I've seen the comma=and argument in the past, and I think it's a crock of shit. Especially since, as the Times woman admits, when you're using semicolons instead of commas, in a complicated list, you do and must include the final semicolon before the and.
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
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.
Nutty - Mar 20, 2007 5:33:34 am PDT #7947 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Dana - Mar 20, 2007 5:35:08 am PDT #7948 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
CNN's reporting that they've found that missing Boy Scout alive. Yay.
shrift - Mar 20, 2007 5:36:30 am PDT #7949 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
AUGH.
There is a client sitting in the reception area who keeps snorting and snorting and hocking and SNORTING. Would it be wrong if I chucked a couple of Benadryl over the side of my cube, and screamed for her to get out get out get out?
tommyrot - Mar 20, 2007 5:39:05 am PDT #7950 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.
A comic for Buffistas: [link]
DavidS - Mar 20, 2007 5:40:10 am PDT #7951 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"Your date's over, mister." - cool article about two women in a bar who spotted a guy trying to slip a drug into his date's beer.
Daisy Jane - Mar 20, 2007 5:41:36 am PDT #7952 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I love the serial comma fight! I'm for 'em, but most places I've worked have been a'gin 'em.
There is a client sitting in the reception area who keeps snorting and snorting and hocking and SNORTING. Would it be wrong if I chucked a couple of Benadryl over the side of my cube, and screamed for her to get out get out get out?
No.
shrift - Mar 20, 2007 5:44:33 am PDT #7953 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Incredibly disgusting snorting client has left the building. Thank you, snotty baby Jesus.
esse - Mar 20, 2007 5:50:42 am PDT #7954 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
The New Yorker does Children's Interpretations of Grown-Up Conversations: [link]
GRANDMOTHER: Did you see the politics? It made me angry.
DAD: Me, too. When it was over, I had sex.
UNCLE: I’m having sex right now.
DAD: We all are.
MOM: Let’s talk about which kid I like the best.
DAD: (laughing) You know, but you won’t tell.
MOM: If they ask me again, I might tell.
DavidS - Mar 20, 2007 5:50:46 am PDT #7955 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
esse - Mar 20, 2007 5:51:56 am PDT #7956 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Oh, David, I read about that in a couple different places. In some european crazy futuristic tech robot magazine, the author took some kind of pills that had memory-loss side affects to see how much he actually could remember.