The DUH Factor

“How many of you have kids?
How many of you have kids that say DUH?
How many DUH's do you hear in a day?

Last Saturday, my wife and I counted the numbers of DUH"s we got from our 3 girls.
127... 127!!! That's more than 10 an hour per kid!

Sorry, just needed to vent..
I'm all better now..
Carry on.”

“I used to count how many times one of my professors said "you see," "you know," or "uh" during a class. 271 you sees, 107 you knows, and I lost count of the uhs at 269. All in one class. I didn't get much out of it, obviously. He had tenure, so there was no getting rid of the petrified old poop.”

“well, duh”

“i had a prof that constantly said "ok" sorta under his breath, about every 6th word or so. I counted once in a class and gave up at around 300. Horrible professor.”

“Now, my BOSS is infatuated with the word basically. She basically says basically as a preface to basically every phrase her basic little brain comes up with - basically.”

“and then comes the...... " oh, you'll have that " and THAT will drive you NUTS tooooooo .... (grandkids) aren't they just GRAND ??!!!! lol”

“like, wow, i, like, really, like hate it when, like people like preface what theyre about to say with like that "l" word, its LIKE theyre afraid to own what they, like, say so they like soften it with like the word, "like"”

“*laughs at CB cos he has it down so well! *”

“LMAO

so true (shaking head in prue wonder at the kids these days)


twignuts favorite is "WORD"”

“And this has to do what with backpacking? :D”

“oh go eat something GREEN”

“LMAO @ Crash Bang. I went to college with a girl that talked like that when she presented. It got so bad that the professor said she would throw a book at her if she said like anymore. After that “like” was replaced with uhhhhhhhhg. LOL At lest she tried.”

“Buggars?”

“. . . or, does anyone have someone in their life that finishes a thought, every time they can, with 'this, that, and the other.'”

“Dwight D. Eisenhower holds the all-time records for use of "uh" in a sentence, paragraph, speech, and rant.”

“The most annoying speech habit that I remember as far as school goes is, this Economics teacher that would say "may-sure" for "measure." And he would say it like 500 times per class! Where the heck did he get that pronunciation...I think he just made it up himself! Also the class sucked big ones generally...that just made it extra-painful.”

“I have a coworker who says 'understand me?' after every sentence. Annoying!”

“Sounds like a prior active Marine...

That way, if you mess up, you have no real excuse, because you said you understood.

Yes, it is annoying.”

“Marines take the hill
The Army is called in to hold it
Then the Marines retake the hill”

“If the Army left it, it wasn't worth holding.”

“heehee...my kids don't say duh that much. prolly because they are boys??

visiting germany: my sister told me I said "weisch was ich mein" way too much... not sure why I did it. I never really say "ya know what I mean" in english a lot. (translated)

I am sure i have some really anoying word I use a lot.

one of my kids speaks in the "chingy" language...whhhaaa... everything is "uhhrrrrr" sound... it's not "their" anymore, now it's "THHUUUURRRR" or something like that. creepy!”

“Our Army scouts went in before the Marines. Air Cav! Hoo-ah!

That could be annoying. Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah!”

“am sure i have some really anoying word I use a lot.

Gemini
9:21:55 AM
6/03/05


waz se f^ck is dis sh^tt”

“that's anyoing?
I don't say that a whole bunch of lots...
actually i don't curse a whole lot.

...okay...i am quitly leaving this thread now...”

“Ever have a saying that you thought was yours, and then someone else starts saying it all the time?

My wife now says "fair enough"... That used to be my thing... its all good though.

-percious”

“I'm Canadian, eh?”

“I know a bunch of people in Port Huron, Michigan who say "eh?" a lot more than any Canadians I know.”

“I like the Canadian "eh". Kind of indearing.

-percious”

“One of my instructors says "MMMM-K", just like the boss on "Office Space", constantly.”

“i hate it when ppl sign their name in the body of the message when they can plainly see their name already is posted. like.”

“I like duh. Sometimes it's just right. Like, duh.”

“i used to work for a guy that would say "what's happening" with strict enunciation every time he picked up the phone. Caused me to laugh every time as it remined me of the boss on Office Space.”

“"Titan is larger than the planet Mercury and, because of its atmosphere, is a popular setting for science-fiction tales of human colonization and exploration.

Unlike Earth, however, its atmosphere lacks oxygen.

It has a largely flat surface with a texture like wet clay, but also features ice rocks. Its surface temperature is about minus 180 Celsius, and the cold probably allows methane rain to fall, the scientists said.

Francois Raulin, another of the experts involved in the project, said analysis of data from Huygens showed it was unlikely Titan could support life."


DUH! -180C = -292F Pretty safe bet that temperature won't support life.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/12/01/titan.life.reut/index.html”

“Titans surface temperature is not the same as the temperature in all of it's atmosphere or it's inner-self. Life could be elsewhere on the satellite. It's unlikely, but not "DUH-likely".”

“I believe Titan was where life existed in the 2001: A Space Odyssey series. Entirely atmospheric-born creatures, where it would be warmer. Granted, that's sci-fi, but there is no reason life would have to be land-based.

However, consider that by accident and later in research microbes have been exposed to the vacuum and temps of space and then brought back to Earth - alive (after warming back up). So life CAN survive at near-absolute-zero temps.”

“2001 the book or the movie? In the book they went to Saturn, in the movie (and subsequent books) they went to Jupiter.”