Woo hoo, tommyrot. That's excellent.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
sumi - Sep 28, 2011 10:04:23 am PDT #28934 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Polter-Cow - Sep 28, 2011 10:04:42 am PDT #28935 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
tommyrot, sounds like fun! Hope it goes well!
meara - Sep 28, 2011 10:08:26 am PDT #28936 of 30001
Wow, HFCS in egg salad?? So wrong. I'm fine with sugar in things that should be sugary but fer cryin out loud...
12 hours away and a first date?? But what if you like her?? I say this as someone who is trying to decide what the point of calling and emailing an texting with someone on the other side of the country is, anyway...
shrift - Sep 28, 2011 10:10:03 am PDT #28937 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Has anyone heard of the Chicago Uniform Project?
Um. I have, but that's probably obvious, considering.
tommyrot - Sep 28, 2011 10:15:03 am PDT #28938 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Thanks for all the kind words, everyone!
aurelia - Sep 28, 2011 10:19:36 am PDT #28939 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Um. I have, but that's probably obvious, considering.
Right.
Jesse - Sep 28, 2011 10:23:10 am PDT #28940 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Good luck, tommyrot!
Punctuation question: "newly developed engagement and outreach strategies" takes a hyphen between "newly" and "developed," right? Edit: Huh! My coworker says no.
Cass - Sep 28, 2011 10:26:47 am PDT #28941 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Compound modifier, yes.
Polter-Cow - Sep 28, 2011 10:27:25 am PDT #28942 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
No. Adverbs modify adjectives; it's what they do. There's no confusion there. Although I see it all the time.
Ginger - Sep 28, 2011 10:27:47 am PDT #28943 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
takes a hyphen between "newly" and "developed," right?
No. An adverb clearly modifies the adjective. A hyphen is needed when there are two or more adjectives, to make it clear that one adjective is modifying the other, rather than both modifying the noun.