Report your use of Brokieisms in so-called "real life"

[serious crayons]

Meryl, John, Chuck and I all met for lunch in New York yesterday. It was a wonderful time, as you would expect! A few hours later, after John and Chuck had departed, Meryl and I stopped for a drink and an appetizer. Meryl is avoiding gluten for the moment, so when the waiter started to serve her a plate of bread, she said, "I'll take a glass of wine, but I can't eat no bread just now."

(Or something very close to that.   )

[Front-Ranger]

"I'll take a glass of wine, but I can't eat no bread just now."

 

[Jeff Wrangler]

This doesn't exactly qualify, but this thread is the closet I can think of to post this.

Last night I was watching a movie called Ride the High Country on TCM. I just about fell out of my chair when I heard Randolph Scott ask Joel McCrea, "Where you been?" and McCrea replied, "Here and there."

[CellarDweller]

that is pretty close.

[Jeff Wrangler]

I did a double-take when I ran across this line:

"I told you, we'll have a sweet life together."

Sound familiar?

The line is from a story by Margaret Coel called "An Incident in Aspen." It's spoken by a ski instructor who is trying to convince his rich client to divorce her husband and marry him.

[Jeff Wrangler]

I seem to have developed the habit of addressing strangers as "Friend."

Strangers. Store clerks. Homeless people you give a quarter to. Those types.

[CellarDweller]

keep doing it....sometimes, that's what is needed  to be heard.

[Front-Ranger]

I just emailed the latest status on the Hatchery Fire to EDelMar, Offline Chuck and Pete (Vermont Sunset) and finished with this line:

Besides, I'm a little jumpy about wildfires in Wyoming ever since our Jack of Spades lost his cabin there.  "Once burned" to use a Brokieism. FR

[Front-Ranger]

I looked it up in the story and it says, "Once burned." so it's definitely a Proulxism and a Brokieism! (It would be a good scrabble word if it weren't a proper noun!)

And the idiomatic dictionary says Americans are more likely to say "once burned. . ." while others would say "once bitten". I wonder why.

[CellarDweller]

And the idiomatic dictionary says Americans are more likely to say "once burned. . ." while others would say "once bitten". I wonder why.

Interesting.  I had not heard "Once Burned" until BBM.  However, I was very familiar with the expression "once bitten, twice shy."