ENOUGH..ALREADY!!

Three Blind Mice · #1 Postby **Three Blind Mice** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:11 pm

Gaston is about to hit the Carolinas right? So let's help all the forecasters out there with the proper name of this storm. It's Gaston. Like the county next to Charlotte. We pronounce it Gas..like the stuff you put in your car, Ton...like this muther weighs a ton. TWC can't get it right! We don't want a fru-fru frenchy storm hitting us! It's Gaston, alright.

Next class will cover Frances daughter of the Swamp Fox.

chris_fit · #2 Postby **chris_fit** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:11 pm

Guest · #3 Postby **Guest** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:13 pm

they pronounce it gas-stone. Its very annoying!!!!

#4 Postby **MGC** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:13 pm

Got your windows taped there Three Blind Mice?......MGC

#5 Postby **Andrew92** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:14 pm

It's pronounced gas-stone because it's French.

-Andrew92

Three Blind Mice · #6 Postby **Three Blind Mice** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:26 pm

No, the minute it becomes a Carolinian it is Southern and that french crap needs to stop! Sure hope Cantore stops by Monday. We don't pronounce English names with the Queens English now do we....

MGC..no tape. Cleaned out ditches for the potential flooding at the farm.

PTPatrick · #7 Postby **PTPatrick** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:29 pm

Are male G-names that hard to think up...we had the same issue with Georges...they said it was Zhorzh, but I NEVER heard one Mississippian say anything other than "George".

Cyclone Runner · #8 Postby **Cyclone Runner** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:36 pm

Three Blind Mice wrote:No, the minute it becomes a Carolinian it is Southern and that french crap needs to stop! Sure hope Cantore stops by Monday. We don't pronounce English names with the Queens English now do we....

MGC..no tape. Cleaned out ditches for the potential flooding at the farm.

If its "Southern", then the Cajuns of Louisiana have a claim and I am sure that they could handle the French, or does the border of the "South" stop at the Savannah River. :wink:

The "South" is a big place!!

quickychick · #9 Postby **quickychick** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:37 pm

I NEVER heard one Mississippian say anything other than "George".

I'm a Mississippian who calls it Zhorzh...but everyone looks at me funny until I break down and say, "You know, GEOOORGEZZ."

Then they go "Oh."

Three Blind Mice · #10 Postby **Three Blind Mice** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:51 pm

Good one Cyclone. One of my best friend's is a ca-jun. I tell him all the time he talks funny! Love him like a brother....get your mind out of the Deliverance Ned Beatty gutter...but he agrees its G-A-S-T-O-N.

And it looks like it might be a surprise for everyone thinking 50-60 mph winds Sunday....

Cyclone Runner · #11 Postby **Cyclone Runner** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:59 pm

Good One, Three Blind Mice!!

https://www.youtube.com/user/senorpepr · #12 Postby **senorpepr** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:00 pm

The actual pronunciation is gas-TOHN. (Like the TWC is saying) Gaston, a French name issued by the French, is the replacement name for Georges, also French.

TLHR · #13 Postby **TLHR** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:02 pm

You are ALL wrong!

The correct pronunciation is Freedom-ston...

:grrr:

https://www.youtube.com/user/senorpepr · #14 Postby **senorpepr** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:02 pm

TLHR wrote:You are ALL wrong!

The correct pronunciation is Freedom-ston...

I'll concur with that.

Cyclone Runner · #15 Postby **Cyclone Runner** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:03 pm

senorpepr wrote:The actual pronunciation is gas-TOHN. (Like the TWC is saying) Gaston, a French name issued by the French, is the replacement name for Georges, also French.

Exactly, Senorpepr, to get that accent right, you have to get that "STON(e)" up in your nose!! :lol:

Carolina_survivor · #16 Postby **Carolina_survivor** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:10 pm

Three Blind Mice wrote:Gaston is about to hit the Carolinas right? So let's help all the forecasters out there with the proper name of this storm. It's Gaston. Like the county next to Charlotte. We pronounce it Gas..like the stuff you put in your car, Ton...like this muther weighs a ton. TWC can't get it right! We don't want a fru-fru frenchy storm hitting us! It's Gaston, alright.

Next class will cover Frances daughter of the Swamp Fox.

LOL - you are SOOOO right.

Agua · #17 Postby **Agua** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:19 pm

Agree with you 110% 3BM.

I absolutely HATE it when Americans attempt to prounce a word or name in anything other than phonetic English pronunciation.

It sounds SOOOO pretentious and vacuous.

Janie34 · #18 Postby **Janie34** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:25 pm

Great, first it was the "freedom fries" nonsense and now we've got "freedom hurricanes."

The South wouldn't be, well, the South without the French, Spanish, Scots, Irish, and English. Not to mention the Native Americans.

https://www.youtube.com/user/senorpepr · #19 Postby **senorpepr** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:34 pm

Cyclone Runner wrote:
senorpepr wrote:The actual pronunciation is gas-TOHN. (Like the TWC is saying) Gaston, a French name issued by the French, is the replacement name for Georges, also French.

Exactly, Senorpepr, to get that accent right, you have to get that "STON(e)" up in your nose!!

lol

#20 Postby **crazycajuncane** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:38 pm

i keep wanting to say gat - son

It's easier to say!

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