BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg

Subject: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Jun 02 - 10:59 PM

Well, danged, I just went back and reread my post about legalizin' drugs, and apologize fir being so lexdexic. You know, I try to look over most of my posts but between poor typing skills and a bad case of lexdexia, I screw up a lot. (It's amazing to me that the ol' Bobert somehow snagged two degrees...) I did? Danged... Well, I just want ot say that this is the "new and impoved" Bobert and I will amke a sincere attempt to clean up my act, but the lexdexic stuff is fir real. My folks sent me to the George Washinton University reading clinic at age 13 when I couldn't read much better than most 2nd graders. Anyone else out there got it?

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: CarolC
Date: 08 Jun 02 - 11:50 PM

It doesn't look all that bad to me. I don't have dyslexia, but I've got a couple of other learning disabilities, one of which sometimes effects how I read and how I write. Especially if I'm tired. Sometimes my spelling is really atrocious. (Had to run atrocious through my spell checker. Got it wrong, but even with the correction, it still doesn't look right to me)

But you should see how completely hopeless I am with numbers. Can't hold them in my head for more than a few seconds. They're completely amorphous to me, like trying to hold on to a heavy fog or something. It's really embarassing at checkout counters. Sometimes I even have to get the checkout person to count the money for me to make sure I got it right. (Sheesh)

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Jun 02 - 11:54 PM

DYLSEXICS UNTIE!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 12:02 AM

Bobert, it's OK,really. We do understand what you post, and InObou/Larry/Lorcan is lisdexic too. His spelling is LOTS worse than yours and he admits it. Only problem I have with your posts (either here or at Tweedburg) is the "dialect spelling". Sometimes it's really difficult to dechpher.

In other words, Don't sweat the small stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: michaelr
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 01:10 AM

Bobert: My stepson wrote 2nd grade level at 13. He reads OK now, but his writing snd spelling are still bad at 23. But that hasn't prevented him from being a wonderful person!

Sorcha, what's Tweedburg?

Michael

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: khandu
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 01:45 AM

Bobert, if even we had to buy a dyslexic code book, it would be worth it just to read your posts! Just keep on writing and we will keep on reading!

And get back to your practice sessions...Time's a'flying!

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 02:12 AM

George Washinton University = ARE You BLACK?

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: Amos
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 02:25 AM

Dumb question!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 09:01 AM

Ditto, Amos...

And I'm working, Khandu. Got in two good hours last night playing heavier guage strings for added condtioning. No blood yet, however...

MichaelR: If Sorcha doesn't get back to you about Tweedburg, PM me and I'll give you a rundown....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: mack/misophist
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 09:04 AM

Has everyone heard about the dyslexic satanist who accidentally sold his soul to Santa?

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: allanwill
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 10:07 AM

What is an agnostic, dyslexic insomniac?

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: allanwill
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 10:09 AM

Someone who lays awake at night wondering whether there really is a DOG.

Allan

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: Gareth
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 01:38 PM

lysdexic's lure KO?

Gareth - whose spelling tends to be fonetic'

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: DMcG
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 01:42 PM

Heard about the dyslexic buccaneer who went round with a pirate on his shoulder?

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: Kernow John
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 03:58 PM

My son got detention when a teacher asked him what a simile was. His reply " a happy dyslexic"
Bobert you never had a need to apologise. I screw up often enough without an excuse!
KJ

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 04:31 PM

Bobert -- apply to join the D.N.A. (National Association of Dyslexics)

BJ

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: Tweed
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 04:59 PM

We've done all we can for him at Tweedburg and I'm afraid there's no help for the boy. Tied him to a tree, to the outhouse, to the front porch rails, even dunked him in the green pond out in front of the shack repeatedly but there's no improvement in his condition. I am able to converse with him in lexdexic dialect but the folks from Europe who drop by from time to time are at a complete loss as their AltaVistas can't reconstruct any of it. Our current treatment is fer him to stand on a ladder while playin' a concertina until he gets hizzelf under control and becomes somewhat more normal. **Click here** and you can see what I'm talkin' about.

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: X
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 06:46 PM

Uh...I forgot what I was going to say....

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 07:28 PM

I see you got a undertaker on your porch there Tweed. Very nice. Is that what the upscale outfits out in your part of the world are getting for their porches these days instead of the Maytag?

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: Helen
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 08:40 PM

Any dyslexic 'Catters? (Like me) thread

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=16304

Count me in, Bobert - and I've got a couple of degrees too. A real achievement, eh? And a only couple of years ago I found out I have Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome, which makes the letters jump around on the page. Had to pin them down before I could read them.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: Tweed
Date: 09 Jun 02 - 10:43 PM

Naw CarolC, the washin' machine's out back, the dawg sleeps there since it caught afire last year. That ain't no undertaker either but he looks perty dang scary in that black getup don't he?

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: InOBU
Date: 10 Jun 02 - 07:53 AM

Hi guys...
Dyslexic is not quite accurate when speaking about my way of organizing stuff... I have something like the inverce of that, I have trouble sequencing, organising simple sets (like letters in a word), so believe it or not, I spell better typing, as I can type a lot of words by musscle memory... my hand writing would kill ya!
So where many dislexics go into math, as they don't do well with languages, and make math solutions to lingguistic problems, a lot of us (proportionaly speaking) go into language related professions like law, as we make language solutions to math problems. It is also why a lot of theorectical mathamaticians don't do simple math well,
I liked the santa joke... think I will use it abit...
Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: SharonA
Date: 10 Jun 02 - 11:25 AM

Bobert: No blood, no scrapple! >:^)

I don't have a history of dyslexia, but recently I find myself misreading individual words, sometimes scrambling the spelling. Maybe I just need new glasses... but is it possible to develop dyslexia as one grows older, or is it solely a congenital trait that goes unrecognized until one learns to read and to do mathematics?

Subject: RE: BS: Apology from Dexlexicburg
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Jun 02 - 02:28 PM

Yo, Tweed. I THOUGHT we weren't goinna say nuthing about the night we caught the dog on fire. Now ya' done gone an told the world and next thing ya' know we goinna have them pita bread folks sneakin round ashin questions and makin our life more miserable tan it allready is. But, hey, now that you've gone and let the burned dog out of the bag, so to speak, Iz jus wanta tell all you Catters that the dog is fine, the hair grew back and hey, the Tweedsburg doc (DocJohn) was able to save three of Dog's legs which he puts to good use when Tweed gets ta drenking that nasty moonshine while lighting them Moroboro Lights Dog lernt is a bad combernation the hard way but Tweed, having not lit his ownself up yet doinng it, has not yet had the displeasure of lerntin fir his own seff.

An thanks fir all the encouragin words about the little lexic thing I caught from some toilet seat or shaking hands with some politican. I never gave it no thought until they came up with a name fir it. Back in the days of lectric shock treatments they called the stuff "cross dominance" but when that political coorectness stuff came in, they had to knock that stuff off and come up with something new...

No matter, purdy glad to have it and to have come out of the cross dominance closet here in this thread so when you all are reading... ahhhhhh, strike that.... TRYING to read my posts an' ya there shaking your head just wondering whad kind of idiot is a Bobert anyway... wee... now ya know...

Bobert