A Bit O’ This & A Bit O’ That

Pretty productive morning.

Got a package sent off to the winning eBay bidder in Virginia — his prize a pair of Justin camel/elkskin boots I’ve had for 20 years and worn maybe four times during that period.
Got a haircut, while Susan got our grocery shopping done.
Went to see a matinee of “Indiana Jones” and it was okay in a shoulder-shruggy way. Having Indy pronounce “nuclear” as “noo-kyoo-lur” and have Shia TheBeef’s first appearance onscreen be in a total ripoff of Marlon Brando’s character in “The Wild One” did nothing to endear the film to me, but the action sequences rocked.

And when we got home I rescued a grasshopper that I suspect Pepper of bringing inside. The thing wound up in the space between the stove and counter and I somehow managed to shepherd it into a paper bag that I then used to carry outside for its release on the fence where it proved to be in no hurry to get anywhere in particular so I grabbed the cam and got some up-close shots of it, like this one that’s clickably biggifiable, of course:

5 Responses to “ A Bit O’ This & A Bit O’ That ”

Comments:

Alex Thompson says:
May 24th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

Hey!

People from the big middle of North America often pronounce “nuclear” that way, including me. Didn’t Indiana spend some time in Utah? Maybe it was just good acting.

I can also read nuclear physics, so that means I get to pronounce it however I want.

Will says:
May 25th, 2008 at 6:30 am

Alex, my noo-klee-urrr powered, boundlessly energetic comrade, regional dialects don’t excuse it from being incorrect. Certainly you’re allowed to pronounce it however you like just as I’m allowed to call bullshit on it.

Let’s blame it on Duh-bya and call it a draw, shall we? Because there’s no way in hell after spending near eight years with a blue-blooded faux cowpoke in the White House who couldn’t pronounce “nuclear” correctly if he wanted to that I’ll consider “noo-kyoo-lur” anything but an ignorant and obstinate mispronunciation.

Alex Thompson says:
May 25th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

No! (stamps foot) I was pronouncing nuclear that way before George the first was even in the White House.

Me and some Ridazz are going to setup a deadfall on the Ballona Creek path, catch you, and then drop you off in Perth, Manila, Dublin, or the middle of Louisiana. “Son, you shure do talk funny . . . now git me my gatorskins!”

[sic]