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by Stargzer
Sat Feb 26, 2005 4:56 pm
Forum: Grammar
Topic: Questions of Grammar
Replies: 7
Views: 24157

I saw that years ago on a button for sale at the Balticon sci-fi convention. Needless to say I copied the text rather than spring for the button. :wink: As a chemistry major I liked it, too.
by Stargzer
Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:36 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: VALENTINE - A Preview (comments welcome)
Replies: 36
Views: 77735

From Flam's quote: Bardolph steals money from a church, and Pistol reports the crime, whereby Bardolph and Nym are executed. So, Nym stole from a church and paid the ultimate price. I've never heard the word "nym" used in this context before but I like it. It's different from the one that ...
by Stargzer
Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:11 pm
Forum: Grammar
Topic: Noun Order
Replies: 18
Views: 47992

. . . I would prefer the list be "cakes, cookies, and ice cream", but that is only my preference. . . . I, too, prefer the comma before the "and," but I think that's more of a style preference than a hard-and-fast grammatical rule. Unless, of course, you have an English teacher ...
by Stargzer
Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:55 pm
Forum: Grammar
Topic: Questions of Grammar
Replies: 7
Views: 24157

Always looking for solutions, my favourite solvent right now is ethanol, despite its mind-altering effects and other health hazards. WUI, specifically of the C 2 H 5 OH in the very nice red South African Drostdy-Hof. (For those of you who are new to it: Writing Under the Influence) To mangle a slog...
by Stargzer
Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:00 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: Tagline Graveyard
Replies: 155
Views: 643518

Tagline Graveyard

Do not consign your old taglines to the electronic ash-heap of the bit bucket, but, rather, as the Communists did for Lenin in his tomb, post them here for future generations to admire, or deride, as the case may be. "The secret to a long marriage is to remember that divorce is too expensive an...
by Stargzer
Sun Feb 20, 2005 2:44 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: MARSHAL
Replies: 12
Views: 23273

Flam-san, you may need some additional background. "Marshal Dillon" is the character Matt Dillon from the old TV series "Gunsmoke" that ran from 1955 to 1975. Dillon was played by James Arness, who was also the alien monster in the original version of "The Thing," also ...
by Stargzer
Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:54 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: PANDER
Replies: 2
Views: 12251

Overheard in a rural part of The South: "Heeyyyy, Bubba! Ah thawt a pander was that thar black-'n'-white b'ar they got in th' zoo up thar in Warshintun Dee-See." "No, Skeeter, that's a pan-DUH. Ah think th' DUH part comes 'cause the guy pan-duh jes sets 'n' eats bam-boo 'n' don' never...
by Stargzer
Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:21 pm
Forum: Idioms
Topic: Good day, good night, and good bye.
Replies: 3
Views: 16320

Uh, oh! How long before the ACLU forces the Government to say ¡Adios! to this word? :lol: "Farewell, Good-bye!"
by Stargzer
Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:11 pm
Forum: Idioms
Topic: One of my favorite new idioms is CC : Carbon Copy!
Replies: 30
Views: 97818

Re: One of my favorite new idioms is CC : Carbon Copy!

I'm just about old enough to remember what carbon copy is. Why are we still using this? PS I'm good at questions, not so good at writing up answers. "Why is there air?" -Bill Cosby Are man-made diamonds merely carbon copies of real diamonds? I vaguely remember once seeing "CC" d...
by Stargzer
Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:39 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: serruptiously
Replies: 6
Views: 19012

Looks like a bizarre misspelling of surreptitiously to me...

-Tim
Not so bizarre as a mere transposition . . .
by Stargzer
Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:21 pm
Forum: Grammar
Topic: What is the correct usage of "affect" & "
Replies: 12
Views: 32619

I liked this quote:
When you affect a situation, you have an effect on it.
Or in other words:

The Greenhouse Effect, if true, may affect life on Earth as we know it. If so, we will have to effect changes in energy production.
by Stargzer
Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:17 pm
Forum: Grammar
Topic: Questions of Grammar
Replies: 7
Views: 24157

Re: Questions of Grammar

This is the forum for questions of grammar and usage. If your infinitives are split, your participles dangle, and you keep finding prepositions at the ends of your sentences, bring your problems here to the Good Doctor. He will attend them as time allows. But I thought that, Winston Churchill notwi...
by Stargzer
Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:06 pm
Forum: Grammar
Topic: "Question Tags" they are important, aren't they?
Replies: 28
Views: 104320

Re: "Question Tags" they are important, aren't the

COuld you explain these? In school, I beleive I always got points for for these. There are other languages that that only indicate a question at the end, aren't there? C'est la même chose en français, n'est-ce pas? Si! Oops. By "only" you did mean that is the only way to form a question, ...
by Stargzer
Tue Feb 15, 2005 4:34 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: INFANTRY
Replies: 16
Views: 34955

Re: revelry

"How can we keep 'em down on the farm, after they've seen Paree!"

Do you suppose the Roman world conquers were equally silly away from home?

Katy
I guess you could ask the Sabine women . . . although that was a bit closer to home, actually. :wink:
by Stargzer
Tue Feb 15, 2005 4:10 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Suggestion Box
Replies: 67
Views: 240655

Re: page refreshes

Trust me on this Tim, Page refreshes eat my time,make me stress, raise my blood pressure, not good.

Katy . . .
Katy, while not much can be done about your time, there are prescriptions available to alleviate the second two . . .

:wink:

Regards//Larry

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