Once again, into the bad bad bad breach. I'm certain that black cloud following me around is a bad bad bad omen

Your real name isn’t Jo(Anne) Btfsplk?

looks like this isn’t the time. :frowning:

i’m thinking green…

Crap just happens to me. It’s uncanny.
The family call me ‘beckdawrek’ for a reason.

I’ll send you my Palpay info later. :grin:

Well, gangs are not unheard of. There is a lot of aggression going down these days.

(edited to add) Anything in the news about it?

Not in the news. It’s a local place. Well, kinda.
This is a very rural area. The state news outlets rarely come down here.

The surprise is why this family of vietnamese entrepreneurs ever came here. Can’t be that much business available to them.
I’m glad they’re here. I likes me some Pho.

If you made it yourself, would that be faux pho?

And if your enemy made it, would it be your foe’s faux pho?

Or, if your enemy’s father made it, would it be your foe’s pa’s faux pho? Or, would that be a social blunder? :wink:

If Edgar Allen added his 2cents worth would it be Poe’s foes faux pho?

this thread has descended into the lower depths

Fo sho.

I’d say we should cut it out, but we all know that the pun is mightier than the sword.

Fee fie faux pho-m

Reality check. The word pho does not match the pronunciation of foe. It’s closer to faw, or to my ear a cross between faw and fu (with a short u as in the first two letters of fu*k).

Here’s a sound clip.

A Hmong co-worker tried and tried to get me to pronounce it right. As long as I can order it, I’m happy. If they pretend to misunderstand me, I’ll just get a bahn mi instead.

Right. I cringe when I hear the “foe” pronunciation. “Fuh”, with the “u” of “tug”, is what I say. It’s not exactly correct but closer than “foe”.

There’s a Vietnamese restaurant called “Pho Kim Long” whose name I found quite amusing when I learned the correct pronunciation of “pho”.

I say it like they say it in the restaurant. ‘FUH’

As long as it works. Just wanted to let readers know that the staff of the restaurant cringes when they hear it pronounced “foe”.

I had a Vietnamese friend who taught me the correct way to pronounce the name “”Ng”.

Went into a new patient room and introduced myself to a Ms. Ng pronouncing it that way … to be corrected … with some annoyance … that here it is said “Ing”.

The staff expects it to said “foe” here I think.

Pho cough

Sorry. I’ve got a cold.