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March 20, 2013: Early Glitchzes
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:05am
Benjamen Walker:
Good Morning! |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:05am
pierre:
Bonjour BW in the wednesday !!! |
Wed. 3/20/13 9:06am
common:
that sounded cool at the beginning there. | |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:08am
Benjamen Walker:
Common ! hah yes I tried to blame Nachum for leaving the turntable on 45 but it didnt work |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:09am
Cheri Pi:
Bonjour BW, Pierre, Common! |
Wed. 3/20/13 9:09am
wizzer:
is Ken in a sanitarium somewhere quiet and calm? | |
Wed. 3/20/13 9:09am
common:
Hee hee! | |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:10am
Benjamen Walker:
Ken is in Rehab - I got a late night phone call! |
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![]() ...inna sanitarium...staring @ an infinite # of gifs... |
Wed. 3/20/13 9:12am
jan:
Benjamen- my favorite substitute teacher! | |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:13am
northguineahills:
Happy Equinox everyone! |
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![]() Rehab - ! ...that's a joke - ?? ...A relaxation resort would be well-deserved... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:14am
Benjamen Walker:
yes a joke our fearless leader deserves a Vacation |
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![]() Good morning! Love this track! |
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![]() Poor bastard freaked after making ODing on marathon stress. |
Wed. 3/20/13 9:14am
mbw:
bonjour Benjamen! | |
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![]() Equinox - ?? - Sweet Jehosaphat - ! We're in Aries - ! It's (technical) Spring - ! ...wunna the two days a year Day & Night are Equal Length (Equi - & Nox means Night). |
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![]() Morning BW. Haven't listened to you live in a long time. Nice treat. |
Wed. 3/20/13 9:17am
common:
hello cheri! | |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:18am
still b/p:
Good morning. It's Been A Hard Day's Nox. |
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![]() My Browser will get a gif break this week too. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:20am
Benjamen Walker:
The DJ nightmare I had last night! I lost all the Marathon money! |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:23am
pierre:
btw; great interview with Gary Panter last show ! very inspiring. |
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![]() 'The Story of English' says one reason English spelling makes as little sense as it does is because whoever first printed a word set the precedent. 'Night' comes from German 'nicht' - so spelled n-i-g-h-t - so explain *that* to the English student... |
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![]() good morning. Glad for Ken getting some r&r. That fella works hard! |
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![]() Is Gary Panter ...vox : ) - Archived? ...I greatly anticipate my T-Shirt in the mails some time this epoch... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:32am
Benjamen Walker:
yeah the archive is on the TMI page GARY PANTER is the best - what a prince |
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![]() a.) Sorry to need spoonfeeding @ breakfast: TMI ? b.) Your cat is very large, Mr. Walker: Are you not afraid of ending up like Penn & Teller? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:38am
northguineahills:
Darla is always fun! |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:38am
Benjamen Walker:
<3 Darla |
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![]() I mean Siegfried and Roy cat attack...Penn & Teller are Cat Chiropracters, apparently... |
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![]() The German word for night is "nacht", in my own language "natt". |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:44am
Benjamen Walker:
Penn and Teller Cat! |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:44am
G:
I was wondering what the hell I'd forgotten about Penn & Teller :) |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:48am
G:
@Hugo: That Story of English quote is poppy, not scientific. The real issue is that spelling gets decided based on pronunciation, but after pronunciation subsequently changes the spelling may be retained out of inertia or respect for tradition or to make it easier to read old books (spelling stays consistent over centuries). In Chaucer's time (late 1300s) there was a sound in night before the t very like the last sound in "loch." By Shakespeare's day (late 1500s) it was gone. But the spelling lives on. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:49am
pierre:
I saw the Gary Panter Dal Tokyo in a library in Paris (le Regard Moderne), I so want to purchase it, looks like a sort of masterpiece to me. |
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![]() Thanx Hugo. Another Cat Person - ! ...& we enjoy this - but pierre *understands* it - !... - Wait - is this Francais? ...When yer inna hole - stop digging... - Of Felines & Felons. Ken didn't split w/ the goods? That's the real story? |
Wed. 3/20/13 9:55am
dale:
thanks for the nick cave, mr. walker - he doesn't get enough airplay | |
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![]() Well - I may misrepresent 'Story of English', G. ...& ...you sound right. - You know you been listenting to Ambient & (?) Chanson-y things for breakfast - when Nick Cave sounds like normal PopRock... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:56am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
Peace be with you. |
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![]() Seeing Cave/Seeds Sunday - should be good. |
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![]() @Hugo: Är du svensk? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:57am
nah:
That Charan Po Rantan track was awesome! G: That was a concise and clear explanation. It's nice that there are slight reformations in spelling from time to time though, as in Sweden in 1906... Caryn: Det är vi väl alla? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 9:59am
Snortley:
Most other cultures have reformed their spelling, and grammar, too. Anglo cultures have done no such thing, though there was an early American movement in that direction. English may not have been reformed for a couple of reasons. For one, xenophobia; the desire to estrange outsiders through a language difficult to learn. Then there is social stratification; when language mastery is hard, only the more educated upper classes fully master the standard dialect, and the lower classes are marked and separated by their own differing usage. |
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![]() a vacation in rehab? i can think of better places to go on a vacation. |
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![]() @nah: hah! |
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![]() In American English you occasionally see "nite" instead of "night" which is of course closer to actual pronunciation. French certainly is an example of inertia. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:01am
AbeSomething:
Just tuned in, surprised and pleased to find BW on the air! A good morning gets better. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:02am
G:
@nah: Yeah, people have been advocating spelling reform in English for two centuries. Noah Webster changed some English spelling in the US nearly 200 years ago. But the preponderance of people seem to believe there is a right way to write, and a wrong way to write, and functionally that makes people conservative about spelling. It'll have to change at some point, but that could be several more centuries. |
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![]() Wot r u tahlkin bout? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:03am
duke:
What a pleasant surprise to BW here. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:04am
duke:
*find - not enough coffee yet |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:05am
G:
Exactly, French spelling and pronuciation are even farther apart than English. Spanish and Portuguese, for example, have national academies that study this stuff and make changes slowly every few decades. Remember when the German academy pronounced what will ultimately be a death sentence on the ß in the 90s? (It's being replaced by ss, which is essentially what ß is.) |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:06am
Benjamen Walker:
Michael - have fun at the Nick Cave show where is it? |
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![]() Another example is the American practice of dropping the u, labor and not labour, again closer to pronuncitation. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:08am
Snortley:
French spelling is very consistent. The so-called "silent" letters are not really that; they are "diacritic," indicating features of the vowels before them. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:08am
northguineahills:
Joseph Shipley's "The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots." Is a good read on English etymology, although it's presented more of a reference then a straight read. |
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![]() Benjamen - it's at the Orpheum. My spousal unit is really looking forward to it. We will have completed the triple play of Bad Seeds, Grinderman and Dirty 3 over the last few years. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:10am
nah:
@G: I can just imagine all the problems with an attempt to "definitely" change spelling in a language as massive as English. What was really the point of the phasing out the ß? I always found it kind of a charming thing. Looks cool on street signs etc. Is it that it isn't as easy to understand for a newbie/foreigner as just ss? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:10am
G:
French spelling reflects old pronunciation, which is why the silent letters help you with the ones that are still pronounced. In essence, understanding the silent letters is understanding how French phonology changed over centuries (sounds before or after other certain sounds stopped being pronounced) :) |
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![]() @Snortley: French spelling is consistent? I guess so, in a "consistently inconsistent" way |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:11am
dcpat:
I'd like to see Cave again--saw him couple years ago, excellent show--but, $90?? Fraggettit.. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:12am
Looms:
Agreed, Fred. |
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![]() Were the French the first to call Pop/Rock 'Yeh Yeh' - & was that before or after Beatles? - I always think of the Beatles picking up 'Yeah Yeah Yeah' in Germany (Ya Ya)... - It is of course an Ancient syllable we might relate to Jah & Yahweh & African precedents??.. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:13am
G:
@nah: There are always two sides to changing spelling, to change or not to change, and they are constantly battling it out in slow motion to some always provisional conclusion that will get reargued later. It's exactly like politics, or vice versa :) |
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![]() @nah: they also dropped the umlaut, for instance "ö" should now be spelled "oe". Hours of administrative fun ensued for people who end up having their names spelled differently depending on when a document was made. Think how fun it would be explaining that to your local TSA drone |
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![]() I kinda hated the idea to phase out the ß. It was relatively easy, and actually easier to remember in spelling than remembering whether something has one or two s letters in it. It also made it easy to differentiate between das and daß. But we'll see if anything comes of the various spelling changes they suggested in the 90s. About 15 years gone, and can't say I've noticed much changing... Are they teaching the new spelling in schools like they said they would? |
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![]() Orpheum in Boston? |
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![]() We're keeping the ø, æ and å. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:16am
Snortley:
Yes, very consistent. Almost always, the pronunciation is clear from the spelling. One exception is "ll," which represents two different sounds. Also, the circumflex indicates nothing about the sound of the word, and is gradually being phased out. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:16am
dcpat:
wait, the ß is being phased out?? German? TRAVESTY! why?? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:17am
Benjamen Walker:
Supposedly there is a new Danish bar in Williamsburg that uses the ø in the name! |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:18am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
Obviously getting here late, mid-topic. But... what DCPat said. With bonus exclamation marks. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:18am
dcpat:
Arriving late does NOT help when we're deep into a language discussion... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:19am
Dave B:
My low powered work PC thanks you for abstaining from GIFs |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:19am
Snortley:
English also once had another character for "ss" which fell out of use after the 18th century. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:19am
G:
@dcpat: Ask the German academy. -- Don't tell anyone, but sometimes big bureaucracies make not exactly compelling changes just to prove they are doing something :) |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:19am
nah:
@G: As Snortley also pointed out it IS indeed politics. fred: They did? Will kebab places be forced to sell doener? I was not aware of the umlaut drop at all. And did not see much of it last I was in Germany. Caryn: Agreed! Pointing out that you are not making a typo is one of my favourite functions of the eszett! |
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![]() ...Sounds like they're just trying to turn them all into English to me...Probably for MultiNational Corporation reasons... |
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![]() yup, Boston Orpheum |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:20am
Dave B:
Besides happy Vernal Equinox, Happy Nowruz (Persian New Year) |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:21am
pierre:
[I love those discussion about language, but I can't really participate since my spelling (both english and french) are terrible.] |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:21am
G:
@RR63: I didn't follow the German orthographic change in close detail, but I would bet a major consideration was indeed to make the use of letters/characters more uniform in the EU, ultimately |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:22am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
Pierre: to hell with spelling. With all the tentacles, I'd imagine your typing speed is insane.... |
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![]() Due to internet standardisation, elkjøp, meaning elbuy, a chain of shops for electric articles, has become elkjop, which means absolutely nothing! |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:23am
dcpat:
anyone notice the irony of "esszet" not having an esszet in it? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:23am
northguineahills:
I still think we should reintroduce 'ð' and 'þ'. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:25am
G:
The Germans more or less got rid of blackletter ("gothic") lettering earlier in the 20th century. Hitler loved the more uniquely German gothic lettering, and it was hugely used in that era. Gothic script goes back to how medieval manuscripts were handwritten in northern, German-speaking areas of Europe, and the fonts more used now come from Italian Renaissance typefaces based on more south-European handwriting. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:25am
Dave B:
Perhaps I should spell my name Dæve B |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:25am
Cheri Pi:
Pierre, what RTD said, when you can type 65 fathoms per minute no one has the right to complain. |
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![]() @nah: my point exactly. The Academy decided on these changes in the late 90s. I was already pissed off then. But gotta say, years and years have passed and I haven't seen German papers or signs changing their spelling. Again, I'm not sure if kids are being taught the new rules or whether this was an idea that is not going to become reality. I especially see no point in removing the umlaut. Ö is clearly pronounced like ö, whereas oe can be pronounced different ways. That change would actually cause more problems with pronunciation, not reduce problems. And seems like sucking up to English-speaking tourists etc. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:26am
dçþät:
looks like it's special character time.. |
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![]() Orpheum is big enuff ( < sp!) that seating makes a difference - but not so big you can't get the vibe. ...Hard for me to think of seeing Cave & Bad Seeds as anything but pretty exciting - ! ...Altho' I've learned that hyping self for weeks pre-show by obsessing over their Very Greatest Moments can be self-defeating... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:27am
Cheri Pi:
It's always "special character time" :) |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:28am
Snortley:
English could use the introduction of the "schwa," as we have no representation of what is probably our most common vowel sound. In contrast, there's "ough," which in English is pronounced at least 11 different ways. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:29am
dçþät:
English is a mess, why even have rules?? Anything goes...where's Ike by the way? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:29am
Pale Son:
O with a line through it is pronounced "busters," as in "Ghostbusters." |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:30am
Cheri π:
that's better. Special character typing chart: www.tedmontgomery.com... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:30am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
Twitter has destroyed language. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:30am
glenn:
the shwa is just east of me. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:30am
nah:
@pierre: what the Turnip Druid said. @Hugo: one of my local towns, Hörby, has the official website horby.se. For those of you not familiar with Scandinavian languages, that becomes "whore village". @Caryn: When I took German classes at a Swedish uni it was kind of a lottery which words would be OK to use ß in. On the umlaut I really don't get it either. Most people who don't speak German, Swedish etc just use the letter underneath the dots anyway... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:30am
glenn:
it's also destroyed a few political careers. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:31am
Dæve B:
Oh, and where are my manors. Good morning/afternoon/evening everybody |
Wed. 3/20/13 10:31am
common:
holy shit this is funny! | |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:31am
dçþät:
Pi that's the same place I ended up... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:31am
Cheri Pi:
This song makes me want to have a cocktail while enjoying the setting sun over the city's skyline. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:31am
G:
@dcpat: Exactly, we don't have a national language academy/committee, a freedom which ironically means that things stay the same and don't change, because unless everyone agrees or someone with authority imposes something, things keep going on inertia... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:32am
Cheri Pπ:
Special minds! |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:32am
dçþät:
star |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:33am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
Thanks to WFMU, I am covered in star tissue. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:33am
Dave B:
Dirt Bacharach is a killer album |
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![]() The ø sound is uncommon in English, but an approximation is the vocal sound in earn, urban, urge. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:35am
nah:
Off to pay my cousin for turning 10. Thanks all for fun conversation. Also thanks Benjamen for a great show thus far. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:35am
Pale Son:
So, pretty much the same as the ö sound? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:35am
pierre:
I might know how to type fast, but it get cold down in the bottom of the ocean, therefore, my tentacles are a bit stiff (that might come out wrong; i wouldn't know…) |
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![]() Yes, ø and ö is pronounced in the same way. |
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![]() Being a Tolkien fan (who I'd rather invoke than Hitler - the Nazis had their own little version of everything & who cares) helps maintain interest here (he was a Medievalist in the 20th Cent. basically) - but only somewhat...I suspect he'd have a few choice words (in a few languages) about the changes - presumably agreeing it's more Political (/Financial) than any real Phonetic advantage. ...It all makes me think of things Julian Cope has said, somehow. Interesting that RockKulture - & Fantasists - & Metaphysicians - seek to embrace umlauts & the like! - as bureaucrats (spell that!) & financiers the opposite... |
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![]() ø = ö, same as æ = ä. The first of each pair are in languages like Norwegian and Danish, the latter in ones like Swedish and Finnish. |
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![]() Certain times of the year you can get ø almost exactly in your telescope (a recommendation for the lesser light-polluted) |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:42am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
Had to set ø traps yesterday. Behind the stove & refrigerator. |
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![]() CONGRATULATIONS TO WFMU!!!! WE ARE ALL THE WINNERS!!!! |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:43am
Pale Son:
@Caryn Ah, very good to know, thanks! |
Wed. 3/20/13 10:43am
martin:
great show...was a bit sad to see Kens was not on- though vey happy he had a day off after M. Big surprise! love your choices. Am grammar geek, whatever. Your show is g.o.o.d.f.u.n. It's keeping me moving. | |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:43am
crateslinger:
I ride an electra-glide, otherwise known as a "Geezer Glider". My wife can knit riding on the back of my motorcycle while I doze between exits. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:44am
dçþät:
ø crap! forgot to buy soy milk... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:44am
northguineahills:
ø, not to be confused w/ symbol for empty set. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:45am
dçþät:
..or zero (0) |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:46am
duke:
Speaking of movies, what's happening with the WFMU movie? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:46am
Van in DC:
ø hey there! |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:47am
duke:
Or is it WFMU møvie? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:52am
dçþät:
I'd like to be able to keep a list of tunes I DON'T like....Kenzo? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:54am
G:
øy vəy |
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![]() Peter Sellers as Inspector Closeau could do a decent ø in those old Pink Panther movies. It was always a phøn or a bømb. The guy was a phonetic genius! |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:55am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
Coffee Song. Yes. Please. God damn yes. Coffee. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 10:57am
northguineahills:
My iTunes tripped over to the GTDS stream, I was thinking that it wasn't sounding like Francis Bebey. |
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![]() Ha! It should be Inspector Clouseau! Proves my point. |
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![]() pierre - your English Grammar is not flawless - but I don't know how many years it would take me (10,+?) to be as articulate & intelligible in Francais as your are in English right now - & despite my DNA... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:01am
Leigh:
You should have Andrea on your show more often. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:01am
Cheri Pi:
I was scared of the St.PDP too... |
Wed. 3/20/13 11:02am
trouble:
good morning BW! you need to chain your wallet to your wrist... | |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:03am
the glowing one:
Hope Ken is not on a plane to Cypris with the pledge funds... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:04am
Dave B:
Ken's probably busy taking advantage of Google Image Search's newest feature: news.cnet.com... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:06am
Dave B:
earning the G.I.S. merit badge: fx.worth1000.com... |
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![]() I missed Andrea? That's what I get for being late to work. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:07am
the glowing one:
That's what Benjamen should take advantage of RIGHT NOW! No more excuses for not showing any animations on the playlist. |
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![]() Peter Sellars! - Did you see 'Life & Death of P.S.' w/ Geoffrey Rush? - Two days a Year I do NOT go to Pub: New Years Eve & Patties... ...Thot wallet chain was maybe too McPunk trendy - but it works...carefull w/ slatted seats & handrails... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:10am
Benjamen Walker:
Sorry the glowing one -right now I am sucking this warm coffee down - and trying to make it to 12 noon! |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:12am
dçþät:
huh. Guess Ken was right: animated JIFs are the biggest thing all year... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:12am
northguineahills:
I went out Sunday for a dinner and a movie, but thankfully, most of the lunatics were out during the parade Saturday. Most of my local pubs are pretty anti-St Pats (to get the drunken morons out) day, so, they're safe. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:13am
the glowing one:
Typical DJ... sitting around chatting, spinning some records for two hours... goes home again. Lazy bunch. ;) No, seriously. Who actually makes those animated gifs Ken posts in his playlist? That guy seems to have a massive output. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:14am
Benjamen Walker:
GO: Ken has a factory in North Korea making the GIFS |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:15am
G:
I knew it. GIF sweatshops. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:16am
the glowing one:
Ah, that explains why it's still this antiquated image format and not fancy flash. It's North Korea! |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:16am
the glowing one:
Every frame is hand drawn, pixel by pixel. |
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![]() There are a couple of gif sites Ken gets most of his stuff from, such as GIF Movie. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:19am
Dave B:
Yeah, I shared a few good Tumblr blogs and GIFs with him and chuckle every time I see one... |
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![]() Absolutely no one picked up on my 10:12. : ) |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:21am
dçþät:
I have no problem with St. Patrick's day--being mostly Irish and named after the patron saint--but it's just been ruined by all the douches...What's a WASPy holiday that all the rest of us can ruin?? |
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![]() Yeah - *South* Korea would be ahead of us... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:22am
Benjamen Walker:
uh oh.... too many track 14s ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh |
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![]() The joke of 'White AngloSaxon Protestant' is - that's just about nobody exactly. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:25am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
To quote the old punk classic, Every day's a holiday. I have no memory for who did that tune. But there it is, sudden earworm. |
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![]() ...Even 'Proper British' is Druidic Celtic Anglo Saxon Viking Roman Norman... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:27am
dçþät:
Great point Rev. We just have to go apeshit on every other day of the year. WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:27am
the glowing one:
Hm, doesn't sound very punk to me... www.youtube.com... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:27am
Andrea:
Where did all the GIFs go? Can't focus. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:27am
dçþät:
RevRabbit: you are correct, sir. Most Irish are probably Viking descendent... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:28am
dçþät:
yeah, but it sure is swell, glowing one.. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:28am
pierre:
aargh missed much, back now ! |
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![]() Except for Cinco de Mayo. That's another lousy amateur night, isn't it? Or is that just the night to avoid crowds in Mexican restaurants? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:29am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
Yeh, Glowing, did a quick google & discovered it was a cover... this was a snotty teen hardcore version, very lo-fi and despicable. hm. random memory flashes of records long deceased... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:30am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
Ike: Cinco was more of a legit dealie in Tucson (esp. south Tucson where the Real People (read: poor multi-generational families) still lived. Up here, laughable. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:31am
dçþät:
@Ike, yeah seems like Cinco de Mayo is the new St. Patrick's Day. What's next, Bastille Day? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:31am
Dave B:
The story of St. Patrick: youtu.be... |
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![]() Shouldn't it be Døblin? |
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![]() Guiness is trying to hype up an Arthur Guinness Day too isn't it? |
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![]() Half-Viking? ...@ least Cinco de Mayo a legit commemoration of chucking the French outta Mexico - which even as a (part) FrenchDescendant I salute - but point being how many Holidays (Holy Days) observe anything but mass hysteria of some kind? Not that I'm against Festival ( see Barbara Ehrenreich's 'Dancing in the Streets' - !) - but if they're gettin' violent on Black Friday - I think we should have the right to Opt Out w/out social stigma...War on Xmas - !!! |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:36am
Cheri Pi:
I"m having Choley delivered to the office today.. the most brilliant idea I've ever brained. |
Wed. 3/20/13 11:36am
lxlxlxxlxlxl:
what the duck chuck? this is awesome. | |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:36am
northguineahills:
Well, in Mexico they don't really celebrate Cinco de Mayo, but as previously stated, it's based on a real event. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:37am
Cheri Pi:
This is insanely good. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:37am
Sean D. Daily:
"Cinco de Mayo" is Spanish for "excuse for gringos to get drunk". |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:38am
dçþät:
I'm with Pi |
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![]() This stuff is crawling inside my skull, which is OK. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:40am
Benjamen Walker:
whoops |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:40am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
As happy as I am to be back home (DC), I will say this for Tucson: decent mescal readily available. Can't find squat up here. |
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![]() ...& the negative side - ! : B. Ehrenreich's 'Blood Rites' - which I haven't read yet... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:41am
andymorphic:
diggin your show |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:41am
dçþät:
..or descent Mex-oriented food. You have to go out west for that. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:42am
Cheri Pi:
may you all eat like gods today, like me. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:42am
dçþät:
"decent" dammit. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:42am
dçþät:
DIVORCE!!! |
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![]() I guess Repetitor is an FMU hit. Another commenter pointed out they're Serbian about 11 hours ago and explained that the album title translates as "Welcome to the Ocean." |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:43am
dçþät:
..wait a minute... |
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![]() Sounds like the caff working for DJ. : ) ...FMU Marathon Finale actually a *good* example of Festival, imho... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:43am
Cheri Pi:
What dçþät said!! |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:44am
dçþät:
thought was a diff song though....oh well, still kicking! |
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![]() @Ike: should we now explain that the Asta Kask album title means "With ice in one's belly"? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:45am
Cheri Pi:
Thanks IKE- I need to let me Serbo-nationalist friends know about them. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:45am
dçþät:
BW is truly free form.. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:45am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
Aye, Pat. I do miss the fresh home-made green-corn tamales sold on the street corners, etc. But here we have crack bags & busted metro escalators, home sweet home. |
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![]() Lived in Santa Barbara & am back in smalltown North New England: Decent Mexican Food - ????!!!!!... |
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![]() Caryn, that's an even cooler title than "Welcome to the Ocean." |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:46am
dçþät:
man these guys must be tired after one song... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:46am
Cheri Pi:
The descent of mexican food.... |
Wed. 3/20/13 11:47am
some guy:
Man, this Divorce song is pretty rocking. It's cool to see you doing a music show Mr. Walker. | |
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![]() What, no comics this morning? |
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![]() @Ike: and the song title was of course "Robots live" |
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![]() Believe it or not I've had decent Mexican in DELAWARE of all places -- not as good as out west, but not bad. Also Tyler Cowen claims there is good Mex at a gas station (!) in Elkridge MD: tiny.cc... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:49am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
After Tucson, followed a job to Bangor, Maine of all places. Found a "mexican restaurant" in the tiny town of Orono, Maine. That was a hoot. One doesn't want to be THAT SNOB GUY, but shewt.... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:49am
dçþät:
Rev, you ever been to the "gas station sandwich" place near 9:30? I hear it's bitchin. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:50am
Dave B:
My favorite holiday: www.freewebs.com... |
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![]() well - a restaurant or two...Maybe the substitute DJ's have a particular enthusiam?? Irreverence?... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:52am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
DCP, is that the place that used to be the Jamaican carryout (Tropicana)? ... short answer is no, but there is a "gas station sandwich" place off 14th north of U which *IS* bitchin'... |
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![]() ...on the other hand - I'm pretty sure the sour cream out here in cowland won't be fatal... |
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![]() The worst mexican food i ever had was in new mexico... |
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![]() You sometimes get great ethnic food in weird places. For instance, our town here in the middle of nowhere has an excellent Argentinian ice cream parlour and a superb Armenian restaurant. Meanwhile the best Spanish and Italian restaurants I've ever been to were both in Ireland. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:55am
dçþät:
maybe that's what I'm thinking of...thought it was closer to 9:30. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:55am
dçþät:
some of the best Mex food I ever had was in New Mexico. They have their own version. |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:56am
Rev. Turnip Druid:
True, Caryn. Up there in Maine was a particular town with a huge Somali immigrant population. Wanted to head out there & dig the vittles but never made it... |
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![]() 14th - ! ...One place I lived in Santy Babylon CA - avocado tree in backyard - size of zuccini (SP.??) - plop just like that... |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:58am
dçþät:
fried eggs on top of enchiladas with green sauce....holy shit, what time is it? |
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Wed. 3/20/13 11:58am
Benjamen Walker:
bye all thanks for tuning in... phew |
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![]() Caryn, I've also read that the best Ethiopian restaurants are in Italy. Do you have a lot of Armenians in Finland? RRN63, were they edible? No wonder people keep moving to CA despite all the natural disasters and screwed-up govt. |
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![]() Sure - MexiCali - TexMex... |
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![]() @Ike: not a lot, but there seem to be quite a few right here, as we also have an ethnic food store which imports fresh Armenian sausages etc. |
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![]() Jesus, BW, ya always close yr live comments early, ya bästärd. At least you didn't do it at, like, 11:52 this time. |
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