I've seen the comma=and argument in the past, and I think it's a crock of shit. Especially since, as the Times woman admits, when you're using semicolons instead of commas, in a complicated list, you do and must include the final semicolon before the and.
Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Nutty - Mar 20, 2007 5:33:34 am PDT #7947 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Dana - Mar 20, 2007 5:35:08 am PDT #7948 of 10001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
CNN's reporting that they've found that missing Boy Scout alive. Yay.
shrift - Mar 20, 2007 5:36:30 am PDT #7949 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
AUGH.
There is a client sitting in the reception area who keeps snorting and snorting and hocking and SNORTING. Would it be wrong if I chucked a couple of Benadryl over the side of my cube, and screamed for her to get out get out get out?
tommyrot - Mar 20, 2007 5:39:05 am PDT #7950 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A comic for Buffistas: [link]
DavidS - Mar 20, 2007 5:40:10 am PDT #7951 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"Your date's over, mister." - cool article about two women in a bar who spotted a guy trying to slip a drug into his date's beer.
Daisy Jane - Mar 20, 2007 5:41:36 am PDT #7952 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I love the serial comma fight! I'm for 'em, but most places I've worked have been a'gin 'em.
There is a client sitting in the reception area who keeps snorting and snorting and hocking and SNORTING. Would it be wrong if I chucked a couple of Benadryl over the side of my cube, and screamed for her to get out get out get out?
No.
shrift - Mar 20, 2007 5:44:33 am PDT #7953 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Incredibly disgusting snorting client has left the building. Thank you, snotty baby Jesus.
esse - Mar 20, 2007 5:50:42 am PDT #7954 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
The New Yorker does Children's Interpretations of Grown-Up Conversations: [link]
GRANDMOTHER: Did you see the politics? It made me angry.
DAD: Me, too. When it was over, I had sex.
UNCLE: I’m having sex right now.
DAD: We all are.
MOM: Let’s talk about which kid I like the best.
DAD: (laughing) You know, but you won’t tell.
MOM: If they ask me again, I might tell.
DavidS - Mar 20, 2007 5:50:46 am PDT #7955 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
esse - Mar 20, 2007 5:51:56 am PDT #7956 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Oh, David, I read about that in a couple different places. In some european crazy futuristic tech robot magazine, the author took some kind of pills that had memory-loss side affects to see how much he actually could remember.