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Because I can't think of that many good ones.

_____ replaced baby Jesus in this years PPC nativity.
What were the gifts given by the Wise Men this year at the PPC nativity?
What inappropriate item did Luxury put on her Christingle this year?
What stopped Apollo from observing Vigil on Christmas Eve>

Storme

...and then there's shoving things into places that require surgical removal.

I try not to pick and choose TOO much, but I do select and/or tweak for maximum audience, PPC relevance, versatility, and of course hilarity. As such, I admit I'm a little biased against references I don't really get, but if it's something from a canon I know other people are into, I'll probably put it in.

I don't mind people throwing out a few ideas from their own stuff, and I'm more or less following the principle of "everybody gets (at least) one," but the above rubric applies.

If anyone ever wants to +1 other people's suggestions, that wouldn't hurt. {= )

~Neshomeh

...follows the Sephardic pronunciation, which iirc was chosen as the official modern Hebrew thing partly because it was supposed to be a bit more authentic and partly because, well, it provided distance from Yiddish, which wasn't regarded highly (at various points it hasn't even been considered to have the status of a language). You'll still hear the Ashkenazic pronunciation sometimes, especially among the Diaspora Jews who would say things like 'gut Shabbes' (basically, it's the difference between "ahavAHT TorAH", Sephardic/modern Hebrew, and "aHAvas TOrah", Ashkenazi. My emphasis on the later may be a bit off. (Yiddish, of course, would have it as "ahavas Toyre", assuming the first word didn't get kind of slurred/condensed into the bargain)). Where was I? Right, Americans. Basically, there's what's probably a rather large number of English speaking Jews who have trouble pronouncing the kh sound. I've seen this among classmates, kids I'm teaching, and now also people in my German class. You hear things like h, a very soft kh that barely makes the sound but is distinct from the h, and then, especially in German or Yiddish classes, there are people who will replace kh with a hard k. Anyway. Even apart from that, the accent itself is often a little different--if a word ends in an L sound, for instance, Israelis will kind of draw it out? Like, the tip of the tongue goes against the top of the front teeth, instead of kind of curling in the middle of the mouth as it does in most Canadian/American English wouldn'tation of words ending in an L sound. That's one example. It's the same language, though Diaspora Jews are apparently more likely to have learned more biblical vocabulary and use it when am Israeli wouldn't, just with a few differences in accent and possibly some differences in emphasis.

And I really hope that made the point I wanted it to (whatever that was), and had no typos, because by now I'm really tired and I'm home and going to eat. So. Hope this adds something and is interesting, here it is so I don't post it two weeks later if the thread is even still on the Board, gut Shabbes, y'all.*

~DF

*/Is not actually the sort of person who normally says gut Shabbes, but has picked it up a little more since moving back to Canada at age ten and hearing it for the first time/

"How bout we let the nice Time Lords to their own technology and go out somewhere?"

Anyways, thanks for this stellar example, lady of ronflant title. Not having access a normal to technology doesn't seem that much of a loss when I see what use of it people do. Especially so-called 'evolved' people like you. Say the human wizard.

Sounding with an actual Christmas tree, whether real or artificial, is actually quite easy - fir branches are quite thin, with only the buds at the end causing any mischief. The problem is the leaves, which add quite a lot of nastiness, not least the fact that Christmas trees drop needles like a quilting bee in an earthquake. If anything, it's worse with artificial trees, since while they're less likely to come off and get lodged, they're also generally sharper, especially aluminium ones.

Also, not sure I can get behind you calling anyone engaging in sounding play "dumb". YKINMK, after all.

"It doesn't mean it's necessarily about you. Then again, a pervasive delusion that everything is all about you is hardly unexpected in survivors of glitter contamination."

I'm pretty sure there isn't any tree small enough to fit in... there... let alone... THERE. *cringes* And he wouldn't even try, even while drunk on five bottles of eggnog. I was thinking something more dakimakura style - you know the brief gag from the Deadpool movie involving Wade and a stuffed unicorn? Same idea. XD

Though granted, it's not like people haven't been dumb enough to try using the front door before... (Warning, link is very very NSFW/NSFB)

(Also, I take it you'll be hand-picking cards from our suggestion lists on a case by case basis? Because I heard from the Discord that self-promoting suggestions are Not Cool and if that really is the case, I apologize for including a few of those in my own suggestions.)

Hebrew as spoken in Israel (I don't think there's enough of a difference to merit an Israeli/American split like you have British English and American English) was less influenced by non-Semitic languages, so it's less far from the Biblical Hebrew than Hebrew as it is spoken in the States — at least the Hebrew I heard from Americans (even Americans who made Aliyah, since they tend to retain their accents).

Unless Israeli Hebrew is somehow more real than the Hebrew that American Jews learn as part of their religious and/or cultural heritage...? Which would be kind of a condescending attitude, hence my assuming-best-intentions interpretation of your original post as a more or less reasonable questioning of me as an outsider as opposed to an elitist slighting of the entire population of American Jews.

Eh. It's probably not my place to be offended, since it's not my culture. To answer the question, yes, the Jewish people I know, at least, are aware of voiceless fricatives and encourage the rest of us to use them when the language calls for it.

~Neshomeh

"You can't possibly pronounce it" and more "English speakers tend to butcher Hebrew pronunciation, did you get the real one".

And might I remind you, Grey, that only a little over one twenty-fifth of my life was spent as a human? Eighteen years is nothing compared to our lifespans. So I'd thank you to not refer to me as a human.

Hey man, I'm a choir girl. I've had to wrap my vocal apparatus around all kinds of sounds I don't use on a daily basis. I got this.

~Neshomeh

As in CHaracters In Name Only. =]

"Chanukiah" is pronounced (IPA) ꭓanukija, with a voiceless uvular fricative, not the h-sound most English-speakers pronounce it as.

Welcome aBoard! Wow, I never watched Invader Zim, but that fic sure does sound bad.
Anyway, have this Poptop Plushie from Starbound!

"Can Moon Moon be trusted with anything requiring complex thought? No. We are hardly crack troops here - indeed, we are an organization of dismal malcontents allegedly-managed by a small provincial garden centre - but we can't just let anyone do the heavy thinking labour. They're not all suitable to the task. I mean, have you met humans?"

*checks*

Oh, yep! It's one of the ones Skepkitty MSTed. Though he seems to have moved his blog to Tumblr now.

Seeing someone mission it would be pretty cool, since Skepkitty's MSTs were somewhat formative in my badfic-encountering experiences.

Anyway, welcome to the PPC! Have an invisible kitten!

SAVE YOUR BRAIN SAVE YOUR BRAIN SAVE YOUR BRAIN SAVE YOUR BRAIN SAVE YOUR BRAIN SAVE YOUR BRAIN SAVE YOUR BRAIN SAVE YOUR BRAIN SAVE YOUR BRAIN

As far as Phobos and I can determine, the BEST possible scenario here is that he's dry-humping the thing, hopefully with clothes on, because I do not want to contemplate the rash that would result otherwise.

Besides that, assuming Cupid has standard male anatomy, there's basically just the butt or ... *shudder* ... the urethra?

I can hear the Department of Bad Slash shouting NOT THERE! from my apartment, is what I'm saying. {X D

~Neshomeh

I never said it would be used in THAT way, though. That was one of those cards whose image is, and I quote, "best left to your imagination." X'D

Regarding the miniature Christmas tree... are we talking something like

Awful Mental Image A:


Awful Mental Image B:


or Awful Mental Image C:


'Cause I can just about wrap my head around C, but even then... uh... pointy bits?! O.o;

~Neshomeh

Chanukiah it is! One person said the words were basically interchangeable, whereas the other said that if you're Jewish and speaking Jewishly you definitely want "chanukiah," and I trust the latter more, so I'm sold. And now I know how to pronounce it, too. ^_^

~Neshomeh learned something today.