#207442 - 09/30/12 10:27 AM
Re: Discordant students can sometimes surprise you!
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stranger
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Loc: West Sussex, UK
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Glad to hear that you're all not systemically Britophobic, even if it is 'our' language you're wrecking (your words).
I will admit that I used to get hot under the collar when I saw provincial mangling of (as we Limeys or Poms like to call it) "Queen's English", but I now try to celebrate the inevitable evolutionary development of our language, and instead try to see it as an enriching process. Is that attitude defeatist or progressive? I'm still unsure.
Eloquence is a very different skill from (than?) practising correct grammar, and much prettier.
Sam
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#207451 - 09/30/12 07:18 PM
Re: Continuing the offf-thread genetic discussion -
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#207461 - 10/01/12 09:33 AM
Re: Sparteye's game
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old hand
Registered: 10/22/10
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Loc: London, UK
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In a nocturnal chess game, as White,
I blithely ignored a Black knight,
Till the dark horse, at dawn,
Took my crucial king's pawn;
At sunrise I gave up the fight.
REGULARIZE – REIN
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#207464 - 10/01/12 10:31 AM
Re: pipped at the post
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/08
Posts: 8432
Loc: Land of the Flat Water
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good effort.
I can see the image of a horse stopping in a race to eat.
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#207469 - 10/01/12 11:58 AM
Re: pipped at the post
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old hand
Registered: 11/13/11
Posts: 1075
Loc: Lancaster, UK
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I'm sure that's one of the horses I buet on, once! (or twice!)
Nice one, Candy.
And a super one, A.C,!
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#207486 - 10/02/12 05:10 PM
One does what one must...
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REGULARIZE - REIN
Barney Google, with those goo, goo, googly eyes
Barney Google, had a wife two times his size
She sued Barney for divorce
Now he's living on his horse
With a pull on the reins he can regularize
And I'm going to jail 'cause I plagiarize
Barney Google, with those goo, goo, googly eyes.
NINNY - NIX
Edited by jenny jenny (10/02/12 06:55 PM)
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#207489 - 10/03/12 04:58 AM
Re: One does what one must...
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old hand
Registered: 11/13/11
Posts: 1075
Loc: Lancaster, UK
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My goodness, jj! I haven't heard that song for the last sixty years! When I was a little kid, I had a chbair with a music box underneath and, when you sat on it, Barney Google was one of the tunes it played. Many thanks for the bit of memorabilia - it wipes out your sin of poagiarism 
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#207491 - 10/03/12 10:53 AM
Cook's lament
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old hand
Registered: 11/13/11
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Loc: Lancaster, UK
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Egg-boiling gives me no kicks
For my culinary skills are just nix:
I feel such a ninny
When dressed in a pinny,
So I eat in a diner called, “Ricks!”
DISPENSER - DISQUIETUDE
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