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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 02:38 PM Original message |
A house is not a home. |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. You can thank marketers and real estate agents. |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 02:53 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Right, a lovely home is a place where the occupants are good to each other |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
2. Well, home does imply that these were occupied structures... |
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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
3. On the other hand, chances are those several houses were HOME |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 02:47 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. They probably were home to people, and they might have even been |
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RobertSeattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
4. Didn't George Carlin has a bit on this? |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 02:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Didn't he also say |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
7. Another great song from Burt Bacharach and Hal David |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
8. The bits we're disenfranchised from |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 03:33 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Nicely put. I've noticed that, in all the things I've seen and read |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 03:56 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Home |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
10. Well, someone called them home |
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housewolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
11. "home" is personal |
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Gruenemann (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 03:28 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Is 'house' used more for negative connotations? |
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housewolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 03:44 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. no, not more negative -- just less personal |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 03:58 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Can I call you homewolf? :) |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 03:35 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. I think the issue for me is the use of the word "home" to mean "house," |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
12. "It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home," |
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BiggJawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
14. It's a small thing to piss about. |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
20. Thank you SO MUCH |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 06:30 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I think there's great power in language, |
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