8am. ewww. esp. for paperwork.

I can't think of a sentence where "None is" would be more appropriate than "None are," so I'ma vote plural.

To me, if you put any other word in there to replace "none" (like, no other people ... coming), you have to use the plural, so I always use "none are...". It always makes me happy to know there are other people that think about these things.

IhomebuyingN, we made a counter-counter offer (actually, just a new offer) in which I basically put my foot down. The thing that pissed me off the most, though, was that their realtor seems to think that since we don't want to just volunteer to fork over $7K in closing costs, we are perhaps not qualified. Which really, not her problem. I mean, she and her clients get their money no matter what.

And suddenly I'm thinking that we don't have any realtors on this board, do we? I wonder if it's a personality, Myers-Briggs type thing. I'd be curious to see an MB breakdown of buffistas.

a decent image of Laura Palmer's tombstone

Found one that works. Nebber mind.

My mother would say there are no realtors on this board because the animals have not run away yet, but then my mother worked for title companies for years...no love lost there.

I was verbally spanked with the Fear of God, along everyone else in my ancient Rome class, to read our damn articles.

And when they say read, they mean "memorize everything that we might feel asking about." The system is that "in order to get to know the names of the people in the class", they pick one randomly out of the students list, and point the "trivial question" to them.

Fear. Fear and horror. Fear and horror and... ack. Something else that's feared and horrified.

(I was lucky and wasn't called this time, but I'm still shaking.)

Fear. Fear and horror. Fear and horror and..

An almost fanatical devotion to the Pope?

Was there a comfy chair?

I don't know.

I read the articles.

But the way they asked the questions... I just wanted to bury myself, you know?

Yeah, some nostril work. Maybe eyes, too.

I can't think of a sentence where "None is" would be more appropriate than "None are," so I'ma vote plural.

I wouldn't say that. Take something like "I can think of three options, and none of them is appropriate." I think the difference is whether the items that make up the "none" are acting individually or in concert. So I would lean towards "none of the staff are coming to the meeting" but "I invited 20 people to my party and none of them is coming."

In both cases, "are" would not strike me as incorrect, but "is" seems to carry a little more nuance. OTOH, you could solve the whole problem by using not one instead of none which would clearly call for the singular. Or would it...

So DH might be traveling on xmas morning for work.

I really don't want to go to his co christmas party