Subject: re: starting over
From: Gene (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 26 2000 - 23:23:16 EDT
> I think it was the "In the Year 2000" segment from
> Late Night With Conan
> O'Brian that had me (literally) laughing out loud
> with a joke about
> mispronouncing Salinger's name. I don't remember
> how it went exactly,
> but I think it was something like:
>
>
> In the year 2000. . .
> An angry JD Salinger will end over 30 years of
> silence by calling a
> press conference to announce to the world that his
> name is pronounced
> Suh-leeng-er.
>
>
> I think that's probably a joke that you have to
> HEAR, and not just read,
> in order to get the full effect. But, oh well. I
> thought it was funny,
> anyway.
lol, no I didn't catch that on Conan, but I have to
admit (as much as I love Salinger and as much as this
might seem like blasphemy...) that is pretty funny.
Hey, even Holden Caulfield liked books that were funny
once in a while, lol.
> And while we're talking about it, I might as well
> ask: How the hell DO
> you pronounce Zooey, anyway?
yeah, I always said "zoo-ee" myself.
> Also, how do you pronounce Eloise and Esme? I
> naturally read them as
> El-oyze and Ess-may.
I always thought "El-oh-eeyse" and "Es-mee" or
"Ez-mee".
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