Thanks! The Chicago Manual of Style we have here says 's, but it's the 13th edition, so I think it might be out of date.
You have the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone.
Giles ,'Touched'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Lee - Jun 03, 2009 9:17:20 am PDT #22556 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Jesse - Jun 03, 2009 9:17:52 am PDT #22557 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The NYTimes would use the apostrophe there, I think.
I sit at Panera all summer! I have no shame. Plus the Panera guy told us we could just sit in the Panera parking lot at all hours and didn't need to come in to buy stuff to assuage our corporate guilt.
Nice. I came home, mostly so I could take off my good clothes.
Cashmere - Jun 03, 2009 9:22:05 am PDT #22558 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
I miss Panera. Soup and bread and coffee and wi-fi. It's like a little piece of heaven with bagels and muffin tops.
smonster - Jun 03, 2009 9:23:16 am PDT #22559 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
::apparates::
Go, Seanie, go! I just quit myself two weeks ago. The first week is a beeyotch.
Two potential strategies for you to use or ignore at your choosing:
1) Count your cravings. That helped me get some distance from them and see how they were decreasing rapidly.
2) Imagine smoking, then what you'd do next, then skip the smoking and do the "next thing" (worked for a friend).
::waves at Natter::
::disapparates::
Calli - Jun 03, 2009 9:31:39 am PDT #22560 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I got a netbook today, to take with me to my sister's tomorrow. It's so cute and wee! I've named it "Chekov".
Steph L. - Jun 03, 2009 9:31:46 am PDT #22561 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Today's xkcd: [link] The best part is, you can substitute SO MANY words/phrases for "sex" and it still works! (Like, say, "creating new threads"....)
Ginger - Jun 03, 2009 9:32:14 am PDT #22562 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
AP Style: Apostrophe S after a single letter, e.g., "mind your p's and q's." No apostrophe for the rest, so it's IDSs. That looks very weird, but I checked and the patent office uses IDSs.
Lee - Jun 03, 2009 9:36:56 am PDT #22563 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Thanks Ginger!
DavidS - Jun 03, 2009 9:41:56 am PDT #22564 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's like a little piece of heaven with bagels and muffin tops.
If that's heaven then Tony Kushner was right about San Francisco.
Nilly - Jun 03, 2009 9:48:25 am PDT #22565 of 30000
Swouncing
t quite impolite and a bit selfish Um, is it OK to pop in Natter after skipping-and-skimming to the point of understanding how lurkers-support-stuff-in-e-mail, just in order to exploit the hivemind in English grammar question(s)?
t Not closing the quite-impolite and a-bit-selfish tag, since I'm still those things