OT: as OT as OT gets. I had my last Peanut Butter Cup.

No crazier than this: :

Being color blind, I will immediately advise my 300lb Samoan attorney to file suit against Hershey for blatant discrimination ...

On that same note, the other day my youngest daughter made the best home made "Reese's Peanut Butter Cups" and brought them out to the shop for Leon and I while we were putting cabinets together for the latest kitchen.

I only got one ... :(

There's a drum company with round lugs, who get's their jollies by suing other drum companies with round lugs for copyright/trademark infringement.

They apparently think they invented the circle. It never gets to court.

Me. Leon and Me, not I.

(Look, it's too cold here in Britain for me to be in the shed at the minute, and this is how my lack-of-woodworking frustration manifests itself!)

It was called "manners" where I grew up ... trumped grammar every time after the damned nun's beat the me/we out of us for that very reason.

It's too cold 'ere for I to be in the shed also ...

Oh how many times a day I bite my tongue when I read in public forums what the common man has written, but people get grumpy when you correct their grammar so I usually just keep it to myself. However, since the can of worms is open, two others that I JUST don't understand are "to" vs. "too", and "lose" vs. "loose". How can so MANY get them so wrong? And don't get me started on superfluous apostrophes. :-)

And now back to our regularly scheduled off-topic meanderings. :-)

They're a bloody nuisance, them Nuns.

There / their / they're, and the new scourge: text speak. Argh! Although why it is called text 'speak' when it is concerned with the corruption of spellings, I have no idea.

Well, I am not sure about where you are from, but over here it is those pesky politicians interfering in things they have no idea about, like education.

Did you "sue" Leon (bar him from your shop) or just smack him with your hammer?

Sonny

Shirt happens ...

Viola, being the uncommon man that your are, perhaps you to would like to be in own my favorite web sight ... it will deal with the folks who still care about the English language, all too of you.

What the hell is a "hammer"??

Got a link? Quick, while me still got money, left ...

(how's that frustration level doing now, David?)

Would their be room for me? Hopefully your going to make room for other people to?

There's a sharp pain running down my left arm now.

Me await you're participation with baited breath ...

If you're fingers start tingling, go straight to hospital!

Or is it "a" hospital; are maybe "an" hospital??

(Where's that damn nun when you need her ...)

Probably working out the interest rates on her loansharking.

Hell, with all the gold I saw just on the walls at the Vatican you would think they could just retire and forego work of any kind.

I give benefit of the doubt to most errors which can be attributed to fast typing, unless it's habitual... and we both know those guys. :-)

What I have (not "I've got") little patience for is mixed tense... specifically, "has got" or "have got" and their corresponding contractions, such as, "you've got to see this," or 'he's got it."

There are grammar web sites that claim this is correct and it simply is not. Or they claim it's ok in informal discussion. "Informal discussion" is the new term for slang.

I have no problem with it when actually used in informal discussion. What's driving me crazy is its common use in documentary script. It's become completely common in TV narration on the History channel, Discovery channel, and dare I say it.... PBS.