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[CatrionaGrace]

Okay, I'm not getting the joke. Someone care to explain?

 

[ps102]

Okay, I'm not getting the joke. Someone care to explain?

If you swap the initial S with a C and make it into an acronym, then it turns into a slur I shall not name.

I didn't know this either. I had Thursday afternoon classes in my first year of university two years ago, so I was going around saying "See you next Thursday!" to people without realizing I was low key insulting them. Thankfully, someone pointed it out to me.

 

[JLT]

You're doing this fully conscious of the joke, right?

Here's my little post for today - I bought this new pan and successfully baked my first ever Detroit-style pizza at home. It turned out really well. It's so good. Nice crispy edges, thicc crust, with some dough bubbles. Plus the ingredients probably only set me back like $6-7. Not bad for three filling meals.

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Detroit-style... now that's a new one on me (and I'm half Italian-American). You'll have to give me the recipe. It looks a lot like the "grandmother pizza" that my family used to make, and which can still be found in certain sections of New York if you know where to look.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

If you swap the initial S with a C and make it into an acronym, then it turns into a slur I shall not name.

I didn't know this either. I had Thursday afternoon classes in my first year of university two years ago, so I was going around saying "See you next Thursday!" to people without realizing I was low key insulting them. Thankfully, someone pointed it out to me.

I first heard it from my eldest sister who rarely swears. See You (phonetics) Next Tuesday (initials).

I don't imagine anyone thought you meant anything ulterior in college all the same.

 

[computerbob]

Loved the study of birds to help planes increase speed. If you know you know.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Detroit-style... now that's a new one on me (and I'm half Italian-American). You'll have to give me the recipe. It looks a lot like the "grandmother pizza" that my family used to make, and which can still be found in certain sections of New York if you know where to look.

It's an Instagram thing. Nobody heard it until a few years. Yet another Internet culinary concoction... don't get me started.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

If you swap the initial S with a C and make it into an acronym, then it turns into a slur I shall not name.

Oh, good grief.

Thanks for explaining, ps102. I'd not have figured it out on my own, especially since it requires changing a y to a u, too. Does someone stay up at night thinking this stuff up? Maybe the same person who invented Instagram pizza?

Maybe I'll invent Traditional Wyoming-Style Pizza featuring Rocky Mountain Oysters and farm cheese on biscuit dough with beer-infused tomato sauce.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

It's an Instagram thing. Nobody heard it until a few years. Yet another Internet culinary concoction... don't get me started.

Homer, you're probably familiar with this place, but I thought I'd share the link anyway.

Sobrino de Botín

 

[Set2Stun]

Detroit-style... now that's a new one on me (and I'm half Italian-American). You'll have to give me the recipe. It looks a lot like the "grandmother pizza" that my family used to make, and which can still be found in certain sections of New York if you know where to look.

Oh, it's nothing special, mostly just a certain way of baking it. You let the dough rise a bit longer than you might for a typical pie, sauce it, and sprinkle the cheese right to the edges to get a little of that burnt cheese crunch on the sides.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Homer, you're probably familiar with this place, but I thought I'd share the link anyway.

Sobrino de Botín

I was not, but thank you for sharing. That's incomprehensible. 50 years is legendary around these parts.

 

[Louanne Learning]

We're well into the Christmas visiting schedule. I was with company Saturday, Sunday, today (Tuesday) - and then tomorrow Christmas Day and Boxing Day we have plans. Lots of eating and drinking and laughing and it all warms my heart!

Merry Christmas everyone!!

 

[Set2Stun]

We had a massive blizzard, so we're getting a white Christmas after all. Just going to have a quiet holiday with kitty, bake another pizza tonight, watch shows and read some books.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

Happy Christmas everybody!

 

[Rath Darkblade]

I was curious about this ("Merry Christmas" or "Happy Christmas"?), so I checked it out:

"Merry Christmas" is dominant in North America (US/Canada) and globally, while "Happy Christmas" is the traditional preference in the UK (and used by the Royal Family, since "merry" once implied more boisterous, drunken revelry that some associated with the sacred holiday).

In short:
- "Merry Christmas" is often linked to festive cheer, carols, and Victorian traditions.
- "Happy Christmas" is a more dignified and quietly content greeting.

They mean the same thing, but regional tradition dictates which you hear more often. (I learned something new today. Yes, on Christmas Day).

Happy Hogswatch, everyone!

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Wishing everyone the most gratifying of holidays... or hogadays, depending on your personal seasonal outlook.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Having Christmas dinner tomorrow at my sister's. They're doing the entire dinner and let us off the hook for bringing anything for the main meal, but I was asked to bring charcuterie for the afternoon. We're going pretty early to visit before dinner. Damn, charcuterie ain't cheap.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I don't suppose a plain old meat and vegetable tray is acceptable fare any more.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Merry Christmas everyone!

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate and Happy Thursday to those who don't. We're having our family get together tomorrow out at the ranch. When I was a kid, my brother got a set of Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots. I thought Boxing Day had something to do with playing with that particular toy on a day devoted to an inexplicable "sport".

 

[JLT]

I was curious about this ("Merry Christmas" or "Happy Christmas"?), so I checked it out:

"Merry Christmas" is dominant in North America (US/Canada) and globally, while "Happy Christmas" is the traditional preference in the UK (and used by the Royal Family, since "merry" once implied more boisterous, drunken revelry that some associated with the sacred holiday).

In short:
- "Merry Christmas" is often linked to festive cheer, carols, and Victorian traditions.
- "Happy Christmas" is a more dignified and quietly content greeting.

They mean the same thing, but regional tradition dictates which you hear more often. (I learned something new today. Yes, on Christmas Day).

In the US, the connection may be reinforced by "God rest ye merry, gentlemen" and similar references, perhaps due to the fact that "very merry" sounds more mellifluous than "very happy" and thus more adaptable to songs.

And I'm reminded of the Christmas song "A-soaling" which has the line "An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry / Any good thing to make us all merry"... which doesn't work with "happy" unless you wanted to rhyme it with "sappy" or "crappy'"

Happy Hogswatch, everyone!

And happy Saturnalia, happy Solstice (a few days late), and whatever seasonal holiday you celebrate.

And my condolences to anybody born on this day, or any of the few days before or after it, because people always told them "Instead of a birthday present and a Christmas present, I'll just give you one big present!" (A girlfriend of mine who was born on December 23rd explained this to me.)