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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Yeesh, wuttaweek. I is tired.
In other news:
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| 70% General American English |
| 15% Upper Midwestern |
| 5% Dixie |
| 5% Midwestern |
| 0% Yankee |
One of the cats apparently started the music jukebox on the 'puter going while I was at work.
They're throwing a party!
Does make me kind of suspicious...
If I find their making home brew or somethin'...well...
| Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 65% General American English |
| 15% Yankee |
| 10% Upper Midwestern |
| 5% Dixie |
| 0% Midwestern |
Er...they're.
I'm wixing my mords up today.
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| 35% Dixie |
| 10% Yankee |
| 5% Upper Midwestern |
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It's an interesting one. I've always heard that the Pacific NW has the 'flattest' english in terms of accent and idiom. I don't know if that's actually true, but it seems to be.
This hits a little on accent and mostly on idiom. A more thorough test would be interesting.
Hey! I used the word 'idiom' in a sentence! Twice even!
[sip]
More Wine!
/mel brooks
[sip]
So since when do seagulls fly in V formation?
Its better than the zee- formation.
| You Are an Angel |
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Don't ask me how this happened.
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| 10% Upper Midwestern |
| 10% Yankee |
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I don't think those are seagulls. I don't know if I'm an expert on seagulls, but I have seen alot of them. I've never seen seagulls fly in a V formation either.
The wings look too long for seagulls, but they're not long like an albatross, and albatross don't fly in formation either. Besides, I just wanted to say "albatross!".
I'm pretty sure they're not penquins.
Must be some sort of duck or goose.
| You May Be a Bit Schizotypal... |
 You couldn't care less of what others think. And some of your beliefs are a little weird. Like that time you thought you were Jesus. |
*sigh*
I bet he'd enjoy it because he would understand more of what's being said and sung than he did last year.
I've seen a lot of seagulls too. These looked like something that fits the broad category of gull or tern... a large, grey and white salt water coastal bird.
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That's the thing... Marine coastal birds aren't migratory. The V-formation thing is a migrating habit.
Like when the swallows are carryin' coconuts from the tropical regions suspended with a bit of string... the African swallows, mind you, not the European swallows.
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