Did you know that the Jif plant right behind my house makes more peanut butter than any other factory in the world? And as
heres_luck and I stressed during her recent visit, it isn't just any peanut butter. It is Jif peanut butter, the best peanut butter known to man. I'd say IMO there but really - it is the best peanut butter, hands down.
And they make more of it behind my house than any other place in the world.
And the Big Ass Fan store behind my house? They actually make big ass fans for, like, dairy barns.
And Lexington? Has a population of over a quarter of a million people and is the largest Lexington in the WORLD. I had no idea.
Did you know that Lexington has an average mean temperature of 54.9 degrees Farenheit? I didn't either.
Oh - back in 1820 Lexington was known as the "Athens of the West" cause of all of our freakin' culture. Yee-Haw. Of course, what Wikipedia does not tell us and I am here to impart now: they didn't pronounce it Athens. It was (and will always be) A-Thins with the accent on the a long "a". Kinda like how the town next to us is called "Versailles" and that is pronounced "Ver-SALES" and if you say if wrong (or right, depending upon your world outlook) everyone looks at you funny.
Hell, this makes Lou-ah-vul look downright simple, now don't it?
Although, to be fair, I once got laughed out of a room in New Orleans when, while reading from an article about Master P, I mentioned he was from the Calliope Housing Projects, and I pronounced it the way it sounds, except, no. It is kal-E-ope. Yeah. I know. But hey - at least I knew it was 3rd ward and not 9th.
Is it any wonder that to this day I cannot pronounce a DAMNED THING? I have a complex about this, I seriously do.
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And they make more of it behind my house than any other place in the world.
And the Big Ass Fan store behind my house? They actually make big ass fans for, like, dairy barns.
And Lexington? Has a population of over a quarter of a million people and is the largest Lexington in the WORLD. I had no idea.
Did you know that Lexington has an average mean temperature of 54.9 degrees Farenheit? I didn't either.
Oh - back in 1820 Lexington was known as the "Athens of the West" cause of all of our freakin' culture. Yee-Haw. Of course, what Wikipedia does not tell us and I am here to impart now: they didn't pronounce it Athens. It was (and will always be) A-Thins with the accent on the a long "a". Kinda like how the town next to us is called "Versailles" and that is pronounced "Ver-SALES" and if you say if wrong (or right, depending upon your world outlook) everyone looks at you funny.
Hell, this makes Lou-ah-vul look downright simple, now don't it?
Although, to be fair, I once got laughed out of a room in New Orleans when, while reading from an article about Master P, I mentioned he was from the Calliope Housing Projects, and I pronounced it the way it sounds, except, no. It is kal-E-ope. Yeah. I know. But hey - at least I knew it was 3rd ward and not 9th.
Is it any wonder that to this day I cannot pronounce a DAMNED THING? I have a complex about this, I seriously do.