THE METOPIAN PICAYUNE


July 2003

Pronounciation Of "Staunton" Challenged

by Dick Didnotwritethisstorybecauseitisstupidsofuckup

Staunton:A typical moron like yourself (you’re a moron if you keep looking at this site being a full of 100% pure, complete, and non-artificial waste of time that you could have spent in thinking about the pronunciation of Staunton. As you will note in the spelling of Staunton, you will notice a U four letters in. StaUnton. So, what in the hell? It all comes down to this. Those of you who say Staunton are wrong you damn rednecks. If you look at the spelling of the last name of the famous women’s rights activist of the early days, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, you will note that it is pronounced as Stanton, but if you are part of this good old southerner (in a southern accent) trash, you think that the city is pronounced Staunton instead of Staunton. Oh yeah! I bet that you say potato instead of potato, and tomato instead of tomato, don’t you, you “some bitch!” So what exactly is the correct and formal pronunciation of Staunton? Well, it is Staunton. It is as much of an insult if you called the name Mantua by the pronunciation Mantua, instead of Mantua. Oh, by the way…, if you are completely lost at this point, go to hell you southern trash. Yankee Pride forever. Go New Hampshire! They will rule the United States. Well, apparently this could start the great War Between the States all over again, but why can’t these rednecks understand that the war ended over 150 years ago.?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!?!
So anyway, it is correctly pronounced Staunton and not Staunton like the rest of the world says, along with these mind-aggravating pronunciations such as tomato instead of tomato, potato instead of potato, and Mantua instead of Mantua. I shall now kill myself.

Pink Cambodia Pandas Live In Staunton



by Jack-did-Jill

Much to My dismay I read the post written by Mr. Richard Didnotwritethisstorybecauseitisstupidsofuckup.
Fortunately Mr. Didnotwritethisstorybecauseitisstupidsofuckup hit on most of the important white trash issues that would have composed of this article also. So I much to my boredom and dismay, this article will be composed mostly of the real facts- which we all know are subject to change by the Panda’s of Cambodia- because as the saying goes: “The past is controlled by those who control present.”
So why do we pronounce Staunton wrong? Well I was on the floor of my most favorite job in the whole wide world- kissing shitty ass retail- trying to sell bed sheets to some maniac old bald man who probably had just ruined his best sheets by killing some poor woman who planned on being on FAME! The next time around. So I'm trying to create chit-chat so the man wont kill me, and out of nowhere he begins to talk about Staunton…and wow almighty that’s a big red underline on that one there buddy. So we talk about Staunton…didn’t take long to go through about everything, maybe like a min or two and that just about ran the trough dryer than my that-will-teach-you-to-walk-into-MY-apartment-with-wet-paws-again cat after spending about three days in my dryer on Permanent Press.
So then he decided to go into the history of Staunton and why it was spelt the way it was. Of course- it wasn’t a real American’s fault. It was those damn British as always, with their “we have such a better language than you” attitude. Well of course this stupid British prick needed to establish a charter for the area of Staunton. Well like most brownnosing British pricks- he named it after some rich dike who would never see the stupid area except on some MapQuest website. Well even worse, when writing the charter, the moron misspells Stanton as StaUnton…what drove the British mongrel to insert a “U” into the name is a mystery to all still, yet never fear- for I HAVE solved the answer why. When describing the color Staunton should appear on the map (a fagish pink as the Panda’s have told me) the arrogant bastard decided that like the British spelling for color- “colour” (which also comes up red underline on Microsoft Word so of course it HAS to be wrong) that names should also have a “U” after a noun. Well of course this is just to show the stupidity of those damn Brits. Unfortunately all American efforts to have the name corrected failed as bad as trying to convict O.J. Simpson. So for the rest of the years to come- poor illiterate redneck have been illuded into thinking they have a correct way of spelling like northerners have “Marthas Vinyard”(Marthas VinEyard.) It’s a horrible experience of constant failure that rivals the Boston Red Sox’s attempt to do anything resembling winning.
Of course this started a trend which has yet to cease. Staunton was chosen to be the place for a lunatic asylum- and I quote, “not only stimulating the town's economy but also determining the direction of its growth.” ( From David J. Brown, ed., Staunton, Virginia : a pictorial history, Staunton, Virginia : Historic Staunton Foundation, 1985.)
So there you have it- everything I learned from a maniac killer and a really boring picture book. The rest of my day was spent trying to figure out what to do with this useless information- and then I thought…this informations rivals flat cross country, or a doughnut hole remover. Thank you Mr. Didnotwritethisstorybecauseitisstupidsofuckup for reminding us of this trend of insanity, which has caused me to write and entire PAGE about Staunton. I think it’s time for me to listen to “Sk8ter Boi” and consider killing myself. Oh- and I better go see how dry that damn cat is….

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