GypsyRR wrote:CycleRob wrote:Getting back to you and your new glow . . . . I know it's not just the pain killers talking. Modern medicine has given you another big chance to keep on doing what you do best.
And can we discuss the correct pronunciation of Ohlins? Is it O- lens. or O - leens (as in New O'Leeens) ? Just would like to know.
oh, where do I start?
Of course give a hand to modern medicine...thanks, CR, and welcome back to the land of the vertical, Kristi
and it's Oh-Leens for the shocks (source Ted Porter of Ted's Beemershop)
uh oh, hit a nerve, here it comes, Off Topic in Off Topic
and it is NOT "O - leens (as in New O'Leeens)"
It is NOT O'Leeens.
This is the deal. This is the straight poop, ok?
Acceptable pronunciations of the Queen City of the South, The City That Care Forgot, The Crescent City, The Big Easy, my home town, include,
and are limited to:
New Orl-E-uns - the most common pronunciation and closest to the French pronunciation Orl-i-aunnz
New Orl-yuns is ok
New Or-Luns or Or-Lens are ok
New Or-leens is completely accepted, though using it will immediately label you as a tourist--and that's fine; we like tourists a lot (within limits); also it is ok because of the song, "Do You Know What It Means, To Miss New Orleans," a song that is a completely emotional experience for any native, since the Katrina thing.
It's not rocket science though we have that, too, at the Michoud (Mee-Shoe) Assembly Facility
The one that will label you, immediately, as a tourist and/or an idiot is GnawLins, an incredibly ugly word for a very pretty city. This abomination was perpetrated on us by an XRay Tech/later feature story guy on a local TV station in a recurring color piece called, drum roll, rim shot, Natchally Nawlins.
end rant
John
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Even though he delivered all the 5 cardboard boxes of individual components, everything, that made the PC I'm using now. It was spread out over like 3 weeks too.
