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I pity you land lubbers who are pretend sailors.
Warning! Always wear ANSI approved safety goggles when reading posts by Checkmate! First check out what 52% said: Sir Gregory Hall, Esq. wrote: I pity you land lubbers. Yes, YOU! I don't know anybody posting to Usenet who isn't a dullard landlubber. Capt. Skippy of the "Flying Pig" has even turned into a land lubber as I predicted a couple years ago. Greg, if I could just interrupt for a moment... the absence of the preposition /of/ in your sentence above: ie.. "as I predicted a couple years ago" disturbs my comprehension of the English language - to my mind it is regional laziness...'coarse, I might be wrong about this, but what is your take on this common Americanism?...tia... If you wish to make a contraction of "of course," "'course" would be more appropriate than "'coarse," but... -- Checkmate "The Man Who Destroyed Fakey and Made Him Have a Total Meltdown" KotAGoR XXXIV AUK Hammer of Thor award, Feb. 2012 co-winner, Pierre Salinger Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker award, May 2001 Copyright © 2014 all rights reserved http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdyBY...ature=youtu.be |
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I pity you land lubbers who are pretend sailors.
Checkmate wrote:
.. If you wish to make a contraction of "of course," "'course" would be more appropriate than "'coarse," but... 'coarse is a deliberate red herring, Checkers... I had assumed an intelligent lad like yourself would cotton on to that /off the plate\ .... so to speak - that you choose to maketh an issue suggests to me my confidence in your intellectual prowess is perchance inflated - No?.. .. |
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I pity you land lubbers who are pretend sailors.
Warning! Always wear ANSI approved safety goggles when reading posts by Checkmate! First check out what 52% said: Checkmate wrote: . If you wish to make a contraction of "of course," "'course" would be more appropriate than "'coarse," but... 'coarse is a deliberate red herring, Checkers... I had assumed an intelligent lad like yourself would cotton on to that /off the plate\ ... so to speak - that you choose to maketh an issue suggests to me my confidence in your intellectual prowess is perchance inflated - No?.. . Check your net. I saw your red herring and raised you a holy mackerel. -- Checkmate "The Man Who Destroyed Fakey and Made Him Have a Total Meltdown" KotAGoR XXXIV AUK Hammer of Thor award, Feb. 2012 co-winner, Pierre Salinger Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker award, May 2001 Copyright © 2014 all rights reserved http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdyBY...ature=youtu.be |
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