tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55830807767176233.post356488967612024770..comments2023-08-12T07:55:06.441-04:00Comments on Rhymes with Javelin: Because the next one you scroll to is a downerS.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06957943262402999997noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55830807767176233.post-47763747073829991772007-06-14T17:49:00.000-04:002007-06-14T17:49:00.000-04:00(un)relaxeddad, yes!(un)relaxeddad, yes!S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957943262402999997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55830807767176233.post-44179885335030665622007-06-14T17:19:00.000-04:002007-06-14T17:19:00.000-04:00Seriously? Mind you dudelet this morning told us ...Seriously? Mind you dudelet this morning told us that he was "going to Silvia's [the childminder] with a pocket full of rubbers." <BR/><BR/>(Does this actually translate if you don't know that the Queen's English for 'eraser' is 'rubber'? Though I'm sure you do)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55830807767176233.post-91660001801799528782007-06-13T21:01:00.000-04:002007-06-13T21:01:00.000-04:00Susan, I love the remembering slips! It sounds bo...Susan, I love the remembering slips! It sounds both magical and Freudian.<BR/><BR/>The monstrosity is also funny.<BR/><BR/>Phantom, is there a relationship b/t a bakerary and a dromedary?<BR/><BR/>Niobe, my family nickname was Shosh, which didn't stand for anything, but commemorated a younger sibling pronouncing to an adult friend of the family "My sisser's name is Shysha but I just call her Shosh." (I'll let you know if I get googled on either of those names.)<BR/><BR/>Lo, hotblows make perfect sense.S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957943262402999997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55830807767176233.post-85125474481644183022007-06-13T18:44:00.000-04:002007-06-13T18:44:00.000-04:00Two family faves: "Bubar" was my childhood word fo...Two family faves: "Bubar" was my childhood word for garbage (who knows, I can't begin to imagine the etiology) and we used the word my whole childhood and young adulthood and...now. My sister was in high school before she knew it wasn't English.<BR/><BR/>We called Morningstar Farms fake sausages "hotblows"; my mom made them for us fairly often, and they were hot when served, so she told us to blow on them...Lohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10507793708832982682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55830807767176233.post-82970304983990741882007-06-13T15:43:00.000-04:002007-06-13T15:43:00.000-04:00Our nickname for my sister was WLE (pronounced lik...Our nickname for my sister was WLE (pronounced like Willa). <BR/><BR/>It was short for Wicked Little Elf.niobehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10685766216611639434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55830807767176233.post-6611314786902502062007-06-13T13:25:00.000-04:002007-06-13T13:25:00.000-04:00Bakerary, for the local bakery. That's my favorit...Bakerary, for the local bakery. That's my favorite. Though I will be very sad the day LG finally figures out that it's the "World Series" and not the "World Serious."<BR/><BR/>Also: laughing. Sometimes a closet is just a closet, eh?Phantom Scribblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03258384756183844406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55830807767176233.post-31198611227270237522007-06-13T11:16:00.000-04:002007-06-13T11:16:00.000-04:00"remembering slip" for bookmark (lately turned int..."remembering slip" for bookmark (lately turned into "remembering stick" because Curious Girl made us each remembering slips from popsicle sticks last week)<BR/><BR/>"food on" for toothpick (used as a noun, as in "can you get me a food on?"<BR/><BR/>from my growing up: "I love you bup bup," which is a saying I invented and which is now used by my neices and by CG.<BR/><BR/>and "monstrosity" for playpen (I was about 18 when I realized other people just called them play pens....we had what was I suppose a big one in my grandmother's living room when I was small enough to use it, and that's all anyone called it. The monstrosity. I still remember the day I surprised my mother and grandmother in the kitchen and they said, "Oh, I didn't know you could climb out of the monstrosity by yourself!"susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12000470374101306070noreply@blogger.com