True Confessions of a Ricochetti

Arahant
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On another thread, one of our members admitted something:

I always confuse Horace Greeley with William Jennings Bryan.

I’ve seen a few other comments like this over the years I have been here. When Ricochetti go wild and make their true confessions, it usually isn’t the sort of thing you would see on Facebook or Jeff Bezos’ diary. How many people on your Facebook feed even know who Horace Greeley and William Jennings Bryant are? This is a high-class joint with high-class true confessions.

My true confession: the older I get, the more trouble I have with homonyms. I tend to write out loud. I once found an error in one of my books where I had used the word “clamber” instead of “clamor,” for instance.

What’s your most Ricochet-style true confession?

 

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  1. Arahant Member
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    3:34 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Saint Augustine (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):
    In English, we pronounce an R in the front of the mouth, unless we’re Southrons.

    Like the enemies of Gondor?

    No, non-rhoticists.

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  2. The Reticulator Member
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    3:37 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Arahant: My true confession: the older I get, the more trouble I have with homonyms. I tend to write out loud. I once found an error in one of my books where I had used the word “clamber” instead of “clamor,” for instance.

    I do more weird stuff like that than I used to when I was younger. Now I’m frequently surprised to see what my fingers have typed. 

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  3. Percival Thatcher
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    3:40 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    • #33
  4. Arahant Member
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    3:42 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Percival (View Comment):

    We all already knew that about you.

    • #34
  5. Manny Coolidge
    Manny
    @Manny
    3:48 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Let’s just say thank God for spell check. I can’t spell to save my lufe. ;)

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  6. Manny Coolidge
    Manny
    @Manny
    3:50 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Hank Rhody, Acting on Emotion (View Comment):

    Alright, you want a scandalous one? I can’t recite all the protections in half the Bill of Rights. I never remember the specifics covered by amendments 4-8.

    Me too and the Ten Commandments. Which one is number six?

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  7. Jimmy Carter Member
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    3:55 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    The Reticulator (View Comment):

    Arahant: My true confession: the older I get, the more trouble I have with homonyms. I tend to write out loud. I once found an error in one of my books where I had used the word “clamber” instead of “clamor,” for instance.

    I do more weird stuff like that than I used to when I was younger. Now I’m frequently surprised to see what my fingers have typed.

    I give all the credit to My fingers. They’re the only ones I can count on. 

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  8. Hank Rhody, Acting on Emotion Contributor
    Hank Rhody, Acting on Emotion
    @HankRhody
    4:02 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Manny (View Comment):

    Hank Rhody, Acting on Emotion (View Comment):

    Alright, you want a scandalous one? I can’t recite all the protections in half the Bill of Rights. I never remember the specifics covered by amendments 4-8.

    Me too and the Ten Commandments. Which one is number six?

    Thou Shalt Not Mutter

    • #38
  9. Spin Inactive
    Spin
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    4:02 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Arahant: What’s your most Ricochet-style true confession?

    I really, really like Miami Vice. 

    • #39
  10. Randy Webster Inactive
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    4:04 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Arahant (View Comment):
    Jeoh(n)-Pohl Sahrtr. The first name is said through the nose, and the N is not so much pronounced as a hum through the nose. The middle name is a long O, not how we pronounce Paul. The last name is much more difficult because we really don’t have a sound like the French R in English. In English, we pronounce an R in the front of the mouth, unless we’re Southrons. The French pronounce it in the back of the throat. You might compare this to trying to do a pirate R (West-country dialect), which is often a growl in the side of the mouth, “Arrrr, matey!” So the French R is in the back of the throat and closer to a growled H or glottal stop when between two vowels, as in Pah-hee (Paris). Thus we have the first R in Sartre like that growled H. The second does form a second syllable, but is almost more of a tap or short trill on the end of the T. If you can trill your tongue, the easiest pronunciation might be just: Sot(very short trill).

    If they can’t speak English, I’m not interested.

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  11. Lois Lane Coolidge
    Lois Lane
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    4:05 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):
    Jeoh(n)-Pohl Sahrtr. The first name is said through the nose, and the N is not so much pronounced as a hum through the nose. The middle name is a long O, not how we pronounce Paul. The last name is much more difficult because we really don’t have a sound like the French R in English. In English, we pronounce an R in the front of the mouth, unless we’re Southrons. The French pronounce it in the back of the throat. You might compare this to trying to do a pirate R (West-country dialect), which is often a growl in the side of the mouth, “Arrrr, matey!” So the French R is in the back of the throat and closer to a growled H or glottal stop when between two vowels, as in Pah-hee (Paris). Thus we have the first R in Sartre like that growled H. The second does form a second syllable, but is almost more of a tap or short trill on the end of the T. If you can trill your tongue, the easiest pronunciation might be just: Sot(very short trill).

    If they can’t speak English, I’m not interested.

    I think they probably did!  

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  12. Randy Webster Inactive
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    4:07 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Arahant (View Comment):

    Randy Webster (View Comment):
    I once posted Pogo’s take on clamor.

    Go ahead and repost it here, if you have it handy.

    I’ll have to look it up.  It may be tomorrow.  It’ll take a while.

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  13. Randy Webster Inactive
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    4:09 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Arahant (View Comment):

     

    Yes, but you aren’t a big-time philosophy or theology professor.

    You don’t know that.  I could have been lying all this time.

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  14. Randy Webster Inactive
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    4:10 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Arahant (View Comment):

    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    Saint Augustine (View Comment):
    I can top that: I don’t even know what they are.

    That Greek is saving you, man. It’s the only thing keeping you from exile to the island of Facebook right now. 😜

    I don’t even have the Greek to save me. And I can’t get exiled to Facebook because I don’t have an account.

    Yes, but you aren’t a big-time philosophy or theology professor.

    I was friends with a big-time philosophy professor.  An Aristotelian.

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  15. ltpwfdcm, pribbling varlot Coolidge
    ltpwfdcm, pribbling varlot
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    4:10 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    I like to drive on parkways and park on driveways…

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  16. Arahant Member
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    4:15 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Spin (View Comment):

    Arahant: What’s your most Ricochet-style true confession?

    I really, really like Miami Vice.

    Hmmmn.

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  17. Hoyacon Member
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    4:16 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Spin (View Comment):

    Arahant: What’s your most Ricochet-style true confession?

    I really, really like Miami Vice.

    Especially the Gordon Liddy episodes.

    • #47
  18. Amy Schley Coolidge
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    4:17 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    I’m a Lutheran who’d rather sing the mass in Latin than German or English.

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  19. Lois Lane Coolidge
    Lois Lane
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    4:18 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Hoyacon (View Comment):

    Spin (View Comment):

    Arahant: What’s your most Ricochet-style true confession?

    I really, really like Miami Vice.

    Especially the Gordon Liddy episodes.

    ?

    • #49
  20. EDISONPARKS Member
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    4:21 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    I don’t even own a gun, much less a sawed off shotgun.

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  21. Percival Thatcher
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    4:22 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Arahant (View Comment):

    Spin (View Comment):

    Arahant: What’s your most Ricochet-style true confession?

    I really, really like Miami Vice.

    Hmmmn.

    Could be worse. Could be “Starsky and Hutch.”

    • #51
  22. Jim Chase Member
    Jim Chase
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    4:25 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    I once shot a man for snoring too loud.

    Wait, what game are we playing?

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  23. Percival Thatcher
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    4:28 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Jim Chase (View Comment):

    I once shot a man for snoring too loud.

    Wait, what game are we playing?

    Well at least it wasn’t just to watch him die.

    That’s only okay in Reno.

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  24. Boss Mongo Member
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    4:32 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    I don’t think JRR Tolkien is a good writer.  At all.

    I’ve tried numerous times, can’t work my way through the LOTR.  Just can’t.

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  25. Lois Lane Coolidge
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    4:35 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Boss Mongo (View Comment):

    I don’t think JRR Tolkien is a good writer. At all.

    I’ve tried numerous times, can’t work my way through the LOTR. Just can’t.

    Now that there, @bossmongo, is downright blasphemy.  Like.  Goodness gracious.  That’s like saying you think Ronald Reagan is a troll.  

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  26. Amy Schley Coolidge
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    4:36 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Boss Mongo (View Comment):

    I don’t think JRR Tolkien is a good writer. At all.

    I’ve tried numerous times, can’t work my way through the LOTR. Just can’t.

    He was a very gifted amateur … but yeah, he does things that no professional writer would do. “Oh, I know! Let me tell a climatic battle in flashback!” 

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  27. Vance Richards Inactive
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    4:37 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Boss Mongo (View Comment):

    I don’t think JRR Tolkien is a good writer. At all.

    I’ve tried numerous times, can’t work my way through the LOTR. Just can’t.

    Don’t waste your time, the movies are better.

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  28. Lois Lane Coolidge
    Lois Lane
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    4:38 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Amy Schley (View Comment):

    Boss Mongo (View Comment):

    I don’t think JRR Tolkien is a good writer. At all.

    I’ve tried numerous times, can’t work my way through the LOTR. Just can’t.

    He was a very gifted amateur … but yeah, he does things that no professional writer would do. “Oh, I know! Let me tell a climatic battle in flashback!”

    Oh, my word!

    Vance Richards (View Comment):
    Vance Richards  

    Boss Mongo (View Comment):

    I don’t think JRR Tolkien is a good writer. At all.

    I’ve tried numerous times, can’t work my way through the LOTR. Just can’t.

    Don’t waste your time, the movies are better.

    It’s like… I didn’t know any of you!!!!

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  29. Miffed White Male Member
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    4:40 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Boss Mongo (View Comment):

    I don’t think JRR Tolkien is a good writer. At all.

    I’ve tried numerous times, can’t work my way through the LOTR. Just can’t.

    Amen brother!

    Forced my way through it in college.  Never again.

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  30. Boss Mongo Member
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    4:42 PM EST ⋅ Jan 11, 2019

    Lois Lane (View Comment):

    Amy Schley (View Comment):

    Boss Mongo (View Comment):

    I don’t think JRR Tolkien is a good writer. At all.

    I’ve tried numerous times, can’t work my way through the LOTR. Just can’t.

    He was a very gifted amateur … but yeah, he does things that no professional writer would do. “Oh, I know! Let me tell a climatic battle in flashback!”

    Oh, my word!

    Vance Richards (View Comment):
    Vance Richards

    Boss Mongo (View Comment):

    I don’t think JRR Tolkien is a good writer. At all.

    I’ve tried numerous times, can’t work my way through the LOTR. Just can’t.

    Don’t waste your time, the movies are better.

    It’s like… I didn’t know any of you!!!!

    Lighten up, Francis Lois.

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