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21.02.2011, 10:51
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| | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
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You're Swiss, so stay out of it...
 | | | | | | Quote: | | | | | Only a wee bit of me... | | | | |
Paddy is Swiss ? 
I KNEW there was something not quite right about that boy.
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21.02.2011, 10:52
| | | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
| Quote: | | | | | Beat is a Swiss name and I used to pronounce it as beat like you would a drum or whatever you wanted to beat, in fact it is pronounced bayart.We live and learn. | | | | | Interestingly 'Beat' pronounced the English way is French slang for penis, and Boehner pronounced the English way is slang for erection. Of course you still get people who voluntarily refer to themselves as 'Dick', maybe the SBB poster campaign can be replaced with 'Dick' 'Beat' and 'Boehner'. Mildly amusing... |
21.02.2011, 10:52
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| | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
Brand names should be pronounce as they are advertised.
Nessels Milky Bar
Neslay indeed. How faux. | | This user would like to thank mirfield for this useful post: | |
21.02.2011, 10:53
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| | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
| Quote: | | | | | Paddy is Swiss ?
I KNEW there was something not quite right about that boy. | | | | | Yeah, yeah...he's Swiss, you're Swiss, I'm Swiss...aren't we all a bit Swiss at times?!  |
21.02.2011, 10:56
| | | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
| Quote: | | | | | Brand names should be pronounce as they are advertised.
Nessels Milky Bar
Neslay indeed. How faux. | | | | |
Ok grandad...
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21.02.2011, 10:56
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| | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
| Quote: | | | | | Yeah, yeah...he's Swiss, you're Swiss, I'm Swiss...aren't we all a bit Swiss at times?! | | | | |
fug no.  |
21.02.2011, 10:57
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| | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
| Quote: | | | | | fug no.
| | | | | ..so you like free health care and your freedoms...so what?! |
21.02.2011, 10:58
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| | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
| Quote: | | | | | ..so you like free health care and your freedoms...so what?! | | | | | please don't forget the poutine.
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21.02.2011, 11:01
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| Quote: | | | | | please don't forget the poutine. | | | | | Man, tell me about it..I just had some Saturday evening.
Take one small bag of thin fries....add 4 thinly sliced Babybell cheesesus...pour 2 small cubes of brown gravy over....et voilŕ zč Poutine çan be servéed.  | | The following 2 users would like to thank lost_inbroad for this useful post: | |
21.02.2011, 11:09
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| | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
| Quote: | | | | | please don't forget the poutine. | | | | |
I hope you are not referring to definition number 6 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=poutine |
21.02.2011, 11:12
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mimi, you're going to make us sorry we ever introduced you to urbanDictionary !!  | | The following 2 users would like to thank grynch for this useful post: | |
21.02.2011, 11:12
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| Quote: | | | | | | | | | | Tsk, them French people... |
21.02.2011, 11:13
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| | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
| Quote: | | | | | please don't forget the poutine. | | | | | THAT is NOT American! Shame on you to try to steal it from us!!!  | | This user groans at Nil for this post: | |
21.02.2011, 11:15
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| Quote: | | | | | THAT is NOT American! Shame on you to try to steal it from us!!! | | | | | hey... you wanna get mad... do the mad face at LiB.. not me.... I'm at least half Canadian myself and if I want poutine cheesy fries I'll have em ( I just wont call them that P word anymore )
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21.02.2011, 11:16
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| | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
| Quote: | | | | | mimi, you're going to make us sorry we ever introduced you to urbanDictionary !!
| | | | | Well I have to check what you guys are on about half the time. I'm not being called out for being naive again  |
21.02.2011, 11:16
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| | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
Why do americans say freakin instead of ...............ing?
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21.02.2011, 11:16
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| | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
| Quote: | | | | | hey... you wanna get mad... do the mad face at LiB.. not me.... I'm at least half Canadian myself and if I want poutine cheesy fries I'll have em ( I just wont call them that P word anymore ) | | | | | ..yeah for further reference, from now on we'll call it the Outine.
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21.02.2011, 11:17
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| | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
| Quote: | | | | | hey... you wanna get mad... do the mad face at LiB.. not me.... I'm at least half Canadian myself and if I want poutine cheesy fries I'll have em ( I just wont call them that P word anymore ) | | | | | Hum..... Which part of Canada? The good part or the bad part? Obviously we know the good part is the french side... | | This user groans at Nil for this post: | |
21.02.2011, 11:20
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| | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
| Quote: | | | | | Why do the Swiss call poor Homer Simpson "Who mer?"
It's become a pet peeve of mine. | | | | | It bugs me too.
The reason is simple: they say it that way because that's how the folks who do the German dubbed version of the Simpsons pronounce it.*
Funny, because the standard German pronunciation of the Greek name Homer is exactly as you would expect it to be pronounced in German ('hoh-meer').
*German dubs of almost anything drive me up the f••king wall. Germany appears to have no more than 10 voice actors per sex, so they all sound the same. And they seldom succeed in finding ones that capture the characteristic sound of the original voice. (Marge Simpson's dub is, IMHO, a rare exception.)
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21.02.2011, 11:20
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| | | Re: Why do the Swiss say Humer (who mer) instead of Homer?
| Quote: | | | | | Hum..... Which part of Canada? The good part or the bad part?
Obviously we know the good part is the french side... | | | | | *breaks wind in the general direction of the french*  | |
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