Wordie: Eggplant: Comments

Comment by Asativum, 6 months ago

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:19 +0000

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:13:29 +0000

Hey. If we can have Foodie, Tunie, Poetrie, and Excrementie*, then we might as well have Dialectie, I say.

*Totally madeupical. See chained_bear.

P.S. Thanks, Pro!

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:10:55 +0000

Asativum can now comment: cess*!

*Exactly the same as jeez.

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:06:53 +0000

La milinzana in forru
è bona e assai licchitta
è megliu di la fava
più bona di l'anghidda
ma ssi è cundidda bè
cun agliu e pebaroni
ti frizzi un bè ra ganna
la mirinzana la mirinzana
ti frizzi un bè ra ganna
la mirinzana, dirundundà.

Comment by Asativum, 6 months ago

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:14:19 +0000

reesetee, this isn't Dialectie, you know.

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:58:22 +0000

Pro, that's delightful! Can you give us those lyrics in your hometown dialect, too? :-)

Comment by pterodactyl, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:52:00 +0000

Oh, and yarb -- your earworm-fu is strong. You've pretty much ensured that Elton John will play in my head for the next few hours. :-)

Comment by pterodactyl, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:48:30 +0000

I've known for some years now that aubergine and courgette are the British English words for what we Americans call eggplant and zucchini. But I can never seem to remember which American word goes with which British word. Mention aubergines to me, and I'll know you're talking about some sort of garden vegetable, but my comprehension ends there.

Comment by Asativum, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:33:57 +0000

I did, yes. But I trust it was artistic license on the folk that wrote this song. If not, I would like to vigorously disclaim all responsibility. I blame Capsicum frutescens entirely.

And good to know what I said. I love the phrase. I may have to use it sometime. I assume it's pronounced more or less like Italian? And while I'm at it, where is your region?

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:11:24 +0000

HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You made my day!
It's "out of my head", meaning awesome in Sassarese.
I love you Asa.

By the way, did you notice that this song is also about you?

Comment by Asativum, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:09:11 +0000

Fora di gabbu!!!

OK, I have no idea what that means, but it's on the video comments and sounded cool.

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:59:24 +0000

Here you can listen to the song*.

*Yes, Depeche Mode. People from my hometown have a passion for video-editing and dubbing. One of the most popular local TV programs was based on re-dubbing famous movies in our dialect.

Comment by Asativum, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:48:22 +0000

My goodness. I never even knew a song about eggplants existed, much less a rowdy one.

I may have to reevaluate Solanum melongena.

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:35:53 +0000

Baked eggplants
are good and worth liplicking
Better then broad beans
Much better than eels
But if well seasoned
With garlic and chili
They make your ass sting
The eggplants, the eggplants
They make your ass sting
The eggplants, "dirundundà".

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:18:32 +0000

This page is becoming nicely chaotic. I'd like to thank all those who have taken the time to plant eggs.

Comment by yarb, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:06:16 +0000

Lyrics please!

I love aubergines. Have you read the novels of Aubergine Waugh?

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:43:33 +0000

Last thought before going to bed:
The most famous popular song in my hometown's dialect is about eggplants. If you want the lyrics, ask me tomorrow.

Comment by Asativum, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:38:15 +0000

God can do anything.

Ergo, She can be stir-fried.

Comment by kewpid, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:32:02 +0000

:( This kind of overthinking could destroy my love affair with an otherwise perfectly good vegetable (or fruit).

Comment by kewpid, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:32:02 +0000

:( This kind of overthinking could destroy my love affair with an otherwise perfectly good vegetable (or fruit).

Comment by yarb, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:15:34 +0000

Goodbye Aubergine;
though I never knew you at all...

Comment by skipvia, 6 months ago

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:26:08 +0000

Can you imagine a vegetable name (OK, fruit name) less appetizing than "eggplant" or one more enticingly savory than "aubergine?"

More people would probably eat eggplant if we'd quit calling it that.

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:02:54 +0000

I think about it every night* and day
Trim my wings and fry away.

(*Night, especially.)

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:53:08 +0000

Bit oily for me. I much prefer curried God.

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:34:19 +0000

Earworm!

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:24:26 +0000

I believe I can fry
I believe I can touch the sky.

Comment by kewpid, 6 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:08:52 +0000

It's just a short step away from eating body of Christ.

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:59:06 +0000

I had no idea you could stir-fry God.

*contemplating*

Comment by Asativum, 6 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:03:51 +0000

God or eggplants, kewpid?

Comment by kewpid, 6 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:33:20 +0000

They are ridiculously yummy stir-fried in some olive oil.

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:07:40 +0000

I too believe in eggplants.

Comment by yarb, 6 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:15:49 +0000

I'm not sure, but I ardently believe the latter.

Comment by Asativum, 6 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:33:28 +0000

My Latin is rusty. Is that "Out of eggplants, God"? Or just "God jumped out of an eggplant"?

Comment by yarb, 6 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:15:28 +0000

Deus ex aubergina.

Comment by mollusque, 6 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:24:17 +0000

Eggplant plant plant plants plants.

(A spy in the aubergine works starts his own garden.)

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:18:38 +0000

Truly, they do belong in the weirdness league.

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:53:50 +0000

I saw a photo of a white eggplant once, and suddenly it all became clear, why eggplant deserves to be in the weirdness league.

I decided years ago that eggplants are so beautiful and interesting that I would force myself to keep making eggplant dishes until I found some that I liked. It worked. Now I love the stuff. :)

Comment by kisholi, about 1 year ago

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:55:28 +0000

eggplant, aubergine and brinjal are all the same vegetable yeah?

Comment by seanahan, over 2 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:42:59 +0000

I'm all verklempt

Comment by Samme, over 2 years ago

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:38:43 +0000

Talk amongst yourselves! I'll give you a topic, eggplants are neither eggs nor plants. Discuss!

Comment by mccote, over 2 years ago

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:48:28 +0000

Neither an egg, nor a plant.