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Quote:heh, so scones in the northeast are the wimpy versions of hardtackOriginally Posted by Judgement_Dave
Quite easy (in my head). Both pronounciations refer to slightly different cakes.
A scone (rhyming with 'gone' and said in a gruff northern English accent) is a hearty little beast of a cake, which some of my lesser acquaintances seem to think is a type of rock cake.
Whereas a scone (rhyming with cone and said in a mandatory higher pitched southern accent) is a wussy, airy-fairy piece of worthlessness eaten with cream by people not tough enough to face the former scones.
Anyone who disagrees is obviously cruising for a baked-produce-based bruising.
It wouldn't surprise me if many readers have never heard rock cakes called scones before...
I actually grew up knowing what you may call 'rock cakes' as 'scones' when my grandma would often bake them. My wife couldn't understand me calling them scones when she only knew them as rock cakes. So after months of minor disagreement over this I had a dig about and found a few old recipe books calling them both names and that the term scone was used as another name for rock cakes in North East England. Given that some of my great-grandparents had lived much of their lives around Newcastle that seemed to explain my use of scone for rock cake.
This may be a personal usage, but I find that scone (rhyming with cone) suits the lightweight cake eaten with clotted cream when faced with the hardier scone (rhymes with gone) of a rock cake.
One of these days hopefully I'll stumble on the northern version in the states. Unfortunately the southern version seems to be the dominant variety here (and even then I suspect its something altogether different and the same in name only).
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I figure its just a hold over from job related emails.
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Quote:Yup, that is good stuff.Originally Posted by SeedyXX
French fries, gravy and cheese curds (or substitute mozzarella in the absence of curds). A small poutine weighs 9 lbs. Feels like 12 when it's in your belly. So good.
Enjoy!
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Damn! Who put the mirror in my computer?
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Quote:I blame it on geological drift. Eventually Virginia is going to be wedged right in between North Dakota and Rhode Island.Originally Posted by Lady_Athyna
Y'all don't say y'all?
What the holy heck is wrong with y'all?
My heart sank the day my company no longer considered Va part of the south, but instead... the... mid-atlantic (despite its accuracy)
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Quote:LMAO,I read this and all I can think of is;Originally Posted by SinergyX_EU
Wooo hold the horsies.
No freaking way the Queen of England gonna rule this place, that stupid island west of Europe is way too weird. (they drive on the other side of the road!). We got the german, the french, even Italian and spanish, but the most feared.. the Dutch. Unreconizable language, speech no one understands.. yes, that is to be feared.
"All right Goldmember. Don't play the laughing boy. There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch." - Nigel Powers -
Quote:You would think folks would see the difference, but I guess it all goes back to not burning the hops.Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
No, we were lumped in with the Yanks all this time.
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Quote:Y'know what seems to have fallen out of favor (with the exception of Paula Deen) - Y'all. I dont hear that as much as I used to.Originally Posted by Lady_Athyna
Hey now! Don't be raggin on us Southerners.
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But if you want to, my dad still says he's cuttin off the light (which is doubly weird when he says to cut on the light) and it's comin up a cloud...
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Quote:lol, barmy brings back memories of Planescape (the second best D&D setting evah!).Originally Posted by shadowe_EU
Of course, it's wikipedia, so take it with a pinch of salt - for example, the wold "balmy" in British English does NOT mean "insane" - for that we use "barmy" which is basically pronounced the same, but is a completely different word.
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Quote:Wow... now I know... vaccum tube = valve. Well at least this will allow me to hang on to my "essentially a font of useless information" title at work.Originally Posted by Rajani_Isa
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Quote:No way, this could possibly be a proto "spartan hate pit" thread.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Ladies and gentlemen, let us put aside our petty differences and get back to blaming everything on the French.
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Yeah that is cool
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Quote:My mom is from NW Pennsylvania, its worse than you knowOriginally Posted by JGHopkins
I live in pittsburgh they're so bad here they have their own language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburghese
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Quote:Sure its ARE - KANSAS ;p well at least when your talking about the Arkansas river in KansasOriginally Posted by Fleeting_Whisper
Americans can't even pronounce Arkansas correctly. Don't expect them to be able to speak furrin wurds.
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Quote:Heh, wait till you see what we did with Norfolk and Suffolk in SEVa.Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano
I distinctly remember shouting at Americans while riding on a tube train in London because for some reason pronouncing leicester (Less-Ter) square as Lie-chest-er really drove me mad.
Admittedly the rest of the train laughed and applauded, I probably should feel bad about it but why, oh why, do you lot have one of your many accents where everything ends in a question, IT MAKES ME WANT TO STRANGLE YOU IN YOUR SLEEP!
For some reason the Australia accent that does the same bizzarely has no effect on me.
Say it with my everybody from Virginia; Naw-fuch and Suf-fuch.
A buddy of mine is from upstate New York and I keep telling him there is no such place as Nor-folk or Suf-folk Virginia
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Quote:Heh, for some reason I'm reading this and hearing Pinhead in my mind.Originally Posted by Vanden
Oh new Mr. Rolleyes, what fun we will have together!
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To bad they aren't animated
I love this guy
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Force Field/Energy Blast Defender I've been told, but that doesn't stop me!
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Schis...
I JUST now figured out what that avatar is. Well, at least, ... I'm seeing it correctly. >_>
Go about your business.
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Yeah its kinda creepy, I imagine thats what hell would be like if you have an intense distaste for the Shat. -
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If everything is a Nemesis plot...
...Then does that mean nothing is a Praetorian Nemesis plot?
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No, it means that Nemesis is himself a Praetorian Nemesis plot.
Remember: Praetorian variants are not opposites. They're the same powers only bent to tyrannical means. They got power hungry and became the public masters whereas our own heroes remained public servants.
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Or in some cases the oposite is true. Praetorian Earth, for instnac,e features The Carnival of Light - an organization of freedom fighters started by a heroic Vanessa DeVore. They still dress like skanks though.
Logically it is possible that the Praetorian Nemesis turned his genius towards some more savory end than world conquest. That could make him a rare example of a heroic Chessmaster architype, subtly manipulating events to ensure Tyrant's reign never becomes fully complete... or it could mean that got married, raised a familly, and died a hundred years ago in Prussia.
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Sounds like Mordenkainen -
Y'know Orenbanga would make a really cool non-instanced dungeon... just say'n....
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I've made it a point to NEVER read user comments on GameTrailers, for instance. Either they're the uninteresting "look cool" or "meh, seen it" kind, or they're so low-brow and unintelligent that them make me shut down my browser.
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Man I wish I had that kind of fortitude, I'm like a moth drawn to the light. I can't help but read the comments on youtube, shrug my head and return to building the doomsday device with renewed energy
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And Australia is technically the Commonwealth of Australia, but I think most of the people who live here don't know that.
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As a resident of a commonwealth I weep for you
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My Blaster WarMain, a close second is my shield/energy tank named Hauberk.