Can you name a cat DUKE?

"Jofirey" ...

bastXXXette
Joy

When my daughter was taking biology, and later training to become a
medical
technologist, she would bring up subjects at the dinner table that are
normally not considered dinner table conversation. For instance, there
are
uses for blenders outside of kitchens. If a blender is used in such a
way,
one would never want it near one's kitchen, no matter how well cleaned
and
sterilized it was.

Would this be something I saw on CSI recently?

It's also a running joke on Bones. One of them keeps a blender in the
break room, and another has been known to borrow it for less palatable
tasks. And of course offer to return it when the owner complains.

Jo

Bones is a great show too G
Kyla

bastXXXette
Yowie :

Um, Dooky is slang for 'poopy' G

"Um", thanks. Sheesh. I never had kids, so I don't know kiddy poopy
slang, OK?

Didn't see any offence, Joyce, because if you hadn 't asked, why 'dooky'
was
kinda bad, I would have. Considering the rest of thread about language
and
pronunciation, I thought it was a perfectly reasonable question. I read
the
'um' as I would have written 'err', meaning, its kind of embrassing to
talk
about, not to be discussed in polite company, type 'um'.

Oh, OK. I hear "um" very differently, as sort of sarcastic, and meaning
something like, "Since you're *obviously* too stupid to know what that
means, then I guess I'll have to *explain* it to you, won't I, moron?"
Maybe I've been reading too many newsgroups dominated by teenage boys,
LOL.

Kyla interjects, no way did I mean that. I was just thiking out loud
and typed the word um in. I use that word alot.

I actually heard a whole analysis of the word "um" on the radio, read by
a linguist (Geoff Nunberg, for those who are familiar with him). He
discussed its history as a "filler" in English, used when someone is
trying to come up with the right word. And it's also used as a way of
being polite, when discussing delicate subjects (just as you said above),
or when you have to correct someone who made an incorrect statement, but
you don't want to embarrass them, so you say "um" as a way of sounding
discreet and not too strident or authoritative. Sort of like, "Um, I'm
just folks, and we all screw up, and I just thought you'd like to know
that..."

Kyla again....one word...wow

But then he went on to discuss the more modern, ironic use of "um", to
mean just what I said in my first paragraph. It's a "pretend" use of
"um", where the person isn't really being polite, and they don't really
want to spare the other person's feelings - in fact, embarrassing the
other person is exactly what they want to do - so they use the term in
a sarcastic way, to be cool. I see this all over the place on Usenet,
web forums, etc. Tt's mainly a written affectation, although I've heard
it in speech occasionally too.

Like I said, I use it alot. And DH gives me a 'look' sometimes.
I gotta work on that.

Anyway, sorry Kyla, that's just how I read "um" in a usenet post. Nothing
personal. I take it back, I just got bristly. Feeling pretty sensitive
today, not sure why, but it's not your fault. Maybe I should log off for
a while.

(((((((((Joyce))))))). No worries. You okay?

I'll try not to do it again G

You can all go back to your regularly scheduled programming now.

I'm watching The Stand part 4
Creepy movie
Hug
Kyla
Mosey sends you a nosepoink


--
Joyce

To email me, remove the triple-X from my user name. ^..^

"Sherry"

Sometimes it does good to take a break. Especially if you're
interpreting
something *intended* as a lighthearted, possibly feeble attempt
at humor on my part, and Kyla's reply, as a direct insult to your
intelligence.
Just ask yourself WHY on earth would Kyla (or me, or anyone) do that?
Why would *anyone* post anything in such a condescending fashion that
they *must* mean that you've got less sense than anyone else? The
answer is,
and you KNOW this...they would not.

Exactly, I'm not like that.
*sigh* I was just typing out loud, didn't mean anything by it, honest.
it was just the way I wrote it and I apologize if I offended
anyone...really.
I was, like I said, typing out loud and was trying to think of a witty reply
is all.
Everybody's edgy right now, with the fires and the floods and all....
And ONE 'stupid' word caused a fuss and I'm so sorry
HUG? I think we all need one right now.
Kyla

Sherry

"Sherry"
On Jun 14, 5:25 pm:
Sherry wrote:

"Dooky" sounds kinda bad :-)

Why?

Um, Dooky is slang for 'poopy' G

Exactly, Kyla! :-)

"Um", thanks. Sheesh. I never had kids, so I don't know kiddy poopy
slang, OK?

Sorry, I'm a bit crabby, and I'm taking offense easily. But I don't
know any less than any of the rest of the people on this newsgroup,
although maybe I just know *different* things.

--
Joyce


Also, Joyce, don't miss the G. There's no tone, no facial
expression,
and she was trying to get across that her reply was goodnatured.
Usually when someone has to explain a dirty joke to me, they start
with
"um"...have you ever noticed that? I think it means...."How can I
say this, delicately.. It definitely does not mean "you're stupid."

Sherry

Thank you. You explained that right on the mark.
Hug
Kyla

"Joy"
bastXXXette
Joy
Would this be something I saw on CSI recently?

Possibly, but probably not. This was dealing with the product of a
living
human.

Actually, I think one of the characters was in the lab trying to recreate
the contents of a sewer, to see how dead flesh responded to it. (Because
they found a body in the sewer and were trying to figure out how long the
person had been dead.) He asked one of the newbies to produce a urine
sample, not for drug testing, but to throw into the mix. Then he asked
for
a "number two". The newbie asked if it was some kind of hazing ritual.

Anyway, he was mixing it all up in a large blender or possibly a
cuisinart.
Ewww...

--
Joyce

Okay. A real lab does have to test stool samples at times. Apparently a
blender is used to get the consistency wanted for the test.

Joy

In my best Bullwinkle voice
"I think I shall now be sick" G
Hug
Kyla

Yowie wrote:

People
look at me funny, because my accent is eastern seaboard Australian - but my
pronunciation is often Essex English (eg, Australians say pronounce 'plant'
to rhyme with 'ant' and the 'pro' in 'project' like 'probe' but I say
'plant' like 'aren't' and the 'pro' in 'project' like 'promise')

You say "project" like a North American!

Some Americans, especially those from New England, still pronounce a's
the way you pronounce "plant". I haven't heard it with that word, but my
mother, a native Bostonian, says "bath" and "half" where the "a" sounds
like the a in "father", not like in "cat" (which is how I say it). This
sounds very snooty to me, but my mother's not from a posh background at all.

Speaking of cats, poor Bridget, look how we hijacked her thread.

--
Joyce

To email me, remove the triple-X from my user name. ^..^

wrote in message
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...
Oh, "dyook". I didn't even think of that.

Mat Sav, is that how Duke is pronounced in Canada, too? (Or at
least
in your part of Canada?)

I'm not in, or from, Canada! I'd like to be, but I'm in London,
England. I wrote "North America", just in case Canadians
pronounce "Duke" in the same way as some USA-ians.

Just to clarify, in my part of the UK, "Duke" is pronounced like
"Juke" (or, more phonetically, "Jewk", but with a shorter 'e'
sound than "Jew").

--
MatSav

wrote:
Yowie wrote:

People
look at me funny, because my accent is eastern seaboard Australian
- but my pronunciation is often Essex English (eg, Australians say
pronounce 'plant' to rhyme with 'ant' and the 'pro' in 'project'
like 'probe' but I say 'plant' like 'aren't' and the 'pro' in
'project' like 'promise')

You say "project" like a North American!

Some Americans, especially those from New England, still pronounce a's
the way you pronounce "plant". I haven't heard it with that word, but
my mother, a native Bostonian, says "bath" and "half" where the "a"
sounds like the a in "father", not like in "cat" (which is how I say
it). This sounds very snooty to me, but my mother's not from a posh
background at all.

Speaking of cats, poor Bridget, look how we hijacked her thread.

Its RPCA, this isn't so much as thread hijacking as 'thread drift' :-)

Speaking of accents, most English speaking North Americans can understand my
Aussie accent Ok, sometimes i have to repeat myself a few times but we
usually manage to communicate. Not in Minnesota, though. A friend, we'll
call him George Fong, went there on business, staying in an internationally
reknown hotel (no, I can't remember the name of it). I had some news for him
(I think it was that I was pregnant) and wanted to ring him a the hotel. I
got through to the hotel, but I didnt know his room number, so I simply
asked to be put through to 'George Fong'. "Pardon, Ma'am?" "George Fong".
"Sorry, Ma'am, could you repeat that". I tried "George *Fong*". Sorry ma'am,
could you spell that?" "G-e-o-r-g-e F-o-n-g". "Ma'am, there is no-one of
that name staying here" I got really frustrated by that point an put on my
"American Accent". Now, my "American Accent" any particular regional accent,
its the accent us Australians use when we're imitating Americans so that the
listener knows we're imitating Americans. Itmust sound *horrible* to folks
who have a *real* American accent (just like Americans trying to do an
Australian accent sound worse than fignernails down a blackboard to any fair
dinkum Australian) but it was worth the shot "JAWJ FARNG". "Oh, Mr *Farng*.
Certainly, Ma'am" and I was put through.

Yowie

wrote:
Yowie wrote:

wrote:

In my mind, Duke and Dook sound identical...
Unless you mean "rhymes with book"?

"Duke", to my ear, sounds like dyouk, rhymes with kook, and Dook
rhymes with book.

So "kook" rhymes with "cuke", then? (A nickname for cucumber.)

Look at that fat old single lady in California with all those cats,
what a kyook she is?

No, "cuke" for a cucumber is 'cyouk' and rhymes with Duke, puke, juke, nuke,
and rebuke, and is like cue, queue and news.

Dook rhymes with cook, book, look, nook, rook, sook, took, and wook(ie).

Argh!

Yowie

Just showed this thred to my 13 year old grandaughter, she put her arms
around me and said "Gramby, you really got to get a life,!" Think she was
afraid I was going to try and explain how words sound around here.
"Yowie" wrote in message
...
wrote:
Yowie wrote:

wrote:

In my mind, Duke and Dook sound identical...
Unless you mean "rhymes with book"?

"Duke", to my ear, sounds like dyouk, rhymes with kook, and Dook
rhymes with book.

So "kook" rhymes with "cuke", then? (A nickname for cucumber.)

Look at that fat old single lady in California with all those cats,
what a kyook she is?

No, "cuke" for a cucumber is 'cyouk' and rhymes with Duke, puke, juke,
nuke, and rebuke, and is like cue, queue and news.

Dook rhymes with cook, book, look, nook, rook, sook, took, and wook(ie).

Argh!

Yowie