember that they will soon leave. Think you have it bad? I have to sit at the table while they pray AND talk about me as if I'm not even there. They poke at my sides, pull at my size 0 jeans, shake their heads with a sad look as if it's the last time they are going to see me. Then , hold on to your drawers, they send the Rev. Gary over with his wife and 3 kids (ALL of them wearing sandels.... I was staring at them the whole time they sat in my living room) AND the little old black lady who eats Xanax in front of everyone (It's ok, she got em from her Granddaughter...and I don't think the others knew they were probably illegal) AND this other woman who just stares at me. No telling what my memow told em. THey just pop in all the time.
posted by
Kiddo75
on October 11, 2005 at 5:19 PM
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oh, and gome
agnostics believe the exsistence of God is unknown and unknowable. Athiests think there is no God. Read my post about it if you want to. Tell me what you think.
posted by
CB_Andrews
on October 11, 2005 at 5:15 PM
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gomedome
So your wife has turned her back on her faith? Your wife was laughing when she described these events to you? Well, that simply was her choice. Gome, I can see why you get so upset. They love you, and care for you as I see it. I don't know all the details of your life or your situation with your in-laws, but I know that praying for you is a joke to you. I can relate. I didn't want anyone to pray for me or talk to me about God, before I became a Christain. My grandmother always sent me cards, saying "God bless" and what not, and I thought it was nice that she was thinking of me, but I didn't need the God Bless. Well, let say this. At least your in-laws think of you. They could just not talk to you anymore, disown you, and think of you what they will. Would you rather have them pray for you or simply be apathetic about your exsistence?
posted by
CB_Andrews
on October 11, 2005 at 5:14 PM
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Ariala -- I'd put my money on the increase in prayers
I have to say that I was a little surprised when I heard this, I thought this all died years ago.
posted by
gomedome
on October 11, 2005 at 5:13 PM
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Gome, how about burning a disc of your most recent posts
and sending it to them as a thank you, you know from "an atheist?" At best, you'll shock them...at worst, the prayers will increase. I am leaving a seat empty in the pew next to me, k?
posted by
Ariala
on October 11, 2005 at 5:10 PM
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cantey_1975 -- it's becoming apparent
I guess no means maybe to these folks.
posted by
gomedome
on October 11, 2005 at 5:05 PM
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Gome, I have some bad news for you.
they will never give up.
posted by
calmcantey75
on October 11, 2005 at 5:03 PM
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