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Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).
Do you pronounce the first R in surprised?
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laterallyshaking
Elite
Suh dude.
What sorta phaggot says Sir-prized?
I was thinking about the tik tok you posted when I posted this
At Croot_Overlord: The "r" is pronounced in its original context. The word comes from an English nobleman who lived during the reign of Henry the VIII. His name was given to him by Henry the VIII when he was Knighted for being his most loyal and valuable consort. Thus the name Sir Prized. His named worked its way into the common vernacular as people began to describe people that had just experienced unexpected good fortune and thus they would call him "Sir Prized" for a time. I know it sounds silly, but it is true. Look it up.
Excuse me, kind Sir.
laterallyshaking
Elite
Is this the only case of you thinking about me while doing something?
Lilburncock
Poster
English speakers.
Lilburncock
Poster
There may be some regional differences too. I know up here in the north we pronounce the R. We call pop, pop. In some parts of the country they call it soda, or even coke, whether its's an actual Coke or not.
...they call their sisters and cousins 
Those English men and women who lived under the reign of Henry the VIII, which was from 1491 to 1547. The use of this phrase continued for roughly another generation and mopped into "surprised" and in shocked or "stunned" according to Websters 8th Edition of English Vernacular.
He was such a manchild. Didn’t he finish like 2nd in hiesman?
