Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: like jack and sally

"Hello there, the angel from my nightmare
The shadow in the background of the morgue
The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley
We can live *like Jack and Sally* if we want
Where you can always find me [...]"
E' una canzone dei Blink 182, qualcuno sa dirmi a cosa si riferisce quel
verso, "we can live like Jack and Sally"? Detto cosě sembra che quei due
siano personaggi di qualche film o telefilm (sto dicendo una cretinata? ^^),
ma non saprei proprio che significato attribuire alla frase...
Grazie :)
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Leaden'sky

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Non ne sono sicuro, ma come si chiamava la coppia nel libro di Steven King
"The Shining"? Jack Nicholson played the guy named "John" (aka "Jack") who
gradually lost his mind.. (I don't want to say too much more.)
Just a guess; maybe una cretinata mia. :)
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I was thinking of the animated film, "Nightmare Before Christmas".
P.S. Joe, now that Starbucks has low-carb "latte" (no-cow latte?)
maybe you can jump back on that Java train?
Joe from Massachusetts

 maybe you can jump back on that Java train?
Oh, man; this is murder! It's been three weeks and I'm still waiting for
the "improvement" that everyone says I'm going to feel. Every day at about
2:30 or 3 I get so wiped I can hardly stay awake. Tuesday I was at a
funeral service that started at 3 PM; when the priest started droning I had
all I could do to keep from snoring. Fortunately, the chairs were so
uncomfortable there was no way I could nod off. :)
(Kind of like: That restaurant? Oh, the food's lousy but the portions are
HUGE! :)
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I was thinking of the animated film, "Nightmare Before Christmas".
You're right.
http://www.lacoccinelle.net/traduction-chanson-1432-.html
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Yep, I stand corrected. In "The Shining" it was Jack and Wendy.
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The foregoing is my opinion, and my opinion alone. It is intended to
demonstrate modern American English -- colloquial and spoken, (but well
spoken) for the most part; not literary American English. Ergo, caveat
lector. (No, not you, Hannibal)
Oh, if you feel the need to e-mail me, un-not my address first.

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Coffee has some strange effects.
I used to get mysterious headaches every weekend, which, I eventually
intuited, were caused by drinking several cups of coffee daily at
work, and then not drinking coffee at all on the weekends. The
solution was to either not drink any coffee at all, or to drink as
much coffee on the weekends as I drank at work during the week. I
found a better solution: substitute tea for coffee. Somehow, although
tea probably has as much caffeine as coffee, it doesn't seem to have
the same deleterious effects.
(I did notice what seemed to be the sound of distant thunder on
Tuesday afternoon. I guess it was just you snoring). :>)
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FYI: I see that the McDonald's in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome now has
WIFI access.
Joe from Massachusetts

 WIFI access.
It sure does. I used to drink only two cups a day, both in the morning, and
if I stopped even for a day or two I got the headaches you described.
Lately, just before quitting this time, I was drinking more than 5 cups a
day, throughout the day, and I had gotten into the habit of having a cup or
two around 3 PM, for that "late-afternoon boost" to thwart that
"post-prandial dip."
The first week I stopped I barely noticed anything; but as the weeks wore
on I noticed the lack more and more, and the headaches, although not as
intense as before, are much longer-lasting. I guess I wouldn't consider tea
as an alternative since it's the caffeine I'm trying to eliminate.
But I swear, if I dump all that caffeine and don't start feeling pretty
damn good, pretty damn soon, heads will roll! All those "liars" who told me
I'm better off without caffeine will have hell to pay. <grrrrrrrrrrr>
(You must have very good eyesight. You can see as far as Piazza di Spagna?)
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There was a full-page ad in some newspaper.
Joe from Massachusetts

 "post-prandial dip."
I happen to drink at least two cups a day (two mugs, to be precise), but I
may drink three or four. Is it grave?
Bye, FB
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 Bye, FB
I'm thinking it's less grave (but we would say "serious") than I thought.
The main reason I am trying to give it up is that I've come to believe that
my body has already developed a dependency on caffeine, and I don't like to
know that I have a dependency on anything. Also, the few times I didn't
have coffee for two days or so, the headaches I got were intractable, and I
got to thinking I was too dependent already.
I had dinner with some people a few weeks ago, and they were saying how
much better they felt after giving up caffeine. I have yet to experience
this improvement. I may be back to coffee before too long unless I start to
notice some beneficial change.
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Is it grave?
I don't think you'll die for that. C'mon, it's just coffin!
Sebastiano

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Har har har... or was that a Freudian typo?
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Har har har... or was that a Freudian typo?
Nope. T'was a joke. :)
Sebastiano

 got to thinking I was too dependent already.
I haven't a dependency on caffeine, but when I don't drink coffee it
happens I yawn at two in the afternoon. You feel so alert after coffee.
You could drink Italian coffee: not only does American coffee taste like
dishwater (a matter of taste, I presume), it also contains more caffeine
(*).
* How do you say "a pari quantità"?
Bye, FB
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T'was
Hmmm...
Funny  that  "t'was"  is  so  common...  whereas "'t was" is the true form,
isn't it?
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 * How do you say "a pari quantità"?
I guess the best way (in this case) would be to say "it has more caffeine
per cup." using the specific quantity, rather than a general term.
Your expression means "the same amount", I think. You could also say
"American coffee has more caffeine ounce-for-ounce, than Italian coffee."
I have an espresso maker (a stove-top model, not a machine) and now I'm
thinking I should switch to espresso..... NO! NOT YET! BAD, JOEY, BAD!
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 isn't it?
Yes, that's a very good point. People mostly write T'was (I didn't even
notice it in Sebapop's post) but it should be 'T was. 
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notice it in Sebapop's post) but it should be 'T was. 
You're right! I'll try writing 't was, even though changin' ain't
easy, y'know. ;)
Sebastiano

 easy, y'know. ;)
Which begs the question: Should the response to that be "No, it ain't." or
"Yes, it ain't."?
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"Yes, it ain't."?
Yes, no, whatever. It ain't. ;)
Sebastiano

isn't it?
In old English it's written "twas".

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and 'twas, ignore me :)

 
I see poeple write "ya'll" too, but even if it were a proper
word it would be written "y'all" since it means "you all" and
the apostrophe replaces the missing letters right?
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the apostrophe replaces the missing letters right?
Well, at least that I do right. :)
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ya'll
ya'll: how ig'nant people spell y'all.
^_^
Sebastiano

 I was thinking of the animated film, "Nightmare Before Christmas".
I guess it's right. Thanks :)
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Leaden'sky

 thinking I should switch to espresso..... NO! NOT YET! BAD, JOEY, BAD!
I want to help you ;)
 recent scientific research carried out at the Mayo Clinic, Harvard School
of Public Health, U.S. Veterans Administration and other medical centers
show that coffee is not only safe but beneficial—drinking from 2 to 4 cups
of coffee a day may lower the risk of colon cancer (25%), gallstones (45%),
cirrhosis of the liver (80%), and Parkinson’s Disease (50% - 80%), among
other diseases. It can even reduce the incidence of asthma (25%) because of
the presence of the chemical theophylline in coffee.
http://www.coffeescience.org/other.html
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Maria Luisa C - 03/07/2004 14.10.57, here.
(please, point out my English errors)

 I want to help you ;)
Maria Luisa, mi'amore, ti voglio bene per sempre, ti amo, tu sei
bellissima, mi hai salvato la vita!
Vorrei dirti di piu' ma devo farmi un tazzone di caffe'.! :-o  (bacio)
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 Vorrei dirti di piu' ma devo farmi un tazzone di caffe'.! :-o  (bacio)
Goditelo tutto!
Cheers ;o*
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Just when you're getting off the wagon, Joe, you might be interested
in knowing that even "Dairy Queen" has joined the bandwagon and has
come out with some kind of a  'cino or 'latte. What will be next?
Maybe "7-Eleven" coming out with a "Slurpaccino"?
(To those not familiar with "7-Eleven", it is a convenience store
which is open for business, as the name implies, from 7 a:m until
11p:m. One of the items they feature is a huge cold drink (mostly
water and ice), dispensed by a special machine. This drink is called
the "Slurpy".
"Dairy Queen" is a chain of fast-food restaurants  which features soft
ice cream, but also serves hamburgers and other fast food).
Joe from Massachusetts

 Maybe "7-Eleven" coming out with a "Slurpaccino"?
I don't "do" Dairy Queen. (There aren't any around here, but I think
there's a 7-11 somewhere.)
And I hate to sound like a yuppie, but ever since a friend brought me a
Starbucks Frappuccino a couple of years ago, I've fallen under their spell.
(She even gave me my very own Starbucks card with $10 on it. How could I
resist??) Lately the card has lain fallow and I've bypassed all the
Starbucks in the neighborhood (there are at least 6.)
How nice to know that I can go on line (again) and fill up my Starbucks
card; then it seems like I'm getting their goods for nothing when I go
there.
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