Chebucto Regional Softball Club

There is something deeply wrong with this country and I think I've found the source. A totem, a moment, and artifact that has poisoned the American psyche since our nation's inception.

I speak of course of "The Mammoth Cheese of Thomas Jefferson."

Basically this "founding father" had a big mansion called Monticello and in it, for a time, he had a big wheel of cheese someone gave to him. It was 1200 lbs. He had a room for it. Made people go look at it.

You had to "view the great cheese"

@ai6yr

... is that a heat gun?

@Szescstopni

Ya'll always take *her* side. Every single time.

@hoco

Brother I am not taking this thing off again until I replace it. Putting it on was too hard. Poor kitty will need to make do with... IDK I will run the hoover over the thing a few times.

@darkling @catmisgivings

I like the way both of them say "robits" ... this seems to be going away. But it was common in US English a generation ago.

In my ongoing effort to make our apartment nicer I bought a green couch cover. It was hard to put on but really makes the room feel fresh.

As soon as I was done #PicaTheCat the cat entered. Sat down two inches from the cover looking up at the couch and started... mourning?

She's so upset. She HATES it.

My husbands said "you erased her database"

Well.

@catmisgivings @AnachronistJohn

Also they provide calming videos of ants to watch as you listen.

@catmisgivings @AnachronistJohn

One of the slippery things about accents is they are always changing. We tend to have a fixed idea of accents tied to a place, but that fixed idea might only apply to the older people from that region.

This video is really neat to show the change... which is still going ... everywhere.

@flipper @catmisgivings

I have a spreadsheet of accents that catch my ear for being "natural" but distinctive. Minor obsession.

@flipper @catmisgivings

Yall are mean.

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I can't even explain what's going on out there. Here is a sample of what sounds like "a heavy accent" to my ear.

@catmisgivings @flipper

that's just a phonetic spelling ... what are you implying exactly. ....

@catmisgivings

Adding it to my head cannon that ALL cats have a terrible fake NYC accent. That's just how it works.

@catmisgivings

That's what people from California think NYC sounds like.

The worst fake NYC accent is that one that Meowth has. I have never heard ANYONE who sounds like that in my life.

IDK maybe that's how Pica sounds but she pretends she can't talk around humans.

@neia

Oh my god.

We NEED to make a musical with ants.

And none of the Disney noise either.

Me? Fangirling over Broadway musicals?

Never.

It NEVER happens. Preposterous. I am not such a campy little person to do such things.

Is this the "dying NYC accent" everyone is so sad about?

My *students* think "God" rhymes with "hard"

Stephanie Mills is from Brooklyn but doesn't make it rhyme. Maybe it's too old school for her.

Or maybe she was just in a pit of despair because she's singing a song that Ross ... defined. She is excellent... But listen I would never want to try to be a follow up act to Diana Ross. Just cry and go home.

I also enjoy that Charlie Smalls has rhymed the word "God" with "hard"

Which works (just) if you have the right NYC accent... but not otherwise.

Diana is from Detroit and makes it work. And is so good at singing that... why would you even care if it didn't?

“if you’re listening, God, please don’t make it hard to know if we should believe the things that we see

Tell us: should we run away? Should we try and stay? or would it just be better just to let things be?”

this line from Dorothy‘s headline song “home” from “The Wiz” never really resonated with me … until recently

now, I think about it all the time

#thewiz #oz #AI