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Old 09-12-2005, 05:36 PM   #4651
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Its terminal. I change my mind as I type... I also do it when I talk. Drives me nuts. I can never decide whether to go with past or present tense and I'm always mashing the two together.
Try "y'all." It works fine in place of either. No need for dumb rules to remember.
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Old 09-12-2005, 05:36 PM   #4652
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but I think Americans like their sluts with flat "u"s.
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Old 09-12-2005, 05:39 PM   #4653
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I dreamt that I was hanging out with Alanis Morisette, but she was very ill. I kept trying to get away from her because she was doing some sort of spoken word gig like VH1 Storytellers. She was singing all her awful songs.
Is it cool not to like Alanis? It must be, because I have a perfect track record of being always (and in all ways) uncool. I like her (I think the streak is safe.) Her last record wasn't my favorite, but there are 3 or 4 good songs.

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But I can't explain why suddently, at the end, she was Betty White instead of Alanis Morisette.
Dude. That is fucked up.

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Old 09-12-2005, 05:42 PM   #4654
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Amen. Plus, they ask players to re-structure their contracts *all* the time to take less money, and you don't hear washed-up nobodies on ESPN or talk radio ragging the GMs for not recognizing the sanctity of contracts -- "when a real man puts his name on that piece of paper . . ."
Come on. Both sides know this, and the numbers are a fiction designed by agents to look good and players to show they are respected. Two things matter in an NFL contract. The signing bonus and the first 2-3 years of the contract. The last couple of years are always huge numbers thrown in for show. The restructuring is almost always over those last couple of years, which are 50-100% higher than the rest of the contract. So everyone knows it's fiction, and the restructuring is to get it back to where it should be.
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Old 09-12-2005, 05:42 PM   #4655
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OK. I'm coming out of retirement to ask you this one very important question:
  • You don't think the your/you're distinction has anything to do with the past or present tense, right?


(just say no)
I was wrong to call it a tense issue. Its really more a construction issue:

I start writing "You're suggesting 'slutiest' instead of 'sluttiest' has no authority behind it." I realize its bad form as I write.

Now, mid-thought, I shift and decide to instead go with "your suggested spelling." But I don't make the necessary switch from "you're" to "your."

The synpases misfire; I intend to say three or four different things and type as I think. The jumbled mess that emerges is Hank-like.

Jesus... did I just write that? Perhaps it is time to consider rehab...
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Old 09-12-2005, 05:49 PM   #4656
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Is it cool not to like Alanis? It must be, because I have a perfect track record of being always (and in all ways) uncool. I like her (I think the streak is safe.) Her last record wasn't my favorite, but there are 3 or 4 good songs.

Dude. That is fucked up.
No. I just can't deal with her anymore. I was beaten senseless - bloody - with her first disc by every disc jockey in the US. It didn't needed to be retreaded in acoustic form.
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Old 09-12-2005, 06:06 PM   #4657
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Come on. Both sides know this, and the numbers are a fiction designed by agents to look good and players to show they are respected. Two things matter in an NFL contract. The signing bonus and the first 2-3 years of the contract. The last couple of years are always huge numbers thrown in for show. The restructuring is almost always over those last couple of years, which are 50-100% higher than the rest of the contract. So everyone knows it's fiction, and the restructuring is to get it back to where it should be.
So what? The point is, when a player whose contract is not "where it should be" because they have outperformed the team's expectations holds out to get what they deserve, the team, fans (and ESPN, as not Bob pointed out) pull that "be a man and stick by your agreement" bullshit.

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Old 09-12-2005, 06:09 PM   #4658
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This city doesn't get to win anything. Thats just the rule.
Don't even think that Philly is the only city living under that rule. I mean, beyond the WNBA (bfd) the last championship (and only I think) parade was in 1979.
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Old 09-12-2005, 06:14 PM   #4659
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So what? The point is, when a player whose contract is not "where it should be" because they have outperformed the team's expectations holds out to get what they deserve, the team, fans (and ESPN, as not Bob pointed out) pull that "be a man and stick by your agreement" bullshit.

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Because both sides agreed to teh first couple of years knowing it was the contract. Both sides agreed to the last couple of years knowing it would be tossed by both sides, but was included as window dressing. You don't see players holding out over the last year, $15m part.

ETA: Oh, I get it now. You're just pissed at being an associate. If you bill loads of hours the partners pay you the same thing anyway, with maybe a token bonus. If you bill shite, you get canned.

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Old 09-12-2005, 06:14 PM   #4660
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Where do you get the authority for that?

I think you're suggested spelling could be pronounced "slootiest." Perhaps that will work in Canada, but I think Americans like their sluts with flat "u"s.
I think dtb, drunk and power-mad, has finally overstepped her bounds. "Slutiest" just doesn't work. Slooty, slooty, slooty. No good. Would you call the squirrelly sock nutiest? Is silly the putiest? Does Hank go to Epcot London and order the chip butiest? I think not.
 
Old 09-12-2005, 06:16 PM   #4661
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So what? The point is, when a player whose contract is not "where it should be" because they have outperformed the team's expectations holds out to get what they deserve, the team, fans (and ESPN, as not Bob pointed out) pull that "be a man and stick by your agreement" bullshit.

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I can't believe I have an opinion on anything related to football (is this a demon spawn?), but I agree. TO deserves criticism for many things, but not simply for trying to get a better deal.
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Old 09-12-2005, 06:16 PM   #4662
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4. The Eagles made him sign a waiver freeing them from responsibility for playing in the Super Bowl. They essentially said, "We'd love to have you play, but if you hurt yourself, we're not taking any responsibility and you're on your fucking own." He signed it. And he did as much for the team as he did for himself.
This has been disproven in about a million different news sources. Apparently, the doctor he was seeing asked him to sign a release but the team never did.

It's like the magic loogie. The magic waiver. Didn't happen.
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Old 09-12-2005, 06:24 PM   #4663
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I think dtb, drunk and power-mad, has finally overstepped her bounds. "Slutiest" just doesn't work. Slooty, slooty, slooty. No good. Would you call the squirrelly sock nutiest? Is silly the putiest? Does Hank go to Epcot London and order the chip butiest? I think not.
I am not drunk.

(I know not-drunk is a state of consciousness with which you have only a passing familiarity.)
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I would not have known who this was without the cheat sheet.

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Old 09-12-2005, 06:29 PM   #4665
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Is silly the putiest?
I don't know about Silly, but I'm the purtiest.
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