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Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:51 pm

That's more like it!

To me calling your friend's mom 'Mom' is totally weird and embarrassing. far more than using a first name!

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:51 pm

Doc still ends up saying sir and ma'am to almost everyone he meets. He was just raised a good ole' country boy in Nashville though.

'Round these parts, we's just all goin' by our giv'n names.

StrictTime · Post by **StrictTime** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:28 pm

Otis Westinghouse wrote:To me calling your friend's mom 'Mom' is totally weird and embarrassing. far more than using a first name!

Needless to say, I'm really close with that family. I dated said friend for about two months and spent more time over their house than I did my own. Luckily, we're still the best of friends, and things didn't get awkward and such. But, yeah, I'll grant it's probably weird. I call my other friend's grandmother 'Grandma' too....weirder still?

I'm a Northerner (of the US) and I still use Sir and Ma'am....I say y'all too. I have a variety of different slang sets I use. I'm also fond of the expression 'the bees knees.' Sometimes I say 'Agmemnon (sp) eats toast' when I'm exasperated. Who knows where I got that...

And back to homework.....Oedipus, catalase, synthetic division, colliquial (sp) spanish, and Teddy Roosevelt....anyone use these things in their life journey yet?

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:17 pm

and she asked me to call her Debbie

the hell she did.

No grown woman wants to be called Debbie. Trust me, I know.

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:19 pm

Several of my kids friends call me mom, so according to everyone here, I suppose that's weird.

It wouldn't be the first time I got called weird.

Debbie might not be the best name ever, but Deb works.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:26 pm

No grown woman wants to be called Debbie

Debbie Reynolds?
Debbie Harry ?

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:41 pm

I'm sure Debbie Reynolds is fine with it. Debbie Harry, maybe not so much.

But "deb"! There is a name with symmetry! With grace! Easy to spell!

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:33 am

At the handsome age of 41 I'm finally going to take a driving course and (hopefully) get the driving licence.

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:17 am

You can do it! Although it is wise to remember that with the freedom of driving also comes insurance, car notes, speeding tickets, parking fines, people wanting rides, and innumerable other headaches. But enough negativity- go Pole!

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:38 am

44, can't drive. Never had a lesson.

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:52 am

Your president needs to get his priorities straight:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/03/ ... index.html

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:04 pm

Our president needs to move out of the White House.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:07 pm

BlueChair wrote:Your president needs to get his priorities straight:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/03/ ... index.html

Come on Blue! He's a busy man. There's a lot of brush to clear down on his ranch.

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:46 pm

mood swung wrote:
I spread it around...

anybody else seized with a sudden urge to sing Little Willy?

anybody?

North side, east side
Little Willy, Willy wears the crown, he's the king around town
Dancing, glancing
Willy drives them silly with his star shoe shimmy shuffle down
Way past one, and feeling alright
'Cause with little Willy round they can last all night
Hey down, stay down, stay down down

'Cause little Willy, Willy won't go home
But you can't push Willy round
Willy won't go, try tellin' everybody but, oh no
Little Willy, Willy won't go home

I miss AM radio.

I have never tired of this song - and here they are:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x3XGjnQgsJA& ... ed&search=

and I work with a woman named Debra Reynolds - don't even think about calling her Debbie.

StrictTime · Post by **StrictTime** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:33 pm

It was totally Debbie. I prefer Deb myself, but to each their own. I don't drive, at seventeen, which isn't too strange, I guess. I walk everywhere.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:24 pm

...Oh Debora, you look like a zebra
Your sunken face is like a galleon
Clawed with mysteries of the Spanish Main, oh Debora...

debbie · Post by **debbie** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:58 pm

Iâ€™m a â€˜grown womanâ€™ (at least I hope Iâ€™m not gonna get any bigger) and I call myself Debbie - Deb is a bit short (and not half as symetrical as dib or dob) and Debra just reminds me of being at school, getting told off and having to write hundreds of lines:
â€œI will not play the fool in classâ€

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:59 pm

Well, debbie, you sound lovely. Hang around and have some fun.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:36 pm

Debbies of the world unite!

(and I am not going all Paris Hilton here. It's my name too - just add a syllable and an H. I never thought of a better one for me, so it stands. I do insist I was adopted, however).

BWAP, YOU are the youtube master! Great stuff.

Mike Boom, that Reynolds wrap is going to your head.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:03 am

"Your name was Deborah, Deborah
It never suited ya"

Post by **BlueChair** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:07 am

Yawn.

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:48 pm

Oh Shirley, Oh Deborah, Oh Julie, Oh Jane
I wrote so many songs about you
I forget your name

StrictTime · Post by **StrictTime** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:37 pm

The SATs seemed easy......really easy. I'm hoping not deceptively so. If I did well, you will all know, and if I didn't, you'll never hear about it again. Cause if I did well......everyone's gonna know. Even though it doesn't mean too much. Damn, I'm tired.

Edited to say: I won a t-shirt! That totally made my day. I've wanted a mental_floss shirt, and now I shall have one. *dances*

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:24 pm

I won a Freakonomics shirt once. It was freakishly small. I'm sure you did well on your SAT.

StrictTime · Post by **StrictTime** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:19 pm

Heheh. I got a medium, which should suffice. And the crazy Random Thoughts over-poster strikes again. My baby brother turns 14 today. I'm freaking out, he's supposed to be 10 forever!

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Re: just to bring back the Willies

yes, please