Thursday, January 13, 2011

Being Lazy With Your Speech Causes Your Spouse To Question Your Sexuality.

Midwesterners have accents too.
Granted they aren’t as noticeable as southerners. Or even Northerners (I’m looking at you Minnesota).
Nor as famous as New Englanders accents, like in Boston or New Jersey.
But we still have a slight accent.
It shows up in how we get lazy with some words.
Mainly words that end in “-ing”.
We are a lazy and laid back group, when it comes to speech.
So we might turn rolling into rollin, or washing into washin, or running into runnin, or acting into actin…etc.
I think you see my point.
USUALLY, this doesn’t affect the meaning of the words.
Usually.
Until I was telling my wife about the tangerine I had at work and the accident it caused.
Like such…
“I was eatin it. And it was really fresh seemin. And the juice shot in my eye.”

"Seeming" without the "g" on the end, just isn't the same.

27 comments:

MJenks said...

I thought people in Indiana turned "washing" into "warshin'"

And, if you don't think Midwesterners have outrageous accents, you haven't been up to Wabash lately.

AmyJ said...

I love it!! Made me laugh!

Moooooog35 said...

Sure it was a tangerine.

Coffeypot said...

Seemin comes from a long, round, hard thing call a submarine. What? Oh! Wrong spelling. Good post though, deadeye.

SurferWife said...

And don't you oddballs throw random R's in there, too? Like warshin'?

Your weird, Shitleg.

Miss Yvonne said...

I hate it when those fresh fruits squirt you in the eye.

Brutalism said...

Is tangerine what the kids are calling it these days?

Momma Fargo said...

LMAO. I think I peed my pants.

VEG said...

Tangerines aren't the only fruits in this scenario, sonny. :)

Jay Ferris said...

So much jizz talk on the web today. Finally!

Unknown said...

oh lol....that's hilarious.

ISRAEL CARRASCO said...

You should have seen it commin'

middle child said...

It might not have been a problem. I mean, did she ask if she could go to work with you the next day?

Anonymous said...

It was really fresh seemin huh? lol

So, I was RIGHT in the middle of this comment and my kid came in and puked. Everywhere. Ugh. Im blaming you.

Alyson said...

I know someone whose accent is so thick that when he says "semen" it sounds like "sermon". As in, "I totally swallowed that sermon". If I had that accent, I could get away with talking about blowjobs all day long and never get caught.

Right? Right? High five?

Allan said...

lived in Chicago for a bit of time so i hear ya on the accents.

Why can't you MW'erners seem to say "Roof" properly? You can do your next post on how spending time with a group of home builders sounds like spending a day at the SPCA cuz you heard the word "Ruff" every 2 minutes.

The Princess of Sarcasm said...

I can't believe no one said TWSS.

Chelle said...

BOYCOTT AMERICAN WOMEN!

Oops, got all caught in the moment for a second.

I imagined Sarah Palin saying that. It just made sense to me.

MrsBlogAlot said...

You're a funny guy...just sayin'

SY said...

lol!! I'm a midwesterner I do tend to drop the g in some of my words but I will not drop it seeming anymore

Pat said...

Wait. Do you "shoot" pornos for a living?

StephanieC said...

I was laughin' about the spunkin', 'til I realized it was about some fruit eatin'.

Don't you love your Bloggess-generated traffic??

Seriously?... Reeeally??... Seriously?

I'm off to get drinkin' some really awful instant decaf coffee. May the force be with you.

AiringMyLaundry said...

Haha, hilarious!!

Looks like you got a Boycott American Women note on your blog too. I got one awhile back and was all, "Um?"

jennykate77 said...

You are a funny man, Ed.

Stoppin' by from Handbags and Handguns to say HI!

Cathy said...

I came over from Hotpants place. Love those hotpants.

So, wait. I'm from MN and I've always thought I was a midwesterner. But now I'm a Northerner? This is blowing my mind, don'tcha know.

Mrs. Match said...

A true gentlemanly tangerine would have given you the gentle mans tap on the head. ;-)

Anonymous said...

This may just be 'aboot' the funniest things since I been 'oot' in the blogger world eh?!

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