Oh, that hurts to look at.
This is why grading fries my brain. And makes the Baby Jesus cry.
Lydia: But you are a vampire. Spike: If I'm not, I'm gonna be pissed about drinking all that blood.
'Potential'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
megan walker - Oct 23, 2006 5:18:40 am PDT #4906 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
sarameg - Oct 23, 2006 5:21:49 am PDT #4907 of 10001
I diagrammed sentences in 1987-88. My teacher was a former marine who had an Abraham Lincoln beard. And there was this weird set of grammar lessons with an alien named Gram Mar.
Honestly, though, the only lessons that really stuck were the ones for french and german. So I'm more likely to be able to identify the parts of speech in a foreign language.
Witnessed human stupidity this morning. Two left turners in a battle of wills, blocking the intersection for at least 2 cycles of the light. Finally went around them, for all I know they are still there. Or someone pulled a gun.
tommyrot - Oct 23, 2006 5:25:40 am PDT #4908 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Heh. I make a post about grammar, leave for work and then there's bunches of Natter posts when I get here.
When I was in grade school, I hated grammar. Now I find it interesting. What's up with that?
Fred Pete - Oct 23, 2006 5:26:10 am PDT #4909 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Born in 1962, never diagrammed sentences. Though kids just ahead of me in school (like, one or two years) did.
tommyrot - Oct 23, 2006 5:28:04 am PDT #4910 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Two left turners in a battle of wills, blocking the intersection for at least 2 cycles of the light.
I'm trying to picture this but failing. Can you make a little ASCII diagram? (OK, it'd probably be easier to describe....)
Connie Neil - Oct 23, 2006 5:29:33 am PDT #4911 of 10001
brillig
I don't remember diagramming sentences. I have no clue what the difference is between transitive and intransitive verbs. My kick-ass high school English teacher ran us through the grammar bits for a semester--probably around '77 or '78--and we all failed. Then we got back to studying Shakespeare as God intended. I can write a good sentence, and I'm good at things like tenses and pronoun agreement and such. But don't ask me what the parts are. I know what sounds right, but I don't know why.
brenda m - Oct 23, 2006 5:29:36 am PDT #4912 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
We diagrammed, in 9th grade english and previously. I distinctly remember tuning all that out.
brenda m - Oct 23, 2006 5:31:06 am PDT #4913 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Also, yay new tv! And yay Tivo already hooked up and running.
They showed up like five minutes after I posted. Fortunately, while I did not get far on the cleaning, I did use that window of time to put on a bra. And they were in and out so fast the tip thing never came up.
sarameg - Oct 23, 2006 5:33:52 am PDT #4914 of 10001
Two cars, on the same road, opposite direction. Both making left turns without an arrow across traffic. One pulled far enough forward so as to ostensibly block the other's path. As to why one did not go AROUND the other, or make a tight turn, well, that's the stupid part. There was gesticulating.
tommyrot - Oct 23, 2006 5:36:57 am PDT #4915 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Also, yay new tv!
Cool!
For the utmost in TV reliability, you should perform the 'New TV' ritual. You'll need sparklers.