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http://www.xkcd.com/392/
Yes! Now I know what I must do... >:-D
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> http://www.xkcd.com/392/
I didn't really get it.
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On 5 Mar 2008 09:41:18 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> http://www.xkcd.com/392/
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> I didn't really get it.
It could be "English" sense of humour. I thought it was funny OMG did I really
say that :)
Regards
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On 5 Mar 2008 09:41:18 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> http://www.xkcd.com/392/
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> I didn't really get it.
Are you familiar with the punch buggy game?
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On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:28:19 -0500, Kyle wrote:
> On 5 Mar 2008 09:41:18 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>
>>Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> http://www.xkcd.com/392/
>>
>> I didn't really get it.
>
> Are you familiar with the punch buggy game?
aka "Slug Bug".
Jim
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On 5 Mar 2008 14:32:11 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
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>aka "Slug Bug".
>
My kids resurrected the game about a years ago. We were playing it like crazy because
of the popularity of the new beetles around town. Luckily, they got tired of playing
and it died out pretty
quickly.
Damn, Wikipedia has a page for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_Buggy
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On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:42:38 -0500, Kyle wrote:
> We were playing it like
> crazy because of the popularity of the new beetles around town.
> Luckily, they got tired of playing and it died out pretty quickly.
Tired or sore? ;-)
Jim
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Kyle <hob### [at] gatenet> wrote:
> On 5 Mar 2008 09:41:18 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> >Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> http://www.xkcd.com/392/
> >
> > I didn't really get it.
> Are you familiar with the punch buggy game?
No.
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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> Kyle <hob### [at] gatenet> wrote:
>> On 5 Mar 2008 09:41:18 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>
>> >Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> >> http://www.xkcd.com/392/
>> >
>> > I didn't really get it.
>
>> Are you familiar with the punch buggy game?
>
> No.
Same here, no. <sniff> :o/
~Steve~
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:22:24 -0000, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
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>> No.
>
> Same here, no. <sniff> :o/
>
> ~Steve~
Wikipedia explains it pretty well here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_Buggy
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On 5 Mar 2008 15:05:01 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
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>Tired or sore? ;-)
>
I imagine a little of both!
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Kyle wrote:
> On 5 Mar 2008 14:32:11 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> aka "Slug Bug".
>>
>
> My kids resurrected the game about a years ago. We were playing it like crazy
because of the popularity of the new beetles around town. Luckily, they got tired of
playing and it died out pretty
> quickly.
>
> Damn, Wikipedia has a page for it.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_Buggy
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>
>
They don't have a variant listed that I played.
'Beaver whack! No beaver whack-backs" << <whack!!> >>
Basically the same as 'Woody' listed on the above site.
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"Kyle" <hob### [at] gatenet> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:22:24 -0000, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>> Same here, no. <sniff> :o/
> Wikipedia explains it pretty well here...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_Buggy
Yes, thank you, but what I mean is that I don't know of it even though
it may have been around since the '60's.
I've never seen it nor heard of it although I've played many games
travelling in the UK as a kid. Is this game an American travelling game
only?
~Steve~
>
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:28:19 -0500, Kyle wrote:
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>> On 5 Mar 2008 09:41:18 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
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>>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>> http://www.xkcd.com/392/
>>> I didn't really get it.
>> Are you familiar with the punch buggy game?
>
> aka "Slug Bug".
Similar to "pop" vs. "soda" vs. "coke", you can tell what region someone
is from by what version of referring to VW Beetles they use. XD
bah, popvssoda.com is down...they had a distribution map of the US.
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On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:28:09 -0500, Tim Cook wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:28:19 -0500, Kyle wrote:
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>>> On 5 Mar 2008 09:41:18 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>>> http://www.xkcd.com/392/
>>>> I didn't really get it.
>>> Are you familiar with the punch buggy game?
>>
>> aka "Slug Bug".
>
> Similar to "pop" vs. "soda" vs. "coke", you can tell what region someone
> is from by what version of referring to VW Beetles they use. XD
Yup. :-)
> bah, popvssoda.com is down...they had a distribution map of the US.
I'm an oddball, I grew up in Minnesota, but I call it "soda". In
Chicago, at least my uncle called it "RC".
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> I'm an oddball, I grew up in Minnesota, but I call it "soda". In
> Chicago, at least my uncle called it "RC".
Man, I haven't had RC in forever.
Here's another copy of the map:
http://tastyresearch.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/popvssodamap.png
(I grew up near Chicago, and we called it pop)
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On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:42:05 -0500, Tim Cook wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I'm an oddball, I grew up in Minnesota, but I call it "soda". In
>> Chicago, at least my uncle called it "RC".
>
> Man, I haven't had RC in forever.
Same here. Long may it last. ;-)
> Here's another copy of the map:
> http://tastyresearch.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/popvssodamap.png
>
> (I grew up near Chicago, and we called it pop)
That was more common - my half brother used to live in Lombard, and
that's what he called it.
Jim
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:52:23 -0000, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>Is this game an American travelling game
>only?
I dunno. Andrew may be familiar with it, since he started the post, and I think he's
in the UK.
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:52:23 -0000, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
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> I've never seen it nor heard of it although I've played many games
>travelling in the UK as a kid. Is this game an American travelling game
>only?
I remember something like it but it never took off. It went like:
Hits, no hits back.
Whomp!
But I said "No hits back"
So!
Regards
Stephen
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>> Is this game an American travelling game
>> only?
>
> I dunno. Andrew may be familiar with it, since he started the post, and I think
he's in the UK.
1. I *am* in the UK.
2. I have never, ever heard of this game. But I've seen similarly stupid
things along similar lines. (E.g., hitting somebody because it's the
first of the month. WTF?)
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And lo on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:52:23 -0000, St. <dot### [at] dotcom> did spake,
saying:
>
> "Kyle" <hob### [at] gatenet> wrote in message
> news:2t0us3hamg4qfl7puh5g3mlc58qee92k5q@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:22:24 -0000, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>
>>> Same here, no. <sniff> :o/
>
>> Wikipedia explains it pretty well here...
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_Buggy
>
> Yes, thank you, but what I mean is that I don't know of it even
> though
> it may have been around since the '60's.
>
> I've never seen it nor heard of it although I've played many games
> travelling in the UK as a kid. Is this game an American travelling game
> only?
First time I heard of it was a reference in the Simpsons. Neither of the
Bratii had heard of it, so I guess it never really took-off in Europe.
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Phil Cook wrote:
> First time I heard of it was a reference in the Simpsons. Neither of the
> Bratii had heard of it, so I guess it never really took-off in Europe.
Maybe I missed this part... who the hell are "the Bratii"?
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And lo on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:26:30 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
spake, saying:
> Phil Cook wrote:
>
>> First time I heard of it was a reference in the Simpsons. Neither of
>> the Bratii had heard of it, so I guess it never really took-off in
>> Europe.
>
> Maybe I missed this part... who the hell are "the Bratii"?
Tcch I thought you read my blog :-P My cousins Bratus Minor (6) and Bratus
Major (um 11/13?) not to mention Devil Child (2ish). Oh and before anyone
points out my failure to recall my cousins' ages realise you're conversing
with someone that has to do a quick calulation involving birth year and
current year to determine his own.
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Phil Cook wrote:
> Tcch I thought you read my blog :-P
Yes. You've mentioned them several times, but I couldn't figure out who
you're actually referring to.
> My cousins Bratus Minor (6) and
> Bratus Major (um 11/13?) not to mention Devil Child (2ish). Oh and
> before anyone points out my failure to recall my cousins' ages realise
> you're conversing with someone that has to do a quick calulation
> involving birth year and current year to determine his own.
You know you're old when... ;-)
Mind you, my *mum* has started asking me how old I am. :-| Like, WTF?
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"Phil Cook" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> a écrit dans le message de
news: op.t7k8h4iec3xi7v@news.povray.org...
> First time I heard of it was a reference in the Simpsons. Neither of the
> Bratii had heard of it, so I guess it never really took-off in Europe.
I have never heard of such game in France either. One thing I've noticed
about foreign cultural references is that those related to children's games
(and generally children's cultures) are usually the hardest to figure out,
even for people familiar to the mainstream culture. It's quite easy to
figure out references about grown-up activities, but children's cultures
remain largely undocumented and quite puzzling for non-native people when
they're mentioned in popular media.
G.
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There's a local radio ad for Horizon Air with
Patrick Warburton and Richard Kind that goes
something like this...
*Thump*
Warburton: Ow! Why did you hit me I'm driving!
Kind: I thought we'd play a little game to help pass
the time, it's called Slug Bug, we used to play it
when we were kids riding in the car, when you
see a beetle you just...
Warburton: There's one.
*Thump*
Kind: Hey, that's the same one!
Warburton: I've got another game to pass the time
it's called Slap Sign. Every time you see a sign...
There's one...
*Slap*
Warburton: Another ...
*Slap*
Warburton: And a bug...
*Thump*
Warburton: Hey, I'm beginning to enjoy this already.
Kind: Why are you hitting me! That hurts!
Warburton: What? The game was your idea.
(wouldn't you rather be flying, etc)
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> I have never heard of such game in France either. One thing I've noticed
> about foreign cultural references is that those related to children's
> games (and generally children's cultures) are usually the hardest to
> figure out, even for people familiar to the mainstream culture. It's quite
> easy to figure out references about grown-up activities, but children's
> cultures remain largely undocumented and quite puzzling for non-native
> people when they're mentioned in popular media.
Yeh, I'd never heard of this game until I was in the car with my sister and
her boyfriend. They were playing this game but for the new Mini, not the
bug. I don't know where they got it from.
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"scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> Yeh, I'd never heard of this game until I was in the car with my sister
> and her boyfriend. They were playing this game but for the new Mini, not
> the bug. I don't know where they got it from.
I was recently surprised to hear small kids <5 year old) use certain
"gross/funny" words that were already popular with small kids 40 years ago.
Since these words are only used by kids, you won't find them in books and
parents/teachers are unlikely to use them. One can only guess that each
generation of kids n pass them on to generation n+1. That's a 100% oral
tradition, flying below the parental and academic radars and disconnected
from the mainstream cultural environment. It's pretty amazing actually.
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Gilles Tran wrote:
> I was recently surprised to hear small kids <5 year old) use certain
> "gross/funny" words that were already popular with small kids 40 years ago.
> Since these words are only used by kids, you won't find them in books and
> parents/teachers are unlikely to use them. One can only guess that each
> generation of kids n pass them on to generation n+1. That's a 100% oral
> tradition, flying below the parental and academic radars and disconnected
> from the mainstream cultural environment. It's pretty amazing actually.
The boarding school I went to had roughly 40 students. We virtually had
our own friggin' LANGUAGE!
And it only took 1 person to discover or invent a new word and that
language was permanently changed. Like, within weeks.
One day, somebody discovered a word we'd never heard of called
"blatent". The dictionary definition he looked up suggested that it
basically means "lots". (Which I now comprehend is *not* exactly
correct.) For the next 6 months or so, it was blatent-this and
blatent-that. Like, "OMG, dude, that girl is *blatently* hot!"
God damnit we were bored stupid...
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> One day, somebody discovered a word we'd never heard of called "blatent".
> The dictionary definition he looked up suggested that it basically means
> "lots". (Which I now comprehend is *not* exactly correct.) For the next 6
> months or so, it was blatent-this and blatent-that. Like, "OMG, dude, that
> girl is *blatently* hot!"
>
> God damnit we were bored stupid...
Same thing happens once you grow up too. I notice lots of people using
"basically" and "at the end of the day" way too often... Not to mention the
fact that me, my girlfriend, my sister, and her boyfriend all spoke to each
other like Borat for a few months after we saw the film.
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>> God damnit we were bored stupid...
>
> Same thing happens once you grow up too. I notice lots of people using
> "basically" and "at the end of the day" way too often... Not to mention
> the fact that me, my girlfriend, my sister, and her boyfriend all spoke
> to each other like Borat for a few months after we saw the film.
Hmm, interesting.
Maybe I don't experience this quite so much because I don't have any
friends and don't talk to anybody?
Oh, wait. You're all ham touchers...
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scott wrote:
>> One day, somebody discovered a word we'd never heard of called
>> "blatent". The dictionary definition he looked up suggested that it
>> basically means "lots". (Which I now comprehend is *not* exactly
>> correct.) For the next 6 months or so, it was blatent-this and
>> blatent-that. Like, "OMG, dude, that girl is *blatently* hot!"
>>
>> God damnit we were bored stupid...
>
> Same thing happens once you grow up too. I notice lots of people using
> "basically" and "at the end of the day" way too often... Not to mention
> the fact that me, my girlfriend, my sister, and her boyfriend all spoke
> to each other like Borat for a few months after we saw the film.
"Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used
correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm
literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
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And lo on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:40:25 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
spake, saying:
> Phil Cook wrote:
>
>> Tcch I thought you read my blog :-P
>
> Yes. You've mentioned them several times, but I couldn't figure out who
> you're actually referring to.
As below, but my family structure is essentially Pater and Mater; Pater's
brother with his wife and their sons the Bratii; then Mater's sister with
her husband and their son Artist with his wife and their daughter Devil
Child. If I headed back another generation and spread out I'd need an A3
sheet and patience; lots of Great Aunts and Uncles with lots of kids.
>> My cousins Bratus Minor (6) and Bratus Major (um 11/13?) not to mention
>> Devil Child (2ish). Oh and before anyone points out my failure to
>> recall my cousins' ages realise you're conversing with someone that has
>> to do a quick calulation involving birth year and current year to
>> determine his own.
>
> You know you're old when... ;-)
Which means I got old when I hit the end of my teens :-)
> Mind you, my *mum* has started asking me how old I am. :-| Like, WTF?
Yeah that is kinda worrying
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And lo on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:00:26 -0000, Gilles Tran
<gil### [at] agroparistechfr> did spake, saying:
> "scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 47cfca31$1@news.povray.org...
>> Yeh, I'd never heard of this game until I was in the car with my sister
>> and her boyfriend. They were playing this game but for the new Mini,
>> not
>> the bug. I don't know where they got it from.
>
> I was recently surprised to hear small kids <5 year old) use certain
> "gross/funny" words that were already popular with small kids 40 years
> ago.
> Since these words are only used by kids, you won't find them in books and
> parents/teachers are unlikely to use them. One can only guess that each
> generation of kids n pass them on to generation n+1. That's a 100% oral
> tradition, flying below the parental and academic radars and disconnected
> from the mainstream cultural environment. It's pretty amazing actually.
On the subject of games I have a vague recollection of someone writing a
book about it. He travelled around schools and made a note of what was
being played; I think he was surprised at the cross-pollination i.e. all
the schools had some form of Tag or British Bulldog etc.
Heh just checked Wikipedia had British Bulldog - "characterised by its
high level of violence and physicality, leading it to be banned from many
schools", but that's why it was fun.
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Bill Pragnell escribió:
> "Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used
> correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm
> literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
I want to shoot every idiot who mixes up 'of' and 'have'. How the hell
can you confuse those??? I mean in cases like "I could of done it". WTF
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Bill Pragnell escribió:
>> "Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used
>> correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm
>> literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
>
> I want to shoot every idiot who mixes up 'of' and 'have'. How the hell
> can you confuse those??? I mean in cases like "I could of done it". WTF
*nods sadly* Yup, all too common. Misused apostrophes get my goat too.
I'd be willing to forgive non-native speakers, but they usually get it
right more often than the natives...
<rant>
The plural of CD is CDs !!!
</rant>
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>> "Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used
>> correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm
>> literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
>
> I want to shoot every idiot who mixes up 'of' and 'have'. How the hell can
> you confuse those??? I mean in cases like "I could of done it". WTF
Because "have" is often shortened, especially in speech but even in writing
"i could've gone home". To the ear it sounds like "of" instead of "have".
So it's not surprising it gets written this way sometimes.
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And lo on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:41:41 -0000, Bill Pragnell
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> Bill Pragnell escribió:
>>> "Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used
>>> correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm
>>> literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
>> I want to shoot every idiot who mixes up 'of' and 'have'. How the hell
>> can you confuse those??? I mean in cases like "I could of done it". WTF
Dialects - "I could have done it" being pronounced as "I cud uv done it"
with a small hop to "I cud ov done it" and then well you can see what
happens. It's literally very easy to do :-P
> *nods sadly* Yup, all too common. Misused apostrophes get my goat too.
> I'd be willing to forgive non-native speakers, but they usually get it
> right more often than the natives...
There taut too right proply.
> <rant>
> The plural of CD is CDs !!!
> </rant>
My CDs broken
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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scott escribió:
>>> "Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used
>>> correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm
>>> literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
>>
>> I want to shoot every idiot who mixes up 'of' and 'have'. How the hell
>> can you confuse those??? I mean in cases like "I could of done it". WTF
>
> Because "have" is often shortened, especially in speech but even in
> writing "i could've gone home". To the ear it sounds like "of" instead
> of "have". So it's not surprising it gets written this way sometimes.
Thanks. But knowing the reasons/excuses doesn't make me stop wanting to
shoot them.
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On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 02:23:05 -0800, "Tim Attwood" <tim### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
>There's a local radio ad for Horizon Air with
>Patrick Warburton and Richard Kind that goes
>something like this...
>
LOL
My kind of game
One where I win :)
>(wouldn't you rather be flying, etc)
>
Hmm, no I hate flying it's always a white knuckle job. :(
Regards
Stephen
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> scott escribió:
>>>> "Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used
>>>> correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm
>>>> literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
>>>
>>> I want to shoot every idiot who mixes up 'of' and 'have'. How the
>>> hell can you confuse those??? I mean in cases like "I could of done
>>> it". WTF
>>
>> Because "have" is often shortened, especially in speech but even in
>> writing "i could've gone home". To the ear it sounds like "of"
>> instead of "have". So it's not surprising it gets written this way
>> sometimes.
>
> Thanks. But knowing the reasons/excuses doesn't make me stop wanting to
> shoot them.
Indeed. OTOH, if you shoot them, they'll never learn. Except maybe by
some bizarre natural selection process.
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On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:27:33 +0000, Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:
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>Indeed. OTOH, if you shoot them, they'll never learn. Except maybe by
>some bizarre natural selection process.
But they might learn for their next life. :-)
Regards
Stephen
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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Indeed. OTOH, if you shoot them, they'll never learn. Except maybe by
> some bizarre natural selection process.
Sometimes I feel like thinning the herd wouldn't be that bad of an idea...
--
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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Gilles Tran wrote:
> I have never heard of such game in France either.
I'm not sure you actually have to recognise the game to understand the
joke. Me, it wasn't funny, and I'd never heard of anything similar, but
I understood what was going on.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Gilles Tran wrote:
> > I have never heard of such game in France either.
> I'm not sure you actually have to recognise the game to understand the
> joke. Me, it wasn't funny, and I'd never heard of anything similar, but
> I understood what was going on.
Even after reading about the game and fully understanding the strip,
IMO not one of the best ones xkcd has to offer, either.
--
- Warp
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