Random Thoughts 15: Crystal Clear 2021 Edition

[jcyclonee]

The French can't hold a candle to the German knack for clumping fourteen nouns & adjectives into one word...

The Dutch are pretty good at at that and with ridiculous pronunciations.

My Dad grew up in a small Dutch community. The names of the people he graduated with are awesome.
Delbert Vanderslice
Sandra Vanderstoop (his high school girlfriend)
Elmer Cortliver
Carol Klumper
Bernard Van Essen
Virgil Beukelman

 

[CycloneErik]

Take your pants off then.

Yup. This is definitely the Internet.

 

[jcyclonee]

I did a little research and found that my last name is the 577,768th most commonly used last name in the world.

 

[BCClone]

The French can't hold a candle to the German knack for clumping fourteen nouns & adjectives into one word...

That’s those damn bohemians. They put make up a 12 letter name and realize they forgot a vowel so they stick it at the end.

 

[BCClone]

I work with a guy who has 2 last names that were so long they just shortened it to the first letter of each name, KK. So in all the official emails and user information, you never see his last names, just KK.

So…. Kenneth kardashian?

 

[BCClone]

I did a little research and found that my last name is the 577,768th most commonly used last name in the world.

Mine is just over10k

 

[wxman1]

Just counted how many working days left for me this year...34

 

[BCClone]

Just counted how many working days left for me this year...34

Slacker.

BTW. Showing up for work does not equal work.

 

[CycloneSarah]

Just counted how many working days left for me this year...34

11 for me unless baby comes sooner!

 

[wxman1]

Slacker.

BTW. Showing up for work does not equal work.

That still leaves me with 28 hours to use. Will likely take random Fridays off.

 

[stormchaser2014]

This mist **** that doesn't show up on radar is annoying as hell. Trying to build a 4x3 small deck with steps and I've had to stop twice, today because of this and yesterday because of lightning.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Hmmm, work days left in the year? Technically zero but should be 15 or so if I do all of the procrastinated home work I've put off for "when the weather turns colder". Taping/plaster/paint in guest room and den, painting in basement, attic insulation touch up and vapor barrier repair, replacing that old smoke detector that's like 18' above the floor, cutting old maple butcher block for cutting boards, build recessed display shelves, clean out the old man cave, rake/broom leaves off of roof, rake and bag the 50 bags plus before Thanksgiving, etc etc etc.

Abandoned the "redeck the front porch" (just replaced a few bad boards) till next year, same with the "fire up the pressure washer and hit the stucco". #slothlife

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Just counted how many working days left for me this year...34

There are 71 days left in the year so I an guessing I have about 60 if I'm lucky

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

The Dutch are pretty good at at that and with ridiculous pronunciations.

My Dad grew up in a small Dutch community. The names of the people he graduated with are awesome.
Delbert Vanderslice
Sandra Vanderstoop (his high school girlfriend)
Elmer Cortliver
Carol Klumper
Bernard Van Essen
Virgil Beukelman

Gaelic for the win

Saoirse Ronan is an actress, if you Google "Saoirse Ronan pronunciation" you can hear how her first name is pronounced.

 

[Rabbuk]

Gaelic for the win

Saoirse Ronan is an actress, if you Google "Saoirse Ronan pronunciation" you can hear how her first name is pronounced.

Im Irish American and have cousins with that name and I just call her S. My mouth can't make that name haha.

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

Im Irish American and have cousins with that name and I just call her S. My mouth can't make that name haha.

Sur-sha is easier to learn how to pronounce than Sade. I thought there was an r sound in it.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Gaelic for the win

Saoirse Ronan is an actress, if you Google "Saoirse Ronan pronunciation" you can hear how her first name is pronounced.

I'll see your Gaelic, and raise you Welsh, a language in desperate need of vowels. Longest Welsh town name:
Llanfairpwll-gwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob-wllllantysiliogogogoch

 

[VeloClone]

I'll see your Gaelic, and raise you Welsh, a language in desperate need of vowels. Longest Welsh town name:
Llanfairpwll-gwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob-wllllantysiliogogogoch

My introduction to Welsh was reading a book and encountering the mountaineering term "cwm". I thought, "How the hell do you pronounce that?" It rhymes with zoom and is a Welsh word for a cirque or a steep sided hollow at the head of a valley.

I saw a friend of mine doing summer stock Shakespeare. They had included some Welsh lines for his character to magnify his "healthy" self esteem and he was pretty proud of how he pulled the Welsh off. He said that Welsh is pretty tough to learn but I told him it can't be that big of a deal since little kids learn it in Wales all the time.

 

[VeloClone]

Mine is just over10k

Mine is about 5400th in the world. It went from low 700s to high 700s in the US from 2000 to 2010.

 

[SaraV]

The Dutch are pretty good at at that and with ridiculous pronunciations.

My Dad grew up in a small Dutch community. The names of the people he graduated with are awesome.
Delbert Vanderslice
Sandra Vanderstoop (his high school girlfriend)
Elmer Cortliver
Carol Klumper
Bernard Van Essen
Virgil Beukelman

*eyebrow raise*

-silence-

ANYway...

I've seen a few FB posts that say "10 Fridays until Christmas!"

And I weep.

Because that means Thanksgiving is in six weeks...and work will be a very not so nice place the two weeks leading up to it.