NP - Frank Miller's Charlie Brown

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Dunn" <kevindunn27 at gmail.com>
To: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: NP - Frank Miller's Charlie Brown


> Orygun! I have to constantly correct the speech of those residing in  my 
> current megalopolis!
>
> Kevin

Thanks, Kevin. You have proved you're a native.

Lived a few years there myself,. many years ago.

P

In Southern California where I grew up they also pronounce the name of the 
northern neighbor correctly.

It's only in the east they resort to phonetics.


> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 19, 2009, at 5:19 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ah Powells
>>
>> where the wood smells fresh, the sci-fi section is stacked
>> and the girls oh the girls
>> there are oh so pretty and smarter than me
>>
>> the Thunderhead Stout helped, circa 1994
>>
>> crossing my old self in Oregone (that's how we say it here in New  Yawk)
>>
>> good times
>>
>> as for Fresno, drove from Frisco once
>> got very lost
>> do not repeat
>> rich
>>
>> On 3/19/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> I'll trade your soggy Portland for my smoky Fresno*.
>>>
>>> [Homer Simpson's "food voice']: Powell's----ummmmm. . . . .
>>>
>>> On Mar 19, 2009, at 9:37 AM, grladams at teleport.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm living in soggy Portland, Oregon
>>>
>>> *Fresno is Spanish for "ash tree."