Sorry, Captain. I'm real sorry. I shoulda kept better care of her. Usually she lets me know when something's wrong. Maybe she did, I just wasn't paying attention...

Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'


Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier  

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych


Lyra Jane - Dec 14, 2002 5:28:24 am PST #1167 of 10001
Up with the sun

AP style is no comma before the "and." I get beaten over the head at work if I use one.

I haven't read the post we're discussing, but would it work to move the graph to the Sunnyville Press thread, which is where most Minearketeer, etc. stuff goes now?

And I kind of like the idea of new people. Diversity good, and we would frighten anyone too braindead away pretty quickly.


Cindy - Dec 14, 2002 5:47:15 am PST #1168 of 10001
Nobody

Kind of early, but Firefly: Josssssss Innnnn Spaaaaaaaaaaace! is at about 8400 posts. Given the news, the support campaign, the influx of new posters and that next weekend is the Serenity episode - we'll soon need a new thread.

I propose Firefly 2: You Can't Take the Sky From Me.


DXMachina - Dec 14, 2002 6:31:20 am PST #1169 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

<assumes the vestments of the First Church of the Serial Comma (reformed)>

t Lines up to be baptized

I was researching this very thing the other night at B&N (It turns out my local B&N shelves the grammar books right next to Erin's book). Sadly, the new-fangled grammar books all seem to think that it is optional. They're all heretics, of course. The one true Word, The Elements of Style, doesn't consider them optional.

"I'd like to thank my parents, God and Ayn Rand..."


Angus G - Dec 14, 2002 9:46:53 am PST #1170 of 10001
Roguish Laird

Unamerican here who embraces the serial comma.

Correction: drunk Unermciarna who ermbraees the serioal com mma.


Katie M - Dec 14, 2002 10:21:24 am PST #1171 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

I propose Firefly 2: You Can't Take the Sky From Me.

Seconded, for when the time comes.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 14, 2002 10:30:05 am PST #1172 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

It would be awful of me to suggest: 'Firefly 2: I'm Going Where My Heart Will Take Me' or 'Firefly 2: They're Not Gonna Hold Me Down No More' wouldn't it?


Jesse - Dec 14, 2002 10:30:54 am PST #1173 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm all for "You Can't Take the Sky From Me."


Rebecca Lizard - Dec 14, 2002 11:48:25 am PST #1174 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

I propose Firefly 2: You Can't Take the Sky From Me.

Please.


Angus G - Dec 14, 2002 11:50:54 am PST #1175 of 10001
Roguish Laird

Me too! And I've never even seen Firefly, so I'm completely objective.


P.M. Marc - Dec 14, 2002 12:39:07 pm PST #1176 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

You Can't Take The Sky From Me is perfect.

Heh, Am-Chau, I will then insert any missing ones. (Fay doesn't use them, the silly girl)

MS style is very much pro-serial comma.