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2010-07-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by gorb 2010-07-07 02:57|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 That a good one.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-07-07 13:36|| 2010-07-07 13:36|| Front Page Top

#2 OK. My pet grammar peeve - the collective.

"The committee are meeting".

ARE meeting? my *ss.

This "correct" grammar is the result of some braindead medieval halfwit grammarian who mixed apples and battleships. There is only one committee regardless of the number of people on it. Do we say the dresser are in the corner - why not? It has multiple drawers. Was Queen Victoria wrong when she said "England expectS every man to do his duty"?

I'm with Chruchill who, when corrected for ending a sentence in a preposition said " This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which, I will not put!"

OK, I'm gonna go off and hyperventilate now....

Posted by Crith Prince of the Poles9712 2010-07-07 14:17|| 2010-07-07 14:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Grammar Nazis have no chance against the uniform insignia Nazis. That is, who does he think he can fool, running around with the two oak leaf, one pip lapel insignia of an SS-Brigadefuhrer?

So, the equivalent of a US Brigadier General is now going door to door? The youngest SS-Brigadefuhrer in the SS is going to lower himself to doing Gestapo or Polizei work?

Feh!

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-07-07 14:50|| 2010-07-07 14:50|| Front Page Top

#4 'Moose - the Nazi-Nazi! :-)

Posted by gorb 2010-07-07 16:03|| 2010-07-07 16:03|| Front Page Top

#5 gorb: Apparently you have never attended a serious Civil War reenactment. Long, drawn out, tooth clenching arguments over uniform minutiae. When too many people show up for the reenactment, they will cull the herd with uniform inspections.

I rather liked this show, and was making fun of the whole -Nazi thing. They could have even spread it out anachronistically, using Internet jargon, incorrectly.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-07-07 17:40|| 2010-07-07 17:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Wow, that was tedious. I only got about halfway through it.

"The committee are meeting".

That's British usage, Prince. You're fighting a losing battle there.

My peeves are "most" for "almost", and "one of the only..." NO, if it's "only" there is ONE, only. You mean "one of the few..." How hard can it be to remember "few"?? These wouldn't bug me if I didn't see them in major media outlets.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2010-07-07 21:15|| 2010-07-07 21:15|| Front Page Top

#7 I rather liked this show, and was making fun of the whole -Nazi thing.

I know, 'Moose. I included one of my rare smileys there just to make sure you knew I was kidding about your kidding.

No, I've never been to any Civil War reenactment stuff. Sounds like you could get into some serious fistfights with buffs who disagree with the decisions. I've been to antique car tournaments, though. Same sort of thing. Watching the judges argue about details like whether or not the casting flash should have been ground off or not can make a person wish he had a Luger with a single hollowpoint bullet handy.

Posted by gorb 2010-07-07 22:56|| 2010-07-07 22:56|| Front Page Top

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