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[dira]

...Please tell me that there is already fic where Dick Winters meets Steve Rogers and/or Captain America. PLEASE. PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME WRITE IT YOU GUYS.


Also someone please tell me a) from where I osmosed this impulse to say uff da when something sort of annoying or unfortunate happens, because I don't think I've ever actually heard an actual person say that, and b) when exactly I, a deeply not-Norwegian transplant Wisconsinite, can get away with saying it out loud.

(I am thisclose to giving in and accepting "bubbler" into my vocabulary. It's gonna happen. /o\)

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[cofax7]

I would totally read that story.

[dira]

I think maybe the timelines just don't match up at all. Maybe.

[cofax7]

Piffle. When has that ever stopped anyone?

[dira]

Granted. Also it turns out there is totally space in the timelines to make it work, so... maybe I'll put that on a list somewhere.

[missmollyetc]

Bubbler like the water fountain? And...uff da? What does this mean? Inquiring Pacific Northwest minds want to know!

...Please tell me that there is already fic where Dick Winters meets Steve Rogers and/or Captain America.

You're just gonna have to take that hit for the team, Dira. DO IT FOR GREAT JUSTICE.

[dira]

Oh, man, do people say bubbler for water fountain in the PNW? I thought it was a super-local Milwaukee thing.


Uff da

[missmollyetc]

Well, it's actually a specific type of water fountain called a bubbler (full name: Benson Bubbler) on account of Simon Benson, a local philanthropist. Otherwise, we just say fountain.

Oh, OOFTA! Okay, yes. I have heard/said this. Sorry, in my head, I was hearing it as 'uhff-da.' Yeah, this is a thing. Maybe you heard me say it?

[dira]

...I was pronouncing it uhff-da, in my head, which goes to show that I have not picked this up from hearing anyone say it.

Anyway, yeah, round these parts all water fountains are bubblers.

[cofax7]

I grew up saying bubbler in New England.

[dira]

Huh! Apparently bubblers are everywhere!

[petra]

I think of bubbler as a Boston term; the person who introduced me to the term was even a non-rhotic speaker, which most Boston people I know are not.

[dira]

Huh! New England, Wisconsin, and the PNW. There's some kind of migration pattern there. *g*

[renenet]

Stop making me want to read DARE when I'm home in bed in my jammies AND NOT GOING TO THE LIBRARY TOMORROW BECAUSE IT'S MY (LATE-THIS-WEEK) DAY OFF, DAMMIT!

[dira]

Is that one at Ready? I have a Ready shift today...

[musesfool]

Please tell me that there is already fic where Dick Winters meets Steve Rogers and/or Captain America.

If there is, please point us at it! Alternatively, please write it, because YES.

[dira]

I can't figure out the timelines! I'm not sure they COULD have met. :(

[musesfool]

Maybe during the war bonds/USO tour?

[dira]

It's actually not as difficult as I thought--I had it in my head that Steve went down in 1943, for some reason, and not shortly before V-E Day.

[everbright]

Is Dick still alive? A Winters/Rodgers meet up in 2011 could be an interesting thing.

[jenna_thorn]

He died last year. Nixon died in 95.

I suspect writing a meetup in the field would be a challenge, since Cap and his crew would be a game-changer for any of the major battles of WWII, turning the course of history and all that. There's room at Market Garden for a covert, yet astonishingly effective guerilla team in the shadows, and I suspect elsewhere as well, though.

This may be why the movie makers deliberately had the Commandos go after Hydra bases only, to keep them from interfering with the known timeline.

(Not that I've thought about this or anything. 8-) )

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, too bad then. *taptaptap...tap* Were they ever off duty at the same time? One of those times Steve's back in England, he could end up in the same bar as Nixon, esp. if dragged along by Howard.

[jenna_thorn]

Heh, both of them frowning, not so much disapproving as worried, while Bucky and Nixon pass the bottle.

[spatz]

They could have met in England in 1944, after Normandy but before Market Garden for the BoB guys. It seemed like Steve and the Commandos came back to London between missions, though, and Easy Company was in Aldbourne, which is near-ish, and the window of time was pretty short.

I guess they could have also met *before* Normandy, since Cap's Italy rescue was late 1943? Though that'd be a different dynamic entirely.

[spatz]

I have not seen it, and I have *looked*. :( It would be beautiful and true.

I once described Steve (long ago, before the movie) to someone as "kinda like Benton Fraser, if Fraser was less broken and from 1945 instead of Canada, and with the leadership qualities of Dick Winters."

[dira]

Okay, well... maybe that needs to go on a list somewhere, then.

[fanofall]

...Please tell me that there is already fic where Dick Winters meets Steve Rogers and/or Captain America. PLEASE. PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME WRITE IT YOU GUYS.

Oh, that NEEDS TO HAPPEN.

[dira]

RIGHT? And yet apparently it hasn't, yet, for some reason.

[fairestcat]

Resist the bubbler!!! You must hold strong!

Uff da just sneaks up on you though, there's no real stopping it.

[dira]

Wisconsin, man. THIS IS HOW THEY GET YOU.

[commodorified]

I would like at this time to mention in a very casual fashion exactly how much of a Worst Thing it would be if someone had gotten to Miles with some Super Soldier Serum when he was a teenager.

*wanders off. Casually*

[fullygoldy]

oh lordy, that's frightening!

[dira]

a) You are a terrible person and I hate you.

b) How old, exactly. Give me a number to work with. Damn you.

[commodorified]

You do not. You loffs me. :-)

Beginning of WA, I think. That seems to be the Window Of Greatest Chaos.

[spatz]

I like the way you think. :D

[giglet]

I don't know about uff da, but I (a Virginian by birth) have succumbed to Boston bubbler usage. Also spas (ie, corner stores), rotaries (ie, traffic circles), and the occasional use of "wicked" (good).

Also, I give directions based on landmarks that no longer exist. I can even give directions based on landmarks that were gone before I arrived in New England. (Why yes, I do know where Scollay Square and The Coke Sign used to be.) I've considered making a website to translate New Englander directions for out-of-towners, but I figure Mapquest and GPSes are already doing enough damage.

[everbright]

*laughing* So New Englander's penchant for confusing directions isn't just the stuff of TV and legend? You made my day, giglet. :D

[dira]

The closest I've gotten to your directional feats is gradually learning what the names of our branch libraries used to be before I moved here, so that when people ask for some nonsensical nonexistent location I know that they mean the library that replaced it ten years ago which has an entirely different name. *g*

[renenet]

ten years ago, which I know you know well...or fifty! (not exaggerating)

[dira]

It was the fifty one that threw me. :)

[renenet]

OK, apparently I was exaggerating. The building was built 50 years ago but only re-named 28 years ago. And it's still the same building. So now the only older-than-ten-years ago example I have is a 20-year-old building that I've only very occasionally had to translate for people asking for the old library it replaced. So, basically, nevermind. Except I *built* the resource I just used for fact checking, so despite (briefly) purveying misinformation on the internets, I still feel awesome! :D

[dira]

However old, it was still SUPER CONFUSING. I genuinely thought the caller was talking about some other city's library. *g*