“Standard” pronounciation around here is to say “Bob” and “Lob” as if you were phonetically saying “bawb” and “lawb.” Thus, both of the first two three-letter segments of the name sound the same as the third. How do you say it?
My pronunciation (being originally from New Zealand and currently Australia) is something like:
Bub - Lobb - Laww.
To me it looks and sounds like three distinct syllables and sounds. Just like a name normally is. Whereas what it is apparently meant to sound like I would pronounce thusly:
Bla Bla Bla.
Barely even close to similar. Hence my mystification.
Nah, more like Ba Bla Bla.
The SDMB has, I believe, two Bob Loblaws. The bob_loblaw you mentioned, and Bob Loblaw, who registered after the character’s introduction. (And IIRC, his first post was in fact in that week’s Arrested Development thread.) Anyway, as noted above, the show is swiping the name from the SDMB; AD and bob just both made the same joke.
–Cliffy
P.S. ‘That’s right. I couldn’t believe it There was a guy up on the stage in front of women in a mixed audience saying Bob Loblaw.’
The Judge: ‘This I never heard. Bob Loblaw.’
‘Said Bob Loblaw. He said Bob Loblaw. I’m not going to lie to you.’
The D.A.: ‘The guy said Bob Loblaw, look at him he’s smug he’s not going to repent.’
Then they dug something. They sort of liked saying ‘Bob Loblaw’ because they said it a few extra times.
“show isn’t swiping the name,” obv.
:smack:
Not to mention the Scotsmen called Ben Doon and Phil McCavity, and the Irish chaps Patrick Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzpatrick.
No love for Peter Goesinya?
I heard he hooked up with Amanda Hugginkiss.
Nope, I still don’t get it.
ya, i’m still around.
and i have been thinking of suing the producers & writers of arrested development, but the thing is, i really like the show, and will be a very sad panda when the final episode has aired.
but ya, it is a very old “amanda hugginkiss” or “mike hunt” style joke, and i have no valid claim being an original (here or elsewhere) so ya.
at the very least, i need better lawyers.