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Jacket--jacket? Son, you be showin' your age!
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Wull … Ya see, it ain' a a jewel case. If it were a jewel case I'da called it a jewel case but it woulda fit in the CD rack jus fine so I wouldn' even be talking about it.
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Size and shape. Right. Like the thingie that the first season of Northern Exposure comes in which looks sorta like a parka with a zipper instead of a jewel case. What were they thinkin'?
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I miss LPs in general and album covers especially. Their size was big enough to fill with some interesting art. The recording and its cover were part of a package of creative output. Can one truly get as much from "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" if they have that wonderfully busy album cover shrunk down to a CD, or even worse a cassette? I used to sit in front of the record player and hold the album jackets and pore over them while the music played. I especially loved fold-out album covers such as "Let It Be" and "The Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl" (which is out of print I'm sorry to say). From a handful of still photographs or illustrations (such as the cartoons on the Beach Boys' "Spirit of America") my imagination got much fuel. One the most clever LP covers I ever saw was that of the Monty Python recording " Another Monty Python Record," which looked like a Beethoven LP over which the Monty Python info had been childishly scribbled with a crayon. The effect was so realistic that I assumed they had truly copied an actual Beethoven record cover, down to the small print liner notes on the back. I didn't bother to read the liner notes on the back for years because they appeared to be a scholarly article on Beethoven -- what could be more boring? One day I did happen to sit down to read the back of the record. I can't do it any justice but suffice to say it was very funny and clever, starting out like a serious essay on Beethoven and very gradually becoming more and more ridiculous as it kept inserting remarks about Beethoven's tennis career and his behavior on the court (which, apparently, was akin to John McEnroe's, naturally).
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Anna, Not to go off on a tangent, which I am sure this will turn out to be, but I have not used who or whom in a sentence recently that I recall, and saying that my use of Quote:
"who and whom, which you haven't yet grasped."
is in my opinion cruel. I did not realize that in Q and A, there were specific rules about how you can play with the words. I was just being funny, I thought, but I stand completely corrected and will stay out of this part of the forum. And yes we talked about it last year if I recall or was it the year before. Either way, I do not recall having used either one recently, and feel that by your posting your reply to my attempt at joviality, I have been made to look the baboon with no real reason. For who and whom where not a part of the my post. So to you and "who/whom" ever it concerns, you can rest assured I will not cause any further faux pas with in this section of AWAD-Talk in the future.
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You don't look like a baboon . . . Trust me. 
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My apologies for causing offense. We all have our language pet peeves and the misuse of whom is one of mine.You didn't misuse it in this particular thread, that's true. Please excuse this sometime-prescriptivist pre-curmudgeon. 
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Anna describes herself as a "sometime-prescriptivist pre-curmudgeon." This means that, when she gets throught the change of life, she will be me!
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Quote:
… she will be me!
Eewww. I din't sign on for *that.
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[holding hand up meekly] I recently used "whom" in a post and I freely admit that I do not know if I used it according to the roolz...
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