TenuredVulture wrote:There's really no movie theater within 25 miles of my home. Thus, Moviefone, which allows you to adjust the distance from your zipcode is better than Fandango for me. Thanks for the tip.

It took me a lot more time than it should have to figure out that "there is no online ticket ordering for this theater" meant there is no online ticket ordering through fandango, but there is through moviefone.

"p"

Top 40 radio in a coffee shop

that pop-punk cover of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun really brought out the emotional stakes in the novel I was reading

Using IO10 in confirmation numbers and passwords where context makes it difficult to figure out whether it's an I or a 1 or a 0 or O in many fonts.

I ask more than one question in an email. I get one answer back.

The way people behave in parking lots.

Bill McNeal wrote:The way people behave in parking lots.

Parking lots are fucked up places for a lot of reasons. But I really hate how oblivious pedestrians are in parking lots. When they realize they need to get to the other side of the aisle, instead of taking a direct 90 degree turn and hustling over, they take the longest possible diagonal route at a leisurely pace. Drives me nuts.

"Parmesan" is an English word, not Italian. It is pronounced "par'-me-zahn", not like "Parmigiano" with the "o" dropped.

that's like complaining about gabbagoole

Not exactly. As I understand it, the pronunciations of "gabagool" and "prozhoot" and so forth stem from a Sicilian regional accent. So presumably "Parmigiano" would be pronounced similarly by Italian-Americans of Sicilian heritage, or folks who grew up with a lot of Sicilian-Americans. But I'm talking about a different word. Parmesan is derived from Parmigiano, obviously, but by way of French.

What's funny is that it was, I think, an Olive Garden commercial that set me off. It's just like OG to be pretentiously faux-Italian; I'm surprised they didn't say Parmigiano instead of Parmesan.

what's that commercial where the Middle American-sounding dude is all "AHHH, MOOZARELLAA"
it makes me want to open up a vein

I've always said it like Parmegian because I didn't know any better. might be too late for me now

There is no 'L' in chimney.

The word veggies. Is it all that hard to say vegetables?

WheelsFellOff wrote:There is no 'L' in chimney.

of course there isn't. who ever said there was?

more relevant to me is that there is only one 'e'

wasting food. grew up in a house of eight where the rule was take all you like but eat all you take. i'm often eating crap to my own detriment just not to waste it.

z ipper wrote:wasting food. grew up in a house of eight where the rule was take all you like but eat all you take. i'm often eating crap to my own detriment just not to waste it.

This, also people who don't eat leftovers. My gf's fam just throws the shit away right after. Pretty sure if I make a pot of Pasta gravy i'm gonna find some other shit that goes with it all week long.

Is pasta gravy the same thing as sauce? If so, referring to sauce as gravy.

Slowhand wrote:Is pasta gravy the same thing as sauce? If so, referring to sauce as gravy.

I normally just say gravy but some say sauce. Most get confused, to clarify I throw Pasta in front.

You get weird looks with that in Vegas? I grew up in Oregon and I don't think I ever heard anything but the meat drippings & flour-based stuff called gravy until a few years ago.