Posts tagged with "silly"
Wednesday, 17. June 2009, 14:07:27
silly, musings
There's a house I like on the way between home and work and it's for sale. So I looked up the realtor's website and the price is EUR 870000. I didn't go "ouch!" until I converted to French Francs. 5.7M! Ouch!
I've had the Pearl Jam song "this is not for you" in my head since then.
Friday, 5. June 2009, 19:43:34
language, funny, silly, in French
Je fumais une roulée avec une copine alors que j'avais un peu la tête ailleurs. Ça a résulté en un dialogue assez divertissant:
Elle: "Je roule nettement mieux depuis le 1er juin".
Je regarde sa roulée, je jette un oeil à la date du jour, je lève les sourcils et hoche la tête en guise d'acquièscement.
Moi: "Ah ouais, en effet, et on est que le 5 juin!"
Elle me regarde en écarquillant les yeux et en fronçant les sourcils. Je quitte mes préoccupations et me recentre illicopronto sur notre conversation, je reviens mentalement en arrière.
Elle: "Hein?"
Moi: "Euh... Tu me parles de début juin et on est le cinq. Je regarde ta roulée, elle est nickel, même si elle a une forme un peu conique."
Et là, ça devient clair, d'un coup! Le parseur a eu un hoquet sur la prononciation similaire (dans la région, du moins) entre "joint" et "juin".
Tuesday, 3. March 2009, 18:11:12
musings, language, silly
I have been working hard and am now in much need of a break. This assignment I'm working on makes my brain hurt. So much that for the past hour, I've been wandering from one butterfly to the other. I may as well blog, and then go back to the assignment.
The other day on TV there was a character which name I couldn't quite make out. She was either a "Dina" or a "Tina". That made me think how the suffix "ina" could fit with numerous consonants:
{d,f,g,h,l,m,n,p,r,t,,}ina
"Ina" is also an existing first name.
I've always been somewhat interested by language stuff. However not enough to know how it is called.
I remember as a teenager how I realised with wonder that "aude" was similar to "claude" and "maude" and how all of them could be transformed into "audine", "claudine", "maudine" and still sound nice.
Thursday, 5. February 2009, 16:51:37
silly, spam
I usually receive spam to enhance my manhood, or make her moan in bed, or buy a gorgeous replica watch. However today, I received one that stands out. Really.
They call me Sir, but they all do, informing me they are putting up the following for immediate transaction:
- 1 Unit of BRAND NEW 7,000dwt Oil Tanker (Built Nov, 2008 in China)
- 1 Unit of BRAND NEW 6740dwt Chemical Tanker (Built Nov, 2008 in China)
- 1 Unit of 1002dwt Chemical Tanker (Built 1988 in Japan)
Out of interest I searched what these look like. Who on earth would contact them for more information?? One of these boats is almost 120 meters long, weighs tons and costs 0.58 MIL$.
Thursday, 29. May 2008, 09:14:43
funny, silly, musings, language
Many years ago I remember someone often said "E pericoloso sposersi" and laughed. I asked what it meant and was told it was a pun in Italian and that it meant that it was dangerous to get married.
I didn't understand why it was dangerous to get married, nor did I understand what was laughable about it. But nevermind, as the adult world was still very foreign to me.
Years later I was in an Italian train and spotted a notice by a window: "E pericoloso sporgersi" which meant it was dangerous to lean out of the window. Aha. Now it made sense!
However the mystery remains ; what made this person often say "E pericoloso sposersi" and laugh? Perhaps he had an omnipresent wife...
Sunday, 29. April 2007, 22:19:10
silly, life, i don't like, home life
I was reminded of a phobia that I have had for as long as I remember. I meant to look the word up and Amy found it: Chaetophobia, the fear of hair. I don't know how to pronounce it, but I can certainly describe my own version of the phobia.
When I was a kid and my mum was bathing me, I was terrified of floating hair in the water. So I already had long hair at the time. I remember curling up as far as I could from these long, threatening, floating and offensive threats. My word was "thread", as in "there is a thread". My mother had to remove the floating "thread(s)" from the water.
Now I don't curl up so much, but I'm still really bugged by the occasional strand(s) of detached hair. A lot.
I don't mind attached hair at all. How funny to make the distinction.
Monday, 12. March 2007, 04:26:56
musings, silly, Boston MA
At brunch today (yeah, we indulged), I saw a commercial for nascar on ESPN. My reaction was "shake and bake!". Amy's reaction, after "hah!", was to wonder about the waste of fuel it was to have cars drive in circle. I couldn't argue. Amy said "you're going to say it's awesome". Yeah. I said it was a race and that the tracks were not always circles; some are oval (boring) others have curves. Pretty lame argument.
I said it had never occured to me before what a waste of fuel races were.
Later in the day I was indulging in a nap (it was a day of indulgence) and as I was drifting toward slumber, I had a mental image of a crowd of car racing spectators. The image changed to that of an arena filled with a crowd of roman gladiatorial games spectators.
In my half asleep state, I was likening nascar and gladiator fights. Further thoughts brought the following: it's still better to waste fuel than execute wild animals, slaves or criminals.
At which point, I thought I really needed to sleep.
[All about NASCAR and Gladiators on Wikipedia.]
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