How much longer is the World Series?
It can be over as soon as Thursday, but as late as Sunday. So new House next week.
Darn your sinister attraction!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
Tom Scola - Oct 23, 2006 8:47:44 am PDT #5000 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
tommyrot - Oct 23, 2006 8:48:41 am PDT #5001 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.
Not if they go after each other.
Good point. So what you need to do is cover your floor with sticky stuff. This will delay the zombies just long enough for a velociraptor to show up.
But not vice-versa.
Connie Neil - Oct 23, 2006 8:50:36 am PDT #5002 of 10001
brillig
unless the velociraptor happens to be wearing chainmail.
If they're wearing chainmail, then things have gotten so strange that I'm packing a crossbow by default. So I should be good.
DavidS - Oct 23, 2006 8:53:32 am PDT #5003 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Catching up:
Diagrammed sentences in high school. Was terribly bored by it and didn't retain much.
Must go back and edit everything I post to correct errant "it's" and "its" as well as "their/there/they're" confusions. I know which are correct, but first drafts will fly into print by ear rather than brain. Homophones are not my friends.
My SAT verbals are now perfect 800s! My combined scores are less than Buffy's (and hence Jessica's) though. Knowing that Jessica cannot add three digit numbers together, though, is some small consolation.
I write 80's more often than 80s and never write '80s. I don't defend this practice.
I'm also prone to random comma insertion, but have learned to go back and edit them out. Serial commas are unnecessarily anal, however, and I enjoy watching fusty grammarians wail in torment as they are inevitably weeded out by our fast moving culture. Ha ha! I laugh at your grammar pain.
Amy - Oct 23, 2006 8:54:51 am PDT #5004 of 10001
Because books.
Serial commas are unnecessarily anal, however, and I enjoy watching fusty grammarians wail in torment as they are inevitably weeded out by our fast moving culture. Ha ha! I laugh at your grammar pain.
::cries and cries::
DavidS - Oct 23, 2006 8:55:57 am PDT #5005 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
::cries and cries::
::evil laughter. pointing::
Amy - Oct 23, 2006 8:57:57 am PDT #5006 of 10001
Because books.
::evil laughter. pointing::
I just want to point out that Hec is mean, evil, [SEE THE COMMA? RIGHT THERE WHERE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE?!] and unnecessarily gleeful.
::sniffs::
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2006 8:58:11 am PDT #5007 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
megan walker - Oct 23, 2006 9:00:53 am PDT #5008 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Serial commas are unnecessarily anal, however, and I enjoy watching fusty grammarians wail in torment as they are inevitably weeded out by our fast moving culture. Ha ha! I laugh at your grammar pain.
Actually, I'd say the reverse, that more people use the serial comma now then they did 20 or 30 years ago when one was taught not to use it. I found that back when I was editing an academic journal it was inevitably the older professors that didn't use it.
Nutty - Oct 23, 2006 9:01:35 am PDT #5009 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
David, I got to teach a coworker the "I'd like to thank my parents, God and Ayn Rand" sentence the other day. The serial comma does still have a will-to-live, at least under certain circumstances.
(N.b. I don't use it all the time.)
My comma problem is that I use them whenever I would pause or draw breath in a sentence when speaking. Which is more often than formally prescribed, but I use my commas in a completely logical way. I feel oppressed by the comma-deleters of this world. (Also, I make long and complex sentences a lot, so I need commas a lot, so I use them! I have mastery of compound-complex sentences; I think I have by this point reasoned out an approach to punctuation.)