Aims:
Twenty. Twenty girls. All of them best friends and mortal enemies.
And one girl who is, I believe, emotionally impaired leading them all. That would be me.
billytea:
Lead them to Mordor!
Aims:
Nah - terrible snacks and the orcs make for some ugly camping.
OTOH, it *would* earn us the Middle Earth Exploring petal.
TomW in the delurking thread:
You will also note that I use the Oxford comma. If this displeases you then I can provide a list of awful places where you can go, but I must warn you that this list will also feature an Oxford comma.
I always want to COMM Tom, but I feel like it is unseemly in a "STFU Smug Marrieds" sort of way.
OK. I know it was only two posts ago, in this very thread, but I'm COMMing Nora, on principle:
Nora Deirdre: I always want to COMM Tom, but I feel like it is unseemly in a "STFU Smug Marrieds" sort of way.
Hee! I had the same impulse wrt Nora's post.
In Delurking, Buffistas get sex-ay with puncutation:
Una:
...In conclusion, the serial comma is a moral imperative. Semicolons also rock my world.
Zenkitty:
Una! I've posted with you before, I know! Probably in Firefly. Here, let me rock your world: ;;;;;;;;
Amy:
Here, let me help:
The serial comma is elegant, necessary, and useful; I love it.
How's that?
Zenkitty:
oooh, Amy. Talk punctuation to me!
Amy:
I feel like there's a "show me your dangling participle" joke there, but I'll restrain myself.
The delightful
billytea
in
Delurking:
As a matter of interest, are there any Americans here opposed to the serial comma? I don't use it; it's simply not the standard in Australia. From my perspective it's just part of the list of American freakiness, like the attachment to Imperial measurements (despite the national mythology being tied up in an act of revolt against the British Empire), a random loss of vowels, a willingness to use peanut butter for anything short of a personal lubricant, an apparent loss of fine motor skills in your left hand whenever you pick up a fork, and the governership of Illinois. (As you will note, this list of American freakiness does indeed include the serial comma.)
billytea gives instructions as gamemaster in Gaming:
Ohh, Officer Agathon. I must ask you to report immediately to the Brig to discuss your taste in women, and possibly record a cover version of the Supremes' "Love Child".