15 minutes ago: I learned that people look at you funny if you sport double popped collars at the dentist office. I figured that wearing Speedy Gonzales would cancel out the double popped collars...no joy.
I'll type it in the best I can...where I heard it said this way is noted below...
zjay zjair le coolt
The z and j are pronounced sort of together, sort of like you would pronounce the beginning of the French name Jacques. At the end of coolt, there would be a trailing off r sound that you might not even hear a lot of the time when people are saying it properly. The L in that word is also not very pronounced.
I had a funny experience at a well known used dealer in Toronto once. I went in there looking at all the overpriced used watches, and asked if the had any JLC's (I pronounced it the correct way) and I was specifically looking for one model. The first thing the "lady" said to me (stopping me in the middle of that sentence to correct me) is that I was saying it wrong, and the first name is "yay-ger". I said "That's funny, because when I was at the factory in Switzerland last year, no one there said it like you do."
She then told me they didn't have any, and I walked out...
15 minutes ago: I learned that people look at you funny if you sport double popped collars at the dentist office. I figured that wearing Speedy Gonzales would cancel out the double popped collars...no joy.
Now if we were to discuss how to pronounce Jaeger-LeCoultre, some good learning would happen. And I know, it's pronounced J.L.C.
I learnt that if I hear one more "absolutely" used as an intensifier today, I will take myself to the nearest tower and throw myself off!!
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That is an abso-friggin-lootely bad idea.
I learned (yesterday) that the "Seiko Shake" is most likely the "Seiko Gentle Swoosh"...I think I've been doing it incorrectly for 28 years (too hard)...no problems during that time...but now after my Seiko 6309's first servicing (in 28 years), I believe I caused oil to splash on the hairspring (again)...it gains about 10 seconds per minute (again). It was running great 2 days ago when I received it back from the watchmaker...it was running great until I did the "Seiko Shake" yesterday. I conducted multiple time resets yesterday and today...same deal...it goes Mach 2...and gains about 10 seconds per minute...continuously. So I learned that it's not a shipping problem, it's a Mad Dog problem...the learning curve is steep for the Mad Dog. 馃檨
