My wife is in the medical field and dropped this beauty on me one day:
“The correct way to pronounce centimeters is sontimeters”.
After I laughed myself to tears, I quickly had to call everyone on the ole’ razr to spread the joy. It’s become a cult classic in our social circle, certain to be mentioned at least once at social events. My buddy Craig likes to leave hilarious “sontimeter” voice mails on my cell phone at all hours of the night.
Well much to my satisfaction – I ran accross this today: The 5 most annoying medical terms.
Scorecard: Melanie 53,241 Charlie 1
August 7, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Hum, I thought sontimeter was a poetry term. It refers to poems that newspapers publish, the ones written by readers, usually retired ones, the ones who have time to search for just the right rhyme, as in:
My puppy is so lovely
All dressed in pink and green
I love her so so very much
I think I’m going to scream.
Sontimeter is a French word; it splits into two Latin roots: sont, which is based on the root Latin word somnus (sleep, sleepy, bore to death) and metier, based on the root Latin word metuo (fear, dread, to be frightened).
Sontimeter: frightened of being bored to death
What’s a razr?
August 7, 2006 at 8:46 pm
For all of those unaware of just how asinine this pronounciation sound please feel free to visit my site as I have gracefully posted it for all to hear.
August 7, 2006 at 9:12 pm
LOL! BTW – Please do not post any “stop giving the guests cocaine” .wav files.
http://www.amanofleisure.com
btw – the URL on your site – can you please change to http://wwcd.wordpress.com ? not sure where wwcd.com goes.
August 7, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Lovely poem! mentioning that you have a razr is a completely pompous-ass way to refer to you cell phone.
As in “i have such low self esteem that I try and buy the most expensive phone possible”
plus 18 year old chicks dig them.
August 7, 2006 at 11:17 pm
especially the pink ones… but then you would be too fabulous for words
August 8, 2006 at 2:23 pm
If i had a pink razr – I would have to wear a sleeveless mesh shirt ala right said fred.
I’m too sexy for my phone
my phone is fabulous, so sexy it hurts!