h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

would you pronounce that 'coo-lay' or just 'cool'?
no matter - i sorta like that one, seeing as ive never seen/heard it before
-saffire

I haven't yet seen a map of the United States which is printed so that, when you're looking at it with the words facing the right way, the west coast of the US is not on the left.

damn straight_that is one of my favorite sayings
also a really stupid old one i heard the other day_okey-dokey. it was right out of the little rascals, except a 40 year old was saying it

Well, mostly like 'cool', but with more 'h' in it. "Khool!"

khule
-saffire;>

What about cule? or qule? or qul(with umlauts)?

umlauts?
-saffire...

You never said okey-dokey? That's one of my favorites! and it's variations: okey-dorky, dokey-okey, and the ever popular oh-tay.

never heard those variations before...sound a little goofy
-saffire

You know, the twin dots (..) that are placed over vowels to change their sound. Seen alot in Germanic languages.

umlauts could be [insert your own personal spelling of cool] - if only we knew how to use em while talking in these forums...
got any ideas?
-saffire;>

Ku:le?

Anyone have an ascii chart?

Oh-tay is from Eddie Murphy's Buckwheat impression.

somehow, the : just doesnt cut it...what a shame!
-saffire;>

and buckwheat would be...?
-saffire

a character from the aforementioned 'Little Rascals', actually. Old black and white movies. (Or was it TV?) Buckwheat was a little black kid with crazy hair and garbled speech. Never actually watched any of them, but Eddie Murphy used to do Buckwheat as a recurring character on Saturday Night Live, with Nora Dunn (I think) playing Alfalfa.

ahhh - now i remember...thanks!
-saffire

Otay!

I believe so. Maybe someone should come up with a chart that gives equivilant slang meanings...

Hmmmmmm..... Maybe ku"le?