You say tomato....

Sparks and I grew up in different pockets of the US. Though he has not lived in his pocket for a very, very long time now, one of the few discernable legacies is that vowels are sometimes pronounced the same. For example, PEN and PIN are both pronounced PIN. When he wants to mock my pronunciation of PEN, he will say PUH-HEN.

Tonight we were watching DWTS (save your mockery for another time) and both of us were commenting on the minstral aspects of David Alan Grier's routine. But it sounded a lot like he was saying menstrual. The night only devolved from that point on.