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Thread #99614   Message #1987375
Posted By: Nickhere
05-Mar-07 - 04:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: Declining Standards of English
Subject: RE: BS: Declining Standards of English
Kendall - very good, ha ha! I like the effort not to end with a preposition! We have a joke here about a very 'proper' sort of fellow who's going along down the street. This ruffian, maybe looking for a fight, shouts across the street at him "Whaddya' lookin' at?"
The 'proper' gent turns and replies "My good man, do you not know that one must never end a sentence with a preposition?"
The ruffian, momentarily perplexed, stops, scratches his head and replies, "a'right so. Whaddya' lookin' at, LANGER?"

(I don't know if you are familiar with the term, but 'langer' is not a compliment!)