CommonFreddy Woo writes, "My wife thinks calling the front room a lounge is common. Worse, a friend of hers recently admonished her daughter for calling a toilet, a toilet. Lavatory darling. It's lavatory."
My own mother refused to let me use the word 'oblong' instead of 'rectangle'. Which is just odd, to be honest.
What stuff do you think is common?
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chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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I get what you meanIf you're going to choose a pantheon, it's not like bloody fusion cooking.
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jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:16,
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Exactly!I always saw it that if you're not a Druid or practicing classical Greek, Roman or Egyptian religion, you should leave the God and Goddess unnamed- or else assign them their own names.
Actually, I kinda like the idea of calling them Fred and Wilma.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:24,
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I don't bother with the eternal verities too much at the momentI just keep a piece of amethyst with me at all times for some reason I have yet to figure out, but there we are. Still jealous of you seeing the sidhe though! Incidentally, Fred and Wilma- bloody good idea.
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jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:28,
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The sidhewas a very strange experience. I'm still trying to figure that one out.
Apparently there's a kind of firefly called a "blue ghost" that behaves like what I saw- but they're very rare, and only live in one small area in the southern US. What they would be doing in the Adirondack Mountains is beyond me.
The last time I saw them up there I was standing at the edge of a swamp. As I stood there a tiny blue pinpoint of light appeared less than three feet from my foot, and very slowly moved across the ground. I watched it for about five minutes, and so did my girlfriend.
Very strange and wonderful.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:44,
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