We're almost home Dana, I figured out the jumpers (translated it into bases for pick up baseball) but Ice cream vans on a Sunday? Did they not come round all summer long?

Now I can quit anticipating the Tim Burton Alice In Wonderland -- finally saw it last night, 2-D, though it's still playing in 3-D some places. Very very good, just Tim Burton-y enough, without being too much. Best Cheshire Cat I've seen, and Johnny Depp's recital of "Jabberwocky" will probably cause everyone to use hard G's for "gyre and gimble."

Wait, what? Didn't you already use hard 'g's for gyre and gimble?

no :rolleyes: are you really surprised? I mean REALLY?

....guess how they pronounce fungi... yes, they do....

Fuck off, no...really?

mmm-hmmm. We went for a walk in the woods a couple of days ago. I mean, it's great that the kids knew so much about the stuff, but I nearly imploded....

hahahahaha. That's so funny :P

Ahem... Just to be clear, UG's pronunciation of things is not to be taken as the norm. I, for one, have always said "gyre" and "gimble" with a hard G, and I also say fungi with a hard G... because it's critical to the classic punchline, "Why not? I'm a fun-guy!"

I think I used the soft G for "gyre" until I read the Annotated Alice.

gyre is a word I don't know, but the other two have hard G's for me.

I say gyre with a hard G, but gyroscope with a soft G. Funny.

miriam-webster says gyre with a soft G

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-b...?gyre0001=gyre

yebbut that's merkin. No-one says gyroscope with a hard-on. I mean hard one. g that is.

Hm. I misremembered. I just checked, and neither Martin Gardner nor Humpty Dumpty had anything to say about the pronunciation of gyre.

gyro·scope (jī′rō skōp′, -rə-)

fungi (fun′jī′, fuŋ′gī′)

You seem to forget, you guys are the ones that talk funny. :lol: