"However, while we are on this topic, it seems appropriate to note that the colloquial descriptor for our Fearless Leader, Dubya ..."
I thought we were ruled from Europe now, Erik - or are you one of those Agency translators?
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- Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:04 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Heartattacronyms
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5325
- Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:52 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Not Authorized
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8961
Not Authorized
Dateline Washington, July 16, 2007: Unnamed Sources Overwhelmingly Reject Potty Training Plan to Stem Leaks
Isn't Dolores Umbridge the source?
Isn't Dolores Umbridge the source?
- Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:38 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: people vs persons
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6926
people vs persons
Amend to that.
- Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:14 am
- Forum: Addicts' Corner
- Topic: bad math
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11038
bad math
I thought they'd swallow anything.
- Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:08 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: people vs persons
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6926
people vs persons
"What the Persons Say", "Persons Who Need Persons" and "Little Purple Persons Eater" just wouldn't have the same ring to them.
- Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:55 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Chatspeak stole my internet!
- Replies: 50
- Views: 20636
Chatspeak stole my internet!
James' skill with French Polish is legendary.
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:31 pm
- Forum: Addicts' Corner
- Topic: bad math
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11038
bad math
It'll probably take over the parts NOT spurned by purple loosestrife, kudzu, tree of heaven and mile-a-minute vine too, Jim.
Actually, I've met mile-a-minute vine. It's not threatened.
Actually, I've met mile-a-minute vine. It's not threatened.
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:21 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: aptronym / aptonym / euonym / charactonym / label name
- Replies: 129
- Views: 96626
Re: aptronym / aptonym / euonym / charactonym / label name
Mrs Malaprop was aptly named when you think about it. Then there were Gummo, Zeppo ...
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:13 pm
- Forum: Addicts' Corner
- Topic: bad math
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11038
bad math
Will drivers under 21 have to stick with gasoline? (Sorry, petrol.) Bioethanol from sugar, and biodiesel from oilseed rape and a wonder-plant which "will grow where no other useful plant will", Jatropha curcas, may be a better proposition, but as usual the altruism in the schemes needs careful scrut...
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:51 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: people vs persons
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6926
people vs persons
Wicked sign-writers! The Grammar Police are obviously out to arraign person or people unknown.
Though I agree it's good to be a people person.
Though I agree it's good to be a people person.
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:27 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Chatspeak stole my internet!
- Replies: 50
- Views: 20636
Chatspeak stole my internet!
It will soon be non-PC to omit the l33t versions from public notices. How that will work in Urdu, ICI.
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:11 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Not Authorized
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8961
Not Authorized
Sounds like a Dirty Tricks campaign from Culvert Ops.
- Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:31 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Not Authorized
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8961
Not Authorized
The solution is clear.
- Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:18 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: The hottest places in hell . . .
- Replies: 26
- Views: 40822
The hottest places in hell . . .
There's a statement in Psalm 85:10 about punitive judgment and mercy "kissing" - we do often see them as being mutually contradictory, never meeting. There is an interesting article developing this further at http://www.ninetyandnine.com/Archives/20020603/cover.htm . I've been gradually convinced th...
- Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:51 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: yes and no
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5964
yes and no
You can't have your baanaanaas and eat them.