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2 minutes ago, Grem said:

How would you pronounce this word? I had an uncle with that name.

He pronounced his name like this: "Ya' - ss". Like saying "Yacht" but with "es" sound instead of "ta" at the end.

I have heard people pronounce it "Ig - nuss."

Out of all my long years, I have never even heard of another man named Ignace.

I'd pronounce it as "Hey!"

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On 3/22/2024 at 6:29 AM, craigb said:

Joseph-Ignace was a motivated doctor who was always trying to get ahead! 😜

 

(Sorry to make you think or Google so early in the morning! 😉)

 

2 hours ago, Grem said:

How would you pronounce this word? I had an uncle with that name.

He pronounced his name like this: "Ya' - ss". Like saying "Yacht" but with "es" sound instead of "ta" at the end.

I have heard people pronounce it "Ig - nuss."

Out of all my long years, I have never even heard of another man named Ignace.

 

😜

So, did anyone actually Google "Joseph-Ignace" to get the joke? 

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5 hours ago, craigb said:

So, did anyone actually Google "Joseph-Ignace" to get the joke? 

I was sent a PM that said don't tell Craig we googled anything!!

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Thanks for the video Craig. The way he pronounced it in French was exactly how my other aunts and uncles called him. I always thought they were saying "And Ya-ss". Hearing him say the word...  that was a wow moment for me!! All my cousins and I just always called him Uncle Ya-ss. 

Man.. the things I learn around here!!

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(There's a quote from Frank Zappa below, that makes this post musical, ya? 😆)

Politics …

  • If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. — Jay Leno
     
  • The problem with political jokes is they get elected. — Henry Cate, VII
     
  • We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office — Aesop
     
  • Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. — Nikita Khrushchev
     
  • When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. — Clarence Darrow
     
  • Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnels. — John Quinton, American actor/writer
     
  • Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. — Author unknown
     
  • Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession.  I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. — Ronald Reagan
     
  • Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. — Oscar Ameringer, “the Mark Twain of American socialism”
     
  • I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. — Adlai Stevenson, 1952
     
  • A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. — Tex Guinan
     
  • Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. — Doug Larson, English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games
     
  • We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate. — Kin Hubbard, American cartoonist/humorist
     
  • An election is coming.  Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. — George Eliot
     
  • Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. — Otto von Bismarck
     
  • Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. — Groucho Marx
     
  • Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex. —Frank Zappa
     
  • Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress.  But I repeat myself. — Mark Twain
     
  • Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Salvor Hardin, in Isaac Asimov, Foundation saga
     
  • If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it. — attrib. to Mark Twain
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