I'm a stoopid doper! (or: why didn't I smile at that user name?)

Thank you, Ruby! I was too embarrassed to ask!

I didn’t, but that’s because I keep tripping over my son’s name in there.

Ruby, it’s upside down and… (rhymes)

Yeah, and if I’d read all of your post instead of being spellbound…

Not just Jersey. I’m from southwestern PA, lived in southeast Virginia for the last twenty years, and I still needed that one spelled out for me to get.

Nobody’s yet gotten the witty double meaning of MY name.

OK, that’s because there isn’t one. But remember, I didn’t have to tell you this.

Okay so, bob loblaw really doesn’t work if you read it with an English accent! After seeing the translation to = Blah blah blah I had to reconfigure my brain to an sort of drawling American accent I heard when I was working in US (a bad one imitation of it mind you) before it made sense.

grey_ideas

O.K., now if it were blob loblaw I’d be prepared to accept it as “Blah Blah Blah”- I’d think it weak, I’d think it a stretch, but I’d accept it.

But nobody, with any kind of accent, is going to say “bob bloblaw” in such a way as it will sound reasonable like "“Blah Blah Blah”
And, please, tell me how “punoqllads” is supposed to rhyme with “spellbound”. :confused:

By the way . . . that’s not bad coding on my part, as it might seem.
Flip it over and read it backwards and you’ll totally “get” it (but only if you’ve read The Bostonians translated into Igbo).
:stuck_out_tongue:

Picky, picky, picky. Actually, I think of it as “Baa Blah Blah.”

It doesn’t rhyme. It’s backwards and misspelled.

Forgot to mention re: bob loblaw, I always hear it in that garbled “teacher voice” from old Charlie Brown cartoons.

I’ll never forget Woodstock Birdy Bird.

You want some of this??!! :stuck_out_tongue:

Rotated 180 degrees around the z axis, actually.

I think your fiancée might object.

For Bob loblaw just pronounce bob as barrb very drawn out US pronunciation.

Still I quite like the onomatapoic sound of the UK pronunciation, like trying to talk whilst performing cunnylingus.

:eek:

Please tell me how I’m going to explain laughing manically while blushing, to my coworkers.

<Chuckles at his stealthly clever username>

<Remembers he’s already explained it several times, so it’s no big secret>

<Slinks away with tail between legs>