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Old 12-31-2014, 10:01 AM
 
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Originally Posted by Fox Terrier View Post
OMG, another one!

We have a dozen or so plain cloth napkins, which we switch out once a week or when they're dirty enough to need replaced.
I'm not sure which parts of that post are more upsetting to me.
Is it that...strange...English usage, or is it that person's habit of using dirty napkins for a week or possibly more?



Edited to add:
I don't think we want to know about that person's regimen for changing underwear!


Last edited by Retriever; 12-31-2014 at 11:21 AM..

 
Old 12-31-2014, 11:29 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Originally Posted by Retriever View Post
I'm not sure which parts of that post are more upsetting to me.
Is it that...strange...English usage, or is it that person's habit of using dirty napkins for a week or possibly more?



Edited to add:
I don't think we want to know about that person's regimen for changing underwear!

Oh, gag me with a spoon! haha

Meanwhile, back at the ranch:

It's as if some of these ignorant people believe that dogs bread for mauling are more likely to maul
 
Old 12-31-2014, 12:41 PM
 
Location: USA
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"....if the coompany is relly ligemate and doing good business then they should have no problem giving a proper identification..."
 
Old 12-31-2014, 08:29 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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Some are thinking that their was a mid air explosion which makes any water landing mute..
 
Old 12-31-2014, 09:02 PM
 
Location: USA
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"my ideal home would be one completely w/o a kitchen..not to practicle but works for me."
 
Old 12-31-2014, 09:11 PM
 
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I don't like, comma splices, especially when, in my job I write, the newsletter, and when it comes, back to me, from editing, there are inappropriate commas, "correcting" my, work, that I have, to remove.
 
Old 12-31-2014, 11:28 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Originally Posted by Fox Terrier View Post
OMG, another one!

We have a dozen or so plain cloth napkins, which we switch out once a week or when they're dirty enough to need replaced.
I saw that.
 
Old 12-31-2014, 11:41 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Originally Posted by juppiter View Post
I don't like, comma splices, especially when, in my job I write, the newsletter, and when it comes, back to me, from editing, there are inappropriate commas, "correcting" my, work, that I have, to remove.
What, exactly, was he, trying to, say?
 
Old 12-31-2014, 11:45 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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Originally Posted by juppiter View Post
I don't like, comma splices, especially when, in my job I write, the newsletter, and when it comes, back to me, from editing, there are inappropriate commas, "correcting" my, work, that I have, to remove.
LOL!

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”


― Oscar Wilde
 
Old 01-01-2015, 01:56 AM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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The only way it would make since ...

... sense ...
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