Went to a greenhouse the other day and peeked into the back room and found thousands and thousands of baby poinsetta plants. So I took a picture to show just how insane our Christmas consumerism has become.
But, come a month and a half from now, I'd be pissed if I couldn't buy a poinsetta if it weren't for these mass productions, so who am I to point fingers?
Which reminds me, is it POIN-SET-AH or POIN-SETTY-AH? I like the first option. The other one sounds ridiculous. Which also reminds me that I've heard really strange pronunciations of two words lately on radio news programs. "Neandrathal" pronounced NEE-ANN-DRA-TALL (Tall instead of THAWL), and "fungi" pronounced FUN-GEE. As in, "GEE, that was FUN eating those mushrooms" instead of "I had FUN eating those mushrooms."
My beef about these stupid pronunciations is not that they're incorrect, because technically, they're not, but that they're a way for smart people to yet again make themselves feel important by confusing the commoners. It's smarty-pants way of sorta separating the wheat from the chaff-- if you say THAWL instead of TALL, you give yourself away as not being smart enough to know that there is an alternate pronunciation because if you did, surely you'd be using it! All the cool anthropologists and mushroomologists do!
Furthermore, what does this mean for all the "fungi/fun-guy" jokes out there? Fun-gee doesn't work. Unless...
What do you call a French mushroom?
A FUN-GEE!
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..it's a damn shame.
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