This is why I don't get much sleep

[kickaha]

Last night, around, oh... 1am or so, ginkgo busts out the following:

Me: So I pointed (Name deleted to protect the innocent) to the torrent site to get the Doctor Who episode he missed last week, and he said "My god, there must be almost every episode on here." I almost responded with "Pert'near"[1].

She: Don't you mean "Pertwee near"?




[1] Pert'near is a SW VA expression that is a contraction and bastardization of "pretty near". ginkgo's family and my family both have roots that end up within a couple dozen miles of each other in that area, and somehow this phrase has survived.

Comments

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

Jon was awesome -- not really my idea of how the Doctor should be played, but still awesome -- but I gotta say, "Pertwee" is, in and of itself, an inherently funny word.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, for the longest time I broke it up in my head as 'per tweeeeeeeee', as in 'for each funny sounding noise', which after seeing his incarnation, seemed appropriate.

Of course 'pert wee' has an entirely different connotation.