I Liked the viking kittens.....never did see it on tv, but i like that flash......it's rousing....'course they got some of the words wrong, ( whisper tales of Thor, not Gore)
but still......they didnt butcher it as badly as Tori Amos did 'Thank You'

rock on, viking kittens, rock on.

I think it's the BANANAPHONE thing, TS. It has a tendency to make people a little touchy, especially when it's been going through their head for 587,943 hours straight. I've been there. Sorry Bri, but just remember--it's all Bruce's fault.... ;)

Oh I know, I just like watching the eye twitch and the neck spasm as it repeats over and over and over...

ring ring ring ring ring ring ring bananaphone....

ring ring ring ring ring ring ring bananaphone....

Sometimes it's best to just let it go. ;)

Every now and then, when all of the guys I work with are in the shop, I'll blare the first few lines from my laptop. That's all it takes.

First the glazed eyes, then the anger followed by the robot like turning of their heads towards me...

I can see why you're so well liked.

Heh. Nice one, Troubleshooter.

I found a bug in a website that you might be familiar with. Loading badger, badger, badger and leaving it up when I depart work results in all of the cables being firmly ripped out of my PC at work when I return the next morning. I asked the night crew that sits near me if they were familiar with it and they responded only with the same glance you described... very odd.

Actually, I'm only moderately liked, but I've learned to live with it..

See, TS, I knew you'd figure it out! ;)

I think that I made my first major step when I figured out most people weren't as smart as I am and I could disregard their opinions.

Well, now I was not familiar with this version. It is quite entertaining--I particularly enjoyed the snake animation, but I feel there is far too much emphasis placed on the large red 'shroom. All in all, I must say I prefer the other version--I have a special fondness baloney/pony segment. I'm not sure about the sound quality of this version, though, because I played it without the sound in fear of my co-workers KILLING ME.

I know and it's lonely at the top.

I think Badger came before Bananaphone. :confused:

It did. go to weebls-stuff.com to see all the nifty badgerbadgerbadger stuff. it's under the "toons" link, which i can't get to right now for some reason.

my favorite is "footy".

as with all badger loops, you must listen all the way through at least 5 times to get the full effect (either a snorting giggle or a headache, depending on your bent)

Magical Trevor is great too.

No, sorry guys, the worst perpetrator of mispronunciation crimes is your Mr Bush and the word "trrrrrr", carried out, according to him, by "trrrrrrists". I've thought about it, it definitely has six "r"s in it.
As far as I'm aware, by the way, no brit has ever said "vomick" for vomit.

The British accent is, I think, probably one of the most pleasing to the ears.

...until any of them utters the word "cuppa" as in, "Won' you dro' in for a nice cuppa?" Its one of the most annoying truncations of speech I've come across. Cuppa? Cup of what? Milk? Coffee?

Heh. I always thought it was "terra" or "turr".

tea. "Cuppa" is always tea.

I once dated a lad who repeatedly pronounced "specifically" as "pacifically*
In all fairness he wasn't the sharpest tool in the kit .....His most attractive feature ( to me) was that he fancied me......Being as I was 15 at the time and pretty much the only girl in my circle without a boyfriend, that was enough for me.....at least it was enough for me for about 8 months.

The worst thing about dating him was that I became horribly embarrassed by his inarticulacy and obvious lack of intelligence.......Then again I think there is something of the fascist in most teenagers.

Teens are just especially conscious of the definitions of and membership in the in-group and the out-group.

Even the out-groupers form their own kind of in-group.

Er ... that would be "The British accents are ..." :3_eyes: . Newcastle, Birmingham (west midlands, not alabama), London, Glasgow all sound vrrry different, ya know. To me (an English person living in Scotland) Birmingham is one of the least attractive, and Newcastle (aka "Geordie") the most incomprehensible.

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We we were dating, I thought I was in the clear as he didn't have any glaring mispronounciations in his vocabulary. Then I met his family. His mom grades the cheese and steams the aspargras..but only just varley. :eek:

Nothing wrong with a little graded cheese on your pauster. Yer pauster, you know, yer sperghetti.

OMG you've been talking to my customers!

They eat scrimps on da screet den go watch their digikal (or diginal) cayb-oe.

Ugh.

And when I first met my husband, who spent 12 years in Jersey, EVERY time he would say coah-fee, I would repeat it like that. EVERY time. It was cute then. Now half the time I don't notice it.

I LOVE the scottish brogue, and find broad yorkie and liverpudian to be the hardest to get.

And I'm from Manchester....

A friend of mine was a paramedic for a while. Every so often he'd head into the ethnic hinterlands to go pick somebody who had run out of their peanutbutterball...

See if you cna figure that one out.

Just when you thought you were safe from the badger badger thing...

It's Harry Potter Potter Potter's turn :yelsick:

Phenobarbital.

Guess them folks was having some major convictions, eh?

Yeah, but they're staying scrong and keepin' it real...

Is it wrong that I thing that is beyond fabulous? Too cute! :p

This is more of a linguistic pet peeve than a mispronunciation but, for some reason it really irks me when people say stuff like "I love my tomatoes". Why does it have to be your tomatoes? Can't they just say "I love tomatoes"? :(

Loving other men's tomatoes will seldom end well.

TRIVIA ALERT:

Tomatoes were once called Love Apples. :heartpump

yep, i loves me some t'maters.

ok, most of you are from PA, so maybe this will make sense. when i was in the car business, their was a father/son sales team that was from somewhere in PA - definitely not an urban area - i'm thinking more hillbilly here. we'll call them Big Daddy and Jr because... well, that's what we called them. nice folks, but some funny thinks happened due to their sometimes indecipherable way of speaking.

i had a really uptight family sitting at my desk and i just couldn't close the deal. it was the right car, at below invoice, well within the budget, they just had a case of nerves.

anyway, Big Daddy was listening and decided to "give a lil hep." he pops in and talks for about thirty seconds before my clients stand up and turn beat red as they go rushing out. we were absolutely puzzled. i followed them to their car and asked what had happened.

i was still sitting on the ground laughing so hard that i had tears running down my cheeks when Big Daddy came out and asked what went wrong.
when Big Daddy had said "what if i could ask my boss, and we can get this deal done..." - the clients heard "well if you scratch my balls we can get her going" Big Daddy took it in stride, but Jr spent a week over enunciating every thing that he said so clients thought he had learning disabilities in addition to a thick accent.