And an extra-marital affair, I assume, is used for buffing?
Greg G.
And an extra-marital affair, I assume, is used for buffing?
Greg G.
For a Few Dollars More -
Jet 1236.
You may also want to get some opinions in rec.crafts.woodturning - everyone over there will be happy to help you spend your money.
in need of the 'ol talk about where babies come from?
Yeah, I thought about that, but I took that chance. I wrote a whole bunch of stuff, disclaimers, explanations, blah blah blah, but opted instead for simplicity. If I'm going to suck humour out of someone's ambiguities, I might as well leave some of my own for someone else to fiddle with.
I can't believe anyone thought I was serious!
- Owen -
Didn't think you were serious for a minute. But if he did.... :-o
Anyway, I'm always sticking my foot in my own big mouth, so who am I to say anything...
And you'll have to fiddle with your own ambiguities - this homey don't play that.
Most embarrassing story along these same lines...
Playing a game called "Half-Life" in order to demonstrate the rag-doll physics to a girl and shot one of the scientists in the head - point blank. She ran away screaming and crying. It turned out that her husband had been killed, execution style, by a couple of thugs several years earlier. Talk about feeling _low_.
Greg G.
Strunk & White are rolling over in their graves. Their booklet, The Elements Of Style, is an invaluable companion to anybody trying to communicate in English.
Now I will go play with my son. Then I am going to try to figure out with which type of lathe I am going to replace my dead one.
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
(Sir Winston Churchill)
On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 15:48:32 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Robatoy quickly quoth:
Perhaps you want some excitement. Are you going to smuggle a Griz across the border, Rob?
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You just violated Rule SIX.......
As I have found out in this group, there is no shortage of people to spend your money!!! Brian
I think that Strunk was already turning in his grave because of what White did to his book.
Still, the use of language is a moving target and we have to be a little careful about adopting a too rigid view of acceptable current usage.
I'm a Strunk and White fan but also have a Chicago Manual Of Style, an AP Style Sheet, a NY Times Style Sheet, my eighth grade grammar book, and the keening voice of Mrs. Sweet - my English Composition teacher, nattering in my ears when I try to write a lucid sentence.
They all vary "Write it so it sounds nice and let the goddamned editor clean it up if you can trust him not to make a balls out of it."
He also said:
"Write drunk - edit sober".
I don't think he meant that in a literal sense - but then...
Tom Watson - WoodDorker tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (email)
The chairperson of the Department of Nits rears its head and states: The correct quotation is: Sir Winston Churchill, upon being chastised for ending a sentence with a proposition: "That, Madam, is a piece of pedantry up with which I will not put."
Then, however, there is the young child, in the 2nsd-floor bedroom, questioning Daddy's choice, from the bookshelves downstairs, of bed-time story book: "Why did you bring _that_ book for me to be to be read to out of up from for?"
A girl from New Jersey and a girl from the West Coast were seated side by side on an airplane.
The girl from New Jersey, being friendly and all, said, "So, where ya from?"
The West Coast girl said, "From a place where they know better than to use a preposition at the end of a sentence."
The girl from New Jersey sat quietly for a few moments and then replied: "So, where ya from, bitch?"
Tom Watson - WoodDorker tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (email)
Sat, Nov 5, 2005, 4:38pm (EST+5) snipped-for-privacy@pacbell.net (Mr.=A0Moose) doth assume leadership: Many years ago, I used to enjoy
I take it you've never heard of trolls. Maybe. Anyway, they're sad, dorks, with no social skills, and low self-esteem. They all seem to have hairy palms also.
You, apparently, must be the new group moderator. I feel confident in proclaiming that all of us have great confidence in your guidance, and leadership. That's a real interesting list of rules you have for us. I'm sure you've cleared all of them thru the Cabal.
We are all waiting with unabated breath for further instructions
JOAT If it ain't broke, don't lend it.
- Red Green
Grammar Smart, a book written by the staff of The Princeton Review, is my go-to book when I am confronted by a rogue dangling participle. Then again, The Chicago pretty much covers any and all style questions.
A few years ago, I sent out 20 copies of The Elements Of Style, as a Christmas present, to friends of mine. Most were glad to receive it, a few wanted to know "what-the-f*ck was wrong with their English"
It (S+W) would be the book that I would give to people.
I don't know about the Princeton sheet but will give it a look.
Stephen King had a nice little book a couple of years ago called, "On Writing".
Say what you will about the man as a stylist, he has a deep understanding of the act of writing and the idea of clarity of expression (oh boy, that one will cost me).
He used Strunk and White in the courses that he taught when he was teaching Business English, before his rise to multinational corporate status.
S+W has a couple of things in its favor:
It is brief.
It is reasonably complete.
It is brief.
It would take a confirmed CMOS aficionado to determine if these are two or three.
Tom Watson - WoodDorker tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (email)
got blueprints for that pointy stick?
Now, dammit - you know that JOAT is in charge of Pointy Sticks.
Tom Watson - WoodDorker tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (email)
Mr. Moose wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
You might think about the Harbor F. version of this lathe (I think they're both the same, except HF improved it a bit (honest, I was told that)). Google Darrell Fellmate (woodturning newsgroup) for his opinion of the lathe. Hank
snipped-for-privacy@all.costs wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Don't they have google in the high and dry?
As I remember it, the book was about Australia, and the quote was more like this: "What did you bring that book which I didn't want to be read out of from about 'Down Under' up for?" I learned about in the Guiness Book of World Records.
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