September 28, 2004Lesson for the day: Everyone is not familiar with, or delighted by, the work of Peter Sellers.(walking the dog, she stops at a curb-side tree to pee) Me: Okay. (dog squats) GOM: Did you hear me? Me: Yes, I did. GOM: I told you not to let your dog piss there. (she starts peeing) Are you listening?! Me: Yes, I am. Don't let my dog pee here. GOM: Well?! Me: (beat) It's not my dog. GOM: WHAT!? (hasty exit) Posted by Antigeist at September 28, 2004 10:36 AM Comments
Funny you should mention this. I recently spent the better part of a weekend watching all the Pink Panther movies. Yes, I did hear about the biopic (btw...what do you say: bye-opic, or bio-pic? I'm taking a survey). The article said Seller's family was wow'd by the performance. Posted by: antigeist at September 28, 2004 01:17 PMDo you mean which syllable gets the accent? I say BYE-o-pic. Long O. bye-AH-pic sounds like a vision impairment. Posted by: monk at September 29, 2004 10:50 AMMe too. I say bye-o-pic, as in biograpical picture. But I hear it said the other way more often than not. Language manglers. Oh, and Sellers is in the air. I just got off the phone with brother G upstate, who kept inserting "But ahf course" (in full Closeau accent) into the conversation. Posted by: antigeist at September 29, 2004 11:32 AMYes, I kneaw. I can feel it my bewns. Kay-to? Posted by: monk at September 29, 2004 11:53 AMHadn't ever considered that it was a Bio-pic and instead have always pronounced it a BI-opic. Posted by: susannah at September 29, 2004 02:32 PMOh susannah, now don't you cry for...sorry. I used the word 'implosable' instead of 'opposable' (like the thumbs) for years and years until someone corrected me, thank God. Implosable!? I may not be book-learned, but Jesus. At least Bi-opic makes sense. Posted by: antigeist at September 29, 2004 04:25 PMI guess in my mind it was a view of some sort.. a personal view and so the "opic" part made sense.. *shrug* Merriam Webster online has a little pronunciation icon where you can hear some poor schmuck pronounce every root word in the dictionary and the winner is "Bio-Pic". And thankfully I stand corrected now. -however- I take it your pronunciation of the word was im-plo-si-bul (long o) instead of im-plah-si-bul (rhymes with possible) - if not, you could have said that you simply meant that he/she/it had thumbs which were so dexterous as not to be believed. Is that possibly the nerdiest comment left? Posted by: susannah at September 30, 2004 09:32 AM"Is that possibly the nerdiest comment left?" Hell no! God I wish I'd thought of that at the time. Perhaps I would have come off less like a moron and more like a word smithin' supra-genius, like you. Or like Grant. Dude's got some mad language skills. Posted by: antigeist at September 30, 2004 09:50 AMPost a comment
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