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[sockety]

Sue's slow and rich Southern Drawl rolled from smiling lips like molasses in October

molasses- [noun]
thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining

Now the mental picture of someone randomly drooling 'dark, thick syrup', like Jennifer in 'Jennifer's body' is stuck in my mind.

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Comments

[spaceangelacid]

It's cold in October, depending on where you are. So even if that simile didn't bring up really weird images, that just means Sue would talk llllllliiiiiiiiiiiiikkkkkkkkkkeeeeeeeeeee ttttttthhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssssss.

That would be the single most frustrating conversation in history. D:

[sockety]

Oh dear, I hadn't even thought about that! I swear, this woman isn't a bad writer per se, but she keeps writing things like 'He hissed with malice and torture, blood and murder in his voice' which make me go "......"

[shinga]

So... she's an Ent...?

[internal666]

Or like the redneck trees from Something Positive.

[corrupted_wolf]

Actually, of all the things in that sentence that need fixing, "molasses" is probably the last thing I'd pick to fix. It's purple, but I've seen it used in that context to describe an accent that is slow, thick, and sweet. Sue must be a fan of Civil War romances.

The rest of that sentence needs to be slapped with a high school English book a few times, though.

[sockety]

I don't mind someone saying a voice is 'slow, thick and sweet' but the 'rolled out of her mouth like molasses' was what got me. Maybe it's just a pet peeve.

[corrupted_wolf]

Oh, I agree. Sue isn't the only offender, though. I see it more than I'd like to describe a Southern accent. Combined with the rest of that sentence, it's like the words are screaming "HEEEEELP MEEEE!" like that guy in The Fly.

[wallystorm]

Yeah. Liquid rolling? Flowing maybe. Or not, as the case may be with molasses in winter.

[savemefrombadrp]

Molasses in October? Nonono fail, molasses in January! XD

Comparing speech to molasses is enough to give me diabetes anyway.

[vivian_shaw]

Once you've researched the Boston Molasses Disaster, you can never read that word quite the same way again.

[amredthelector]

That's the event were a storage tank of the stuff broke and flooded a neighborhood, right? I read about that in second grade, and for a while told my mom to never, ever buy molasses because IT COULD KILL US.

And now I've got a mental image of a whole bunch of molasses coming out of a lady's mouth and flooding a city.

[maxineofarc]

Yeah. It's one of those things that sounds like a joke, but it killed 20 people. Very good nonfiction book about it a few years ago called "Dark Tide," well worth the read.

[vivian_shaw]

I can't imagine drowning in molasses. It must have been an absolutely atrocious way to die. Also, a shining example of corporate idiocy and oversight fail.

"Dark Tide" is a great resource on the disaster.

[prythian]

I'm imagining the giants from Mirrormask.