Post a quote, that could have just been text but instead for some stupid reason is an image, entertain me!

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That just made me smile.

Turns out, 90% of Americans can´t read this poem out loud without messing up. Or so it said where I found it. It´s a tongue twister for sure though! Try it.

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My advice is to give up

I did, about halfway trough. Throw. Through.

I made it all the way to the end!

That could be the best drinking game ever.

I stopped at Terpsichore; I have no idea how that is pronounced.

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easy sunday wrote:

I stopped at Terpsichore; I have no idea how that is pronounced.

It's an alternate spelling for "mercury."

farley3k wrote:

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Apparently, I don't own enough bikes to signal my friends that I'm home.

farley3k wrote:

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Shenanigans! That needs the picture!

easy sunday wrote:

I stopped at Terpsichore; I have no idea how that is pronounced.

Terp-SICK-or-ee

NSMike wrote:
easy sunday wrote:

I stopped at Terpsichore; I have no idea how that is pronounced.

Terp-SICK-or-ee

Who, by the way, was one of the Greek muses, specifically of choral song and dance. Thalia and Melpomene were the Greek muses of theater (comedy and tragedy, respectively). Whenever you see those classic smiling/frowning masks, that's what they originate from.

The other muses were Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (elegiac poetry), Polyhymnia (hymns), and Urania (astronomy).

dhelor wrote:
NSMike wrote:
easy sunday wrote:

I stopped at Terpsichore; I have no idea how that is pronounced.

Terp-SICK-or-ee

Who, by the way, was one of the Greek muses, specifically of choral song and dance. Thalia and Melpomene were the Greek muses of theater (comedy and tragedy, respectively). Whenever you see those classic smiling/frowning masks, that's what they originate from.

The other muses were Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (elegiac poetry), Polyhymnia (hymns), and Urania (astronomy).

Nerd High Five!

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NSMike wrote:
easy sunday wrote:

I stopped at Terpsichore; I have no idea how that is pronounced.

Terp-SICK-or-ee

The hint was the previous line was "trickery," and they rhyme.

NSMike wrote:
dhelor wrote:
NSMike wrote:
easy sunday wrote:

I stopped at Terpsichore; I have no idea how that is pronounced.

Terp-SICK-or-ee

Who, by the way, was one of the Greek muses, specifically of choral song and dance. Thalia and Melpomene were the Greek muses of theater (comedy and tragedy, respectively). Whenever you see those classic smiling/frowning masks, that's what they originate from.

The other muses were Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (elegiac poetry), Polyhymnia (hymns), and Urania (astronomy).

Nerd High Five!

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There is something really sweet about that Nerd High Five, if you leave out the fact that they are clearly doing it in front of some kind of dark green uber-tardis.

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farley3k wrote:

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That's how I found my brother, my friends and my cousins. I would pedal around and look for a gathering of bikes. It would mean the riders were all out in the backyard and out of sight or were climbing some cliff like the maniacs we were.

Query does not rhyme with very,

WTH? Yes it does. Very fun poem.

Vury?

sometimesdee wrote:

Vury?

No, queery.

http://dictionary.reference.com/brow...

But very isn't the same E that's in queer. (which is how I pronounce query: queer-ee.) Very comes out like vair-ee.

The names for vowel sounds have never made sense to me, but I'm pretty sure one is short E, and the other is long. Which is which, though, I couldn't tell you.

Jayhawker wrote:

No, queery.

http://dictionary.reference.com/brow...

There's that homosexual database agenda rearing its head again.

I always said query like it rhymes with very. Merriam-webster lists it as an alternate pronunciation.

BadKen wrote:

I always said query like it rhymes with very. Merriam-Webster lists it as an alternate pronunciation.

Me too, and I'm mystified by this whole kweer-y business. I've heard it kwehr-y, and kwair-y, but almost never kweer-y. I wonder which dialect of US English pronounces it that way?

Archangel wrote:
BadKen wrote:

I always said query like it rhymes with very. Merriam-Webster lists it as an alternate pronunciation.

Me too, and I'm mystified by this whole kweer-y business. I've heard it kwehr-y, and kwair-y, but almost never kweer-y. I wonder which dialect of US English pronounces it that way?

I'll ask my linguistics professor. I'm sure he will have some idea.

I took that test, and it dialed me into St. Louis directly. That was kind of cool.

We all say Kweer-y in the UK

(As far as I know. There may be an isolated area of the east midlands where they've gone their own way pronunciation wise.)

NSMike wrote:
dhelor wrote:
NSMike wrote:
easy sunday wrote:

I stopped at Terpsichore; I have no idea how that is pronounced.

Terp-SICK-or-ee

Who, by the way, was one of the Greek muses, specifically of choral song and dance. Thalia and Melpomene were the Greek muses of theater (comedy and tragedy, respectively). Whenever you see those classic smiling/frowning masks, that's what they originate from.

The other muses were Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (elegiac poetry), Polyhymnia (hymns), and Urania (astronomy).

Nerd High Five!

Mythology has always been a big interest of mine. Too bad there's not much of a market for someone with a degree in such.

On topic:

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Ha! I love that sign and would put that in my house.

BadKen wrote:

I always said query like it rhymes with very. Merriam-webster lists it as an alternate pronunciation.

You pronounce query and quarry the same?

LeapingGnome wrote:
BadKen wrote:

I always said query like it rhymes with very. Merriam-webster lists it as an alternate pronunciation.

You pronounce query and quarry the same?

Wait, how do you pronounce quarry? Because it sure doesn't rhyme with very or queery.

Alcoholic drinks are solutions. Alcohol itself, by itself, is not.

LarryC wrote:

Alcoholic drinks are solutions. Alcohol itself, by itself, is not.

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