# Vowels **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 22, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692 "2008-09-22T16:19:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/1 "2008-09-22T16:19:37Z")
I was walking up Broadway, ya know, and there was this incredible looking Swedish girl, having a Cappuccino across the street from Lincoln Center. I started talking to her; she said her name was Lola. Her English wasn’t too good, but we wound up spending about five hours together just hanging out. So we go back to my place. We get high, we get really into each other. It was love about to happen–I’m serious. And then all of a sudden she gets up, and she says “hey, I really gotta leave.” Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/2 "2008-09-22T16:30:02Z")
\*# and when I awoke # I was alone # this bird had flown\* ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/3 "2008-09-22T16:47:54Z")
[#](http://kinks.it.rit.edu/discography/showsong.php?song=78) _Met a girl called Lola and I took her back to my place_ ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/4 "2008-09-22T20:06:57Z")
wait…What? Vowels? eeeenh! You made the baby brain hurt! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/5 "2008-09-22T20:54:38Z")
DWN WTH VWLS! -gigi ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/6 "2008-09-22T21:16:21Z")
Seriously, what does the thread title mean? We can’t all be that dumb… ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/7 "2008-09-22T21:20:09Z")
A E I O U and sometimes Y ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/8 "2008-09-22T22:47:35Z")
If you think that I’m a loser, well you suck, ’cause you know I ain’t nothin’ but a user of your love–I can’t get enough. Girl it’s true, the whole wide world is smiling with you. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/9 "2008-09-22T22:50:53Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > DWN > WTH > VWLS! > > - **gg** Fxd tht 4 u ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/10 "2008-09-23T07:50:09Z")
I guess Lola would be a high front rounded vowel articulated in all the right places, often quite liquid, breathy (not creaky), and wonderfully labialized. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/11 "2008-09-23T07:58:35Z")
Lola, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-la: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of two steps down the palate to tap, at two, on the ridge. Lo. La. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/12 "2008-09-23T08:51:09Z")
The shooting and fighting of the past 2 weeks continued today, twenty-five mi west of Saigon. I really wasn’t sure what was going on. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/13 "2008-09-23T09:00:28Z")
Die Tasche? Er… She didn’t leave a bag of money at your house did she? (Anyone who gets that reference can feel free to hang me) ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/14 "2008-09-24T09:02:53Z")
But you–you’re special. You’re so much different. I might let you . . . _would you like that_? ---
**Author:** ![Walpurgis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Walpurgis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walpurgis)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/15 "2008-09-24T09:15:19Z")
This threäd needs möre ümläuts. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/16 "2008-09-24T09:18:59Z")
[I wonder if you guys have ever done a cryptic crossword. What am I talking about, and what’s my general theme?] ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/17 "2008-09-24T09:26:25Z")
Does anybody here know Johnny? Are you Johnny? There was one guy named Johnny but he was a total geek, he always had food in his braces. Oh God this is like that movie Citizen Kane, you know, where you later find out Rosebud was a sled. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/18 "2008-09-24T10:06:53Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > [I wonder if you guys have ever done a cryptic crossword. What am I talking about, and what’s my general theme?] Nope, this is the first time I’ve even HEARD of a cryptic crossword! Hmm… reading around, I think I may have a basic grasp now. > [@](#): > > The shooting and fighting of the past 2 weeks continued today, twenty-five mi west of Saigon. > > I really wasn’t sure what was going on. Miss? (As in miss a shot, in shooting and fighting and “miss” like “miss what’s going on”?) I went off “mi **west of** Saigon” so mi + Saigon = [mis]aigon -\> mis -\> miss? This also fits with “missing” Lola, “missing” the girl in the second post (“ain’t nothin’”), people “missing” what Rosebud is, and possibly missing something about Johnny. I’m new at this so I’m probably way off, but whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/19 "2008-09-24T12:09:07Z")
**Koxinga** , do you want to kiss this person? Then be honest: what is keeping you from kissing with confidence? Worries… some of them can be put to rest if you ask yourself a few simple questions before kissing: is your breath fresh? Do your have spinach on your teeth? Is your deodorant strong enough? ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/20 "2008-09-24T12:52:19Z")
> [@Borborygmi](#): > > **Koxinga** , do you want to kiss this person? Then be honest: what is keeping you from kissing with confidence? Worries… some of them can be put to rest if you ask yourself a few simple questions before kissing: is your breath fresh? Do your have spinach on your teeth? Is your deodorant strong enough? You think this thread is about you, don’t you? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692.md?page=2)