TubaDiva (or, i can't believe i was that dim)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Gah!!!

I have literally just worked out that TubaDiva is not in fact pronounced Tuba-dyva but Tuba-deeva. This has led to the crashing realisation that

a) TubaDiva has nothing to do with the manly pursuit of diving to the bottom of shark-infested lakes whilst bravely assisting the brass section *or * with the equally manly pursuit of sticking one’s head inside the gaping mouth of a tuba in order to see if that thing i dropped in there five minutes ago is still retrievable.

and

b) That most likely this means that TubaDiva is in fact female.
How could i have been so clueless? :confused:

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Don’t think you’re alone in this brand of cluelessness. I don’t recall how long it took me to “get it,” but it was a pathetically long time.

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It’s not just me? Thank Gord!

i shall miss the idea of tuba diving though. It sounded so romantic and otherworldly.

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I confess that I’ve been pronouncing the OP’s name as “zeh-lee zeh-lurr-ton”.

Am I horribly, horribly wrong?

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heheh - not entirely but then mine is admittedly obscure.

AFAIK the second name is indeed pronounced as you did. I don’t know for sure as it was bestowed upon me on another forum - it’s certainly how i pronounce it though :wink:

Zelie is pronounced ‘zee lee’

i hope this clears up any confusion Kytheer…Kither-eeeya…Ky-the-reeayeah :slight_smile:

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Got it, and “Ky-thur-ay-ah”. :wink:

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Y’all have weird names. Unlike mine, which is composed of actual words in the English language.

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and makes total sense :wink:

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It does too make sense! Just a little spacetime anomaly, how hard is that? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Mangetout is and always been mange trout in my mind. Don’t know where the R came from, but there it is.

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I believe your homework is to fix that lil rift, no? Better get busy–it’s due on Monday.

I have always wondered about Tuba Diva–does she indeed play the tuba? Can one play the tuba so well as to achieve diva stature? And if one could, would one want to? It’s a big world–room for a tuba diva, I suppose. (no offense meant-don’t ban me, please Ms Diva… :eek: ) :slight_smile:

I never hoid of “diva-ing” as in involving water etc.
My name is easy, but surprisingly, alot of people (ok, 2) get it wrong.

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zelie, you’re not alone. In fact, you’re a little late. :wink:

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Don’t worry, it took me a while to figure it out, too. In fact, I think you’re quicker (in relation to your join date) about it than I was. I still prefer the brass-vs-Jaws imagery, though.

Same here. And don’t call me Shirley!

All those people must be very lonely. Where do they come from, anyway?

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I don’t know, but I hear they pick up rice from weddings and wear faces out of jars. Sounds pretty sketchy if you ask me.

Speaking of which, rigs, my friends and I did most of our general relativity homework yesterday evening. So there. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Same here. Funny.

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I always think, “Man, get out.”

My handle, by the way, is pronounced just the way it’s spelled.

Not in this language, of course.

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Might I guess that it’s something like “sow*EERsay”?

*Like “cow” with an S, not like the word “sow”.

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BTW, my username is pronounced feht-twa.

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Shirley - for a while I was saying oooh-jest, before the light went on one day. :smack:
Oh, and I have decided that I like the french-canadian “guy”.

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Monseuir Boos Gee?