You had lunch where?

[cjsmith]

Yesterday a coworker told me he'd had lunch at "that place I can't pronounce, so I call it Blue Lingerie".

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[makarov.livejournal.com]

You're right, "Blue Lingerie" IS easier to pronounce

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I am imagining what lunch consists of at Blue Lingerie.

[makarov.livejournal.com]

*to the tune of "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes": They asked me how i knew, her lingerie was blue*

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

In all the trips I've made out to that area, I have never been to one of those. I used to hit Boudin's at the Stanford Shopping Center for yummy sourdough.

When $FormerEmployer was bought by the Mountain View based company I then worked for for the next four-plus years, my new boss came out and I took him and his project manager to dinner at a place on a lake near us called The Blue Heron. He thought until we got there that I had been saying The Blue Hair Inn and was afraid it would be full of senoids. :-)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

That's priceless :) (And it reminds me of the people who read "brasserie" as "brassiere")

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

You mean there's a difference? ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of a trip to buy lingerie in Paris. Initially I goofed and used the American English pronunciation of the word. Wouldn'tcha know it: that's not how they say it there! :-)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

In the former, anything more than a mouthful can be packed for later :)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

heh :) i can just see that.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I still think that could apply to both. ;-)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

On reflection, I can't really argue with that (:

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

senoids?

(I keep thinking of sesamoids, those little bones under the ball of the foot)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I think that works!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

senoid (sē-noid')
n. Any of a class of senior citizen who also belongs to the Oblivious class. Coined by indyansel and a couple of his friends c. 1982.

:-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ah. Now it makes sense!

("Senoid" also exists as an adjective.)