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Post by helenabear on Nov 2, 2024 21:09:36 GMT -5
I'm spending my time with the cats and pouring over comptroller stuff for PVB. Do they help you by walking on the keyboard and stuff? Back in the day when we had CRT monitors, I had a cat that liked to sit on top of the monitor sometimes. No, my cat wants to sit on my lap... I only use laptops so that makes it fun. I gave up at one point and let her just sleep on my lap for 30 minutes. I got tired of trying to do it all with her head all nuzzled into my hand. I think my laptop isn't big enough for her. I think she totally would have loved a CRT if she had been around for them. She's such a pushy little cutie with how much she needs love and warmth. I did get caught up on the PVB numbers though. Just took longer. I didn't feel like doing a whole lot. Last night was cold and I just wanted to feel warmth today. |
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Post by helenabear on Nov 3, 2024 9:45:34 GMT -5
Years ago, wife got me this sign:  and it still sits on my desk. I'm reading a forum article just now about car brakes and the guy writing his question used the word "breaks" and "peddle" (as in, peddle went to the floor) in the very beginning of the question, and I just had to close my eyes and take a minute. Just thinking about this post this morning. One of my pet peeves is seeing Bay Lake Towers or Baylake Towers written out. Now I am seeing Towers at Polynesian. People, there is only 1 tower at each place. And Bay Lake is 2 words. These stand out to me as I read word shapes more than anything and adding the S makes a difference. As does mushing Bay Lake together. There's my teeny rant of the day. |
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Post by johnb on Nov 3, 2024 11:37:28 GMT -5
Years ago, wife got me this sign: and it still sits on my desk. I'm reading a forum article just now about car brakes and the guy writing his question used the word "breaks" and "peddle" (as in, peddle went to the floor) in the very beginning of the question, and I just had to close my eyes and take a minute. Just thinking about this post this morning. One of my pet peeves is seeing Bay Lake Towers or Baylake Towers written out. Now I am seeing Towers at Polynesian. People, there is only 1 tower at each place. And Bay Lake is 2 words. These stand out to me as I read word shapes more than anything and adding the S makes a difference. As does mushing Bay Lake together. There's my teeny rant of the day. I'm guessing it's because I'm in somewhat of a Disney bubble online, so it's probably everywhere, but Disney forum users have a knack for misspelling what is right in front of them. Bay Lake Tower. Easy. 'Ohana. Easy. Skipper Canteen. Easy. But we get Baylake, O'Hana's and Skipper's... |
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Post by helenabear on Nov 3, 2024 13:21:41 GMT -5
Just thinking about this post this morning. One of my pet peeves is seeing Bay Lake Towers or Baylake Towers written out. Now I am seeing Towers at Polynesian. People, there is only 1 tower at each place. And Bay Lake is 2 words. These stand out to me as I read word shapes more than anything and adding the S makes a difference. As does mushing Bay Lake together. There's my teeny rant of the day. I'm guessing it's because I'm in somewhat of a Disney bubble online, so it's probably everywhere, but Disney forum users have a knack for misspelling what is right in front of them. Bay Lake Tower. Easy. 'Ohana. Easy. Skipper Canteen. Easy. But we get Baylake, O'Hana's and Skipper's... I'm being silly here, but what about the people who own at Bay Lake and call it Baylake Towers?  I see it all the time with 'Ohana too and know what you mean. Midwesterners are notorious for putting possessive on the end of thing Meijer's Kroger's etc... now had they done the 's I would have been right at home.  |
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Post by johnb on Nov 3, 2024 15:38:34 GMT -5
I'm guessing it's because I'm in somewhat of a Disney bubble online, so it's probably everywhere, but Disney forum users have a knack for misspelling what is right in front of them. Bay Lake Tower. Easy. 'Ohana. Easy. Skipper Canteen. Easy. But we get Baylake, O'Hana's and Skipper's... I'm being silly here, but what about the people who own at Bay Lake and call it Baylake Towers?  I see it all the time with 'Ohana too and know what you mean. Midwesterners are notorious for putting possessive on the end of thing Meijer's Kroger's etc... now had they done the 's I would have been right at home.  My mother says "Krogers" and when she does, I ask her, "Did you go to more than one?"  My most recent word pet peeve is the misuse of yourself/myself, as in, "Tom and myself are headed to Epcot today." Nails on a chalkboard. |
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Post by brp on Nov 3, 2024 17:38:45 GMT -5
I do that here, and other forums, all the time. Much incorrect grammar here that I correct in my head. I'm not going to pretend that I'm immaculate in my grammar here on the board; I treat it more like casual conversation - a digital version of all of us talking over coffee. But some of the stuff I see while trawling the web...holy smokes. Even here, it's pretty atrocious at times. The meaning is clear, which is what matters, but it's the kind of thing that makes me cringe, whether written or in conversation. It is what it is.
Cheers.
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Post by brp on Nov 3, 2024 17:40:09 GMT -5
I'm being silly here, but what about the people who own at Bay Lake and call it Baylake Towers? I see it all the time with 'Ohana too and know what you mean. Midwesterners are notorious for putting possessive on the end of thing Meijer's Kroger's etc... now had they done the 's I would have been right at home. My mother says "Krogers" and when she does, I ask her, "Did you go to more than one?" My most recent word pet peeve is the misuse of yourself/myself, as in, "Tom and myself are headed to Epcot today." Nails on a chalkboard. For me, one I see here very often, is the use of "I" instead of "me" in the direct object. "That was the best option for my wife and I." Ahhhhhhh!!!!
"Your" instead of "you're" and apostrophe's on plural's are common here as well.
Cheers.
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Nov 3, 2024 18:44:08 GMT -5
I went to Target today (or is that Target's? hee hee to be honest I can't think of a single 's I add to anything around here, except maybe Menard's or Lowe's but those are correct. I will say there is a grocery store I refer to as "Barlow's" even though it hasn't been Barlow's for years, but the 's is correct on that one, too). I needed beef stock as my wife got it in her head that I needed to make Salisbury steak from scratch. Since Halloween is two or three days behind us, I got to hear Dean Martin sing "I'll be Home for Christmas" to me over the Target speakers. So while working in the kitchen - which is still in the garage - I fired up some nice xmas music so that was a good time. Maybe I'm getting older, but I used to get so mad that it went from Halloween to Christmas, skipping my beloved Thanksgiving. Oh well, Christmas music is part of Thanksgiving I guess is how I should look at it.
No snow yet though.
I went through a phase where I was all Dean Martin, all the time. Maybe five years ago I brought a picture to my hair lady of an older Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in a golf cart, as inspiration. She had no clue who Dean Martin was. No clue who Frank Sinatra was, either, although she knew the name when I said it. Oh well, what do you do. Young people like different stuff.
This reminds me what I was thinking yesterday - I have taken to enjoying the song "Roundabout" by Yes and was wondering if I had any Yes albums. I suspect the answer is "maybe" but just as easily "maybe not". Back when I was like 18 or 20, nobody cared about vinyl and there was a record shop in my town where I could flip through bins and bins of records for ten cents. Mint stuff was 33 or 50 cents. I kick myself thinking about the million or so times the 18-year-old me flew by classics when I could have brought them home for 10 cents. But at least I walked out with armloads of stuff on a regular basis.
Now you go to Goodwill and people have "Sing Along with Mitch" style records for four bucks...whatever
Regarding the Salisbury steak - I gave it a grade of "marginally adequate" and wife thought it was great. Meatloaf patties in a mushroom gravy, I went heavy on the mushroom and she loved it.
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Nov 3, 2024 18:44:52 GMT -5
and apostrophe's on plural's lol |
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Post by helenabear on Nov 3, 2024 19:41:15 GMT -5
My mother says "Krogers" and when she does, I ask her, "Did you go to more than one?" My most recent word pet peeve is the misuse of yourself/myself, as in, "Tom and myself are headed to Epcot today." Nails on a chalkboard. For me, one I see here very often, is the use of "I" instead of "me" in the direct object. "That was the best option for my wife and I." Ahhhhhhh!!!! "Your" instead of "you're" and apostrophe's on plural's are common here as well.
Cheers. Sometimes I get lazy and use voice to text because my spelling is absolutely atrocious due to being dyslexic. I get mad at my voice to text for messing up and using the wrong you're or your etc It consistently cannot get my spouse's name right either. That's far more annoying since it comes up with about four different ways to spell his name that isn't even close to his own real name when I try and say it. |
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Post by M2JRA on Nov 4, 2024 9:10:32 GMT -5
Catching up and wanted to add....
One of my "irritating misuse/misspelling of Disney terms" is Olga's instead of Oga's (Cantina). Grates on me every time!
WRT Adelard's note about the hairdresser not knowing Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra, this: about 20 years ago when my first two DDs were toddlers we were living in a suburb of Houston. It was very popular there to put out these wooden cutouts as decorations at the holidays. The best way I can describe them is to imagine those cutouts at carnivals and festivals where you can stand behind it and there's a hole for your face and someone in front takes your picture -- I hope you kwim. So these decoration ones obv don't have a hole in them, but they are mdf or similar, cut into shape and painted and then they stand up to be seen from the road. Very fun and festive and easy to set up. So my DH made a set of the Charlie Brown characters from the Great Pumpkin special in their trick-or-treat costumes. You know the scenes in the cartoon where the kids (most of them ghosts, Charlie's costume has eye holes cut all over it, Pigpen's is in a cloud of dust, etc.) go door to door and Charlie keeps getting rocks. They are almost life-sized and we have put them out every year. Families in our neighboorhood say it isn't Halloween until they see our Peanuts characters come out, lol. Anyway, this year we had a little boy (maybe 6?) come to the house as Snoopy and I was so excited to see him and was asking how he liked his friends on the lawn and did his parents want to take a picture with them, etc. He had NO IDEA what I was talking about. The more I tried to explain the more confused he got (I lowkey probably freaked him out a little, oops). Anyway it made me kinda sad and I realized most kids today don't know what these even are anymore. We do still get a lot of adults who comment that they love them, though.
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Post by brp on Nov 4, 2024 9:26:08 GMT -5
WRT Adelard's note about the hairdresser not knowing Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra, this: about 20 years ago when my first two DDs were toddlers we were living in a suburb of Houston. It was very popular there to put out these wooden cutouts as decorations at the holidays. The best way I can describe them is to imagine those cutouts at carnivals and festivals where you can stand behind it and there's a hole for your face and someone in front takes your picture -- I hope you kwim. So these decoration ones obv don't have a hole in them, but they are mdf or similar, cut into shape and painted and then they stand up to be seen from the road. Very fun and festive and easy to set up. So my DH made a set of the Charlie Brown characters from the Great Pumpkin special in their trick-or-treat costumes. You know the scenes in the cartoon where the kids (most of them ghosts, Charlie's costume has eye holes cut all over it, Pigpen's is in a cloud of dust, etc.) go door to door and Charlie keeps getting rocks. They are almost life-sized and we have put them out every year. Families in our neighboorhood say it isn't Halloween until they see our Peanuts characters come out, lol. Anyway, this year we had a little boy (maybe 6?) come to the house as Snoopy and I was so excited to see him and was asking how he liked his friends on the lawn and did his parents want to take a picture with them, etc. He had NO IDEA what I was talking about. The more I tried to explain the more confused he got (I lowkey probably freaked him out a little, oops). Anyway it made me kinda sad and I realized most kids today don't know what these even are anymore. We do still get a lot of adults who comment that they love them, though. We run a race in Monterey periodically (not every year, but it is great race). The race itself has these great cardboard cutouts for the mile markers and folks put up their own. Haven't seen him for a few years, but used to see a life-sized cutout of Justin Bieber. Even at my advanced age, I knew who he was 
Cheers.
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Post by helenabear on Nov 4, 2024 9:31:33 GMT -5
Olga's stands out to me too! Anything that really alters a word shape, I pick up on.
I was thinking why Skipper is probably changed... thinking it is the skipper's canteen? We do 's not as plural but as possesive. So it is Meijer's store. Kroger's store. Then we drop it to just the possessive name. So notorious for that. Lowes does remain apostrophe free lol
Not knowing Snoopy? I mean i get Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra somewhat. My kid and I have had conversations about who was the better musician too but he's into music a lot. I could see his friends not knowing them or other ones like that. But Snoopy? I'm a little sad.
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Post by brp on Nov 4, 2024 9:43:47 GMT -5
Not knowing Snoopy? I mean i get Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra somewhat. My kid and I have had conversations about who was the better musician too but he's into music a lot. I could see his friends not knowing them or other ones like that. But Snoopy? I'm a little sad. Speaking of The Chairman, the great Quincy Jones, who worked with Sinatra among many, many MANY others (including producing the top selling album of all time), passed away at the age of 91.
Cheers.
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Post by M2JRA on Nov 4, 2024 9:45:35 GMT -5
Not knowing Snoopy? I mean i get Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra somewhat. My kid and I have had conversations about who was the better musician too but he's into music a lot. I could see his friends not knowing them or other ones like that. But Snoopy? I'm a little sad. Oh sorry, I wasn't clear. Our cutouts are only the kids in their trick-or-treat costumes (we have six of them: Charlie, PigPen, Lucy in the witch hat, whoever is in the coonskin cap, etc.). So when the kid came along as Snoopy, I was saying he fits right in with them. Hopefully he knew who HE was as Snoopy, but he clearly didn't recognize that our cutouts were the Peanuts kids from the same franchise. |
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