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Posted By: Amos
13-Jan-09 - 07:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
21 Dec 03 - 08:47 PM (#1077555)
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapaire
If 'tis true, 'tis a pity, and the pity 'tis, 'tis true.
4 Nov 05 - 09:39 PM (#1605189)
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapaire
I wish to make the following statements and/or questions. They are made freely and without any coericion or intimidation of any sort or by anyone, human OR FAERY.
1. I have never watched "The Brady Bunch."
2. KMnO3 makes a fine bath salt.
3. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen.
4. freds and faeries are your best friends.
5. Who would have suspected Ralph?
6. A good hondo needs a good burner.
7. Duns Scotus is dead.
8. Every good boy deserves fudge.
9. If 'tis true, 'tis a pity, and the pity 'tis, 'tis true.
10. Besides, the wench is dead.
: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
1. A hondo is a form of Andalusian lament or sad song; why does it need a burner.
2. 'Tis is a contraction of "it is. Therefore it would be incorrect to say "and the pity 'tis, 'tis true". Prefer: "And the pity is, 'tis true".
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapaire - PM
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 08:23 AM
I will go, I will go,
When the fighting is over
To the Hopeful Land of George
Which I left to be a soldier
I will go, I will goooooooo.
No, really. I didn't listen to the State of Union rant last night, except for a few moments in the car while driving home from fencing. And even those few moments weren't very enthralling. I mean, where were the stirring phrases, the call to action, the emotion, the soul-stirring passages? Why, it sounded like a staged speech with "Applause" signs on the wall behind the speaker! Has the oratory of the world come to this?? Where are the thunders of Daniel Webster, of William Jennings Bryan, of Ralph Ingersoll, of Martin Luther King, of Patrick Henry, of Lord North, of Daniel O'Connell, of Padraic Pearse, of Rodney Claphart? Gone, all gone!
If 'tis true 'tis a pity, and the pity 'tis 'tis true.
01 Feb 06 - 08:37 AM (#1658965)
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
If 'tis true 'tis a pity, and the pity 'tis 'tis true.
Dear Rapaire:
The contraction 'tis is derived for "it" + "is", as you know perfectly well. It should therefore be clear that using it in the expression "the pity is" is in appropriate. Your correct choices in this expression would be either "the pity o' 'tis, 'tis true" which I find awkward, or "the pity is, 'tis true".
This has been pointed out to you before. Don't make me come over there.
A
Hmmmm?