A Call For Humor!

[Waxx]

 

[snakedctr]

 

[mhardy6647]

I found your punctuation triggering so I edited the text

Even Webster, who dropped useless letters u* out of words left and right, didn't touch punctuation**.

Someone else will have to take out the capitalization. Maybe add in a few text prediction mistakes.

and with regards to the matter of capitalization, I'll cop to going all ee cummings more than occasionally. Rules are for breaking (when the time is right) -- ask Picasso.

remember Emerson got his knickers (or whatever those guys were wearin' in those days) all bunched up when it came to foolish consistency.
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* or "letter us", or youse, or ewes -- I painted myself into a syntactical corner there, didn't I?
** AFAIK

 

[mhardy6647]

Our around-the-corner-and-down-the-hill neighbor Mike and I had a roadside conversation yesterday morning about the non-delivery of our newspapers. Mind you, I know that the six or so families on our (long) road who still get... umm... a paper paper are atavisms, so we grumbled about that for a moment. "Of course, we both know that the paper would be far happier if we all went to online only access.* They'd be happier and make more money", said I -- and off we went, riffing off the joys of physical media.
"Of, course, now we sound like a couple of old guys!" I groused sardonically.
Mike's keen observation: "We are."

Oh, speaking of trivialities such as grammar, syntax, and accurate and interpretable communication of ideas**, I note without a trace of irony that Thursday was International Apostrophe Day.

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/15/nx-s1-5077493/walzs-or-walzs-the-apostrophe-debate-takes-the-stage-today

Frank would've been pleased***.

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* Sorry to trot this out yet again, but I literally cannot type nor use the word access as a verb without hearing Bill Watterson in my head.

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*** Who am I kidding? (or is that whom? I don't think so... but I haven't had enough coffee yet) Frank was the iconoclast's iconoclast. And the world was a better place for it.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

Even Webster, who dropped useless letters u* out of words left and right, didn't touch punctuation**.

Rightly so. There's no excuse for putting a "u" in either word.

 

[Hollywood_Bob]

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Klingons trained since childhood to ATTACK Federation starships

 

[Ken Tajalli]

Klingons trained since childhood to ATTACK Federation starships

One of my puppies has problems with Klingons (cling ons?).
Vet says more veg and keep it clean.

 

[Multicore]

And, in a different measurement, -40F = -40°C.

and 10 C = 50 F. that's a handy one to remember

 

[Bleib]

 

[mhardy6647]

Rightly so. There's no excuse for putting a "u" in either word.

Having lived near and often been in places like Marlborough and Westborough (MA) -- I cannot disagree.
Indeed, highway signs in the Bay State (and, if memory serves, the USPS), by and large, de-ugh such... ahh... boroughs.

(from, of course, googlemaps...)

EDIT: oh... I see what you did there, @Kal Rubinson ! left and right... har^3.

EDIT^2: Per the image above, to the best of my knowledge, nobody would render the name of that road as Simaronough Drive.

 

[Canuck57]

Grammar is the difference between helping your uncle, Jack, off a horse, and helping your uncle, jack off a horse.​

 

[EERecordist]

 

[Ken Tajalli]

Having lived near and often been in places like Marlborough and Westborough (MA) -- I cannot disagree.
Indeed, highway signs in the Bay State (and, if memory serves, the USPS), by and large, de-ugh such... ahh... boroughs.



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(from, of course, googlemaps...)

EDIT: oh... I see what you did there, @Kal Rubinson ! left and right... har^3.

EDIT^2: Per the image above, to the best of my knowledge, nobody would render the name of that road as Simaronough Drive.

Meanwhile, in UK:

 

[DavidEdwinAston]

Meanwhile, in UK:

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My wife's hometown, sort of. Thankyou Ken!

 

[mhardy6647]

Meanwhile, in UK:

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Yeah, well... the folks in New England still haven't gotten that Revolution thing outta their systems, I'm afraid.
You'll still see some Confederate flags on the backroads up here (bizarrely and unfortunately enough), but not too many Union Jacks.

 

[Boris Badinov]

 

[Boris Badinov]

 

[Boris Badinov]

 

[Boris Badinov]

 

[Boris Badinov]