OR MAYBE I AM BLESSED WITH SELF-KNOWLEDGE: I was at a grammar meeting at work a week or so ago (yep, we care 'bout that stuff), and I happened to do pretty well at an impromptu quiz. I renounced the prize, saying "I don't need to win anything. I just want you all to think I'm smart." People chuckled, but I think some of 'em knew I wasn't kidding.
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A grammer meeting? Really? You gots to be kiddin'!
L.
Of course they did!.
By the way, try this in your next grammer meeting...(I ripped this off of a favorite blog of mine, so don't think it's original.)
1. If today, you lipsync and yesterday, you lipsanc, than what did you do prior to that? I say you done have lipsunc.
2. Does the following correction in the exchange actually correct the problem?
"It's really hot out here."
"Than why do you have jeans on?"
"Why are you ending sentences with prepositions?"
"Why do you have jeans on, motherfucker?"
L.
Please excuse my French. It was used for demonstration purposes only.
L.
You have to admire my wife's persistence. You will not change her spelling of "grammer". It doesn't matter if it's this thread or another, that spelling stands.
hey laurel...how is your grammer? I heard she was ailing.
Laurel is both more and less complicated than I ever knew.
Okay. Here's some of the more:
She seems to be aware of her own character, and she seems to have the will to perpetuate it, even if it comes at her own expense.
She's very active on the blogs, very open-minded about exploring and immersing herself in stuff that is far beyond her everyday. She may be a conservative scrapbooking suburban mom, but she's drawn to the messy stuff.
She likes to sneak in the profanity, despite the fact that her kids aren't allowed to say "fart."
She wants to own a motorcycle and a speedboat.
Etc.
And, that's what makes people so interesting, the less and the more, and the willingness to be out there with it. Three cheers for Laurel and P for expressing themselves.
Teh, My grammer is doing better, thanks for asking. By the way, if you thought you were being clever or funny...you were not. Grammer should be spelled with an e!
Scott, I thought you knew, I have a nasty, nasty truck-driver potty-mouth. I've tried to tame it a bit, you know, going to church and living in the suburbs and all. But, I got it from years in the news business and old habits are hard to break. Just today, I was giving a media training seminar for 12 rather stuffy members of a very proper local non-profit, and I think I accidently said, "Now, you want to do it this way, or I'm telling you, you're gonna' get completely screwed over. One wrong answer and you're fucked...I mean, you know, in really big trouble...ah...yeah...big trouble."
L.
By the way, I think anonymous is Eileen.
L.
Laurel, I don't think Eileen actually reads any of this. She's just not that interested in what I have to say, which is probably part of my attraction to her.
Scott, that's the best comment of all, because most wives hear so much of what their partner has to say that when lots of other people think the guy is interesting, the wife has heard it all a million times before.
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