What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've had,or seen so far ?

[Ed Huntress]

(...you'll be sorry if you ask about the other parts...)

-- Ed Huntress

[Gunner]

to your shore. Was it

to it over the years.

errrr.....whoops..sorry about that....but you did give us Twiggy....

Gunner

[Michael A. Terrell]

An empty office can't pass bad bills, so what's your problem?

[Just Wondering]

The "militia" consisted of all able bodied men. It was not limited to a government-sponsored military force.

[Just Wondering]

Perhaps so, but so what? As you point out, some posters consider much of what is said idiotic. It does no need to cry about it, and those who do any way are well on the road to becoming anal retentive. Usenet is a forum for people to speak out. If they are speaking out on an off-topic subject and you want to stay on-topic, just mark the whole thread as "read" and get on with your life.

[SteveB]

place, wouldn't it?

Steve

[SteveB]

NO, NO, NO. I killfile the idiots first. Most never have anything to say about the group they are responding to anyway. When I killfile some of these people, my list of posts sometimes lessen by 20%. They must need to get a life to get on with.

Steve

[Just Wondering]

When you skip an OT thread, you've saved yourself from having to see it. When you killfile a poster, though, you not only eliminate the OT stuff, you also prevent yourself from seeing any good on-topic stuff from his as well. As long as you are OK with that, by all means killfile away.

[Morris Dovey]

Ok, since the conversation(s) have wandered a bit afield, I'm happy to help you out with this subthread by prepending "[OT]" to the subject so you can filter more conveniently for all three of this newsgroup.

HTH

-- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA

[Joe Pfeiffer]

I think his point is valid for any of them.

[Robatoy]

First of all, Morris, thank you for the response to my part of thread some way back...(You know the one, and I don't give a rat's ass if nobody else does.. =o) Now, about the inanity of it all (If it isn't a word, maybe it is now?) Sometimes I like it when a thread wanders a bit. The discussion may not be on topic, but it can still be informative. Then again, sometimes the beak throttles up-side pocket.... if you catch my drift.

r

[clifto]

Yadadadadadadadadadaaaaa

[willshak]

I even had the lyric wrong. It's "Life could be a dream".

[clifto]

What you're ignoring is that the entire first part of that is commentary. The actual meat of the amendment says simply and eloquently, "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

The grammatical construction of the first part sounds stilted in today's world, but translating it into modernese, it says "Because a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free State..."

[Morris Dovey]

Joe Pfeiffer wrote: | "Morris Dovey" writes: | || SteveB wrote: || ||| You DO remember the topic of this newsgroup, don't you? No? Sigh || || Which of the three newsgroups you posted to is "this newsgroup"? | | I think his point is valid for any of them.

But are you certain it's valid for _all_ of them? :-D

-- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA

[Morris Dovey]

| Sometimes I like it when a thread wanders a bit. The discussion may | not be on topic, but it can still be informative. Then again, | sometimes the beak throttles up-side pocket.... if you catch my | drift.

Y'know, I'd just been thinking that it'd been awhile since there'd been a good venting on the wreck...

-- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA

[Dave]

to your shore. Was it

made to it over the years.

Who has turned out to be an everlasting beauty and a glam gran to boot :-)

Dave

[Dave]

[Dave]

Manny, many thanks for that.

Dave

[Ed Huntress]

Not necessarily. Nominative absolute sentences are just as (un)common today as they were in the latter part of the 18th century. Yes, I researched it, around 20 years ago.

And the "because" is just one possible "in other words" for such a nominative absolute. The accurate meaning of the others would produce an awkward sentence -- which is why the nominative absolute is used from time to time in literature. You will not see it used in legal documents today because of the ambiguity.

I don't look this stuff up for fun, but if you doubt all this and want to see some parallel examples, I'll dig out my grammar books. They have some good ones.

-- Ed Huntress