Break a Leg

Oh wow... high-quality humor right there. At least it was *cough cough* original, right?

Question: Do you guys pronounce the word for your uncle's wife as "ahnt" or "ant"?

I called her"Mom."

(signed)

Hamlet

A little Shakespeare humor there.

Woah there RD, Detroit ends at 8 mile and at Gratoit. 25 mile is all the way in New Baltimore! Dude...

So, as the BaL UN, how are we going to bring about world peace?

I, for starters, would like to go around planting puppies. Everyone likes puppies.

New Baltimore? I was in Troy. Where are YOU from?

Nobody likes beets! Why don't you grow something that everybody does like? You should grow candy! I'd love a piece of candy right now... not a beet.

5 points to anyone who knows where that quote comes from.

We could plant puppies too. Candy puppies? No, I wouldn't be able to eat them.

"The Office"

Season 2, Episode 3: "Office Olympics"

This thread is...fascinating.

I'm half Italian. Does that count?

ANNA, YOU COMPLETE ME. I'M HALF ITALIAN, AS WELL.

I am...not Italian. At all.

I think I'm part Russian... like 1/8 or something.

And I think that I'm also part Ukrainian.

But I'm a New Yorker at heart, Connecticite in soul.

i'm two fifteenths native american.

...anyone?

KEVIN! WE WERE MEANT TO BE!

Terraciano & Cincera 4 lyfe

I'm 1/8 Swedish

Hell yeah!

I'm from the shtreets.

And, Femke, we're not going to bring about world peace - that's the other UN's problem.

WE'RE going to

party

like it's

3/14/07, or for those of you in Canada and Europe, 14/07/30/a/ or whatever.

What happens when it turns into tomorrow (the 15th)? Speaking of which, BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH!

not afraid of the ides of march/
they don't roll as I roll/
like a soccer ball going/
from goal to goal

that's a little rhyme we came up with, on the streets of Detroit.

I'm Finnish. And the fun part is that I actually am a Scandinavian male with a first name which would be considered a female name in the States (and well... in most other countries as well.)

The name is Lari in case you were interested. I know there's also a town called Lari in Italy (somewhere near Pisa), but I've never visited that place. Maybe someday I will.

I've been meaning to do this a long time ago but never quite got down to it.

k so here goes,

I've a Singaporean mother and Cambodian Father and I also have traces of Malay blood in my ancestry as well. That's a good near 3rd of ASEAN. 3 seats in the UN please :).

At the same time I've got 4 passports: American, Cambodian, French and Singaporean. So I'm free for alliances with any of these countries!

All right! Four ambassadors in one!

Foreign labour IS always cheaper and more efficient.

Oh noooooooo.

"ou" spellings!!!!

Okay RD, you're obviously way more ghettofab than me, being from Troy and all, and with those rap skillz!
...
Okay, I'm from Grosse Pointe, but I have friends in Indian Village, and at East Detroit High! The Hard Lessons are my favorite band, plus I go to the tastefest every year, and even the techfest once! I can't even go a week without a coney dog from Laffeyette Coney Island, so I'm STILL more Detroit than you!
If you want some closure RD, I'll meet you on Belle Isle!
Bring yo rap skillz, I'll be with my ganstas in the purple lo-lo!

my pops worked at Wayne State U, so I grew up on the streets of d-town. my coney is lipuma's in downtown roc. i been to taste fest every year i was there. every year i had to walk there too, from troy, because i didn't have a fancy Grosse-Pointe 'lac.

and i saw the tigers play BEFORE there was "CoMeRiCa Park".

holla at me/
anywhere you please/
from 248/
to 313

that's another rap we came up with, on the streets of Detroit.

And for the record, to my fellow BaLUNers, Grosse Pointe is the wealthiest suburb of Detroit, which makes Margaret not someone who is "from" the street, but rather someone that "owns" the street. Literally.

Okay fine, but my family doesn't own any street in detroit, but I do know some Toccos...
So I'm just an awkward well-dressed teenager surrounded by Republicans that don't understand me, and if you knew the first thing about the GP, you'd know we all drive black Hummers or Jeeps. What's a Grosse-Pointe 'lac? And, yeah, Comerica park has nothing on Tiger Stadium, but walking all the way from Troy? There had to have been a bus or something? Then again, with Kwami as mayor...
Anyway, if you lay out some sweet rhymes about BaL, I promise to be the greatest supporter of you Detroit-ocity, or "from the streetness" or whatever. Please?

(btw, my parents work in Troy :p)

Well, um, I'm from California.
Which is international to OTHER places.
Have some perspective, guys.

All the way from Liverpool, England :D

wow.

I wish my name was Lol.

My roommate a few years ago was from Grosse Pointe, and his parents owned actual people. Not in bondage, just equity. Rochester and Troy are full of Jeeps and Hummers, GP is full of boring cadillacs and the children of 'lac owners who are thus compelled to drive Escalades. Poor guys.

Break a Leg's so sweet/
it knocks me off my feet/
I'm from Troy/
and I'm a boy/
uh/
Man/
I'm a boy man/

Hey, if you guys see Jeremy Piven, John Cussack, Mini Driver out there in the GP, could you say "hi" to the for me? Kthxbye

hehehehe, it's short for Lauren, which is just boring; everyone calls me Lol or Laurenzo

John Cusack is a nice guy but apparently his girlfriend is extremely possessive and commanding.

Seriously.

RD is from the streets...
(and would therefore know all about John Cusack)
But he's really from the streets. The streets of Detroit.

There was only about 11 minutes of Grosse Pointe in Grosse Pointe Blank, and I've never seen Jeremy Piven, John Cusack, or Mini Driver here. Fergie was here once though.
It. Was. AWESOME!

But if I ever do see them, I'll say "hi" for you!

Wait, my friend tells me that those 11 minutes were actually shot in Saint Claire Shores.
That's right,

Lock your doors/
It's St. Claire Shores/

and my friend hasn't seen any John Cusack around here either. Except in her dreams.

Thanks for the update on Cusack Watch '08, Mags. Keep us posted.

Yeah one of the first shots, coming down from the air of a road along a body of water is St. Claire Shores.

The fact that you were excited by Fergie visiting GP indicates that you should be your own country because you're clearly not part of motown.

Yay! A new BaLUN member!

I don't know these places you speak of.

I live in/near Portland.

Oddly-non-threatening-homeless-guy capital of the known world.

Gosh RD, can't I cut a break here? Could I perhaps be the BaL UN ambassador between the GP and Detroit?
...and John Cusack?

BaLUN is kind of an international body (like the other UN and Gisele Bündchen) so I'm afraid you're going to be representing GP, not to Detroit, but to the rest of BaLUN. Welcome to the club; monogrammed smoking jackets are preferred but not mandatory.

Cool.

Smoking Jackets? I thought we were going to hold the BaLUN meetings pool-side...

Maybe the smoke filled room is next to a pool???
We could all wear bikinis under our monogrammed smoking jackets and after the meetings play Marco Polo! How awesome would that be?

BaLUN is a no-smoking zone (indoors). And yes, Jen, the meetings will be held pool-side like this.

First generation Unites Statesian, parents were born in Mexico. I currently hold dual citizenship so I am legally Mexican as well.

Two things... I once read this thing about a delivery guy delivering something to John Cusack and apparently he ISN'T nice... according to what I read...

Second, what's up with Portland and all the hills?!?!?!? I was there last year around May, and will be again end of May... Went to a brewery (they're known for that there too) I literally went up hill both ways... literally!

Hills are bad for pudgy guys.

That's how we go to school here in Canada--uphill both ways. On snow shoes. Sometimes a kid gets dragged off by coyotes. But only sometimes.

Yes, Canadian kids can be tasty. You can't really blame the coyotes.

That's why Easter Bunnies love Canadian kids.

My source for John C. comes from a friend who was a server at a restaurant he used to frequent.

Ahhh, Portland, your beer and your hills go so well together.

So well, in fact, that the tourism board came up with this slogan:

"Come for the breweries, stay for the hills."

It needs some work.