Charlie Self Update (Latest)

[Lew Hodgett]

Prefer my version, "Fuck a duck, screw a pigeon, go to hell and get religion".

Lew

[Kevin Singleton]

Too many prior associations.

Kevin

[Tom Watson]

Shit, Lew, I ain't no engineer - but I know a flying f*ck at a rolling donut when I see one.

You should have more faith in old cabinetmakers.

Some of us even speak English.

Regards, Tom.

Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.) tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)

[Bay Area Dave]

you STUPID twit! the troll isn't me. MORON!!

dave

[Lew Hodgett]

Touché.

Lew

[Tom Kohlman]

Looks like our little friend has found a home at Delta Newsgroups...I just dropped them a note asking about AUP and informing them that the abuse address seems to be forged. Will see what we get. Sooner or later he/she will have to get a life.

[Beej-in-GA]

[Sweet Sawdust]

[Bob Schmall]

Ditto we historians.

Bob

[LRod]

Shouldn't the be "us historians" that speak English?

- - LRod

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Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999

[U-CDK_CHARLES\Charles]

We. Sentance:

We historians speak English.

Subject "We", modified by "historians"

Predicate "speak", modified by "English"

St. Peter heard a knock at the pearly gates:

St. Peter: "Who is it?"

Supplicant: "It is I"

St. Peter: "Oh GREAT. Another English teacher."

[Robert Bonomi]

One of the _few_ times St. Peter got it wrong.

There'd been a dual fatality on the Sesame St. set, the number 4 was

2nd in line.

[LRod]

Go back one step further. The statement preceding "some of us even speak English," which was, "You should have more faith in old cabinetmakers."

The implied subject makes the sentence read: Some of us [cabinetmakers] even speak English.

Echoing that sentiment, the correct implied sentence is: Ditto, [some of] us historians.

I don't really care. I always laugh at the we/us-I/me contortions anyway. Usually the simple test is to add or drop a word and it makes it clear to all. Like newscasters saying at the break, "join Joyce and me with local news..." So many people want to make it "I".

- - LRod

Master Woodbutcher and seasoned termite

Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999