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An English couple were touring the States and while in Wisconsin, they came across a place named Wauwatosa.
Now this couple had no idea about how this was pronounced, having fallen foul when visiting Little Rock some time before and finding out that Arkansas is not pronounced the same as Kansas.
Spending a fair while arguing, not speaking to one another then arguing some more, they came upon a roadside eatery where they decided to grab some lunch and while they were about it, they could also settle once and for all, the pronunciation issue that had been plaguing them.
They stood at the counter and when their turn came to be served, they gave the blonde girl their order.
"I wonder could you settle something for us too? My wife and I are unsure of the pronunciation of this place and wonder if you could tell us. So if you could say it slow and clear, we'd be much obliged."
With that, the blonde girl leant forward across the counter and said "Buuuuurrrrrrgerrrrr Kiiiiiiiing."
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rofl
Very funny :-)
Arf
laugh, I almost did.. ;)
I think I sprained my spleen.
So funny. Thank you for the laugh. It's so early, and I'd not done my
giggle warm up exercizes, so I think I sprained my spleen!
Sarah Lynn
Answer the question
She answered the question they asked, they failed to ask the question they needed answered. Not the girl's fault.
KJT
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"
Janis Joplin
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
You got me!
Thanks for the laugh this morning Nick! I didn't quiet spray my monitor, but I came close!
grover
location, location, location
I found a Burger King at 3880 N 124th in Wauwatosa, but sad to say none on Kinnickinnic Ave, nor on Ozaukee Rd, or Foun Du Lac Ave. Not even on Teutonia Ave.
Martin Luther King Drive has one (aprox 2800N)
I used to pass it most days on the way to UW-Milwaukee.
We had one near my house but it's a Dairy Queen now (aprox 6400 W North Ave)
It is pronounced Wah-wah-toe-sah.
Nice rework of an old classic.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Old classic
That's putting it mildly. I think that joke was old when vaudeville was new.
Anybody for Dairy Queen/Burger King jokes?
No please, I was joking!
KJT
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"
Janis Joplin
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Aw c'mon guys
I've been a member now for one year and seventeen weeks and this is the first time I've said anything about W-w-what'sitsname.
For me that's damned good going!
NB
Karen, you had to mention THAT to my evil muse?
I remember the old 1970s(?) Burger King jingle. So ...
The Burger King and Dairy Queen go our for drinks and dancing and pretty soon they are back at her place doing amazing and probably illegal things with soft serve icecream, fruit, nuts and whipped cream -- at least for say Georgia.
"Wow!" exclaimed a satisfied Dairy Queen afterward. "That was the best banana split ever. How did you ever become such a considerate lover?"
"It's like in the ads ...
"Have your way ..."
Okay, you can stop hitting me now.
John in Wauwatosa
P.S. Wauwatosa means valley of the firefly or something like that in the native language as translated by the French and later Americans as the settled in the Memomonie river valley up from the small Great Lakes port of Milwaukee.
Mind you many names we had for native tribes and places have problems. Some is the mutiple translations fron Native to French to English to American English and time mucking things up . Also there was the phenemon of if you didn't like the tribe across the river, when a stranger -- a European -- asked you who those people were, you might not say the truth. You might give you tribe's insult for them.
"O those are the Eat Dog Poop people and the tribe beyond them is the Fornicates with Children people. We are the Favored Children of the Gods people of course."
"Strange, the tribe across the river called you the Beer Guzzling Jerry Springer Tee-Pee Trash people.
John in Wauwatosa
Banana Split?
That sounds painfull! Just sliced in two longways, or also in the middle?
Karen J.
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"
Janis Joplin
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Apropos nada
I have been in two cities named Worcester, one on each side of the Atlantic. So I was real excited when I was driving through Ohio last summer and got to stop in the City of Wooster.
Alas and Alac, in Ohio that is pronounced WooR-ster.
Wike in dat bwews song!
I'm a widdle wed wooster, too wazy to cwow at dawn...
~~~(huhuhuhuh!) Waika
And remember...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLqzLEB3E0
The invisible "r"
I had a friend in high school who (I think as a result of his parents coming from Missouri) pronounced the name of the first U.S. president "Warshington." When I teased him about it, he matter-of-factly replied, "If there can be silent 'e's, there can be invisible 'r's."
Couldn't really argue with that.
The invisible "r"
I grew up in a small town in Kansas, we went to the laundry mat every week to do the warshing lol.
Melanie
what?
Fiddlesticks.
Sounds like British pronunciation.
Authority: I am an alum of the College of Wooster (I have a teeshirt, in vivid yellow, with C.O.W. across the breasts).
"Wooster" is pronounced Cleveland-style, with a *very* short "oo", more as if it were spelled "Wuster". "Could you come to my rum? The ruf leaks, right over the dur."
On the other hand, the two major streets in Wooster are Beall and Bever, pronounced "bell" and "beaver". Student legendry asserts that long, long ago, shortly after the founding of the school, some ingenious and mischievous students stole the 'a' from beaver and put it in bell, and the townies didn't notice, being too stoned on the fumes of curing rubber.
(There's a rubbermaid plant just outside of town)
Note: this is in response to a comment, which this is probably no longer "in reply to" since login apparently lost my place, suggesting that there are two 'r's in Wooster.
Amy!
(class of '82)
C.O.W.
I like COW. I have a friend that goes there now. When she started there I gave her a t-shirt with a plaid cow saying, "Woo", on it.
She says that the locals and the older students didn't like it because Ohio cows always say "Mor". You're right of course, it's not quite that pronunciation really, but nothing like the sounds of the pronunciations of both Worchesters, even though it seems a phonetic spelling. I think that is unfortunate.
(PS, Rubbermaid is gone too, depressing the town a lot, and it seems making the town-gown problems even worse. Smucker's is still there, but only the headquarters not the plants.)
Acronyms/Pronunciation
Nick,
This is all your fault.
WaggaWagga is not WaggerWagger. It's WoggerWogger. And the City University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne had to reorder all of their stationery and burn all the Tee-shirts when somebody realised the initials weren't exactly P.C.
Joanne
PC & non-PC acronyms
I studied at Cambridge University. My college, Peterhouse, was the oldest, and immediately after the college passed it's six hundredth anniversary, the Junior Common Room (Undergraduate Bar, TV rooms, etc.) renamed itself the Peterhouse Sexcentenary club.
I'm sure that everyone can guess what the undergraduate's T-Shirts said.
(Unsurprisingly, the JCR's name wasn't changed after it passed the seven hundredth anniversary)
Wyrm
CUN-u-T?
What's the problem with CUN-u-t?
But there is a school in Texas that was once called The Sam Houston Normal School, that had planed to change its name to The Sam Houston Institute of Technology until the baseball caps arrived and they decided to go with Sam Houston State University.
American/English
Seeing we're really going beyond the pale, but none of you can throw rotten eggs or squishy tomatoes (tomaytoes) at me;
What does a clerk do (in English "clark")?
It goes "tick, tark"