Posts by Danielle
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(How cool is 'O Superman'? Still!)
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One person miles from where the action is taking place wimpering in the corner isn't going to affect the outcome.
Pfffft. You and your LOGIC and your REASON. I knew! I knew that if I turned the netball on we would lose! So I didn't! And we won!
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but perhaps the best of them – and it comes with the Danielle seal of approval – is the Le Castle Vania remix
Oh man, I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE it. I could not love its big phat-bassed dancey Prince-synthy disco-stringy E'd-up ass more. I owe you! (Again.)
If anyone needs me, I shall be over here playing it for the mumblemumbleth time.
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But then, Americans are just weird about swearing. I am having to practice some fairly hefty self-censorship.
We told you! Didn't we tell you? When I said 'twat' in passing in that class discussion, lord, the horrified silence...
(My FB status updates often include variants of 'goddammit' just to fuck with my American relatives. I am kind of an evil person.)
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No, 'woo', as in 'take your lady out in the hope of getting some mad lovin'' is a different 'oo' sound than the one in 'book'. Which is different again from 'bok' as in springbok. The 'book' one is somewhere between 'woo' and 'bok'.
Also, I would like to meet a glottologist. Innit.
('Bear' and 'beer' *are* different. These kids! On my lawn, with their alcopops and their homophones!)
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No, I mean 'woman' and 'women'. It's the first syllable that I pronounce differently. In other news, the English language is fucking weird. (Paging Dr Tiso for a whut-whut.)
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But they're pronounced differently using the first syllable, right? 'Woh-min' and 'wimmin'. Or is that no longer done and I am an anachronism?
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Cigarette cases, on the other hand...
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Because you're secretly in love with... Michael York?
Heh, not really. Although I believe that he deserves our respect as part of the great English Tradition of Monkeymen (see also: Gaz from Supergrass; Ian Brown from the Stone Roses). Plus he is also the male sub-lead in my second favourite film of all time.
should we call you Almost-Dr Moreau?
Not really - I did all the necessary coursework (A average! A average! I stress that because it's all I have!) but didn't take the Giant Comprehensive Examinations of Doom or write The Big Fuckoff Dissertation, so perhaps you could call me '33% Dr Moreau'.
(I did, however, complete the minor in Women's Studies, and even have a certificate to prove it, so I can wave my postgraduate diploma of uselessness in someone's face, if necessary. Does anyone ever ask for those on a plane?)
ETA:
for $24.99 (plus p & p) you could be Dr Moreau
Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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I did four years of a PhD before dropping out, and to be honest, at times the only thing that kept me going for that long was the desire to be known as *Dr Moreau*, which is just impossibly awesome. Particularly if you live on an island.