BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 19 Jun 14 - 03:01 AM

If you two don't understand the sanctity of the teapot, let alone whether salted or unsalted butter suits crumpets the best, I suggest you start a thread on buckets of cola and spray on cheese.

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: meself
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 07:23 PM

If only ....

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 01:33 PM

Grammatical inquiry?

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 04:04 AM

Oh, well. I have always said they are taking over!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Musket
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 03:30 AM

I do spell complement correctly. I refuse to be held accountable for a %#}^!!ing iPad autocorrect that has a mind of its own.

Although I will accept full responsibility for not proof reading my post above. If you will excuse me, I need to take a loaded gun and a bottle of whisky into this empty room.

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 01:45 AM

I bet she does: why when she measures out spoonfuls, she will say "one, two, three, four"-- just like anybody else.

Time you learned how to spell 'complement', BTW, dear old chappie ~~
Mnemonic: A complement is that which completes.

You're welcome.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 01:11 AM

SRS doesn't count.

All moderators are weird so not at all surprised about her lack of bovine lactate in the infusion compliment stakes.

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 12:19 AM

Brava, SRS. Welcome the the ever-diminishing band of people with taste.

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 06:04 PM

I would never spoil a good cuppa tea with milk. Ever.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 11:48 AM

I find the grunting a distraction.

Of the finest order.

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 11:18 AM

What worked?

I mean, if you just wear down your interlocutors by drivelling incessant irrelevant and meaningless bullshit till they jut give up in despair and ennui, I am not sure that "work" is quite the thing that a rational creature would claim that it did.

If you just meant that I haven't posted back for a bit: I was watching that exquisite little Italian fairy Camila Giorgi take the first round match in Eastbourne from Victoria Azarenka 7-5 in the final set, after a penultimate game that went on for over ¼-hr, with 10 deuces. One of the best women's matches I remember. Beat sitting here reading incessant sesquipedalian poopooz from ole Muskititz ☛☚☝☟down...

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Musket
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 10:18 AM

That worked.

Be as weird as him. Works every time.

Now.. Bucket and wellies needed, not forgetting my three legged stool. Could do with a cuppa.

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: GUEST,Musk the et
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 06:56 AM

Attitudes? Ways?

We have neither. I thought you of all contributors would have made the link between split personality and Alexandra Dumas?

I never moralise, although I do point and laugh at the morality of others. As you do the latter, ask yourself if you do the former?

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 05:49 AM

I like milk too. When I get a pot of tea at a Costa or Starbucks, they always give me a jug of milk with it. I ask for an extra cup, & drink this separately with the cake after I have finished the sandwich or roll or panini. Milk is good stuff, and I have paid for it. So is tea. But, to my palate, a bit of apartheid needs to be practised in their consumption. If your palate is insensitive to vital distinctions, then enjoy! I am not one to be oppressively or self-righteously prescriptive, unlike some not a million miles from this post on this thread. But I also think there is something perverse [kinky, one might even say] about those who will strike moral attitudes over what are matters of taste, even if they hide them behind a mask of supposed ironic yoomah. Have you not noticed that I have had a complete SOH·ectomy?

The penultimate sentence is intended to be taken seriously. Just take a look at some of your attitudes, dear old Muskie-face; and consider your ways!

Meanwhile, enjoy your beverages, polluted to taste as they may be!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Musket
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 05:01 AM

Nothing that wouldn't be improved by a squirt of tit.

Ok, I sometimes, sometimes mind.... have a cup of Earl Grey sans Gertrude. I put it down to the older you get, the kinkier you get.

To be fair, through circumstance rather than preference, I drink far more coffee. At home I have a bean to cup contraption and I must remember to ensure I bring my similar machine back when I vacate my office at the end of the month.

I spend quite a bit of time at a large hospital with eight cafés and restaurants and not a decent cup of tea in them. That said, my Indian colleagues reckon the cardamon chai they recently started making in urns is worth a punt.

I like a bit of milk but that's taking the udder extraction....

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Jun 14 - 04:44 AM

Had a delicious mug an hour ago: leaves of Darjeeling with an admixture of Ceylon, about ⅔ - ⅓, in a strainer placed in the mug, boiled water poured thru, left to infuse for 4 minutes; and absolutely no addition whatever of any bovine mammalian excreta. Time for more; think I will go down now, and this time have ½·&·½ Lapsang Souchong & Earl Grey; beautiful tan-brown liquid absolutely unneeding of any otiose whitening additions.

Yum!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Musket
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 06:02 PM

Values?

Wrong Musket.

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 05:43 PM

Ah, now: so reluctance to pollute one's refreshing beverages with the mammary emissions of the common domesticated ungulate is in some way symptomatic of sexual abnormality or depravity, eh?

Cant help observing one whose values would appear to be somewhat ɷ-over-Petroica·macrocephala.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Musket
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 04:30 PM

Ginger nuts, to be honest. Dunked in coffee, never tea as I don't like tea sweet.

But I do like a squirt of a cow's tit in it. I'm not that depraved....

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 02:01 PM

Crumpits my armpit, O fair Eliza. To be blunt.
A well-made bearclaw, or the best, those bossche bols of the Dutch or a cream puff or cream horn or.....dozens of others, all superior to the lowly crumpit. Even the biscotti which I dunk in my coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 12:47 PM

You know where you can stick yer cinnamon buns mate! Crumpets every time, OK?

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 12:36 PM

Musket has brought up bin and bean- er, been.

Which areas of UK use one or t'other?
Bin is the big winner in U. S. and bean by a neck in Canada (dunno much about what they use in eastern Canada.

Bin also is a container but more specific names often used west of the pond; trash barrel, wastebasket, etc.

Enough of these furrin games. College football (ovoid ball) starts here in September and the professionals are at it already, Calgary defeating Winnipeg 23-20.

Cinnamon buns easily lead crumpits, 100-1.

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 12:22 PM

Er... what exactly IS a Bongo Bill's Banjo Pill? Is it for constipation perhaps?

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 11:56 AM

"prostitute myself again no doubt."
.,,.
Want to borrow thee spankipaddle?

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Musket
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 11:54 AM

Eliza, you forgot to mention the Bongo Bill's Banjo Pills I was offered in a pub at the weekend. Michael may wish to put them to one side with his spankipaddle.

Michael, I hope that tea sans cow juice allows you swallow them quickly. I'd hate to see you get a stiff neck.






I'm not too partial to see you after a Bongo Bill's Banjo Pill if truth get known....

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Musket
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 11:47 AM

Just polishing off the first test at Lords for that matter.

I am trying retirement again from the end of this month, other than a couple of academic commitments. A summer of cricket and folk festivals. (Then get bored and prostitute myself again no doubt.)

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 11:26 AM

No it doesn't. It starts in a week!

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 11:20 AM

The blasted football is all we have this year!
Wimbledon starts in a fortnight!

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 09:57 AM

I meant 2012 of course. The blasted football is all we have this year!

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 09:56 AM

Not just spankipaddles, Eliza dear: barebum ɷɷɷ spankipaddles!

And all this because silly old U-No-Who called me kinky for liking my tea without milk. I ask you --- where does he get off?

And what about my Marilyn-wig, then? Why didn't anybody get just as turned on by my mentioning that?

ɷ~M~ɷ

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 09:50 AM

Ah. Did I ever mention that I won the cup for Best Actor at the Sawston [Cambs] Drama Festival 1977? It stands on my mantelshelf to this day. I played Harold Gorringe in Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy. In a school hall, not a church hall... I had to put on a Scouse accent [the adjudicator asked if I really came from the North - I don't], but it wasn't a trousers-down sort of comedy.

Needs a polish!... The cup, I mean.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 09:50 AM

This is most fascinating. I seem to be being offered so far:- Adnam's ale, crumpets, (or pikelets) tea, yoghurt, cream, chaperonage and Spankipaddles. I'm overwhelmed. Next we come to a bare bottom in Burton's window, split French knickers worn by a man and some grammar.
I'm wondering what posters from other countries are making of this extremely Pythonesque thread! It's resembling more and more the Opening to the 2014 London Olympics!

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Musket
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 09:34 AM

Luckily for me, my comment regarding grammar precludes my exhibitionism.

As we are talking grammar, it would most likely be the Reading branch I suppose. Tickets available from a bloke in a kiosk near Leicester Square as ever. Be quick or they will be all gone for a Burton

Etc

Ad nauseum


I once did show my arse on stage. I was wearing kinky women's underwear at the time and when I bent over, I heard a rip followed by a sense of coolness. The audience felt it part of the show luckily. As we performed eight nights of The Rocky Horror Show, I can state my impromptu improvisation only lasted one night and by the next night, my French knickers were a different design (and size.)

Amateur dramatics and church halls. Cameron forgot to mention that in his "being British" bollocks the other day.

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 09:04 AM

Which branch of Burtons? Will they be selling tickets?

Hubbah·hubbah!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Musket
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 08:34 AM

Talking of bottoms;

If pronunciation doesn't inform grammatical construct, I'll show me arse in Burtons' window.

The problem is, I won't shove off. Without her permission, I have decided to appoint myself Eliza's chaperone. I have a healthy stock of crumpets, Lurpak and Adnams with which to entertain my charge.

I have no need of trinkets such as spankipaddles.

Up yours Gramps.

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 08:06 AM

Anyway, you shove off. Much more interesting talking to Eliza about cream and yogurt and tea and smacked·bottoms ɷɷɷ...

So just you take your wind-up-merchant doings elsewhere, if you would be so kind, my good fellow.

Much obliged

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 07:20 AM

But pronunciation isn't a grammatical concept either, Ian. Why are you being so bloody-mindedly obscurantist? What satisfaction are you getting out of so deliberately confusing the actual question at issue with irrelevancies?

I think we should be told...

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Musket
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 03:53 AM

And their usage affects the grammatical construct of sentences. But I'm sure you knew that too...

As in;

SURREY

Where's the bin?

In the corner of the classroom sir.

BARNSLEY

Where's the bin?

Av' bin fo' a shit, where's tha bin?

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 03:03 AM

Regional differences in the names of certain comestibles are not a grammatical consideration, but a semantic one, Ian. I'm sure you are fully aware of the distinction really.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 01:14 AM

As this is a grammar thread, should you acknowledge the colloquial existence of pikelets? The butter remains an international constant.

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 15 Jun 14 - 05:42 PM

Well I'm FAR too old (and fat!) for anyone to 'get intimate' with me!
I'd rather have a nice snooze followed by a plate of buttered crumpets.

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 15 Jun 14 - 03:40 PM

If I pointed out your long nose I'd be labelled anti Semitic.

If you are getting intimate with Eliza, do it on pm or risk having me provide a running commentary.

Talking of intimate. I was in Surrey this weekend, just got back. The bloke behind the bar in a pub last night, not knowing me from Adam, offered to sell me some Bongo Bill's Banjo Pills. Is this what getting old is going to be like?

Good price mind....

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 15 Jun 14 - 02:49 PM

Is there nowhere too intimate for Ian to want to poke his long nose!?

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 15 Jun 14 - 02:05 PM

I hope you wrapped it in brown paper before you sent it her? A box would help as the shape even wrapped would possibly leave little to the imagination.

Didn't the blushing postman come from Norfolk?



Have you got a red arse boy? Have you got a rosy bum?

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 15 Jun 14 - 01:01 PM

My, Eliza, that linguistic invention of mine did get to you, didn't it?

ɷɷɷ☄☄☄〽〽〽☝☝☝▼▼▼❢❢❢ɷɷɷ

LoL

x~M~x

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 15 Jun 14 - 10:26 AM

Tee hee Michael!My friend Susan would have been rushed to A&E! We were terrible reverse-snobs and found any high-class accent excruciatingly funny.
Did the Romans have barebum spankipaddles do you suppose? I bet they did, as they were a sadistic lot IMO.

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: Musket
Date: 15 Jun 14 - 08:10 AM

Anyone asked an ancient Roman how they spoke?

We know from rhyming verse that today's Pope would not be able to understand a sermon from a medieval Pope as it is.

I was brought up on loose tea. Glenghetti to be precise. Mrs Musket likes teabags though, Yorkshire Tea (hard water blend.)

I like it warm and wet.

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 15 Jun 14 - 06:18 AM

Re Latin pronunciation: I remember dear Miss Weavers, our lovely innocent old dear of a Latin teacher, teaching us how to tell the date in Latin. The Romans for some reason never got hold of such a simple idea of just counting the number of days they were into the month, but depended on telling the number of days before one of three key days in a month, the Calends, Nones, & Ides: so that 12th March is said as "3 days before the Ides of March" & so on. The month's name has to be in its accusative plural; and unfortunately [for innocent old her!] the one Miss Weavers chose for her examples was May - "Maia" ~~ whose accusative plural is "Maias" ~~ which is pronounced, in RP anyhow, exactly the same as "My Arse"! So dear Miss W was walking all around the classroom intoning, "3rd May: Ante diem quartum nones my arse", "10th May: Ante diem quinqum ides my arse"...

I fear we rather disgraced ourselves trying to suppress our natural response!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: GUEST,Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 15 Jun 14 - 05:50 AM

The Polar Ice Caps are melting, folks...

Last Tuesday I met Chief Raoni and Chief Megaron in London, who had come all the way from The Amazon Rainforest in their 'SOS AMAZONIA' tour to try to wake the world of the immense danger we are in...

Let GO of fecking Grammar and get REAL!!

Get out there, and do so fast, because, shortly, it won't matter a single feck WHERE you stick your apostrophe's''''''''''''''

Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Question: that he/she/it have
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 15 Jun 14 - 05:27 AM

Monique, our Latin teacher was a very posh woman who'd rowed for Oxford in her youth. We were very working-class, and fascinated by Miss Bailey-Reynolds' accent and demeanour. She was frightfully patriotic and a W.A.S.P. in the worst possible way, and began our very first lesson with, "We're not Papists" (actually one or two of us were Catholics!) "so we shan't be using fancy Popish pronunciation of Latin. Caesar is Seezer and Cicero is Sisserow. There's no Latin oral to sit, so nobody is in the LEAST interested in your pronunciation." We spent all her lessons giggling as she intoned "Amo, amas amat" etc sounding like the Queen. To hear her announce, "Caesar Gallium in tres partis divisit." (or some such) was a delight to behold. My friend Susan had asthma, and we'd come out of those lessons with her wheezing terribly from giggling too much. But she got us through 'O' Level in only two years, bless her. I now can't remember much of the grammar, except that is was horrendously complicated with all those genders and declensions.