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Postby Jayelle » Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:11 pm

It has come out lately, that people are or have been scared of me.

People of pweb, fear not. I am not scary, I promise. I do not bite (anymore).

These are the reasons you should not fear me (and laugh at me instead):

-I once sprained my ankle during the very extreme sport of Mini Golf.

-I pronounce Bagel exactly like Britta. Seriously. Paul laughed his butt off at this episode because he's been mocking me for years for pronouncing it wrong.

-I fart loudly and frequently (Paul would like me to add: and stinkily)

-I am a complete and total dork about Buffy. I used to have a button that said "I'm a slayer, Ask me how!" , an obscure reference to a first-season episode. I was on cloud nine for weeks when a barista commented on it.

-The night I got engaged to Paul, we ran to every room in the dorm to tell them. (Only about 30% of those people cared)

-I'm from Canada. There is nothing scary from Canada. Except maybe bears. And I don't know any bears.
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Postby Caspian » Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:15 pm

Also she snorts when she laughs.
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Re: Fear Not

Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Aug 08, 2011 3:15 pm

-I once sprained my ankle during the very extreme sport of Mini Golf.

This reminds me so much of Revenge of the Nerds 2 (at least, I think it's part 2...they got even more ridiculous than the already ridiculous part 1, so I lost track of which was which). Anthony Edwards character can't go on vacation with the rest because he broke his leg playing chess.

"It was a very tricky move."


More on topic, I have feared you recently, as in, within the last year but after hearing you speak, sounding all Canadian-like, I don't know if I can be again. I'm excited to find out. (For science!)
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Postby CezeN » Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:06 pm

....Baggle. BAGGLE. BAHGOLE. BAAAAAAAAGOOOOOLE.

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Postby Jayelle » Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:12 pm

I also say ex-spear-a-ment instead of ex-par-a-ment, but I'm working on that one.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:16 pm

I also say ex-spear-a-ment instead of ex-par-a-ment, but I'm working on that one.
You're working on saying it...wrong? It is ex-spear-a-ment.
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Postby CezeN » Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:16 pm

That's okay. But baggle? I would shun you, in real life.
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Postby neo-dragon » Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:17 pm

I also say ex-spear-a-ment instead of ex-par-a-ment, but I'm working on that one.
But, ex-spear-a-ment is correct. Who says it the other way?
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Postby Caspian » Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:32 pm

It's not "noob" to rhyme with "boob". It's "newbie" to rhyme with "boobie".

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Postby starlooker » Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:51 pm

*puzzled*

I'm confused on the bagel thing. Because, in my head, your accent is supposed to be similar to a North Dakota/Minnesota accent (with a few exceptions). And, man, there is nothing Northern Plainsfolk like more than over-pronouncing their long vowels. I'd expect baggle from a Southerner, not a Canadian.

In other words, where'd you get that from?
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Postby neo-dragon » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:06 pm

I'd say it's actually somewhere in between. You're intentionally over emphasizing the "spear". :P
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Postby VelvetElvis » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:11 pm

*puzzled*

I'm confused on the bagel thing. Because, in my head, your accent is supposed to be similar to a North Dakota/Minnesota accent (with a few exceptions). And, man, there is nothing Northern Plainsfolk like more than over-pronouncing their long vowels. I'd expect baggle from a Southerner, not a Canadian.

In other words, where'd you get that from?
Baggle?! You'd get that from the northwest. In the south we say "BAAY-guhl"
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Postby starlooker » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:14 pm

Oh, baloney. I lived in the south for years, and they never heard a long vowel they couldn't shorten. :)
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Postby Mich » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:42 pm

"Baa-gull" I've actually only heard from Alaskans, but I hear it's also common in the very far north of Washington.

I also have an amazing weakness for girls who snort when they laugh. No idea why. It's just adorable.
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Postby Jayelle » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:06 pm

I don't think it has anything to do with accent. Much like Britta, I think I'm pronouncing it the same as everyone else.

Other things to make you not fear me:

-I sing nonsense songs all the time. And wrong words to songs on purpose all the time.

-I'm short. Maybe not as short as our resident Ewok, but I still shop in the petites section.

-I am not angry at you, as a pwebber. You would have to do something seriously serious to make me angry at you.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:08 pm

I will have you know, Teresa is shorter than me by three inches. Three!
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Postby VelvetElvis » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:13 pm

How short are you people?! I'm 5'9 and relatively short in my family. As in, both my grandmother and great-grandmother were taller than me.
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Postby VelvetElvis » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:16 pm

Oh, baloney. I lived in the south for years, and they never heard a long vowel they couldn't shorten. :)
but not when there's such a harsh sound after!
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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:18 pm

I get different measurements all the time but I've gotten 5'1", 5'1 3/4", and 5'2". I go with 5'2" because BMI measurements are kinder if I'm taller. Teresa is 4'11", if I'm remembering that correctly.

I'm taller than my mom and maternal grandma (by less than an inch) and about the same height, taller than, or just barely shorter than my paternal aunts. My paternal grandma is like...4'9", 4'10"? Shorter than me, at any rate.


The men folk in my family are weird. Most hover at 5'9" or 5'10" but then there's my oldest brother who is 6' and my maternal uncle who is 6'3" or so.
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Postby Jayelle » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:23 pm

I'm 5'4".
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Postby VelvetElvis » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:25 pm

My brother is fifteen. This is me on my tippy, tippy toes and straining just to kiss him on the cheek.

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My sisters are 5'11, 6'1, and 5'10. My grandmother was 5'11 and my greatgrandmother was 5'10.
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Postby neo-dragon » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:28 pm

I don't mean to alarm you, but you may be a member of a tribe of Amazons.

Jan's 5'4" is actually about average for an adult North American female.
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Postby Jayelle » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:28 pm

My mom is 5'1 and my dad is 6'4. My sisters and I got the shortness genes. 5'2, 5'4 and 5'8.
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Postby VelvetElvis » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:34 pm

I don't mean to alarm you, but you may be a member of a tribe of Amazons.

Jan's 5'4" is actually about average for an adult North American female.
Meh, that stat is from the eighties. And hey, I think that Kirsten and Kelly are similar height to me! I know so for kelly because we have similar body types.
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Postby mr_thebrain » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:37 pm

my sister is 4'11" i'm 6' we look nothing alike. i'm her big little brother. she's also one of my best friends, we go out drinking together sometimes. unfortunately because we look nothing alike and are seen together, people assume we're dating, not relatives. it helps that i call her sister instead of her name, and she calls me brother
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Postby starlooker » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:39 pm

I'm 5'10". I'm easily the tallest woman in my family. My mother is the second tallest at 5'4". Her sisters hover around the 5' range. Most of my male relatives on that side of the family are shorter than me as well, except one cousin and one uncle. It is quite easy to feel like Dorothy in Munchkinland at maternal family reunions.

So, I have to get the height from my Dad's side. However, he's 5'10", as well, which is just average for a man. His dad and a couple of his brothers were/are taller than him, but not by much. It's weird. None of our cousins (admittedly, we don't have many on that side) are taller than average.

My brother is about 6'4", easily the tallest person on both sides of the family.

I think it's just something in their combined genes. "When their powers combine -- Captain Tallperson!"
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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:42 pm

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I don't know how it started but my family gets a kick out of me randomly standing before them, launching into that song, and dancing along to it.
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Postby VelvetElvis » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:44 pm

me randomly standing before them, launching into that song, and dancing along to it.
Can't. Stop. Laughing.
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Postby VelvetElvis » Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:12 pm

And anyway, Jan, I cannot be afraid of you because we are glasses twins.
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Postby thoughtreader » Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:13 pm

I will have you know, Teresa is shorter than me by three inches. Three!
thats right I'm just that freaking short! 4'11 3/4" thats right the 3/4 matters!

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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:54 pm

thats right the 3/4 matters!
Damn right it does.


I also want you to know, unlike my friends who've known me since around the time I was in high school, I would never play you Skee Lo's song, "I Wish." Or use your shoulder/head as an armrest. Or hold things above your head. Or laugh at you if you couldn't reach a glass in the taller cupboards and had to climb onto the counter to get it.

Ahem. I mean...go shorty!
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Postby ender1 » Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:55 pm

I think I already told Teresa I'd be using her as an armrest :P

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Postby zeroguy » Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:57 pm

"baggle" is an awesome way to say "bagel"! You should never change that.

I actually started toying with saying baggle not long before I started watching Community. I wasn't aware other people actually said it that way; I just thought it sounded fun.
Jan's 5'4" is actually about average for an adult North American female.
I think all you're demonstrating is that the average girl is short.
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Postby Petra456 » Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:11 am

Also she snorts when she laughs.
Oh man, I SNORT when I laugh really hard. My older sister was laughing so hard at me snorting that it sent her into labor.
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Postby Luet » Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:50 am

Jan's 5'4" is actually about average for an adult North American female.
I think all you're demonstrating is that the average girl is short.
As a fellow 5'4" gal, I'm going to have to offer to beat you. :P
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