“Aim for trees!”
I suppose “20 points for the little old lady!” would be right out? 
“Drive safe. If you can’t drive safe, drive fast, you’ll get home sooner.”
Yeah, they’re not worth more than 10 points; old & slow isn’t that much of a challenge 
Thank you @puzzlegal! That was what I meant. Sorry if I sounded indifferent to the Guthrie family’s current nightmare. Since I know next to nothing about Savannah, I was curious as to how people see her, including whether she comes across as likeable or not.
I call that day the first day of the month of Adar, meaning Purim is just around the corner!
When I’ve referred to the other celebration, I’ve always said “Chinese New Year”, because until this thread I hadn’t been aware that some other cultures also celebrate New Year on that day and might feel marginalized.
But I don’t think it makes sense to call it “the lunar new year”, any more than it makes sense to call January 1 the “solar new year”. Lunar and solar calendars are both based on astronomical cycles, but the designation of a “New Year’s Day” is completely arbitrary. And there are cultures – Jews and Muslims for two – who follow lunar calendars but don’t celebrate New Year’s at this season.
We have a (very) small historic Chinatown in our town and the celebration this evening is being referred to as the Lunar New Year celebration by the participants. A few weeks ago, there was another celebration involving a lion dance but I’m not sure what that was called. For the Chinese community, I think Chinese New Year is mostly a holiday season rather than a particular day. I’m not sure though.
That’s all true, but despite celebrating Rosh Hashanah every fall, on the appropriate new moon, i call it Lunar New Year.
I am currently on a diet and would decline a paczki if it were offered. I am in Chicago, so although nobody spontaneously offered me a paczki this year, I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard to find one.
(Paczki are a traditional Polish pastry that is traditionally served on this day. IMO they are basically indistinguishable from what we call “jelly donuts” every other day of the year)
The ones you buy from the bakery department of a typical U.S. grocery store, unfortunately, are almost indistinguishable from an ordinary jelly doughnut, except maybe they’re a little bigger. Find yourself a good Polish-American bakery to get the real deal. They are made with a richer dough containing eggs and butter and a little vodka or grain neutral spirits. They’re yeast-raised and are so puffy that less than half their volume is submerged in the lard they’re fried in. This leaves a distinctive pale ring or belt around the outside where the dough gets cooked but not deeply browned. I’m not sure how well it really works, but the vodka in the dough is supposed to boil off and create a barrier preventing excessive absorption of grease. The most traditional filling is rose-petal jam, but you have to search far and wide to find any of those outside Poland. In Poland, they’re more associated with Fat Thursday (six days before Ash Wednesday), but in the U.S., they’re associated with Fat Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday). Sadly, I wasn’t able to eat any this year because of various health concerns.
I have never even heard the term. I would give one a try.
In Italian, they say “vvv” for “www,” pronounced “vu vu vu.” I nominate “vu” as the new double-you name.
I will give only lukewarm support for the name change, but if it is to be changed it should be changed to something starting with a “w” sound. Which “w” sound I don’t care; but every other letter has a name sounding at least somewhat like one of its pronunciations and if we’re going to go to the trouble of changing it then W should too.
Maybe it should be named “Aw”.
I don’t stammer a lot these days, but the sound I have the most trouble with when I do is the initial /w/. As a result, part of me would like to deep-six not just the letter but the sound. With the sound being the most important to eliminate.
As president, I would want to both raise taxes & cut spending in an effort to get our deficit under control; neither side would go for that, so while I’d be right I would probably not be very effective, especially because I would not want to be around the class of slimy sub-reptialians called “politicians”
H. Q. Y.
For climatologists and physical geographers, “Aw” evokes tropical areas with wet summers and dry winters, like the Yucatán (much of Mexico, really), or Brazil between the Amazon and the Atlantic.
(We’re talking the Köppen classification system).
Hitch, hay, etc. The end of the letter H doesn’t match but the beginning does . Queue is pretty much exact. Y is maybe stretching it a bit but consider why and Wyoming,
Maybe we should call “w” “why”, and call “y” “yeh”.