Ryan Byrd’s Ramblings

hippies
democrats
ACLU
pro-choice’ers
blue man group
Iron Maiden
clowns
Tom Green (from Utah)
Tom Green (from Canada)
Richard Simmons
Andrew Dice Clay
BYU athletes
Beverly Hillbillies
Colorado City, AZ residents
porn stars
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Metallica (although they are taking the discussions)
cats
Greenpeace

Anyone named “Norman”
Steve Martin
Marmots
LDS people
Amish
FBI/CIA
JW
salesmen
RLDS
polygamists

“Surely we have learned by now, from the experience over centuries, that the basic family provides the most stable and secure foundation for society and is fundamental to the preparation of young people for their future responsibilities,” said Elder L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of Twelve.

“We should have learned by now that alternate styles of family formations have not worked and never will work,” he said.

Along the same lines,

“Marriage is meant to be and must be a loving, binding, harmonious relationship between a man and a woman,” church elder W. Douglas Shumway told about 21,000 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered for the 174th General Conference.

sources: http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=18310&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595053824,00.html

“When the homosexual compares himself to the black community, he doesn’t know what suffering is,” said the Rev. Clarence James, an African-American studies professor at Temple University

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114936,00.html

In English we have words which combine two words in romance languages. For example, hot in English means both spicy and high temperature — if someone asks if your food is hot, what do you say?

Hot can also mean sexually excited or sexually desirable. If someone says, “I’m hot” or “she’s hot” it is not clear what they are referring to (always).

Similarly, free means both liberty and no cost. Screaming, “I’m free” evokes ambiguity.

high temperature in French — chaud,
spicy hot in French — picante

free as in liberty in French — libre
free as in no cost in French — gratuit

wednesday is pronounced wenzdey, but the pronounciation doesn’t seem to follow the spelling.

In a similar vein, february is pronounced febrooeree, but few people say it that way.