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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:27 PM
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Poll question: How do you pronounce the word "heinous"?
If I hear that word mispronounced one more time, I'm gonna go "nucular" on someone.... :grr: :nuke:
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:28 PM
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1. I learned the correct pronounciation from Bill and Ted.
Edited on Wed Oct-18-06 02:28 PM by primate1
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:30 PM
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2. ...
:rofl:
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:33 PM
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8. You laugh, but that was a highly educational film.
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:35 PM
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11. True....
:rofl: I'm still laughing, though.... :P
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:39 PM
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13. San Dimas High School football rules!
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:00 PM
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18. No way!
Excellent!

:D
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:31 PM
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3. I've heard HEE-nus recently
That's just as bad to me as "nucular" :nuke: :nuke: :grr: :grr:
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:32 PM
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5. OMG, yes...
:grr: :nuke: HEE-nus.... :puke: I'm adding that to the lexicon.... All of these are as bad as "nucular"... :rofl:
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:31 PM
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4. I actually heard someone pronounce it HIGH-Anus once.
Stifling a giggle required a great deal of stamina on my part.
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:32 PM
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6. How did you make it through?
:rofl: :spray: I don't think I'd have been strong enough... :P
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:03 PM
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Were you in Washington hangin' with some state reps?
Because you might have heard them right.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:33 PM
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7. I've never heard that word mispronounced.
Fucking up that word must be a southern thing.
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:35 PM
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9. OMG, it's abused so much....
...and I've heard it abused by non-Southerners too. :yoiks: But mostly it's a Southern thing. "Nucular", on the other hand, seems to be universal. :rofl:
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:40 PM
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15. My mom says "nucular."
However, she has demonstrated on multiple occaisions that she is far from being the sharpest crayola in the box.
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:00 PM
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17. Reminds me of a friend's mother who lives in CT.
(She's the same one who hit my friend's car three separate times in their driveway... :rofl:) She and my friend were driving down a busy street in Stamford, and his mom saw a sign that said, "Pizza To Go". She looked puzzled, and he asked her, "What's wrong?" She said, "Where is Pizza Togo?" :rofl: :spray: It was beside a travel agency, and she thought there was a place named Pizza in the country of Togo. :yoiks: Does your mom know her by any chance???? :P
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:07 PM
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20. Probably some long lost relative.
The only people she knows in CT that I know of is my stepdad's family and her gay priest friends.

:rofl:
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:39 PM
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14. Oh, and if you've never seen My Cousin Vinny, there is
"heinous" abuse by the Southern lawyer. :rofl: I think he says "hyenas". :spray:
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:51 PM
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16. I forgot about that. I've seen "My Cousin Vinny" a brazillion times.
:rofl:
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:46 PM
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31. I only remember the line "The two yutes"
Yutes?
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 06:58 AM
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32. LOL...
:rofl: The Southern lawyer was the one who made a statement about the "hyenas crime" that had been committed. :rofl:
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davsand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:35 PM
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10. Rhymes with Anus...
I'm just saying...


Laura
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 02:36 PM
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12. See? That's an easy way to remember it....
...and so many people still screw it up... :rofl:
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:03 PM
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19. Hernia
Edited on Wed Oct-18-06 03:03 PM by edbermac
:hurts:
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:38 PM
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28. ...
:yoiks:
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:31 PM
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21. Hey-Nious, just for fun
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:38 PM
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26. As long as you promise that's a joke...
:rofl:
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:40 PM
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30. It is, but sometimes with friends I'll do a southern accent and say...
"heynious crimes"
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:34 PM
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22. Rhymes with anus
:)
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:36 PM
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23. How does one possibly fuck that word up?
Like haruka said, it must be a southern thing. :P :P
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:37 PM
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25. I think people try way too hard to pronounce it.
Therefore, it ends up with more syllables than it needs and gets totally twisted. :rofl:
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:36 PM
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24. oops dupe
Edited on Wed Oct-18-06 03:38 PM by GoPsUx
:)
I think du farted :rofl:
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:38 PM
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27. ...
:hi: :applause:
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 03:40 PM
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29. Hey Nwc how ya doin besides being all georgous
:)
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 07:03 AM
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33. For some Brits, the 'h'
is silent. :o

"'twere an 'einous crime, it were..."

A tad disconcerting.

I pronunciate it the right way, of course, as might be expectorated of someone who indulges in social intercourse as good as me.
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 07:10 AM
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34. Only to northerners, but they do that to all words beginning with h
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 03:48 PM
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35. And by 'h,' of course, you mean
"haitch." :D
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 03:53 PM
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37. That deserves a
:spank:
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 05:01 PM
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38. 'elp!
'e's 'urting me be'ind! :o
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 03:52 PM
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36. I'm sure that's an eye-opener when it happens...
:rofl: :yoiks: I'm glad you don't drop your Hs... :P
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 05:02 PM
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39. I'm more worried about
dropping the soap.



Talk about an eye-opener... :o
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 06:08 PM
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40. law and order suv
I always like the beginning when the announcer says
special victims unit work on the crimes that are considered heynus..........sounds like anus
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