Also, can one of the grammar people explain if that was the right "than" to use and when you use "then" instead?

Yes it was. "Then" implies time or causation -- this happened then that happened, if this then that. "Than" is comparative. Off the top of my head.

(Other than, taller than, more Kipling quotes than, foamier than,...)

It is so funny to see these small world posts on the buffistas!

Also, why do people have to push and cut and generally just walk in front of me to get on the bus. I don't walk too slow-- I am just behind the person in front of me, and I move up, but people come in from the side and enter the line! They even walk up to the door of the bus from the side and just get on. It is Rochester, people! There are plenty of seats! You will get one, and if not, you can stand! One of these days I am going to get a whistle and make people form an orderly line-- I mean, didn't we get taught how to form an orderly line in kindergarten! And then I have to laugh at myself for getting so worked up about other people being impatient, because it is just a waste of time. But I am seriously still annoyed now, four hours later, because it happens all the time!

Very annoying. Partly because it's just so rude -- somehow you're more important than I am? -- and partly, for me, because there's no polite way to deal with it. As rude as it is for them to cut, it's somehow also considered rude to draw attention to other people's rudeness. I wish that wasn't so, because it makes me very worked up too.

This says the bottom lip should be 1.5x the size of the top lip.

Of course I had to get out my mirror. I think my lips are about the same.

Sophia, in the parking garage here at work, there is one of those arm things (like in most parking garages), and you have to enter a code to make the arm thing rise.

On the other side, though, where cars come out of the garage, the arm is permanently raised. It drives me INSANE when people just swing around and go in the exit lane. Just enter the fucking code! It takes you two seconds! YOU ARE NOT BETTER THAN THE RULES!

Sophia - those people are why you have elbows. ijs.

Isn't Igloo an excellent name for a pup? (And one I'd never have thought of.)

Bowdoin the Bulldog - doesn't he seem leggier than the bulldogs that come to mind? But I think that's better- more athletic.

Yes it was. "Then" implies time or causation -- this happened then that happened, if this then that. "Than" is comparative. Off the top of my head.

Thanks Emily. I always seem to type "then" first, but I know that the bulk of the time I change it to "than" (correctly, it seems, since I tend to write more comparitive than causal items).

Ha! Like there for example.

Sophia - those people are why you have elbows. ijs.

hee

Emily- I think you are right-- I am really getting worked up about people taking no notice of another's existance-- it is so selfish! It is really the same thing in the parking garage. I mean, what if everyone starting driving in the exit lane! At the university sometimes people just drive THROUGH the arm to get into a parking lot. I am assuming it is a student, because an adult should have a little more self control!

Fucking people.