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10-26-2006, 10:37 AM
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#1786
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World Ruler
Join Date: Apr 2003
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Fell Running For Train
Quote:
Originally posted by patentparanyc
Just out of curiousity, what do you keep them in?
formaldehyde? or like, a tray like the butterfly collectors.
Exhibit a, here we have scabbbius maximus.
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Um, my refrigerator. Duh. What kind of freak are you?
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10-26-2006, 10:41 AM
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#1787
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Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Flower
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Fell Running For Train
Quote:
Originally posted by patentparanyc
I know that but it is neither judgemental, sancitmonoious, false pious or huffy.
So he can deal.
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This is the type of post that gets you in trouble with me. "Neither" means not one nor the other. It refers to two objects, not four (as you have in your sentence). Moreover, when using "neither," the proper conjunction is "nor," not "or." I will not even bother with the misspellings.
If I were a right-minded Newber and I stumbled across this post, I would high tail it to a chatting board with more grammatical integrity.
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Inside every man lives the seed of a flower.
If he looks within he finds beauty and power.
I am not sorry.
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10-26-2006, 10:44 AM
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#1788
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: NYC
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Fell Running For Train
Quote:
Originally posted by dtb
But speaking of bloody knees, I had a wee biking accident a couple weeks ago (it was Columbus Day), and got a big old bloody knee and scraped up my hands.
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I think you should avoid mounting things altogether.
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10-26-2006, 10:48 AM
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#1789
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: NYC
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Fell Running For Train
Quote:
Originally posted by patentparanyc
I know that but it is neither judgemental, sancitmonoious, false pious or huffy.
So he can deal.
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Judg e.
Judgmental. Judgmental. Judgmental.
Jesus Christ.
TM
eta: And yes, this post is sanctimonious. But I let that one go since it's only the first time I've seen you misspell it.
Last edited by ThurgreedMarshall; 10-26-2006 at 10:51 AM..
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10-26-2006, 10:53 AM
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#1790
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: on an elliptical
Posts: 5,364
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Fell Running For Train
Quote:
Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Can you post more like this?
TM
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In order to do so, that would require me to lose my Ipod more frequently. You wanna buy me a new one on occasion? |
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10-26-2006, 10:53 AM
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#1791
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Appalaichan Trail
Posts: 6,201
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Fell Running For Train
Quote:
Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I think you should avoid mounting things altogether.
TM
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That would certainly solve most of my problems. |
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10-26-2006, 10:54 AM
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#1792
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the poor-man's spuckler
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 4,997
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Fell Running For Train
Quote:
Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
"Neither" means not one nor the other. It refers to two objects, not four (as you have in your sentence).
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Huh, this seems unduly harsh--excerpted from m-w.com definition of neither: "A few commentators think that neither must be limited in reference to two, but reference to more than two has been quite common since the 17th century[.]"
Either flower is stuck in a 16th c. state of mind (unlikely) or he is in a select group of commentators flowing against the masses (probable!). |
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10-26-2006, 10:55 AM
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#1793
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 764
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Fell Running For Train
Quote:
Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I think you should avoid mounting things altogether.
TM
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A gentleman would hold her by the waist for safety. |
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10-26-2006, 10:55 AM
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#1794
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: In that cafe crowded with fools
Posts: 1,466
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Fell Running For Train
Quote:
Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
This is the type of post that gets you in trouble with me. "Neither" means not one nor the other. It refers to two objects, not four (as you have in your sentence). Moreover, when using "neither," the proper conjunction is "nor," not "or." I will not even bother with the misspellings.
If I were a right-minded Newber and I stumbled across this post, I would high tail it to a chatting board with more grammatical integrity.
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I really hate to do this, but it is acceptable to use "neither...nor" (or for effect, "neither...nor...nor...nor") with more than two objects.
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10-26-2006, 10:58 AM
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#1795
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WacKtose Intolerant
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: PenskeWorld
Posts: 11,627
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Fell Running For Train
Quote:
Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Judge.
Judgmental. Judgmental. Judgmental.
Jesus Christ.
TM
eta: And yes, this post is sanctimonious. But I let that one go since it's only the first time I've seen you misspell it.
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I appreciate your good faith constructional criticismal corrective behaviour, but isn't the use of the "e" the brit. var.?
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Since I'm a righteous man, I don't eat ham;
I wish more people was alive like me
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10-26-2006, 11:00 AM
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#1796
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: on an elliptical
Posts: 5,364
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Fell Running For Train
Quote:
Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
This is the type of post that gets you in trouble with me. "Neither" means not one nor the other. It refers to two objects, not four (as you have in your sentence). Moreover, when using "neither," the proper conjunction is "nor," not "or." I will not even bother with the misspellings.
If I were a right-minded Newber and I stumbled across this post, I would high tail it to a chatting board with more grammatical integrity.
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Your post assumes that grammatical integrity is a quality that all newbers universally espouse. Who are you to determine what draws or repels them? Grammaticist F*7%. |
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10-26-2006, 11:00 AM
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#1797
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Throwing a kettle over a pub
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Fell Running For Train
Quote:
Originally posted by Cletus Miller
Either flower is stuck in a 16th c. state of mind (unlikely) or he is in a select group of commentators flowing against the masses (probable!).
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if he were stuck in 2001?
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No no no, that's not gonna help. That's not gonna help and I'll tell you why: It doesn't unbang your Mom.
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10-26-2006, 11:01 AM
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#1798
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: NYC
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Fell Running For Train
Quote:
Originally posted by patentparanyc
In order to do so, that would require me to lose my Ipod more frequently. You wanna buy me a new one on occasion?
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Uh...I'm not quite ready for what I'd get in return. So, I'll pass.
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10-26-2006, 11:02 AM
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#1799
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: on an elliptical
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Fell Running For Train
Quote:
Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Uh...I'm not quite ready for what I'd get in return. So, I'll pass.
TM
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It was a bad joke, and it wasn't parsed like that. damn. |
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10-26-2006, 11:02 AM
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#1800
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Government Yard in Trenchtown
Posts: 20,182
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Pynchon was right!
Quote:
Originally posted by Cletus Miller
Huh, this seems unduly harsh--excerpted from m-w.com definition of neither: "A few commentators think that neither must be limited in reference to two, but reference to more than two has been quite common since the 17th century[.]"
Either flower is stuck in a 16th c. state of mind (unlikely) or he is in a select group of commentators flowing against the masses (probable!).
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I blame the postal workers for this. Ever since that "Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow", it's been all downhill. |
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