The "Ask Nathan a Question" Thread

Nathan the Machinist said:
Can we all agree to call it a bow-eee instead of a boo-eee. I don't care how it's "supposed" to be called. If Hispanics can call Jeasus "hay-sues", we can call Bowie bow-eee. If he pronounced it "boo-eee" that's fine, I don't care, he's allowed to be wrong. Anyways what's he going to do about it, his knife is dumb and he's dead.

There. I said it.
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I am so happy someone else on this green earth knows what’s up like I do. Nathan gets it.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Can we all agree to call it a bow-eee instead of a boo-eee. I don't care how it's "supposed" to be called. If Hispanics can call Jeasus "hay-sues", we can call Bowie bow-eee. If he pronounced it "boo-eee" that's fine, I don't care, he's allowed to be wrong. Anyways what's he going to do about it, his knife is dumb and he's dead.

There. I said it.
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Boo-eee (like a ghost)
Bough-eee (like a tree), OR
Bow-eee (like what you shoot arrows with)?

[2] and [3] are acceptable. [1] shall result in instant exile to Russian-occupied Ukraine / Georgia / Moldova / Belarus (you get to pick, but like Soviet cities, they're all the same).
 
Brummie said:
Boo-eee (like a ghost)
Bough-eee (like a tree), OR
Bow-eee (like what you shoot arrows with)?

[2] and [3] are acceptable. [1] shall result in instant exile to Russian-occupied Ukraine / Georgia / Moldova / Belarus (you get to pick, but like Soviet cities, they're all the same).
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I've heard 1 & 3. I've never heard 2 in reference to the knife, or the person the knife was named after.

My personal experience, 1 or 3, also seem to be related to folks who say kai-yoat (1), or kai-yoh-tee (3).

Maybe 2 is for the folks who say koh-yoh-te?
 
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fonedork said:
I say mah shettay
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Technically, I think muh-shettay/muh-chettay and koh-yoh-te would be correct as they both originate from the same language, but that's another fun one.

The original pronunciation for Illinois, was ill-in-weh, and the original pronunciation for Detroit, was deh-twah.
 
bluemax_1 said:
And they were trying to cash in on the popularity of Davy Crockett which came out a year or 2 earlier (The Ballad of Davy Crockett becoming a national hit. Dad used to like singing that one. "...killed him a bear when he was only 3..." Me - 😲).
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Here is how silly becoming a grandparent can be. I am raising a granddaughter. I've had her for almost 6 years and we are pretty much 2 peas in a pod. She turned 9 last week. When I was a kid I was really into Davy Crockett, watched the movies, TV show, read the books, etc.

My granddaughter Pumpkin, I call her pumpkin because her stupid parents named her Charlotte and I don't speak French and Charlotte is French for Pumpkin(see what I mean, she believed this until she started school and the teacher spoiled it). If I call her Charlotte she knows she's in trouble, kind of like when my mother called me by full name.

Anyway she has a song I sing to her, and here it goes to the Davy Crockett theme:

Pumpkin, Pumpkin doodle
Doodle bug of the wild frontier
She killed a bear when she was just 3
She killed it with her pumpkin

Silly right? My wife just shakes her head but me and the pumpkin will sing it together loud and proud.

Raising another child in our middle ages wasn't exactly in the plan but we're making the best of it. She got a raw deal and I'm in a position to make it better. In the end blood is blood and we have to take care of our own.
 
Madranchtx said:
Here is how silly becoming a grandparent can be. I am raising a granddaughter. I've had her for almost 6 years and we are pretty much 2 peas in a pod. She turned 9 last week. When I was a kid I was really into Davy Crockett, watched the movies, TV show, read the books, etc.

My granddaughter Pumpkin, I call her pumpkin because her stupid parents named her Charlotte and I don't speak French and Charlotte is French for Pumpkin(see what I mean, she believed this until she started school and the teacher spoiled it). If I call her Charlotte she knows she's in trouble, kind of like when my mother called me by full name.

Anyway she has a song I sing to her, and here it goes to the Davy Crockett theme:

Pumpkin, Pumpkin doodle
Doodle bug of the wild frontier
She killed a bear when she was just 3
She killed it with her pumpkin

Silly right? My wife just shakes her head but me and the pumpkin will sing it together loud and proud.

Raising another child in our middle ages wasn't exactly in the plan but we're making the best of it. She got a raw deal and I'm in a position to make it better. In the end blood is blood and we have to take care of our own.
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That's pretty cool. :thumbsup:
 
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