Holy fucking shit. This takes the cake. Went to the store a few minutes

[karlrschneider]

ago for some bread (small lakeside convenience/gas/baitshop just up the road), was waiting in a short line wearing my JK button. This moron who I never saw before that I remember sees it and says "I don't like that Kerry (he pronounced it so as to rhyme with "teary") 'cause he talks funny, he says eye-ther (for the word either). And I realized, even though it never mattered to me before that probably most Okies pronounce it "eee-ther". I usually do too, just out of habit, and I call my mom's sister my "ant", not my "awnt", but it never occurred to me that the differences in dialectic regional or cultural linguistics would ever become an political issue. But evidently I'm just a naive idiot. :grr:

[XanaDUer]

1. Great.

And Bush says nuke-you-lar. Sometimes I think we're doomed when I hear stuff like this.

Sorry you had a run in with an idiot!

[karlrschneider]

9. I -should- have thought of that...don't think on my feet as quickly as I

used to...but I imagine this goober also says 'noo-ku-ler' too (if he even knows the word.) :eyes:

Can someone design an emoticon that means "Goddamn it, I'm fed up with morons!"?
:D

[cavanaghjam]

26. emoticon

for "Goddamn it, I'm fed up with morons" - Bush in a circle with a line drawn through it, blinking in a "dazed and confused" hemorrhoid moment.

[rucky]

2. God help us. n/t

[stevedeshazer]

3. His pResident says ""nook-u-ler"

Guess that's okay?

[fishnfla]

4. exactly nt

[XanaDUer]

6. I think

some nut saw his Kerry button and went off on Kerry because of Kerry's pronunciation of certain words.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Well....

I am from Illinois and say ee-ther and ant. Don't worry about it.

[karlrschneider]

10. Haha.....I won't worry...and I was born in Illinois (Centralia), and I'm

also an -uncle- of triplets! :D They all started college last month, about 6 weeks since they were born.....or so it seems. :eyes:

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. Centralia, I've been there (a Chicagoan).

Congratulations on your triplets, I never knew that about you.

Good luck to them in college ... and to your sibling who has to pay the tuition. Where are they going?

My triplets are close to turning 4. College is years ahead, but their parents are already gritting their teeth at the projected cost.

Seems like no time since these four were born as well. Kids grow up so damn fast. It is weird to think of cradling them in my arms such a short time ago, and now having this detailed conversations with them ...answering why, why, why, what, what, what. But I wouldn't trade the experience for anything.

[karlrschneider]

15. They're great kids...one to Okla Univ, where their dad, my bro went,

that's the boy...the other 2 are girls, one is off to Vanderbilt (where her big sis went & graduated in Electrical Engineering (imagine that, maybe some of my genes got into her :D) and the 3rd decided to stay with her first love, automotive mechanics - she can rebuild a carburetor or fuel injection system faster than you can wash a load of dishes! I think it's hilarious! :D
(their dad's a pharmacist AND A DEMOCRAT. Weird family.)

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. Sounds like they have made good decisions.

And are being independent of one another. Ours are too young to want to do that. The best of luck to Your grown-up triplets. Meanwhile, I thought of this old song....

Let's Call The Whole Thing Off

From the RKO Picture "Shall We Dance"
Music by George Gershwin; Lyric by Ira Gershwin
Performed by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

Things have come to a pretty pass
Our romance is growing flat,
For you like this and the other
While I go for this and that,

Goodness knows what the end will be
Oh I don't know where I'm at
It looks as if we two will never be one
Something must be done:

You say either and I say either,
You say neither and I say neither
Either, either Neither, neither
Let's call the whole thing off.

You like potato and I like potahto
You like tomato and I like tomahto
Potato, potahto, Tomato, tomahto.
Let's call the whole thing off

But oh, if we call the whole thing off
Then we must part
And oh, if we ever part, then that might break my heart

So if you like pyjamas and I like pyjahmas,
I'll wear pyjamas and give up pyajahmas
For we know we need each other so we
Better call the whole thing off
Let's call the whole thing off.

You say laughter and I say larfter
You say after and I say arfter
Laughter, larfter after arfter
Let's call the whole thing off,

You like vanilla and I like vanella
You saspiralla, and I saspirella
Vanilla vanella chocolate strawberry
Let's call the whole thing off

But oh if we call the whole thing of then we must part
And oh, if we ever part, then that might break my heart

So if you go for oysters and I go for ersters
I'll order oysters and cancel the ersters
For we know we need each other so we
Better call the calling off off,
Let's call the whole thing off.

I say father, and you say pater,
I saw mother and you say mater
Pater, mater Uncle, auntie let's call the whole thing off.

I like bananas and you like banahnahs
I say Havana and I get Havahnah
Bananas, banahnahs Havana, Havahnah
Go your way, I'll go mine

So if I go for scallops and you go for lobsters,
So all right no contest we'll order lobseter
For we know we need each other so we
Better call the calling off off,
Let's call the whole thing off.

[Alenne]

7. I'm from VA

I say eye-ther and awnt. I've never paid attention to the way people pronounce words unless they pronounce them wrong. The guy probably feels like a hick when he hears Kerry speak. Bush makes him feel smart.

[edbermac]

8. You should have told him "I bet you're a high school grad-you-ate...

[barb162]

21. nah, nah,nah should have said "what school you go, dude"

[jackstraw45]

11. George Bush: HERO of the STUPID!!!!

Making uneducated people around the country feel better about themselves every day.

What a f-ing poor education system we have in this country.

[XanaDUer]

12. But, is our children learning?

...

[smirkymonkey]

17. Thank you! I think that should go on a bumper sticker!

God, it's like the fucking attack of the illiterate in this country. Not only are they stupid and uneducated, they are actually PROUD of it! :grr:

[Cleita]

14. Well, I spent two years in Kansas and

was reprimanded by a superior because my "high-fallutin" language made others not like me. I was too stunned to even remark. I guess my California accent was what she was talking about. I still to this day can't believe that people in Middle America judge others only because they seem to talk funny.

This was forty years ago, and I chalked it up to the fact that the plains states were somewhat insular back then, but apparently it's not the isolation after all, just the cultural prejudice in play of anybody who isn't exactly like them.

I tell you, we have to change this electoral system so that people with closed minds and blinders on their eyes stop selecting our leaders for us. My apologies to anyone from those states who are not narrow-minded and bigoted, but too many are and it's not healthy for our nation to be run by a voting block this ignorant anymore.

[jackstraw45]

16. If we don't improve our EDUCATIONAL system, IMO, this country

is DOOMED.

Just look around the world. Much of the world is educated enough to examine events around them and use critical thinking skills to evaluate actions by their family, neighbors and leaders.

It's not a coincidence that most of the world was against the Iraq war. But our education system is so poor in many areas that people don't DO any thinking for themselves and latch on to how "funny" someone says certain words.

Bush may be verbally challenged and we take fun in poking at his but his policies ARE evil.

[barb162]

22. exactly, and it is going downhill fast.

Wehn you look at what good education is costing and how people are being squeezed,the education system has no place to go but down with the fate of the people. We are going backwards.

[karlrschneider]

20. The weird thing is 40 years ago Oklahoma was solidly Democrat and I

was a Republican...my first vote in 63 was for Goldwater, but I had the er, "benefit" of being raised by a dad who was an admirer of Hitler. He couldn't go an hour without making a comment about 'niggers', 'kikes', and...well you know the type. I'm ashamed to admit I adopted his prejudices until I was almost out of college, and discovered how stupid he and I had been. Talk about an epiphany. (And that's about when I realized that worshipping imaginary cloud-daddies was absurd too) Since then I've felt pretty good about myself and other than the crazy prick in the White House since 2001, most of the world too. But I digress...what seems to have happened here is that the fundies got smarter, politically, and of course according to their game plan, wangled their way into power from the ground up...school boards, county commissioners, etc. by means of stealth and lying. Nobody really noticed, and now they run the system. I despise these hypocritical bastards.

[underseasurveyor]

18. Maybe you should have complimented him (sarcastically of course)

on his innovative genius. I mean wow how brilliant, that is the ultimate number one reason for choosing someone to run a country. Yep:eyes: And WHO is it that "talks funny"? Must be them sublimidable messages again.

Fucking repiglithug idiot.

[BensMom]

23. Hi Karl

You crack me up. I lived in OKC for a couple years. Still have a couple rose rocks that pop up every now and then...

Governor Bellman's reign....OKC had the worst newspaper.

People were nice.
Land had a little bit of everything..
And the climate was about perfect.

Oh - Now I miss my mockingbirds.

[karlrschneider]

24. I can send you some mockingbirds, we got a surplus.

:D

As for the rocks, I live in a part of Snug Harbor, a lakeside community on Ft. Gibson lake north of Wagoner, called Rocky Point - for good reason. Every spring we have to pick up a few hundred of the damn things that mystically migrate up from...maybe hell...and end up awaiting the unsuspecting lawnmower blade, ready to wreak havoc. Maybe they grow from pebble-seeds?...beats me. ;-)

K

[CBHagman]

25. Sounds as though you met the inbred relative...

...of the clowns who term Teresa Heinz Kerry "too exotic" for the American people. Excuse me? My grandfather was a Hungarian immigrant who learned English and successfully ran a business, two things George W. Bush will NEVER accomplish, regardless of how long he lives. Give me accent variations over incompetence any day.

People like your fellow shopper need to dislodge their heads with the assistance of a proctologist and start getting out around the country more.

[BiggJawn]

27. "I Laik Dubya Bush!"

"He-uns talks laik a dumb-ass Cooter, jes laik me..."

I'd have said "Have you ever considered why it is that President Bush's brother Jeb speaks a rather easy-to- understand dialect, while "Bubba-ya" Speaks in a manner as though he were trying out for the part of the banjo-picking porch ape in a re-make of 'Deliverance'?"

Nahhhhh...it's go rat over his haid, twouldn't it?

[against all enemies]

28. Is that banjo music in the background?

[Skittles]

29. on my way driving to Whitesboro last night

I was behind an SUV with OK plates and a bumpersticker saying BEAT TEXAS AND KERRY. I passed him and gave him the finger.