It's been a while since I've done a poll.

[stoney321]

So let's do one! ONLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF HIGH INTELLIGENCE/SKILLS SHOULD DARE TAKE THIS POLL. You might hurt yourself, otherwise.

I MESSED UP. You can't edit these, boo. LLotP = LHotP. Or maybe I mean the grungy, diesel-punk spin off, Little Louse on the Pra- no, I just messed up. *hangs head*
[Poll #1952234]

Fun fact! I didn't know for years that it was pronounced "slew." I said "sluff." This is what comes of a lonely childhood and lots of quiet reading time: you figure out how to pronounce things on your own.

ION, I have reached a sort of max-density when it comes to pictures of Tyler Hoechlin. I now feel a physical ache in my chest at the sight of him and have to scroll past. THERE IS TOO MUCH ATTRACTIVE/NICE BOY STUFF HAPPENING and it hurts me, guys. It hurts me.

Comments

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

Stoney, no! You made me hurt myself with your difficult poll of difficultness! :(

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I TOLD YOU IT WAS SUPER HARD.

...did you even warm up with some gentle running in place or some jumping jacks?? *tsk tsk*

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Your poll hurt my head because I can't figure out why it's LLotP.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA

OMG, I just got to rolling and didn't notice I doubled the L. AHAHA. DERP.

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I totally thought it was sluff. Rhymes with rough.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

ME, TOO. For years and years I said it that way! I was shocked to hear how they pronounced it. AND THEY ARE WRONG. /Sluff for life! ;D

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

I was that kid who sang every song ever as loudly as they could. Each and every time I sang 400 children all the grown ups around me would laugh and laugh.

I was 35 when I figured out what so damn funny

misheard song lyrics ftw

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

You totally had to SHOUT: FOUR HUNDRED CHILDREN AND A CROP AND A FIELD! Lol.

My parents had a country-western band and would sing this song, bringing my sister and me up on stage to sing if we were in attendance, and the audience would always crack up.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

I do not even remember who Cap Gardner is *hangs head in shame*

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

The boy who went with Almanzo to get the seed wheat during the long winter!

[jaysons-lady.livejournal.com]

I pronounced it "Sloff".
I didn't know it was "slew" until I read this!

And judging from the questions, it has been /way/ too long since I've read Little House. I don't even remember most of that.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Time to read them again!

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

I called it slow to rhyme with cow (slaow) so I could not do the ticky ::is sad:;

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I DENIED YOU A TICKY?! *covers self in ashes and sackcloth*

[ladycyndra.livejournal.com]

You are SO NOT MY REAL DAD!!!! Also, fries every fucking time. With tacos.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIES

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

I liked Ma, actually. She was totally all those things in the poll, but yeah, in the end, a product of her time. Also she was pretty bad ass, when she pressed that burning bit of coal on her own leg to stop the infection and then managed to smash the window out so Pa could find her before she passed out from the pain? Damn, woman.

Trufax though: Papa Ingalls was totally my first daddy!kink crush. Hubba.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Ma was tough, and make no mistake about it. I loved her smarts, to be sure.

(LOL.)

Papa Ingalls and Laura had (and still have) the best daddy-daughter relationship of all time, followed closely by Veronica and Papa Mars, and Faith and The Mayor.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

So...apparently Laura had a big crush on Cap IRL.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, it's pretty evident in the books, too. SHE SETTLED.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

"Slough" = "Sluff". Says this Southerner. I dunno how them Yankees pronounce it, but they're clearly wrong. If they lived here, they'd know better. ;)

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Ha, BUT. Since they're books about Northerners, we have to pronounce it that way!

BUT YES, SLUFF.

[tchrgleek.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Nachos for the win! Also, I love LHOTP! Thanks for the laugh on a crappy day.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Seriously, freaking nachos, right?! MMMMM.

YOU ARE WELCOME.

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

Alas, I am only well versed in the TV show, where Ma was quite lovely and I had a possibly inappropriately mad crush on Pa (I was, like 12). But - Michael Landon! And he could play the fiddle! I read the books but I can't really remember much.

And I totally said "slou" but you didn't have that up there so I picked the closest one - I thought the gh was silent.

This is what comes of a lonely childhood and lots of quiet reading time: you figure out how to pronounce things on your own.

Yup, that explains it.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

The TV show is SO DIFFERENT from the books, as far as characterization goes. Ma was so quiet and insistent on her girls being seen, not heard, moving softly, giving their things away, never exploring, sitting, sitting, sitting. TV Laura was far more rambunctious and outgoing than Book Laura ever was. (Bumps! I loved her apple boobs rolling down the aisle and hitting Miss Beetle's shoe. Oh, TV Laura...)

WAIT. HOW DO YOU SAY SLOU? Sloo? Or Slow? Or ow-like-cow?

There are so many words I learned how to pronounce YEARS after I learned their meanings for just that reason.

[gillo]

Actually, I pronounce the word "sl-ow", to rhyme with "plow/plough", because there's a town in Berkshire (pron: Bark - shy-er) with that name and a poem about how bombs should destroy it.

When I read the Little House books I just saw Ma through Laura's eyes, and didn't criticise her. I was young.

Fries are chips and are always the answer.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Ha! Someone else has linked to that very poem!! <3 <3 <3

"and didn't criticize her." Yes, you wouldn't have as Laura, would you? *gives you an extra corn cob doll Mr. Edwards brought all the way from Independence.*

[aimeelicious]

I answered the LHotP questions even though I said I didn't want to. So there.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

You are WALKING A THIN LINE, LADY. A mighty thin line. ;D

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

I love the Little House books and when I was in MO in October, I went to the Laura and Almanzo's Rocky Ridge Farm. I didn't know that Laura didn't start writing the books until she was 65.

[mpoetess.livejournal.com]

I didn't pronounce it at all, since I didn't read it out loud and had no one to talk about corn husk dollies with, but my mental verbal whateverthefuck image of it was "slow" to rhyme with though.

His big hands were callused, he looked liked a mountain, for a minute I thought I was dead, but he started shakin; his big heart was breakin'. He turned to the woman and said....

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

We have similar goals, as it turns out. *pokes icon*

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

I did not realize Ma was so freaking awful! I only know TV-MA. Which makes it seem like it's TV rated Mature, and now I definitely want to tune in.

[fiveandfour.livejournal.com]

I pronounced slough...as "sloff" (rhymes with "trough"). I don't even know how long it took me to realize that the slough ("slew") down the road was the same thing as the "sloff" I was reading in books. Eeee-jit.

OK, I answered the questions...now where's my taco?!?

P.S. I guess I'm going to have to re-read some Little House books because I don't recall all that much about Ma.

[mrmonkeybottoms.livejournal.com]

Um, yeah. I was a HUGE fan of the books. HUGE. HUUUUUUUGE. I still remember asking my Uncle (I lived with my Aunt and Uncle as a young child) for money for the Schoolastic book order paper the teacher gave us so I could order Little House on the Prairie. He did and I was so excited when it arrived. And my love affair for the series began.

DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE TV SERIES OK??? MICHAEL LANDON WAS *****NOT**** THE PA INGALLS OF THE BOOKS. HE WAS ENTIRELY TOO YOUNG. AND WHERE WAS HIS **********BEARD********* FOR GOD'S SAKE???? SHE ONLY MENTIONS HIS BEARD 29383793486283663 TIMES IN THE BOOKS.

Ok. Rant over. Sorry about that.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I. COULDN'T. AGREE. MORE.

I mean, okay, Michael Landon was great and all, but he was not Pa Ingalls. THE WHISKERS. WHERE WERE THE WHISKERS. And THE most important thing about Pa was his shared wanderlust with Laura. And the fiddle! WHERE WERE THE SONGS AT THE END OF THE DAY.

OMG, those Scholastic order forms! Those were the best days of grade school, right??

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

I never watched much of the series, just an episode here and there. I know mom loved it though. Still does, I think. I can thank her for loving The High Chaparral and How The West Was Won (know as Macahan Family in Sweden). The High Chaparral still remains a favorite of mine, and I now own the whole thing on DVD. Long live modern inventions! :-D