Reasons to make the O_o Face
There are times when you read, see or hear something that just makes you :o. This is the thread to share them on!
The other day I don't know where I stumbled on a thread discussing the Nancy Drew novels. I remembered how much I loved them and I did a little research...which led me to the original publishers, who also published the Hardy Boys and the Bobbsey Twins. All written by a cadre of ghost writers under cover names. Then I found a link to an audio book of one of the Bobbsey Twins stories, which I loved when I was a kid. I listened to it for old times' sake. The :o happened when the author described little Flossie-aged-four's collection of dolls, among which was a black Sambo doll given to her by the family's "coloured cook Dinah, and her husband the stableman, Sam." Who had "excellent rooms above the stables." They had given her this black worsted ragdoll (named Jujube) which she kept with her other dolls..."but apart, at the other end of the shelf, and with a nice piece of white pasteboard in between--because, well, he wasn't really family."
:o :o
The story goes on to state that Flossie had thought about giving Jujube away but didn't want to hurt Dinah's feelings; "and after all, as Mamma said, there weren't any doll hospitals for black orphan dolls."
No wonder the Bobbsey Twins books went out of fashion. Nancy Drew is still available today...but then there was nothing like that in them.
So, VWers, what made you :o today?
What a cool guy...
hmmmm i think i'll just tell people i was attacked with a vacuum cleaner then! :P
I had an ex boyfriend who called to tell me that he had a contest with his friends that a vacuum cleaner wouldn't give him a hickey, and THAT'S why he had a hickey on his neck..from a vacuum cleaner. (it definitely wasn't from me)
O_o
Sounds like a legit story. Hope you believed him.
So there's this diet/fitness site I go to to track calories sometimes, and they also have forums. I don't participate much, but I look for useful information. This is a direct quote from a question that was asked. I'm not making this up.
"I binge a lot on cake and cookies. A few hours after, my stomach hurts till I relieve myself. Can that be from eating too much of cake and cookies?"
o_O
No. It's the unicorn that lives in your tummy trying to break out of it's fleshy cage. Couldn't POSSIBLY be all the cookies, that's absurd! :p
No. It's the unicorn that lives in your tummy trying to break out of it's fleshy cage.
Baaaaaaaaahahahaha yes. That is exactly what it is!
I had an ex boyfriend who called to tell me that he had a contest with his friends that a vacuum cleaner wouldn't give him a hickey, and THAT'S why he had a hickey on his neck..from a vacuum cleaner. (it definitely wasn't from me)
O_o
Sounds like a legit story. Hope you believed him.
Maybe if the hickey was perfectly round....
Also, he tried it with a lot of different sized vacuum nozzles just to make sure it was true story for all sizes.
So there's this diet/fitness site I go to to track calories sometimes, and they also have forums. I don't participate much, but I look for useful information. This is a direct quote from a question that was asked. I'm not making this up.
"I binge a lot on cake and cookies. A few hours after, my stomach hurts till I relieve myself. Can that be from eating too much of cake and cookies?"
o_O
No. It's the unicorn that lives in your tummy trying to break out of it's fleshy cage. Couldn't POSSIBLY be all the cookies, that's absurd! :p
ummmmmm wtf?! no s*%t sherlock, for realzzzz... i would feed them the unicorn version of the answer, it would probably make more sense! lolsss
While not sleeping last night, I was lying in bed when suddenly I got this almighty pain in my thigh like I'd been stung by a bee! ZAP right down to my toes. A few minutes later, a lesser but still beesting-type pain at knee level in the same leg. I got up and looked...nothing on the bed, no mark on my leg. So it must have been a nerve-thing. But that spot was sore all night, and when I got up in desperation, the muscle was sore too as if I had a bruise coming or something. I examined it in good light...nada. This morning, still nothing, but the flesh is still slightly sore.
Fell asleep about 4 AM, awake before 9. Not good.
I'm changing the sheets today!
That's kinda scary Ms. Yabbit.
really scary.
Yabbit - Is there maybe a ghost loose in your home? ;)
My mom returned home today with chocolate milk from the grocery store. I asked, "who drinks chocolate milk?!" She responded, "your sister." I said, "I've heard chocolate milk has more sugar in it than soda." She responds, "you mean 'pop'"? I said, "pop..soda..whatever." With the most serious disgusted glare she says, "you're not on the west coast anymore, Josh. It's pop!"
:o Really!?!?
Yabbit - Is there maybe a ghost loose in your home? ;)
My mom returned home today with chocolate milk from the grocery store. I asked, "who drinks chocolate milk?!" She responded, "your sister." I said, "I've heard chocolate milk has more sugar in it than soda." She responds, "you mean 'pop'"? I said, "pop..soda..whatever." With the most serious disgusted glare she says, "you're not on the west coast anymore, Josh. It's pop!"
:o Really!?!?
ROFL Just refer to it as a "caffeinated carbonated sugary libation" from now on, just to piss her off.
Yabbit - Is there maybe a ghost loose in your home? ;)
My mom returned home today with chocolate milk from the grocery store. I asked, "who drinks chocolate milk?!" She responded, "your sister." I said, "I've heard chocolate milk has more sugar in it than soda." She responds, "you mean 'pop'"? I said, "pop..soda..whatever." With the most serious disgusted glare she says, "you're not on the west coast anymore, Josh. It's pop!"
:o Really!?!?
ROFL Just refer to it as a "caffeinated carbonated sugary libation" from now on, just to piss her off.
+1
Definitely. And if you really want to confuse her, call it a "fizzy drink." That's what they call it in the UK.
Definitely insecure, your mom.
We call it fizzy drink too. Want a glass of fizzy, Mum? :P Watch her ears start to steam.
eta: better yet, cultivate a New Zealand accent. Apparently a lot of people in the states can't understand a word we say.
eta: better yet, cultivate a New Zealand accent. Apparently a lot of people in the states can't understand a word we say.
When I was watching the news coverage of the Christchurch quake, everyone sounded as though they were speaking with a British accent. Of course, I live on the western coast of North America, so everyone else "talks weird," as far as I'm concerned. ;^)
fizzy drink or soft drink. Definitely not soda or pop!
eta: better yet, cultivate a New Zealand accent. Apparently a lot of people in the states the rest of the world can't understand a word we say.
: )
Haha yea... often mistaken for British. Though the British also find us funny sounding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7t2f-L6Z04
My boyfriend was over in the states a few years ago and had this actual conversation:
US Man: I hear you have an English accent, where in England are you from?
Theo's bf: Oh I'm actually from New Zealand
US Man: *blank stare*
Theo's bf: New Zealand?
US Man: *blank stare*
Theo's bf: *gives up* London.
US Man: Oh, London! I know London.
His Canadian friend also had to translate for him as no one could understand his accent most of the time.
awesome.
my best mate lives in London, and has had to argue with a colleague who was adamant in trying to convince her that New Zealand was part of Australia....
we met a French guy at a party in Holland, my husband spent a lot of time talking with him, about all kinds of things. After we left, he apparently said " he seemed nice, but I didn't understand a word he said "
but really, I think the video thread shows that our accents are not that out there!
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