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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 12:47 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 - 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: 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: 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 - 06:02 PM

Values?

Wrong Musket.

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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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 - 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: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 18 Jun 14 - 01:33 PM

Grammatical inquiry?

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: 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.