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Old 05-12-2010, 09:26 AM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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Once had a director from Rhode Island...First time working with her, she told a fellow actor to "stand over there next to her-ah", and to me she said, "and you can stand next to her-ah." Both times, she indicated a different female, confusing all of us. But we followed her direction...By the third rehearsal, we were at our wits' end, trying to figure out how there could be so many women in the cast named, "Herah", and three of us, simultaneously, said, "Who's Herah?"

We knew full well that she she could end a word with an "R", because she called her daughter Angeler.
My late MIL was from Maine. She pahked her cah, and she ate cahn for dinner, but her daughter's name was Donner.

 
Old 05-12-2010, 12:02 PM
 
Location: Kingdom of Corn
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My late MIL was from Maine. She pahked her cah, and she ate cahn for dinner, but her daughter's name was Donner.
Please, please tell me your husband's name isn't Blitzen .....
 
Old 05-12-2010, 12:19 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Click and Clack often refer to Dawner and her Dawdge Dat.
 
Old 05-14-2010, 11:51 AM
 
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Just came back from picking up a couple of slices of pizza, and I noticed that there was a new organic lunch place next door.

Stopped to check out the menu. They have "Smocked Salmon".

Would that be considered dressing?
 
Old 05-14-2010, 11:58 AM
 
Location: On this planet most of the time
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When I worked in the travel industry I constantly heard people call O'Hare airport called O'Hara. I never corrected them though because I knew what they were talking about.
 
Old 05-16-2010, 07:23 AM
 
Location: In a chartreuse microbus
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Just came back from picking up a couple of slices of pizza, and I noticed that there was a new organic lunch place next door.

Stopped to check out the menu. They have "Smocked Salmon".

Would that be considered dressing?
A slight cover up, perhaps.
 
Old 05-18-2010, 01:34 AM
 
Location: Kingdom of Corn
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One of my favorites was one of those 3-line signs at a gas station. "Diesel", they proudly proclaimed. On the line directly below was "showers". A little harsh on the skin, one would think.
 
Old 05-23-2010, 05:41 PM
 
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH.

I just spied a real live "for all intensive purposes" on one of the General Forum threads!
 
Old 05-24-2010, 05:53 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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Not long ago, there was a local supermarket that put up a poster in the window proclaiming:

CHICKEN LEG
w/THING


Not exactly the most appetizing imagery, I thought.
 
Old 05-24-2010, 06:10 AM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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I posted this on another thread, but works here as well.

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