Posted on 01/13/2017 6:55:03 AM PST by RummyChick
Yes, my saloon won't start.
I am a full throated conservative but, a commaist through and through. And I often start sentences with and. I wish I remembered which president it was that once told his secretary that she had to stop wasting the taxpayers commas...
William Safire had some good suggestions on grammar and usage which I will pass along: Kurt Vonnegut called semicolons, "transvestite hermaphrodites".
* Avoid run-on sentences they are hard to read.
* Don't use no double negatives.
* Use the semicolon properly, always use it where it is appropriate; and never where it isn't.
* Reserve the apostrophe for it's proper use and omit it when its not needed.
* Do not put statements in the negative form.
* Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
* No sentence fragments.
* Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
* Avoid commas, that are not necessary.
* If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
* A writer must not shift your point of view.
* Eschew dialect, irregardless.
* And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
* Don't overuse exclamation marks!!!
* Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.
* Writers should always hyphenate between syllables and avoid un-necessary hyph-ens.
* Write all adverbial forms correct.
* Don't use contractions in formal writing. * Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
* It is incumbent on us to avoid archaisms.
* If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
* Steer clear of incorrect forms of verbs that have snuck in the language.
* Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixed metaphors.
* Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
* Never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
* Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
* If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, resist hyperbole.
* Also, avoid awkward or affected alliteration.
* Don't string too many prepositional phrases together unless you are walking through the valley of the shadow of death.
* Always pick on the correct idiom.
* "Avoid overuse of 'quotation "marks."'"
* The adverb always follows the verb.
* Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
Considering how many times I see things that are basically reprints or compilations from reddit (or outright ripoffs), I’m glad I’m been a member for years over there, so I recognize all the stuff that gets “borrowed” from there.
OHHHHH!
It’s the ORIGINAL Top Gear that is good - it ran for 15+ years!
As to the new one, I watched about 12 minutes of the first episode then deleted the timer on my Dish DVR.
The OLD version with the three gentlemen on the Amazon ‘Grand Tour’ are the ones you should try to find...
Best!
Ah, you taught me a new one.
There are a number of men in history who would have challenged you for those words.
I would have strongly suggested that you apologize when that happened. But hey, your funeral.
I love that quote.
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“How to make a campfire starter that weighs less than 1/2 oz, costs about 5¢, and works every time. “
A cardboard egg carton, dryer lint, and canning wax works every single time.
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I just used one, well two actually, to start a fine roaring fire at the Lurker Compound. They work quite well even on damp wood.
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Recalls the latent primeval in some of us I suppose .. soothes and mesmerizes the soul.
Out here in the country we can take 'em out back to the burning spot, stick 'em in the ground, spray on a touch of gas, and enjoy a big pine torch for awhile ;-)
Not as many concerts, etc out here .. gotta improvise our giggles.
LOL....sounds like great fun... you have fireworks too?
In my she-she town, it would bring out the FD and cops with back-up from 3 surrounding communities.
Last time we did fireworks, the cops came, someone ratted on us. That was the end of that fun. I can’t imagine what would happen if we burned a Christmas tree.
I usually let the neighbors entertain me with theirs, plus we can see the shows from a half dozen nearby small towns from up here on this little hill.
Too many people at concerts anyway . . .
We would try in involve as many fams on the street as we could ...things have changed. And not for the better, sadly.
That they have, FRiend, and sadly is right.
In Formula One, refueling is not allowed. The races are run on one tank of fuel.
Pit stop shown is for four tires. These guys have it down to a QUICK science - a good pit crew can change all four tires in 2.5 or 2.6 seconds!
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