PENMART01 wrote:

> And I'd like to have a dollar for each time I've heard a news personality say
> "cachet" when they mean "cache".

I can't stand the pronunciation of "tourist" and "TOR-ist".

I recall some very active rats in the ceiling of a nice hotel in Tokyo
just before a quake. We'd spent many nights there, and not a peep. My
mother, ever the Nature Girl, with my father in silent agreement, got us
all up and dressed and we were fleeing down the stairs (she wouldn't let
us take the elevator the 20+ flights down) when the quake hit. My mother
was only had passing knowledge of rat language, and had thought she'd
heard them say there was a fire on the lower floors.
Having lived in Japan, she let us walk not run after that, not fearing
the quake like she had the possibility of a fire.
blacksalt
Wishing tonight I could magically just pick up a little orphan and adopt
him/her, but knowing the red tape kings would frown at our ages. Someone
at work said "but they'd be so traumatized". I replied, give me a two
year old whose decent parents were killed, put them in a warm house with
a loving parent ever-present, a brudda, a dog, all the food the little
mite could want and Thomas the tank engine, and I bet I'd have a pretty
happy kid in a few weeks.