I am an Oxford Comma convert (pro) and my cousin tells me on Facebook how wrong I am. I immediately asked him his opinion on cilantro before I decided to throw him out of the family. He survived the cut.
I saw that. It made me laugh my butt off.
Buffy: Synchronized slaying. Faith: New Olympic category?
'Conversations with Dead People'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Jan 16, 2015 6:02:31 pm PST #15631 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Liese S. - Jan 16, 2015 6:48:25 pm PST #15632 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, Maria, how hard.
Kat - Jan 16, 2015 6:51:10 pm PST #15633 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh Maria, I'm sorry that it's so hard. We'll hold your place here.
Atropa - Jan 16, 2015 7:07:59 pm PST #15634 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Maria, thank you for giving folks the heads-up, and please be as gentle as possible with yourself.
shrift - Jan 16, 2015 7:29:43 pm PST #15635 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
beth, to follow up, I do thank you for the tip. I'd prefer to do an internal transfer with my current employer, but I can't wait forever because I spend too much time wanting to light people on fire. This means I need to job search outside my company in case nobody internal wants to hire me anytime soon.
My lease is up in April, so I'm going to use that as a deadline to figure out what my next steps are going to be.
WindSparrow - Jan 16, 2015 8:06:16 pm PST #15636 of 30000
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.
Sean, I hope your move goes well.
Maria, be gentle with yourself.
I have a coworker who keeps apologizing for snark. I have yet to convince her that I see snark as a feature, not a bug. Yesterday I told her, "Your sense of humor doesn't bother me. What's really important is your stance on the Oxford comma."
She replied, "Gotta have it. What about you?"
DavidS - Jan 16, 2015 8:07:41 pm PST #15637 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oxford commas are bunk. Superfluous more often than clarifying. The rule should be the necessity of the comma/separation rather than a useless consistency which slows the eye. In short if you don't need the comma there, then don't put the stupid comma there.
Cilantro: tastes like soap.
Muffaletta: If it doesn't have olives on it THEN IT'S NOT A MUFFALETTA!
WindSparrow - Jan 16, 2015 8:10:37 pm PST #15638 of 30000
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.
I thought about asking her how she felt about cilantro.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 16, 2015 8:14:59 pm PST #15639 of 30000
What is even happening?
Oxford commas are bunk. Superfluous more often than clarifying. The rule should be the necessity of the comma/separation rather than a useless consistency which slows the eye. In short if you don't need the comma there, then don't put the stupid comma there.
David, for a second, I think you get me, and then I realize you never could. UGH!
DavidS - Jan 16, 2015 8:18:28 pm PST #15640 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
History will validate me on this Oxford Comma biz! It's clearly going away anyhow.
Actually, in about three years we're going to be all, "Damn, remember when we cared about commas because people actually wrote properly punctuated grammatical sentences? Those were the days. Lol."