New rule: if you have your own show on the Food Network

[short bus president]

and you're heard to say "spinnage" when you mean to say "spinach," you lose your show, and get smacked upside your ugly little pinhead by Popeye.

"Spinnage." Fucking we todd ed moran.

[VelmaD]

1. *snort*

Name names, bus. Who dunnit?

[short bus president]

3. Oh, it's that damned salad-happy

carb-counting assflarn who has a show only because so many people have been suckered in by "Drs." Atkins and SouthBeach and so on to a lifestyle of early cardiac-related death. Buncha mo-tarded FoodTV execs could've at least found a self-proclaimed guru with better vocabulary skills than *.

[VelmaD]

5. assflarn?

I guess that's better than ass-flan.

[short bus president]

6. Don't knock it!

You haven't tasted flan 'til you've licked it off a properly firmed and toned...

Nevermind.

;-)

[Texasgal]

11. Ohhhhh....I've never tried

ASS-FLARN! Is it good?

[jobycom]

13. Wow

Just, wow.

[LuminousX]

22. I hate the carb-counting guy

I think the show needs to have a warning before it which indicates all the potential health risks of a low-carb diet. http://www.sideroad.com/Weight_Loss/low-carb-diet-danger.html
http://www.hopkinsafter50.com/html/silos/diabetes/wpARTICLE_diets.php

Of course when you realize that guy is working off low-quality brain fuel made of keotones instead of the high quality premium glycogin, you can see what he may have problems saying simple words like spinach.

[tk2kewl]

2. save the spinnage for the news media

[AlCzervik]

4. And if you use or say "Garbage bowl" you go in front of the firing squad.

[short bus president]

7. Nooooooooooo!

You can't kill Sarah! She's a hero in the eyes of cutely goofy people everywhere!

[AlCzervik]

9. Not Sarah, that fing Rachael ray

[short bus president]

15. Oh, I don't mind Rachael so much.

She's cute, and her vomitrocious enthusiasm can be curtailed by the "mute" button. And I do desperately love Sarah's shows - she's so fucking funny, so unintentionally. The one I really can't take is the Italian bird who's show is filmed through a glob of vaseline on the lens that would make soap opera producers blush. And it's lit like a Barbara Walters special. Really, really icky.

[AlCzervik]

20. Thats Everyday italian, shes the granddaughter of Dino Delaurentis

weird.

[LuminousX]

23. I would take a bullet for Rachael Ray!!

[AlCzervik]

24. oy. Maybe you can use her garbage bowl for a helmet.

[Robeson]

39. You and me both...

...I love Rachael. Oh, and I like her cooking shows, too! ;-)

[DS1]

8. That's nothing, the fucking idiot next to me in my art history class wrote

and I shit you not

Goll Blatter - in the context of someone having died from an infection. Wanted to slap her upside the head.

[Heddi]

14. A gal I worked with once SWORE that it was "Chester Drawers"

instead of Chest Of Drawers. We actually stopped being friends because I found it completely beyond the boundaries of normal human behaviour that a 25 year old could go through life putting her clothes in her Chester Drawers AND tell ME that there is no such thing as Chest of Drawers. That I was completely out of my head and (in her words) "Making up fake words to make me look stupid"??!?!??!?!?!?! :wtf:

[AlCzervik]

26. Thats is hilarious in a very sad way

[Heddi]

27. It's my favourite "stupid person" story

no one ever believes me. My mom knew this girl though, and totally vouches for her....ways.

She's what I would call "soft in the loft"

[short bus president]

17. Well, Goll-leee!

[Heddi]

10. Or pronouncing Jalapeno (as in the pepper)

Not the "right" way (Hal-o-peen-yo) but this new-fangled way which is Jal-o-pen-o ...uh, when was it okay to Americanize a Spanish word?

This goes along with the trend I've noticed lately of re-pronouncing old words differently....as if it makes Oregano (or-regg-ah-no --stress put on 2nd syllable) a new and different herb once you pronounce it "Or-ee-gah-no --stress put on first syllable). Or Herbs....when did it become right to pronounce the "H" in herbs? I always thought it was Erbs. :shrug:

Feh.

[Phillycat]

12. Brits do pronounce the "h" in herbs...

Other than that, all your examples sound ridiculous. It's probably just fake fancyin' up of perfectly good words.

[JimmyJazz]

16. yes, and they also pronounce the "t" in filet

:hi: sweetie - I hope you're doing okay!

[Phillycat]

19. Hangin' in...in fact I'm on my way home to watch ROTK on DVD.

Thanks for being such a sweetheart! Have a great night and I'll see ya tomorrow!! :loveya:

[short bus president]

29. Hel-lo! What's this?

Floaty hearts for Miss Jimmy? And a "see you tomorrow," even? Do you ladies have some pizza-making-equipment-related program activities planned of which I should be aware, and for which I should be charging camera batteries?

:D

[Heddi]

18. It's stupid!!!

And I've seen very non-British people pronounce the "h" in herbs...like Martha Stewart...god I hate that presumptious wench. Anyways.

Tyler Florence---he went to the same cooking school I did---was the first one I noticed, about 4 years ago, doing the "New and Improved" Jalapeno pronounciation. Now, it's as popular as Gwen Stefani.

I don't know...maybe I'm old and prudish, but I was brought up with the...inherent knowledge that most words are pronounced the way they are because, you know, it's the right way to pronounce them. I find it hard to believe that we, as a collective society, spent the last 1000 years pronouncing Oregano incorrectly and thank god for Bobby Flay to come along and set our asses straight.....

[FuzzySlippers]

32. Oops, sorry. I hadn't read down far enough when I made

my comment. I see you already pointed the Martha thing out.

[FuzzySlippers]

30. Also Martha Stewart.

She pronounces the "h" in herbs. Damned pretentious for an American. That in itself should be grounds for a felony conviction.

[Left Is Write]

35. The Brits also pronounce "oregano" as in that poster's example.

It's perfectly correct.

[jobycom]

21. Just the complete boredom of most Americans

We have no more culture to strive for, we don't understand or create anything new. We make sequels to tv shows that died two decades ago. Everything in America these days is an attempt to regain some lost past because we have nothing left to hope for in the future. So you take Charlie's Angles and add a lot of tight clothes and big explosions, and you throw together a slew of different old monster movies to fight Van Helsing, and you find new ways to pronounce old, boring food words.

Buy the way, do you say lama of yama, because that was Americanized long ago.

[Heddi]

25. Lama of yama?

I'm not sure what you mean...

But I completely agree with you and your statement about loss of creative culture, or lack of new culture. My husband and I were recently watching some Video Channel on cable, and I made the comment "wow...all these bands look like every other band I've ever seen" and the clothes they were were all clothes I had as a child in the 80's...but with a spin, you know, as if there's something "different" about a Member's Only jacket in 2004.

Society today has taken "everything old is new again" to a whole different level. There is no need for EVERYTHING NEW to be a remake of something old. It's okay to revive and put a new spin on an old idea (I'm thinking furniture, clothing, and design styles & revivals in years past). But there were still new innovations being made then, but not anymore.

Of course, when all we are are "CONSUMERS" from birth till death, and where every minute of our lives we're being sold something, in some way, whether a product, an idea, a state of mind, I would assume it just gets easier for those in charge of Marketing our daily lives to us to just rehash old things instead of at least trying something different.

And we, as a culture, have become accepting and even requesting of it. Why make a new movie when you can just dredge up a stale 1-hour sitcom from 30 years ago and stretch it into a complete marketing showcase of movie, tv-show (based on the movie based on the tv-show), clothing, food, sequels.....What have we devolved to as a society when we actually flock to see remakes of Starsky and Hutch, Dukes of Hazzard, etc? It's not as if these shows were GOOD to begin with...but now, because of the repackage and the "retro is in, man" schtick we're fed, we DESIRE IT! We've convinced ourselves that not only is this OKAY, but it's damn good too....

sorry for the rambling..... :)

[jobycom]

31. One little letter

I meant lama OR yama, as in how do you pronounce "llama?" Just can't tipe worth a flyp.

You weren't rambling, I agree completely.

[Heddi]

34. Oh! I pronounce it Llama

but I never knew any differently. I guess now taht I think about it, llamas and alpacas coming from the andes and all...it would make sense that it's pronounced in the 'yama' way instead of the way most people pronounce it :)

[Seabiscuit]

33. It's "llama" and pronounced "yama"

[denverbill]

28. Hey, I heard some British lady pronounce 'chiles' like 'smiles'.

I couldn't believe anyone with a cooking show wouldn't know how to pronounce that word.

[Nevernose]

38. "Jalapeno" is an English word

It's always been okay to anglicize Spanish words. Just as it's always been okay for Spanish speakers to latinize English words. That's just how languages evolve. I imagine that there's someone in Northumbria still bitchhing about the anglicization of certain Norse vocabulary, and Hollywood seems to love making movies about the Norman Conquest.

For the record, "jalapeno" is ALREADY anglicized. Most of us pronounce it "Hal-a-peeno" whereas most Spanish speakers I know pronounce it "Hahll-o-peeno." "Jalapeno" is an English word now.

Mispronouncing these words on purpose, though (which is what I think you're getting at), is just a pretentious affectation put on by so-called chefs to make them seem more culinarily-inclined, and thus sell more crappy cookbooks. When was the last time you cooked something at home that you first saw on Emeril or Wolfgang Puck?

[miss_kitty]

36. And if you have your own show on Court TV

are a former persecutor prosecutor and say 'sennance' when you mean to say 'sentence' you lose your show, and get smacked upside your ugly little pinhead by Bill (William Moses) Kunstler, AND you get disbarred. Especially if your name is 'Nancy Grace'

Stupid fucking moran hell hound.

[fluffernutter]

37. oh my gawd, you crack me up!

i couldn't agree more B-)