Amusements

[Sandeyes]

I never put two and two together until now, but when Krepta reminded me about the Nexus being in prohibition-era America, I couldn't help but mention my slight amusement at a personal theme going on with me at the time, regarding Prohibiton.

See, I breed alpacas, and my senior herdsire/breeding stud is named Prudence (Yes, I know its a girly name, but I name on the idea that we live up to our names meanings, and thus far he has, as he is the most conscientious, prudent male I have ever had the pleasure of owning). Either way, he was bred to a female named Serenity, and if their baby is a female, I was going to name it Temperance, as a play on the theme of personality traits and virtues being names with them.

I also have a young male (who isn't breeding yet), whose father is named "Rumrunner", his own name is "Rum's Bocelli". Being a Rum baby, I would like to breed him to Temperance when they are of breeding age, so I can name the resulting baby "Prohibition".

Lol get it? Prohibition was started by the Women's Temperance movement, which spawned Rumrunners? A lame kind of funny I know, but then again, I have a little bit of a lame sense of humour to be honest, lol.

People of course look at me like I'm crazy when I mention my aspirations for my Boys, but I always find the idea amusing.

What stories do you guys find amusing?

[themascura]

I love it! XD I got the historical reference right away and just started giggling to myself. Especially because I immediately pictured the women's temperance movement as alpacas.

[Krepta]

You'll get along well with Them. XD It seems you two have a similar sense of humor. Also, those are awesome names. It's a shame those kinds of names only seem to work for livestock and the like. I'd love to have a host of dogs or cats with names like that.

As for me, I'm rather fond of the crazy lingo they used way back then. Such as Barking Moonbat, which meant crazy, understandably, or the millions of billions of names they had for a woman's legs. XD

[Sandeyes]

;D I think I will for sure get on fine with you guys here. XD As far as the language they used to use-- I personally find many American terms very novel in general, (not that I've met many Americans on a talking basis, the few I have known do talk different from us Canadians), like referring to "pop" as "soda", or even some of the accents that come from the different States...

But then again, I'm a shut-in too. XD

[Krepta]

XDXD I think that's a very common thing. Everyone's just afraid to admit it. Probably because if you've never known someone from a different culture like that personally, it's hard to determine what might be a stereotype or not.

Then again, some slang that my ROOMIE uses still stumps me, and we're from the same country. XDXD And to be fair, we did use 'pop' at one point in time. I think it was just in the 90's. Interestingly enough, different areas of the country still use 'pop' over 'soda'. Though were I grew up in the East Coast, it was 'soda'.