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Ayreonaut · #**2321** Posted **Nov 17, 2011, 12:30 AM**

I'm thinking of adding eggnog to an Irish Carbomb. It could be delicious, and I could call it a Christmas Carbomb.

rockyi · #**2322** Posted **Nov 17, 2011, 12:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

That's my friend's fiance. She has me beat in cynicism and negativity by a mile.

Is that even possible?

Ayreonaut · #**2323** Posted **Nov 17, 2011, 12:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by rockyi

Is that even possible?

It's not. He's just too negative to believe he has anyone beat at anything.

mobyhead · #**2324** Posted **Nov 17, 2011, 1:13 AM**

@ Buckeye. The very last frame of that video the fire is outlined like a smiley face or jack-o-lantern

Cleveland Brown · #**2325** Posted **Nov 17, 2011, 1:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by vid

Detroit's TV stations have the largest Canadian audience due to the proximity to Canada, so they're the ones our cable companies broadcast nationwide to give us American channels on the Eastern schedule. FOX Rochester is aired in Canada because it was agreed by the people in charge of Shaw Cable in the early 90s that it had a better schedule than the other lower Great Lakes Fox affiliates.

Canadian cable companies can air, free of charge, any local American tv channel, as long as they simsub the Canadian channel over it when they're both airing the same programme. This is why Canadians get Peachtree TV instead of TBS.

I'm sorry I can only imagine that watching Detroit local news during the 1980s and early 1990s made some of your compatriots super-paranoid.

Centropolis · #**2326** Posted **Nov 17, 2011, 4:18 AM**

do they have to add silent vowels and redundant consonants unto on screen verbage so canadian viewers arent confused? /:c .

LMich · #**2327** Posted **Nov 17, 2011, 7:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

...and I could call it a Christmas Carbomb.

And, you could also get a visit from your friendly neighbors, the American Department of Homeland Security. lol

Robert Pence · #**2328** Posted **Nov 17, 2011, 1:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by Centropolis

Cincy and St. Louis are practically doppelgangers. You have this heavy duty brooding Germanic, industrial, easternish influence as an island in a sea of rural lower midwestern and upper southern influences, and some stuff crosses over. Many failed farmer white folks (who also were often of German decent like part of my family) also migrated north into St. Louis from the Ozarks just like Kentuckians into Ohio and probably mashed up their accents and ways of saying things into the nasally great lakesish accent. I also think it depends on if you are from the Northside, Southside, or Central Corridor in St. Louis. I think historically, the Northside and Central are more purely Great Lakesy in accent, and sometimes almost Northeastern, but that's probably dying out.

I was called out for saying "worsh" (not "warsh") when I was in college in western Missouri by some rednecky dorm mates believe it or not.

I've encountered words like "warsh" in the Appalachian part of Pennsylvania, and my grandmother, whose family came to Indiana from Berks County, PA, near Reading, where the German/Swiss dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch was prevalent, said "warsh" and used some of the old regional words like "poke" for bag or purse and "bumbershoot" for umbrella. Oh -- after you warsh something, you wrench (rinse) it. A lot of the families in that area (Bluffton, Berne, & Decatur, Indiana) came from that same general vicinity and in the fifties and into the early sixties the older people still used those terms.

Centropolis · #**2329** Posted **Nov 17, 2011, 1:38 PM**

My grandmother would go " trade" instead of shop. My dad is old enough to be my grandfather so I probably picked up a a lot of older ways of speaking. His father was also in his 40s when he was born.

vid · #**2330** Posted **Nov 17, 2011, 11:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

I'm sorry I can only imagine that watching Detroit local news during the 1980s and early 1990s made some of your compatriots super-paranoid.

Yes, it did. A lot of people actually blame our crime problem on Detroit TV being broadcast here in the 1990s. It's absurd.

rockyi · #**2331** Posted **Nov 18, 2011, 12:14 AM**

My relatives from Minnesota like to throw in a "holy buckets" or "holy balls" at various points in their verbal dialogue.

vid · #**2332** Posted **Nov 18, 2011, 1:20 AM**

Does anyone down there say "Jesus H. Murphy"?

rockyi · #**2333** Posted **Nov 18, 2011, 2:10 AM**

I don't think I've heard that one.

vid · #**2334** Posted **Nov 18, 2011, 2:19 AM**

My dad says it a lot. I think it is more of a Manitoba thing.

Ayreonaut · #**2335** Posted **Nov 18, 2011, 3:03 AM**

I've heard "Jesus H. Christ" and "Jesus Murphy", but I'm not sure if I've heard the H included in the latter.

rockyi · #**2336** Posted **Nov 18, 2011, 4:01 AM**

Yeah, I've heard Jesus H. Christ but not Murphy.

Cleveland Brown · #**2337** Posted **Nov 18, 2011, 4:57 AM**

I get an entire two-years to fulfill my CLE duties and here I am trying to do them all in the last two months of the bi-annual reporting period. Shit! 9 down only 15 more credit hours to go before December 31... or else the bar disciplinary authorities will suspended me from the practice of law (and fine me) until I'm in compliance. I have no disciplinary record and I intend to keep it that way.

And darn you Ohio - only 6 credit hours can be earned during self-study (i.e. online). I guess I'll do the mandatory bi-annual professionalism, ethics, and substance abuse lectures online while knocking back a few cold ones and snorting a line of blow (jk).

Buckeye Native 001 · #**2338** Posted **Nov 18, 2011, 6:24 AM**

We're holding a two-day seminar on sentencing alternatives later this month and giving 12 hours of CLE and COJET credit hours to lawyers and judges in attendance.

So, if you want to come out to Flagstaff in late November...

mobyhead · #**2339** Posted **Nov 18, 2011, 1:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

I get an entire two-years to fulfill my CLE duties and here I am trying to do them all in the last two months of the bi-annual reporting period. Shit! 9 down only 15 more credit hours to go before December 31... or else the bar disciplinary authorities will suspended me from the practice of law (and fine me) until I'm in compliance. I have no disciplinary record and I intend to keep it that way.

And darn you Ohio - only 6 credit hours can be earned during self-study (i.e. online). I guess I'll do the mandatory bi-annual professionalism, ethics, and substance abuse lectures online while knocking back a few cold ones and snorting a line of blow (jk).

I track CPE for our accountants at work. We are at the end of the 3-year reporting cycle. They are going balls out with classes this month to get caught up. I feel you.

Cleveland Brown · #**2340** Posted **Nov 18, 2011, 2:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

We're holding a two-day seminar on sentencing alternatives later this month and giving 12 hours of CLE and COJET credit hours to lawyers and judges in attendance.

So, if you want to come out to Flagstaff in late November...

I would seriously consider it, but Ohio makes it difficult to get credit for programs that are not pre-approved or that are earned in other states.