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Post by jopierce on Aug 29, 2006 11:57:01 GMT -5
My sister majored in Italian and Spanish in college (well, for a while at least). One semester she had both Italian and Spanish Literature classes - taught by the same professor.She went in to take her Spanish final. It was an essay, to be written in Spanish. She wrote it up, handed it in. Professor read it on the spot.
"It is perfect. Wonderful. No grammatical errors at all. It's in the wrong LANGUAGE, but..."
Oh, I can go on and on about language mix ups...
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Post by MelMac on Aug 29, 2006 12:06:13 GMT -5
What was funny to me was back when I lived near Houston (not knowing we were going to move or not), I had considered taking Russian. My Dad was hesitant, because reading and writing Cyrillic is tough. Well, a couple of months later, he was taking Russian classes, and we could've buddied up in studying. (Took Spanish, and he helped me with it.)
Think the one weird irony is that I can translate in verbally or written, but I can't speak it as well. Go figure.
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Post by jopierce on Aug 29, 2006 12:20:49 GMT -5
Now, what would Bill say about taking Russian...
"I hate this. This stinks!"
Funny. After that semester, my sister wound up majoring in Russian... there must be some psychic unity here between Me and Mac. Or is that Mac and Me? Mac and Cheese?
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Post by jopierce on Aug 29, 2006 12:33:51 GMT -5
Think the one weird irony is that I can translate in verbally or written, but I can't speak it as well. Go figure. For me, the weird thing is that with enough alcohol, I am completely fluent in every language.
True story.
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Post by MelMac on Aug 29, 2006 12:43:06 GMT -5
Mac and cheese? Please no jokes guys. There's another joke with MelMac. (but at least it's not: Do you eat cats? or Why did you choose the name of pottery?)
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Post by jopierce on Aug 30, 2006 16:07:41 GMT -5
You've heard of all the great Comedy Teams.
Laurel and Hardy Abbott and Costello Laverne and Shirley Lenny and Squiggy Bill and Rip Penn and Teller
Well, they can all move over. Now it's...
MAC and CHEESE.
I guess I am the cheese.
By the way, Richard Cheese has a new CD coming out soon... the BEST Lounge Singer in the world...
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Post by MelMac on Aug 30, 2006 19:43:34 GMT -5
How can mac and cheese be funny? I know it can't be funny at Six Flags unless it has Cajun seasoning in it. Another great team: definitely Bill, Ralph and Pam.
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Post by Ms Boku on Aug 31, 2006 10:16:12 GMT -5
mac and cheese...mac and cheese...mac and cheese...mel and mac and mac and cheese..hmm.. OH! Sorry just writing out loud.
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Post by MelMac on Aug 31, 2006 12:12:51 GMT -5
Speaking drivel, more I look at it, I think I made that new avatar I'm currently using look like the instruction book for the most part. At least on my computer, it doesn't show the red background as much.
And... I'm going to have to find someway to resize the blue and green one. It won't bump up to 100X100 if you resize, and I can't resize it here unless I add a background border to it. Still, makes the pic too small, and all.
Also, if anyone has any avatars they want on the board (GAH related), please PM me and I'll put them up in the thread. (The ones we currently have are in both the avatar chooser in the modify folder and listed in the locked avatars folder in the GAH.com thread.)
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Post by The J-Man on Sept 3, 2006 15:35:04 GMT -5
On a related note, I was very (pleasantly) surprised to find the following on one of the Spanish channels today:
(Copied from tvguide.com) "El Astuto" Un agente secreto (Ken Wahl) se infiltra en una firma que trafica informacion de alta technologia, y se enamora de la esposa y hijo del CEO de la compania. Jonathan Banks, Jim Byrnes, Debrah Farentino, Ted Levine. Dirigida por James Whitmore, Jr.
For those who don't read Spanish, this is the 1996 Return of Wiseguy TV movie
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Post by The J-Man on Sept 3, 2006 15:57:24 GMT -5
For me, the weird thing is that with enough alcohol, I am completely fluent in every language. True story.
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Post by jopierce on Sept 3, 2006 16:03:01 GMT -5
YEAH! J-Man is my hero!!!
*Jo does a happy little Murdock dance*
He caps me all the best Murdock- and Maxwellisms - ever!!
*Jo does another little Maxwell dance*
Um, is that a fedora that H.M. is wearing? I could use him in my next, um, case...
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Post by The J-Man on Sept 3, 2006 17:14:00 GMT -5
Yes, Murdock wears a fedora in "The Maltese Cow" (above) and in "Moving Targets" (below)
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Post by The J-Man on Sept 3, 2006 17:28:19 GMT -5
And while we're on the subject, exactly twenty years ago this month, my mother commented to me on how good she thought Mr. T looked in a hat in the new fifth season opening credits sequence. True story.
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Post by jopierce on Sept 3, 2006 17:34:11 GMT -5
Well, apart from that Mr. T shot (which, by the way, does not do a thing for GAH Noir) there is nothing steamier than a man in a fedora.
Jo: Bill, is that you?
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Post by jopierce on Sept 3, 2006 22:14:15 GMT -5
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Post by billswoman on Sept 3, 2006 22:49:07 GMT -5
Trust me, my eyes are watering a-plenty. But, seeing as we're in the Bug Bin, I can't gripe about it.
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Post by jopierce on Sept 3, 2006 23:35:57 GMT -5
Yeah yeah yeah. I know to what you refer, kos.
But I still don't understand how you can complain about something you have never seen. It's like being a kid saying "I don't like broccoli!!" when you never had broccoli.
Sounds like just an excuse to give us a hard time...
I call shenanigans on you! (Oh wait, that's a different thread.)
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Post by billswoman on Sept 4, 2006 17:11:38 GMT -5
I had a big reply in store, then figured, why bother? It's all here in the Bug Bin, so that's okay by me. Y'all have fun, I'm still reading the thread, mainly cuz the title fascinates me. It leaves it wide open for drivel, after all, and I know I'm very much into driveling. It'd drive Bill mad. (In my family, it's called "nattering." I finally asked my dad, when he complained about us nattering... So when it's YOU, it's talking, not nattering, right? Even if we don't care? He grinned and said, yes, pretty much.) So, drivel away, it's all good
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Sept 7, 2006 16:38:29 GMT -5
Yes, Murdock wears a fedora in "The Maltese Cow" (above) and in "Moving Targets" (below) Murdock: Yes, but FOOL doesn't have that RING to it.
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