I swear, one of these times, you're gonna wake up in a coma.

Cordelia ,'Showtime'


Spike's Bitches 42: Which question do you want me to answer first?  

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vw bug - Oct 22, 2008 12:38:21 pm PDT #8934 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

I just checked the local paper, and it seems it was just announced today. It'll be in tomorrow's paper. I didn't realize it was such NEW news. God love the Internet!

Any other thoughts on my grammar issue?


Barb - Oct 22, 2008 12:38:31 pm PDT #8935 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”

Oh, I totally love the second one, Andi. Enormously. I'd wear that to a writer's conference in a heartbeat.


billytea - Oct 22, 2008 1:01:56 pm PDT #8936 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Any other thoughts on my grammar issue?

I think just the one comma. You have a sentence structure "XXX is the home of Disneyland" with XXX = "Anaheim, California". That second comma doesn't really belong in either the name of the location, or the sentence structure.


WindSparrow - Oct 22, 2008 1:04:40 pm PDT #8937 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Laga - Oct 22, 2008 1:15:05 pm PDT #8938 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I thought billytea was right but this website says the second comma stays.

(it's towards the end of rule #4)

When both a city's name and that city's state or country's name are mentioned together, the state or country's name is treated as a parenthetical element.


Laura - Oct 22, 2008 1:21:13 pm PDT #8939 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

I voted! Finally. The lines the last couple days were insane, but late this afternoon the sky was very threatening and the line was shorter. 45 minutes total. I had to explain the one man/one woman amendment thing to the old lady behind me. She wanted to make sure she wasn't banning gay marriage or ruining things for all the old people living together with partnership agreements.

Why do amendments have to be written so badly? The first one reads:

Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to delete provisions authorizing the Legislature to regulate or prohibit the ownership, inheritance, disposition, and possession of real property by aliens ineligible for citizenship.

Ok, to delete provisions authorizing prohibiting. It is also remarkable the number of people that show up to the polls that haven't done any prior research and hit these things for the first time. It is no wonder that they almost always pass.

Anyway, nothing to do now until I sit down and watch elections returns. (send landslide vibes) The early voting queue, all Obama that were talkative. The older woman had an Obama sticker.


askye - Oct 22, 2008 1:43:05 pm PDT #8940 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

Laura I read that amendment and I have no idea what it means, I need to look it up.


Gadget_Girl - Oct 22, 2008 1:48:49 pm PDT #8941 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".

Laura I read that amendment and I have no idea what it means, I need to look it up.

I need to read over it again, too. Actually, there are a couple things on the ballot I need to make sure of before I vote.


askye - Oct 22, 2008 2:02:22 pm PDT #8942 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

I really didn't like the way Amendment 2 was worded, it was so baised for the amendment being passed. And I got an email (with my grandmother's name) from Liberty Council urging me to vote for the Amendment and fight Anti Family groups trying to destroy marriage.

I sent them a form back (I found a place to do that) saying I didn't know how they got my email address but I consider Amendment 2 to be anti family.


Dana - Oct 22, 2008 2:47:36 pm PDT #8943 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

As least LOL Cat customer service wouldn't try to upsell you after they haven't helped you.

Oh, I *hate* that.