When I buy cigarrettes, I can't say "Marlboro"

[antness]

I'm not a smoker..I have like 1 cigarrette a week, so this isn't a common thing. But when I'm with friends and go to buy a pack of cigarrettes, I can't say "Marlboro" for the life of me. It just doesn't come out right...I say something like "Mabo" over and over..till the 7-11 guy laughs at me, and figures out what I mean. Then I leave the place and I can say it JUST FINE. I'd have no reason to be nervous, I'm over 18 and all and have a valid I.D. I'm thinking maybe this is part of some kind of paranoia disorder, maybe I should go see a doctor?

 

[Static911]

how do you say it?

mar-lo-bor-roe?

static911

 

[Cattlegod]

haha, i don't think anyone says it right.

i usually say

"marbro"

 

[antness]

i try to say Marl (rhymes with Carl) - Bor (like the animal, Boar) - O

and when the guy is staring at me thinking "THIS KID IS 14" i just can't say it!

 

[pamchenko]

maybe you should learn to speak english or leave this country

 

[Yzzim]

Pronounce it like this

Mar-ba-row

At least that's how everyone else pronounces it when they want a box. I work at a gas station locally here and people call it a bunch of things.
"A box of reds" is also a common name for it....if you have the full flavor kings that is.

 

[BCYL]

<< maybe you should learn to speak english or leave this country >>



I really hope you are kidding...

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

Since you can say it fine otherwise, I'd say no need to see the doctor. Maybe just bring an empty pack in with you, hold it up and say "gimme one of these"

 

[Static911]

<< maybe you should learn to speak english or leave this country >>

you better be kidding....

static911

 

[ThisIsMatt]

<< maybe you should learn to speak english or leave this country >>

[flame]jackass[/flame]

 

[pamchenko]

i am kidding, its to simulate all those ppl on ATOT that say "if you don't like our govt's policies now, leave"...its a poke at those ppl...

edited for typo

 

[Static911]

o, heh...

probably couldve put a



static911

 

[Sluggo]

MARLBORO!!!!!!..................MARLBORO!!!!!!!!! SMOKEY........SMOKEY.

I dont guess anyone here remembers Sam Ken=nison's routine on C-Store clerks.

 

[Static911]

reds baby!

static911 <--non smoker here; never have, never will

 

[DellSupport]

Hit meh with a pack ah marbaruh reyuds.

Say it like yer from Texas, ya'll.

 

[Static911]

still can't say the word "ya'll" correctly...got this so-cal accent or something

static911

 

[j0lly]

"Marbs" usually work. Rest assured, 1/week will turn into 1/day and 1/hour. Quit while you are ahead.

 

[Midnight Rambler]

MARL-BORE-OH

 

[crabbyapple1]

why the hell you buying those for?
go get yourself a pack of Davidoffs or Cartier

not that I'm condoning smoking on these here boards

 

[Bob/NYC]

Ain't that y'all, or is that Yankee?

maybe you should learn to speak english or leave this country

Maybe just learning to write in English, but speaking British will suffice. You know, as in the King's English, Cockney. j/k

Just say to him, you're working in a 7-11 and you're laughing at me? Now that's funny and give him a real belly laugh.

I've heard many NY, American born mispronounciations as a pack of "Ma bros", "Mar bros", "Ma berls", "Mar berls" and "Marl berls". So you're not doing too badly. It's 3: "Marl' bu ro" box, or "Marl' bu ros".

 

[DesertFoxzz]

Smoke Kent. I bet you can say that.