American Idol 2013--Live Thread

americanidol.com ^ | January 16, 2013

[Shelayne]

Bwahahahahaha! Love it!

[Jrabbit]

LMAO!!! Yes!

[patriotspride]

Dundun the pink bear is in Minaj’s hands ... It’s only a matter of time now :)

-——— excellent

[Shelayne]

ROFL!

[silent_jonny]

Evening, Bug! :)

[twin2]

thanks for your hosting duties. Top notch as usual. See you tomorrow:)

[RummyChick]

Dun Dun comes from a Nicki Song.

Remember one of my least favorite Mentors:

Will I Am

here they are both together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqky5B179nM&playnext=1&list=PLDA1ECB9B7615B853&feature=results_main

[Shelayne]

‘Splodey Ho. :^D

[silent_jonny]

Survey results for this page:

6.5 Ants (I'm counting Anty as an Ant)

1.5 Ohnts

The .5s are Mags who, uncharacteristically, has taken both sides of the issue ;-)

[silent_jonny]

Born in Philadelphia, where that was more common than other parts of the country where I/we have live where the other was used

That's interesting. In my mind I was associating "ohnt" with Northern states and "Ant" with the South. This is my own personal Mythbusters :)

[silent_jonny]

Now that I think about it, our Southern “ants” can sound a lot like “ain’ts”, depending on how country the niece or nephew is. eg: “Ain’t Bea” from The Andy Griffith Show.

[freedumb2003]

>>NEXT on American Idol! an unwed deaf stuttering mother of three, who lives in a stadium, cleans stadium toilets AND...bangs her head on lockers just to have some bass reverb in her head while she sings tunes from Showboat!!!!!”
<<

AGAIN? Wasn’t that on AI 6?

;)

[silent_jonny]

My Nikki analysis...
It's like when you are working on a project together and the person with the least amount of experience wants to run everything.

Exactly right.

[freedumb2003]

>>I have one aunt named Anne. “Ant Anne” sounds redundant, so I just call her Anne. Can’t imagine calling her “Ohnt Ahne”. <<

It could have been worse. Had she been a transvestite you might have been stuck with (phonetically) “Ant Adam Ant.”

[silent_jonny]

I think it is a regional thing.

That's what I was thinking too.

And in answer to your survey, I pronounce "often" with a silent T :) Like coffin. Unless I'm around people (who I'm not related to), then I'll make an effort to say "often". But the word "often" doesn't come up very often ....

I'm making myself dizzy :)

[RegulatorCountry]

More of a shortened dipthong, part of the dialect in regions settled by Scotch-Irish. Not so much “ain’t” as “aiunt.” You hear it in other words too. “Home” becomes “haiume,” and so forth. It’s tough to spell it phonetically, but if you’ve heard it before, the spelling is about as close as you’d get without getting really technical, lol.

[silent_jonny]

Pan.

That's funny. I never thought about that. I grew up with my grandma who was constantly cooking or baking something. Everything was a "pan" or a "sheet". I never heard "tin".

[silent_jonny]

Also pronounce the R in forward

Same here. Also, I don't add Rs to words that end with an A, which is the habit of a lot of Southern people. A "banana" is banana to me, not "bananer" I hate that.

[Jrabbit]

Yea! What an odd feeling....being in the majority!

[skateman]

Ant