Watching the Hurricane Katrina news on television, I can’t help that I still find those southern accents quite funny. They pronounce Louisiana “Looziana” where as I always said “Laweeziana”. And New Orleans is “New Orlinz” and I say “New Orleenz”. It makes me think about this girl in high school from Texas. In 7th grade we ate lunch at 10:10am. Yeah it sucked, but our cafeteria was small and the 7th graders got the undesirable lunch time slot. Anyways, we loved to ask her “Hey what time is lunch?” cause she would respond “Duh its at Tin Tin”. And we also made fun of the way she said cement pond because she would pronounce it “see-ment pond”. I don’t even know why the heck anyone was talking about cement ponds back then, what the heck is a cement pond anyways? My coworker who is a few years older than me grew up in Texas but she doesn’t even have a hint of a southern accent. Apparently she has northernized herself. I just want her to bust out in a southern accent so I can laugh, but nope …. she sounds like she belongs right here in PA. Although when I moved to Ohio for a whole three months, apparently I developed some kind of odd accent. I didn’t know there was an Ohio accent, but a lot of people over there were from Michigan and Indiana, so maybe it was like a central US accent. I never noticed it but when my parents came to visit they asked what the heck was wrong with me. I did develop the tendency to say “rhullercoaster” but really thats not so dramatic.
I’ve already learned that its still cool to say “dude” constantly since I’ve heard at least five college girls going “dude oh my God” in the last few days. I used to say “dude” constantly. I think I picked it up from my friend Ashley, but I’m not sure. Probably just cause everyone else said it. Now I mostly hang out with old people at work so I don’t really say “dude” or “like oh my God” anymore. At least I don’t think I do. And if I do its definitely not excessive because I used to catch myself saying those things all the time and I could actually hear how dumb I sounded but couldn’t make myself stop.
Don’t think I’m not unique though. I have had many phrases in the past that I used excessively without influence. They were all mine! Such as “I swallowed a fish and it farted in my throat”, “you smell like a gerbil”, “i feel like poop on a stick”, and the list goes on. Poop on a stick might not be original, but I guarantee the first two are. I still like to say “you smell like a gerbil”. I don’t say it at work though. I have to be professional and use words such as “significant dollars”, “enclosed please find”, and “finalizing the details for our new initiative”. At work, everything is an initiative, and everything is significant. Sometimes I want to rip out tongues so I never have to hear either word again. My boss totally overuses significant. I think I’m going to get on her computer and put “significant” into the Microsoft Word replacement thing so everytime she types it, it will change to poop, tangerine, or monkey feces. Heh, that would be funny. I mean she already swears her computer is possessed since she can never save or print, or copy and paste. Yet, when I drag my ass in there it works fine. I think someone needs to go back to Computers 101. So if it happened, she would just think its a virus, since everything is a virus.
Words are great, aren’t they. I just managed to write a whole page about them. Give me a topic, any topic and I can ramble on about it forever. It’s great, isn’t it?
oh yeah, i remember veronica’s accent too. she would always say things like she had to write with a “pincil.” i actually think she was exaggerating the accent a lot just to sound cool. which she didn’t.
you know those things you used to always get in the mail in high school about joining random miss whatever pageants or paying money for some fake modeling career or something? one day i was at her house and she got one, and i was like, oh i haven’t gotten that one yet. and she replied, “well, you have to be pretty to get one.” burned!!!