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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: John P Date: 21 Feb 01 - 07:40 AM You go, girl. (Ackk!!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Peg Date: 21 Feb 01 - 01:38 AM Jim Krause: that's called "uptalking," ending a sentence or statement as if it is a question...points to lack of confidence perhaps? all the kids do it, it seems. don't even get me started (heh heh ;)! ) with the grammar stuff. I teach college students. the damn little fuckers don't read anymore. they sure as heck can't write. no clue about grammar. constant misuse of its and it's, whose and who's, they're, their and there....just for starters. Most of them are incapable of writing in an intelligent and engaging manner; when I find a rare student with actual writing ability or, gasp!! talent, it makes my freakin' month...mind you, it does not happen often. oh and I know I did not use caps when I should have just then...get over yerself!!! peg (yes I have my computer back at last!!!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: CarolC Date: 20 Feb 01 - 05:41 PM Well, Little Hawk, it occurs to me, serendipitously, and perhaps somewhat posthumously (well, not really), that the inclusion, nay, in fact, the creative insertion of a new thread to foist vast quantities of the kind of profound and even, dare I say it, pendulous maxims that bestraddle this most poignant of threads, would be a decidedly expedient, if vexing, course of action. I say go for it. Carol |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Little Hawk Date: 20 Feb 01 - 05:23 PM That is Soooo, like, right on, eh? So, I'm like, this has reached 100 posts now, right? So, like, should we just, like, dump the thread or? Whaddya think? I'm like, whatever. Y' know what I mean? - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Jim Krause Date: 20 Feb 01 - 03:31 PM And, well ya know, there are like all these twenty somethings that end all their sentences with a question mark? As if they're trying to ask a question, or make a statement? Jim |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: CamiSu Date: 20 Feb 01 - 12:08 PM Apostrophes where they don't belong, and none where they do belong. Ditto quotes. I have never liked "Don't go there." But, it has gained some charm with my Austrian AFS student who says, "Only just DON'T!" Kendall, I think the irony comment came (maybe) from your comment about Lincoln's difficulty with its and it's, and then sidestepping the issue by using "it is" in the next sentence. BTW Anu Garg of Wordsmith has a theme on made up words this week. There are several in my family, some of which are making their way into general usage. As long as we agree on hteir meanings, I guess they are words. Those other things are null sounds, like er and um. They only SOUND like real words, ya know what I mean? *small smile* CamiSu
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 20 Feb 01 - 01:01 AM Doh! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Feb 01 - 03:41 PM flattop - it's cos he just smoked my eyelids and punched my cigarette. That's what happened. And I don't even smoke. I'm like, "Gimmme a break!" He's like, "I'll break your bones, I ain't your pop!" So I decided to have him arrested, and went lookin' for a cop. I was, like, SOOOOO bummed out! I'll let you know how it turns out. (From Little Hawk on his miscellaneous birthday) - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 19 Feb 01 - 02:09 PM But what CarolC's cookie monster said was sensible enough. Words are what people say, dictionaries are just lists of words with definitions that help you check up on what they mean, and whatbthey have meant. And dictionaries are never going to be able to keep up to date with a changing language.
The only circumstances in which it is appropriate to treat a dictionary as a complete list of all the words you are allowed to use is when you are playing word-games like Scrabble or Countdown. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Kim C Date: 19 Feb 01 - 01:04 PM You da (wo)man. ;) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 19 Feb 01 - 12:32 PM heh heh heh! Don't GO there! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Kim C Date: 19 Feb 01 - 12:24 PM I am like, SO with you on that, Fibula, you know what I'm saying? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 19 Feb 01 - 12:16 PM This is not grammatic or speech related at all but I HATE IT. Couples. Not a normal, loving, caring but normal relationship, but THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE ALWAYS ALL OVER EACH OTHER IN PUBLIC. There is a time and a place, and in front of me is not it. It's rude and ill-mannered and I hate it. I especially hate couples pawing each other when there's only you or you and your own Other Half in a room. The sort that whisper to each other and have their limbs wrapped round each other. Don't get me wrong, public displays of affection can be nice occasionally, and I will walk with linked arms with my bloke, and kisses goodbye are fine - but people slobbering all over each other in pubs or cinemas or parks? UUUUUuuuuuugggggggh. (Teenagers aren't so bad - I almost expect it of them and they have raging hormones as an excuse, but anyone over the age of 20 should know better). Rant ends. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Kim C Date: 19 Feb 01 - 12:08 PM well tweak me then. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: En Date: 19 Feb 01 - 12:05 PM No one has mentioned "She's all.." which is used in place of "She goes...", as in: "I'm all 'I'm going out with Dave and there's nothing you can do about it,' and she's all 'Whatever.'" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: flattop Date: 19 Feb 01 - 11:13 AM You should stop standing behind kicking mules, Small Hawk. Is that what happened to your face? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Feb 01 - 10:40 AM The expression "life's too short" really burns my cookies. People who use it oughta have their noses tweaked. I am sooooo, like, tired of it. I'm like, as if! So who doesn't know life is short? It seems endless when you're waiting for the damned thread to load... - LH Kendall - asking flattop for an explanation is as unrewarding as standing behind a mule to check out when and if it's going to kick. Just ignore him, is my advice. :-) - LH
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: CarolC Date: 19 Feb 01 - 10:39 AM Hi wdyat12, I live in the US, and I'm currently visiting with a Mudcatter in Canada. In order to post to the Mudcat, I have to use his computer. In order to post on his computer as CarolC, it is necessary for him to log out of his cookie, and for me to log on with my cookie. In his enthusiasm to make that post, he forgot to change to his cookie before sending it. You don't ever have to worry about someone else using your cookie unless you, yourself have set it on a computer that someone else has access to. In order to set your cookie, you have to type in not only your screen name, but also your password. So you don't really have anything to worry about unless you are sharing a computer. As far as the split personality thing is concerned, you'll have to ask my shrink about that. Carol P.S. flattop says you should never share your computer with assholes like him.
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Kim C Date: 19 Feb 01 - 10:20 AM well I am guilty of most of these (except "nucular")so I guess I'm like you know the sooooooo most ignorant college grad who, like, ever lived, even though I was, like, an English major......... There's a time and place to be goofy and a time and place to be serious. I would not use casual speech in a formal presentation, nor would I use casual writing in a formal letter. Personally, life's too short to get annoyed by goofy stuff. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: wdyat12 Date: 19 Feb 01 - 01:20 AM CarolC, (the real one) About your last post where you mention that someone stole your cookie in the previous post: Are we to beleive that some devious sort could somehow steal another's cookie and assume their identity just to cause mischeif? I've been following your threads and I might be getting a little paranoid at the the thought of such a rascally act. Are you becoming a split personality? wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: CarolC Date: 19 Feb 01 - 12:50 AM kendall, this is CaroC. Someone else used my cookie for that last post. It was not me. (The someone else told me to tell you that it was "some asshole" who used my cookie.) We apologize for the inconvience. Carol (the real one) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: CarolC Date: 19 Feb 01 - 12:28 AM In our little planet that is smothered with living languages, labeling words that have enough usage to be included in dictionaries as non-words, strikes me as a bit of comic genius. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: kendall Date: 18 Feb 01 - 06:12 PM flattop, your post baffles me. Maybe it's the lack of punctuation? Say more about it, ok? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: John Hardly Date: 18 Feb 01 - 06:09 PM W'sup 'mos? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Date: 18 Feb 01 - 06:00 PM Amos hit the nail SOOOO on the head with the word "SO". Who started that and why didn't the first person they said that to tell them how TOTALLY stupid they sound. Thankfully, "totally" is fading out of use, "SOOOOO" probably was born out a need to say something in front of an expression that wouldn't need a prefix if it was said in context. Finally, stop referring to Irish Music as "Celtic". The Celts were long gone before any of the music that record companies associate with them ever came into being. I could probably make 3 or 4 more points but I just used the expression "finally" and I hate when people say "finally" and then proceed to make 3 or 4 more points. Rich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Bill D Date: 18 Feb 01 - 05:46 PM well, Liz ½ of them don't care, ¼ of them don't think we need it, and ¾ of them can't figure out what key they would replace...and 7/32 of them have no idea what you are talking about |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 18 Feb 01 - 05:18 PM And the people who say 'I won't keep you a moment' - Well DON'T then! 'Cause I know it will be more like half an hour. And why don't they put fraction keys on keyboards any longer? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: flattop Date: 18 Feb 01 - 12:56 PM Great irony in your demonstration of ignorance post Kendall. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Ebbie Date: 18 Feb 01 - 12:56 PM People who say- in reference to what is actually at best enabling behavior- "I'm just too kind, I guess" or "I'm too soft-hearted", when they really mean they don't want the hassle of saying NO. Eb |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Amos Date: 18 Feb 01 - 12:46 PM "What's UP with that??" "I'm, like, 'duhh!'" "And she goes, 'Whateeeever!!'" "So..I'm like, 'Come on, now!'" "And she's like, 'that is SOOOO not appropriate!'" but I'm like 'Whateveerrr!' ". Kinda makes you wonder what happened to the ability to form a complete thought, put it into words and deliver it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Mr Red Date: 18 Feb 01 - 10:23 AM AND ANOTHER THING...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 18 Feb 01 - 07:09 AM And there's the old social-work favourite "I hear what you say" (with the unspoken coda "But I'm not really listening to you.") Oh that is not just restricted to Social work, but any form of management meeting... we had a council leader whose meetings became a form of bingo. You had a card with several phrases on, like 'I hear...', 'at the end of the day', 'we are working in your best interests', 'if you would just look at it from our side'... Tick off each one as he says it, and the winner is the one who completes the card first. At one meeting he used the 'at the end' phrase 16 times, and 'I hear...' 23 times, and the bloody meeting was only an hour long!!! Drivers who pull up to houses and just beep their horn, rather than get out and ring the doorbell. A disabled friend of mine has been overcharged by so many cab firms for that, despite telling the operator she uses a wheelchair. She takes a while to get to the door and half the time the cab can be seen pulling out of her street before she's made it to the gate. And why does my office disabled toilet have to be behind 2 doors that pull towards you? You can either get in, or get out, not both. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: GUEST,Nat Date: 18 Feb 01 - 06:48 AM Yeah, my one is "Well, that's life I'm afraid" when you're suffering some major personal tragedy or are being evicted or have lost your job or something. I hate that. Its as if the person who said it to you has undergone many tragedies without aid, and that you would be better off without their support too. Cheers. Have to say, though, I'm one of those who can't stop saying "You know what I mean?" at the end of every sentence. I hate doing it but sometimes its the only way of sparking a response such as a nod or a "yeah". The worst thing of all has to be people putting an apostrophe in words like the '70s', '80s' and '90s'. Ugh.
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Penny S. Date: 18 Feb 01 - 06:13 AM With the greatest of respect... (you know and I know that what follows will show no respect at all). Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Gervase Date: 18 Feb 01 - 04:51 AM Basically, at the end of the day... No, please don't get me started on this. I already spent most of my driving time ranting at the radio, newspapers and magazines are read with exasperation and... But if there's one thing that pisses me off more than anything else, it's intolerance! Or Intelligent people who vote Conservative. Or people who can't make up their mind what really gedts their goat. Or |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: jofield Date: 17 Feb 01 - 07:11 PM 1. People who start by saying, "I'm just the kind of person who..." followed by some characteristic common to any normal, sane person, as if this somehow makes them unique: "I'm just the kind of person who doesn't like to wait in line." (Oh, gee, the rest of us love waiting in line.)
2. ANY altruistic wish expressed in the imperative: "You have a nice day, now!" I could never stand the chorus to Jesse Colin Young tune, "Come on people, now, smile on your brother. Everybody get together GOT TO love one another right now." Got to? I think not. 3. The expression "Don't go there." But this one is so lame, it has already been excoriated nearly everywhere. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Alice Date: 17 Feb 01 - 06:37 PM yada, yada, yada
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: kendall Date: 17 Feb 01 - 04:58 PM Abraham Lincoln admitted that he had trouble with the difference between its and it's. Never could figure why anyone would have such a problem. This may sound strange coming from a Yank, but, I hate what we are doing to the English language. It is becoming overloaded with crap from commercials. Mind Twinkies. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Lonesome EJ Date: 17 Feb 01 - 04:53 PM and those goll dang double-posters! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Lonesome EJ Date: 17 Feb 01 - 04:51 PM When did "buck naked" become "butt naked"? Stupid Another pet peeve is people who never end a sentence, but uh...Its like they don't want to give you an opening, and uh... I really hate TV commercial humor, the stuff like "I can't believe I ate the whole thing" or "wassss-UP!" Certain indivduals love to adopt these canned phrases and repeat them as a reasonable substitute for a clever remark, and especially in an office environment these phrases often generate a sort of Pavlovian laugh response. On an episode of The Simpsons, Homer once said " I love to quote laugh-lines from commercials...its not that they are actually funny, but I like the way it make us feel like one big family and we're all in on the joke." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Little Hawk Date: 17 Feb 01 - 04:50 PM Ugh. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: RoyH (Burl) Date: 17 Feb 01 - 04:49 PM Some people, when describing a conversation, always say "Do you know what he turned round and said?". Or "She turned round and said to him". They live in a world where people are always turning round to speak. I don't see this happening. Who are all these revolving people?. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 17 Feb 01 - 04:45 PM This being a global site with local outbreaks, it's intriguing to see how so many of the mannerisms and expressions and habits that have grown so cliched they drive people crazy elsewhere have never been heard of in my corner of the world. Or they have a completely different meaning or resonance.
It isn't so much that I get irritated by verbal expressions, but there are some that tend to tell me I'm not going to get along too well with this person (assuming they come from my corner of the world):
"Do me a favour" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Clinton Hammond Date: 17 Feb 01 - 04:31 PM firecat.. I understand the need to rant from time to time... But sorry... yer's makes no sence... I have no idea what yer on about... But I do think elocution lessons would be a good idea... ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Little Hawk Date: 17 Feb 01 - 04:27 PM I can't stand the way Spaw starts to screw up the left side of his mouth and squint his eyes just before he posts to a thread like this one, and then the way he snorts with glee upon hitting the "submit" button. The guy is a public nuisance, you know what I'm sayin'? Y' know? Well, do ya? Huh? Huh? Do ya? - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: leprechaun Date: 17 Feb 01 - 03:39 PM Sir Lancelot was speechless. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: John P Date: 17 Feb 01 - 09:03 AM Have you noticed that people who say "I'm speechless!" when they don't like what they've just heard never really are? Wouldn't it be nice if they were? I agree with wdyat12 about people saying "Whatever". If you want me to decide for you I will, but don't bitch at me about it later. I am vaguely irritated most of the time when I see LOL. It is often used in places where it doesn't mean anything, like a verbal tick. It's really strange that people don't know the difference between the word it's and its homonym, its. Inappropriate quatation marks on signs can be very funny sometimes: Restrooms are "cleaned" daily. John Peekstok |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: kendall Date: 17 Feb 01 - 08:37 AM In other words. This implies that the listener is too dim to get what was just said. A number of people. Too vague to use at all. A handfull of people. Midgets? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Firecat Date: 17 Feb 01 - 08:27 AM Elocution lessons ...... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll tell you whatI get completely sick & tired of, parents nagging, people accusing me of lying and self opinionated, over important, puffed - up, arrogant, cocky, and downright annoying little GITS!!!!! I have the misfortune of having to work with people like them for my Theatre Studies AS Level exam piece and there is NO CHANCE I'm going to be able to get my proper grade if those annoying little c***s don't even concentrate! I would happily get a rope and tie it tightly around their necks so I strangle them!!! OK I'm REALLY p****d off now, just from thinking about them. One of them has already posted to the Cat before Christmas, and tried to get me thrown off it by accusing me of slagging him off, and to be quite honest with you that was a load of complete and utter b******s!!!! OK I'd better go and calm down now. It's very rare that I get this angry. FirecatwhoiscontemplatingtheAztecfiretorturefortheannoyingboysshehasjusthadagoodrantabout!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Amos Date: 17 Feb 01 - 12:14 AM One of mine is the stupid, subliterate, ungrammatical and actually manipulative (sometimes) stunt of making a declarative sentence and appending "..soooo.....", to it. It is used to invite you, the listener, to do or say something they want you to do or say, even though the desired idea is theirs, not yours. Another abuse of the same word, but abusing a different defintion of it, is the youthful practice of attrributiong an extreme quality by saying something is "soooooo" followed by a phrase ('he is soooo to die for!') or even worse, a negation, as in "that is sooooo Not True!". Finally, a feel like kicking someone when they offer one of those push-button thought-packets condensed into a single irrlevant word. In midconversation, for example, you might hear such a person interject, "Doooood!", to indicate strong protest or disagreement with something juts said. On the other hand, I was part of the great conspiracy of eternal newness which foisted "Hey, man", "hey, mon", "far out", "cooool", and a few other abominations (by the standards of the time) on the English-speaking world, so i guess I am just recycling a second-hand karma... (The dots are called an ellipsis, and have a legitimate grammatical and typographical role in mainstream written English...but I forget what it is. :>))) AmoswhoisgettingsuckedbackintotheMudcatvortexagainsthiswill.... |