Hey, I said it was regional, not right!
Anyway, I think the thing on my pants was a water spot, and I did make it worse. Greeeaaaat.
Wesley: Illyria can be...difficult. Testing her might be hard without getting someone seriously hurt. Angel: We'll make Spike do it. Wesley: Good.
'Underneath'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jul 08, 2007 4:54:35 pm PDT #7052 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Monique - Jul 08, 2007 5:06:32 pm PDT #7053 of 10001
I say An-tee, as do all of my Midwestern-raised relatives.
Midwesterner checking in to back up Robin on the An-tee.
I have pimped The Book at Whedonesque, and lured my mother-in-law into reading it. It's been a full weekend.
sarameg - Jul 08, 2007 5:14:03 pm PDT #7054 of 10001
I say An-tee, as do all of my Midwestern-raised relatives.
Ohntee from this product of midwesterners. Of course, there's some recent immigrant mixed in there. But given the non-immigrant Minnesotans make up the most aunties....Maybe sw Mn and SD are a bit different.
sumi - Jul 08, 2007 5:15:22 pm PDT #7055 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I mostly find Nadal annoying but he plays so well and today's match was a total nail biter.
And check out the BBC's amusing commentary on the Murray/Jankovic vs. Bjorkman/Molik mixed doubles finals.
Hil R. - Jul 08, 2007 5:15:26 pm PDT #7056 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
New Yorker, child of one New Yorker and one New Englander here. I generally say an-tee, but sometimes switch over to ahn-tee without really noticing. Same thing with bath and bahth.
Cashmere - Jul 08, 2007 5:21:15 pm PDT #7057 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I just say Aunt ____. I've never used "Auntie."
JenP - Jul 08, 2007 5:21:27 pm PDT #7058 of 10001
Non-mid-westerner, also pronounce it an-tee.
Our B&N is way the hell over yonder, so I can't go check it out until Wednesday. Am saddened by this. But, it's only a couple of days; I can tough it out. I was going to try to go today, but that didn't pan out at all.
Yikes. I have to throw a load of laundry in tonight, or things will not be pretty tomorrow.
ETA: Well, OK, I also say Aunt ____ like Cash. If I did say Auntie, it'd be an-tee.
ETAA: I sort of adore the "How do you pronounce X?" roll calls. It's very... comforting isn't the right word, but it's something like that.
Hil R. - Jul 08, 2007 5:27:42 pm PDT #7059 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just say Aunt ____. I've never used "Auntie."
I say "Auntie" for the aunts on my mom's side of the family (the New Englanders), and "Aunt" for my dad's side (the New Yorkers.)
DavidS - Jul 08, 2007 5:58:11 pm PDT #7060 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Or does Boston actually lack restaurants that cater to vegans?
Well, Jen would be our resource on that question.
I don't know if there's a vegan-only restaurant, but there are plenty of good options where you can eat vegan. We ate at Dali's (the best tapas place I've ever been to) in Boston and Jen had many non-animal-exploiting dishes.
Also Indian and Thai are easy to get without vegan issues.
DavidS - Jul 08, 2007 5:59:21 pm PDT #7061 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Lovely hearing the updates on Grace and Auntie paperdol. I'm almost glad (not quite) that Matilda had her one day in the NICU so I can imagine the scene.