Fee-Bee! Like on the show "Friends!" :cheers:

Fo-bee! No, just kidding -- Fee-bee. Lisa's kids say the funniest things!

:rofl::rofl: So funny!

:chuckle: When I was a kid, and I read that name, I thought that Fo-bee was right! I mean, it looks like that, right? :rofl:

That's funny, because when I was little, I did too! I also remember thinking the name Deborah was pronounced Dee-BORE-ah. :dummy: :rofl:

When I first the Harry Potter books, the name Penelope came up often. I thought it was pronounced "Pen-a-lope." And the name Seamus, "Sea-muss."
:chuckle: There are some things that you can't learn from books!

Oh, yes, Ashley. Pen-a-lope. Me, too! And Sean was "seen."

And, Joe - think of Phoebe Snow. You gotta know who she is, and if you don't, then think of the Erie Lackawana Railroad. They had a train named the Phoebe Snow. Truthfully, my kid is named after a train.

I've heard Phoebe's name pronounced "Fo-Bee," "Fobe," "Fo-eeb," and so on. But I promise, I wasn't trying to come up with a complicated name. It's old as dirt, really. A Greek goddess had that name, I believe. I just liked the way it looked in print.

Carolina, did you see any good fireworks tonight?

Lisa, Sean is a good one too! I always thought it was "Seen." I was wondering why there were so many stupid names out there :chuckle:

And lol at Fo-Eeb!

Only in Oklahoma, Ashley. And maybe Georgia!:dummy::clap:

:rofl: It took me a LONG time to convince myself that "Sean" wasn't actually "seen".

We saw some great fireworks tonight! Extra great, because this was the first time we could watch them without someone crying, or running away (ears covered)! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

We have the same problem at our house, but it happens right after sex.:dummy::rofl:

Again?!? Get outta here, Joe!!! :banghead: :dummy: :rofl: :rofl: :chuckle:

Joe! :dummy: :rofl: :rofl:

I don't know who is nuttier - you or JJ! :cheers:

I ain't looking or checking.:rofl:

Man, at this rate I will only be able to converse through PMs.:rofl:.

:chuckle: But what would we do here in the threads without your nuttiness?!

Man, you have an answer for everything!! :rofl:

I have to share a little giggle.

I was in the bathroom helping Phoebe brush her teeth with her new braces.... suddenly heard what sounded like a rapidly approaching car speeding to our house - tires screeching - and then a VERY LOUD explosion. Yikes! We scuttled to the living room to find David standing in a daze, the TV remote in his hand. "Damn it!" he said. Seems he had nodded off on the couch while watching some movie, and as his head slumped over, his noggin settled on the Up Volume button on the remote. Happened to be a car chase scene at the time.:chuckle::chuckle:

:rofl::rofl: Cute story. How is Phoebe liking her braces? I hated mine, but I got them on when I was seventeen and had to wear them to grad, so I was very unhappy. She's quite young to get them now, right?

Yes, she's young - she was 7 when she first got the palate expander thingie. Her grandfather is a retired orthodontist, and we followed his suggestion to have her looked at early. She's got a small jaw and lots of crowding, and a big overbite (small jaw/thumb sucking was a deadly combo). Getting some bands on early can help encourage her proper jaw development, I understand.

Phoebe liked the bands once she got over the soreness. Much better all around than the palate expander, which looked a lot like a torture device.

I remember the pics of you when you got your braces off - what a dazzling smile and I know it had to feel wonderful!

:cheers: It certainly did feel wonderful to finally get them off! Phoebe is lucky that she's getting everything out of the way now, so she doesn't have to worry about it later. She'll be grateful in the end!!

This is random I know, but in a different thread a while ago we were discussing how we pronounced names when we were younger. I just remembered the name that bothered me the most as a kid, and it's "Penelope." I always thought that it was "pen-elope." Did we already discuss this name? :chuckle: If we did, my bad, but I just saw an advertisement with it and it still bugs me to this day because I thought that "pen-elope" was the stupidest name ever :rofl::dummy:

Yes, count me in! It was Pen-elope for me for the longest time, and I found it an annoying name. I actually met someone with the name not too long ago, and it was spelled Pinelopi! Which reminds me (meet me at the "Rants"thread... :rofl:

We just spent the weekend with my twin 8 year old neices. They had gotten their braces off that morning after wearing them for a year. They were nothing but smiles. :thumbsup:

Woo - that's really young! But nice to have the braces over with.

Three of my boys had braces. One of them had his on for 7 years. In the middle of that, he had to have reconstructive jaw surgery because his lower jaw was growing much faster than the rest of his face, giving his face an unusally long and pointed look. They removed a section of bone from above his upper teeth...in the middle of the bone, so then they had to rewire the bone shut. Then they did the same thing on the bottom. They also put in two metal plates...one on either side of his jaw. They did a lot of surgery through the roof of his mouth, and the poor kid had 100 stitches in his mouth when they were done. Brutal surgery. His face was swollen about 3 times its regular size by the time they were done, and most of his jaw/face was numb for the longest time. All he could eat was stuff like pudding etc., but with no feeling in his face, he could never find his mouth and was constantly spilling the food down the front of him. He was 17 at the time.You can imagine how frustrated he was. After all that time, all those years in braces, all the post-surgery agony and all the expense, he is now 34 and STILL doesn't have perfectly straight teeth because to this day, they insist on shifting somewhat. Thankfully, the jaw surgery part itself was successful. It changed his appearance so much that his classmates and friends did not recognize him when he returned to school.

Even though he is now 34, I still feel bad for someone of that age to deal with something like that.:thinking:. Also, where the hell have you been?:thinking::cheers:

Poor boy! That sounds like it would be very painful, and I understand the frustrating part! I'm sorry they didn't correct his teeth completely! What a story! I wonder what the results and timeframe would be nowadays compared to so many years ago?
It must have been very tough for you to see him go through this!

Right here, Joey.....reading, watching you and taking notes for future reference. :hat::cheers:

Not nearly as painful as it's going to be to watch my eldest son turn 40 in a few days. :rofl::rofl::dummy::dummy::dummy: