Comments on: 434: Of Breasts And Self-Examination

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:10:35 +0000

also you can see the effect in the lack of posts... where there used to be 150 comments... now you've got only 37? after a week?

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By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:19:09 +0000

When are the posts going to get more consistent again? The last two months have been sporadic hit and miss. Even now its been a week since the last post at least - we need our fix!

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By: AlexandraErin

AlexandraErin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:28:50 +0000

Ha! Didn't even think of that.

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By: Brenda

Brenda — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:17:28 +0000

"icicle" might not be the best example, unless you want a word with both a long AND a short "i"...

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By: AlexandraErin

AlexandraErin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:15:38 +0000

She's saying it so that it sounds (sort of) like "'cause I say so".

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By: tigr

tigr — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:06:44 +0000

Hiya, I *still* don't get the joke -- maybe it has to do with me not being native english speaking? But anyway, would someone please be so kind as to explain it to me? Thanks!! t~

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By: AlexandraErin

AlexandraErin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:23 +0000

…I just groaned with my SPINE. Yeah... I get that a lot when I'm punning.

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By: AlexandraErin

AlexandraErin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:58:51 +0000

Future reference is going to be the same as past reference, I'm afraid, as your information is incorrect. "Eel" is a "long e" sound, actually. A "long i" sounds exactly like the word "eye", or the pronoun "I"... in other words, how we pronounce the letter "i" all by itself. It's the "i" in "ice" and (ETA: at the start of) "icicle".

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By: Siji

Siji — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:13:00 +0000

Hi I’m Siji! You may remember me from such stellar comments as “Amaranth is an idiot”, and “Mackenzie is a spineless git”

Alright what’s all this, Steff has a new body? Sheesh, I leave for a few (okay, several) months and Steff gets a new body, Mackenzie FINALLY admits Amaranth is her girlfriend. “…sheltered and naive in my own way”? Oh honey, you’re just sheltered and naive, period. Wake up and smell the sex already. What an Epic Noob. Phrases like “she was an individual girl” are the stuff of legends. Glad (or sad?) to see she at least hasn’t changed that much.

Steff also seems to have Amaranth pegged. (Yes, in every sense of the word ). I know I haven’t been around recently but in my experience, everything that comes out of Amaranth’s mouth DOES sound like what a hippy farm girl (especially one that thinks she knows it all) would say. No offence to the hippy farm girls out there, I realise Amaranth can be amazingly brainless on occasion :-/

Aaand, I’d like to say I’m missing the whole boobage/quasi-element joke. First I’m not even sure which of them is supposed to be pronouncing quasi with a long i and when imagine both of them doing it, they just sound like a pair of dorks mispronouncing a word. No joke there :-S (I skimmed it, donchaknow)

Okay so i read a bit more and I got it. Can’t be arsed with deleting the above now. For future reference, a long i sounds like eeeee as in eel, and a short i is well, short, as in ink. I was imagining her pronouncing it like Kwazeeee. I suppose American pronounciation might be different, but even with the pun, it’s still a short i: The i in Kwazi is as short a sound as in Kwazai

And that right there is my cue that i’m overanalysing an obvious joke. I’ll get my coat. See you in another several months!

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By: Reid

Reid — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:35:29 +0000

...I just groaned with my SPINE. That joke... *shudders* I kept stopping at each line, looking for the joke, and then I got to it... I would have banged my head on the desk, but there's not an uncovered part that isn't a sharp corner. In short, you are AWFUL. By which I mean AMAZING.

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