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    • CommentAuthorpiximous
    • CommentTimeAug 5th 2007
     

    "Dolly Madison was the first First Lady to regularly where a brassiere."

    where a brassiere? where was it then? Oh dear Gullible.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeAug 5th 2007
     

    Wow WOW back it up...
    Are you actually accusing us of being human and naturally making mistakes?

    If your grammar's so good, how come you didn't capitalize your name or those two wheres? And where's your comma?!

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    Let he that is without sin cast the first stone.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeAug 5th 2007
     

    Let he who is stoned cast the first sin.

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      CommentAuthorAthene
    • CommentTimeAug 5th 2007
     

    I just noticed that one and cringed...

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    Noticed the factoid or the spelling error? Both are crinjable.

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      CommentAuthorAthene
    • CommentTimeAug 5th 2007
     

    The spelling error. The factoid I'd heard before, although I didn't know Dolly was a 32C.

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      CommentAuthormargaret
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2007
     
    Posted By: Udoboy

    Let he who is stoned cast the first sin.

    Woah, everyone just .... just chill, ok? You're like, harshin' on my buzz ... :devil:

    (Kidding, of course. Drugs are bad, m'kay?)

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2007
     
    Posted By: margaret
    Posted By: Udoboy

    Let he who is stoned cast the first sin.

    Woah, everyone just .... just chill, ok? You're like, harshin' on my buzz ...:devil:

    (Kidding, of course. Drugs are bad, m'kay?)

    Says the lady with a mushroom for an icon! :tongue:

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      CommentAuthorHaoest
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2007 edited
     

    Wait, isn't that Mr. Toad from Mario??? Or is there another layer of secrecy?

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      CommentAuthorPaulustrious
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2007 edited
     

    When did the USA ban the use of the adverbial well and replace it with good? This sinister infection has spread to Canada. As in...

    The engines still run good in these old Pontiacs.

    I know it must have been a goodly time ago.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2007
     
    Posted By: Paulustrious

    When did the USA ban the use of the adverbialwelland replace it with good? This sinister infection has spread to Canada. As in...

    The engines still run good in these old Pontiacs.

    I know it must have been a goodly time ago.

    The English combine them:

    The engines still run well good...

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      CommentAuthormargaret
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2007
     
    Posted By: Trance

    Says the lady with a mushroom for an icon!:tongue:

    :shamed: Maybe I should change my icon. Your inference is certainly not my implication. :shamed:

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      CommentAuthorTwinch
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2007
     

    It's becoming more common in the UK too.

    "How are you today?"
    "I'm good thank you"

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2007
     
    Posted By: margaret
    Posted By: Trance

    Says the lady with a mushroom for an icon!:tongue:

    :shamed:Maybe I should change my icon. Your inference is certainly not my implication.:shamed:

    Haha I was just messing, I didn't think of it in that way until it sprung into my mind today. :tongue:

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2007
     
    Posted By: Twinch

    It's becoming more common in the UK too.

    "How are you today?"
    "I'm good thank you"

    Wait, that's not grammatically correct?

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      CommentAuthorPaulustrious
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2007 edited
     

    Your suspicions are correct, Trance. 'I am good' is OK, since 'good' in this context is an adjective not an adverb.

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      CommentAuthorAthene
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2007
     
    Posted By: Trance
    Posted By: Twinch

    It's becoming more common in the UK too.

    "How are you today?"
    "I'm good thank you"

    Wait, that's not grammatically correct?

    I guess it depends on what you're good at...

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    And when she was good she was very, very good.
    And when she was bad she was better

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      CommentAuthorTwinch
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2007
     

    That's all well and good but I'm not sure about this.

    I am quite happy to be corrected as I have never been good a grammar.

    I thought that "well" referred to someone's health and "good" referred to their behaviour. Since asking "how are you today" is technically a question about health the response should be "I am well" not "I am good".

    Consider this situation; if a child had been ill for a long time and came to you and said "I'm good aren't I?" wouldn't your assumption be that they were talking about their behaviour not their health.

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      CommentAuthorPaulustrious
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2007 edited
     

    'I am well' and 'I am good' both use adjectives. You can also say 'I am purple' or 'I am enlightened'.

    However if we are following a verb (not auxilliary / to be) such as jump we use an adverb.

    You should not say 'I jump purple' or 'I jump good'. It should be 'I jump well'. Good is not an adverb.

    I have just looked it up in dictionary.com and it says:

    adverb
    49. informal. well.

    I guess I will have to live with it. My old English teacher would be spinning in his grave.

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      CommentAuthorTwinch
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2007
     

    Thanks. I accept what you are saying so i would like to ask about something else that has puzzled me.

    I have heard someone ask a question such as "Have you got a pen?" and receive the answer "No I don't". I accept that "No I don't" is a perfectly acceptable phrase but is it a correct response in that context? If a person asks "Do you have a pen?" then the response "No I don't" is Ok but shouldn't the answer to "Have you got a pen?" be "No I haven't"?

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2007
     

    It seems fine to me. 'No, I don't' is just short for 'No, I do not have a pen.'

    It's "no, I ain't" that perplexes me.

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    Ouch... it's fixed now. I'm really sorry for letting that slip through. Smite me as you see fit.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2007
     
    Posted By: Twinch

    Thanks. I accept what you are saying so i would like to ask about something else that has puzzled me.

    I have heard someone ask a question such as "Have you got a pen?" and receive the answer "No I don't". I accept that "No I don't" is a perfectly acceptable phrase but is it a correct response in that context? If a person asks "Do you have a pen?" then the response "No I don't" is Ok but shouldn't the answer to "Have you got a pen?" be "No I haven't"?

    If somebody asks you "Have you got a pen?" then answer whatever you want--they don't give a damn about grammar anyway.

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      CommentAuthorTwinch
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2007
     

    Sorry. I've been taking things far too seriously I'll shut up now. (But only in this thread and only for a while!)

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    A moment of silence from Twinch is many conversational gems unmined...I plead you, do not shut that mine!

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2007 edited
     
    Posted By: Udoboy
    Posted By: Twinch

    Thanks. I accept what you are saying so i would like to ask about something else that has puzzled me.

    I have heard someone ask a question such as "Have you got a pen?" and receive the answer "No I don't". I accept that "No I don't" is a perfectly acceptable phrase but is it a correct response in that context? If a person asks "Do you have a pen?" then the response "No I don't" is Ok but shouldn't the answer to "Have you got a pen?" be "No I haven't"?

    If somebody asks you "Have you got a pen?" then answer whatever you want--they don't give a damn about grammar anyway.

    Well, I, for one, care dearly about the response. If I ask to borrow a pen and their answer's not 100% grammatically correct, they don't get their pen back until they scream 'MERCY MERCY UNCLE PERCY' at the top of their voice.

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    Tut-tut.

    Mercy, mercy, Uncle Percy!

    Alternatively...

    Please be merciful, Uncle Percival.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2007
     
    Posted By: Paulustrious

    Mercy, mercy, Uncle Percy!

    Okay, you can have your pen back now. (You fell for that?)

    Posted By: Paulustrious

    Please be merciful, Uncle Percival.

    I don't think it's as catchy.

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    I have no need for the said pen as I type most things. I was purely correcting your abominable grammar.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2007
     

    Who the fark is Uncle Percy?

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      CommentAuthorPriya
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2007
     

    The brother of the mother of James, Lily, and Albus Severus.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2007
     

    Oh man. Did I really do that??? "where"??? shit. I guess I was concentrating on Dolly's assets.

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    There is a litany of people that can be invoked from time to time. It includes people like "Icky the fire bobby" and "Icky Thump", "Bob" (your uncle), "Fanny" (your aunt), "Tilly Mint" etc.

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      CommentAuthorRot Bottom
    • CommentTimeAug 10th 2007
     

    Fucking shit, Paulustrious, do you have to be so smarmy about your Britishness? Gah.

    Speak English you ramrod.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeAug 10th 2007
     
    Posted By: Rot Bottom

    Fucking shit, Paulustrious, do you have to be so smarmy about your Britishness? Gah.

    Speak English you ramrod.

    What do you have against the Brits? :colbert:

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      CommentAuthorHaoest
    • CommentTimeAug 10th 2007
     

    Potentially the same thing as other ppl have against amerika: envy of freedom.

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    Posted By: Rot Bottom

    Wow Athene - you're a fucking bummer

    Posted By: Rot Bottom

    Fucking shit, Paulustrious, do you have to be so smarmy about your Britishness? Gah.

    Speak English you ramrod.

    Posted By: Rot Bottom

    Not at all Paulustrious!! That's fuggin ridiculous and ludicrous. Asians see yellow as yerrow, not red.

    Rot Bottom, you are officially no fun. :sad:

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    Posted By: Rot Bottom

    Speak English you ramrod.

    Ramrod? I like that. I'll take that as a compliment. I'm not sure Athene has quite the same perspective.

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