June 201 ask onyx (John)

[barmpot]

I was quite sure John that you and Dick were correct in your pronunciation but decided to check it in case I was wrong too.
Would you believe there is an 11 second YouTube video pronouncing it correctly. Now it's not your word against your wife's word.

When I sold high quality menswear it was always "on-icks", usually stated to be finest quality onyx actually; we always had to stress the quality which was the reason for the price! Glad to know I did not give bad information to my clientele.

 

[me2]

Sorry, I forgot to put the link in to the YouTube video for those who might want to see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIJX0u-UoeA
It is amazing what people put on YouTube these days.
Marilyn

 

[Pearl]

Sorry, I forgot to put the link in to the YouTube video for those who might want to see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIJX0u-UoeA
It is amazing what people put on YouTube these days.
Marilyn

I'm pretty sure I'm on there somewhere doing something stupid

 

[dick]

Onyx is a semi-precious stone and just a name I started to use from the time I got my first pc. I just picked a short word as a user name. May I congratulate you on your new found sensibility:dance: It won't last will it?

Looking at the above John I have to ask! Have you kissed the Blarney Stone?? :wink:

 

[onyx(John)]

Looking at the above John I have to ask! Have you kissed the Blarney Stone?? :wink:

I did kiss the Blarney stone once Dick, many years ago. Not having a good head for heights I remember it as a scary experience. I made the schoolboy error of looking down!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbv6hliU8CM

 

[Beth]

What would you say is your biggest pet peeve or your top 3?

 

[onyx(John)]

What would you say is your biggest pet peeve or your top 3?

People that don't cover their mouth and yawn so wide you can see their tonsils! Also people that don't use their indicators when driving and those that drive too close behind you:unhappy:

 

[Beth]

People that don't cover their mouth and yawn so wide you can see their tonsils! Also people that don't use their indicators when driving and those that drive too close behind you:unhappy:

I agree. I hate it when people travel right behind you. All I have to do is hit my brake because of the person in front of me and there he will go, right into my backseat. grrrr

 

[Beth]

What are your top 3 favorite things in life?

 

[onyx(John)]

What are your top 3 favorite things in life?

At the risk of sounding like I'm coming over all profound I would say the most important things to me are having good health, my family who I didn't always fully appreciate and being relatively debt free is important to me considering the financial mess I was in in the past.

 

[onyx(John)]

What are your top 3 favorite things in life?

Sorry Beth, I think I misread your question. My FAVOURITE things in life these days are simple things like going out for a meal, rallying on a fine summer Sunday and just being around my friends.

 

[Beth]

No you didn't. I asked you two different questions at two different times.

 

[Beth]

I can't help it if you can't spell!

 

[onyx(John)]

I can't help it if you can't spell!

:-[:-[:-[

 

[Beth]

;D Of course, I was being a smarty pants. I know; I know....we are the ones that changed it. haha

 

[onyx(John)]

;D Of course, I was being a smarty pants. I know; I know....we are the ones that changed it. haha

Oh WE is it?! you and your sidekick:whisper: ,acting the Jack McIlhookey?

 

[Beth]

Jack who?

 

[onyx(John)]

Jack who?

McIlhookey, and stop smoking those cigars, they'll kill you:wink:

 

[Beth]

I hate it when you start talking in a foreign language.

 

[onyx(John)]

I hate it when you start talking in a foreign language.

That just my way of returning the curve ball