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Got as far as the second sentence, so far.
"We've be spending…"
VIA: "but, you know who isn't sleeping in a bag on the ground? Not THIS guy"
So … you ARE sleeping on the ground??
Another reason why English literacy should be required for citizenship.
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Eesh... I never thought twice when Vic mentions brown. Am I old or just not up on my linguistic nuances, penumbras, and eminations?
The plural of mouse is mice,
a flock of goose is geese,
but more than one house is not hice,
nor a flock of moose known as meese.
Heh. Whenever aussie uses "footy," this middle-of-'merica boy thinks of pajama boy. Or that congressman with a wide stance.
At least footy contains no egregious u's.
Think of the mongeese!
Think of the mongeese!
mongaggle?!?
Ah, Seamus, so many possible directions to go with that, I am overwhelmed.
Jamaican accent pun?
bondage riff?
I'll stop there.
freaked: "Daisy I fixed that tic tic on my 750 I had years ago with a Kerker exhaust. Couldn't hear it anymore."
Sometimes I just can't follow you gun nuts and your esoteric jargon.
f and -ap
f and -ap
say it now kids
hap hap happy
f and -ap
f and -ap
say it quick you'll
surprise your pappy
WNU Editor, I follow almost every post, when I can keep up, which I can't always. Try to credit you whenever I link to some article you led to.
JohnTant- Quick work, but... Do you live in an area (Mass? Vt?) where wharf is pronounced to rhyme with scarf instead of Worf? If not, you must give back ten of those internet points.
HoboJerk: "I'm reading a comic intro to criminal law..."
As a comics fan, and a wouldabeen cartoonist and animator, I have to rant about the genre's confused vocabulary in English.
I'm reading along, then suddenly realize the elevator bar is still practically at the top floor. Seven hundred comments???
I was just gonna say,
Wait, wait, I didn't leave. By dint of most infortuitous circumstances, I'm still hanging around here. (So waht?)
I was sitting in the library with nothing at hand... to read!... and so was starting at the toilet paper wrapper. Brand name rhymes with Charmin.
— Spittle-spewing Psychopathic Lefty Meme Repeater
Mindful,you certainly have a way with words.
insert critique of grammar and punctuation while making my own mysteaks.
307 mindful webworker etc
Oops
Should have been
Kangaroos loose in the top paddock...
I just love that old Aussie description!
kangaroos in the top paddock
Added to personal lexicon....
I wonder if UrbanDictionary would accept an entry for "stichomythia" with all the definitions given here?
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Earlier today, safely disguised under a second sock, I was that guy, correcting the first sentence in an Ace post. I made sure to make an erorr on porpoise so I wouldn't make won by misteak.
"Here's there new plan," Ace begins.
Of course, it's supposed to be
"Here's they're new plan."
Sheesh!!
not sure I should ask
“…she’d cuss in ‘grannyspeak’,which is cussing without the good swear words because there were little kids around.”
"...On this day in 1973 the Watergate Hearings opened on TV. These eventually resulted in his resignation in August 1974."
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"...credentialed zen ninja virtuosos of approved thought...." -Cato
heh. Nice turn of phrase!
"A MA court has ruled that atheists failed to prove that their children were harmed by the words 'under God' in the pledge of allegiance."
"A Third State Abandon's Obamacare Exchange"
I cannot figure out what a "third state abandon" is, nor how it's possessing itself of an O Exch makes sense.
Some people say we shouldn't have bad language in media, even if we have to edit the classics.
I say, frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
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