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WHO or WHOM? A 90% Trick
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| bannie
Posted on 04/30/2003 6:15:29 PM PDT by bannie
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To: yankeedame
Yep... depends on whether you are talkin' about things or stuff. A lot of deep physics, there... we have stuff (hardware) that consists of things (wrenches) that are made of stuff (steel), but that stuff in turn is made of things (atoms) which are made of smaller things (protons, etc.) which are made of smaller things (quarks) which are made of... ? Unfortunately it seems that most of our "stuff" is empty space. :(
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posted on
04/30/2003 8:15:31 PM PDT
by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
To: SFConservative
Well....... there ya' go!
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posted on
04/30/2003 8:16:58 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Erasmus
Apply the old "never end a sentence with a preposition" rule and see what you get.
To quote Winston Churchill, "This is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put."
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I like the one reportedly told of Dr. Samuel Johnson.
He was at a supper party seated next to a very grand lady. He had not, alas, the time that day wash himself as well as he might. The poor woman could bear it no longer and declared:
"Dr. Johnson, you smell!"
"No,madame," replied the unflappable lexicographer, "You smell. I stink."
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posted on
04/30/2003 8:17:14 PM PDT
by
yankeedame
("Born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.")
To: bannie
To whom was this post intended?
Heh heh heh....
To: dread78645
Susan can't tell Oscar has a hard on always. I think she can.
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posted on
04/30/2003 8:18:24 PM PDT
by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
To: gcruse
'him and me' vs 'he and I.' All you have to do is listen to each of the pronouns separately...
Give it to him...
Give it to me...
THEREFORE: Give it to him and me.
He went to the park...
I went to the park...
THEREFORE: He and I went to the park.
(AGAIN, the rule is that "I" and "HE" are subjective pronouns (subjects in the sentence); and "me" and "him" are both objective pronouns (objects in the sentence).
146
posted on
04/30/2003 8:18:32 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
To: Revolting cat!
Who affects the Who's effects?Little Cindy-lou Who, that's who.
To: bannie
The Whooters:
148
posted on
04/30/2003 8:21:45 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Subvert the conspiracy of inanimate objects!)
To: yankeedame
I after E except before Cnonono!!!
"i" before "e," except after "c"...unless sounding like "A," as in "neighbor" and "weigh."
With the exceptions of "neither," "either," "seize," "weird," "leisure"
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posted on
04/30/2003 8:22:34 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
To: CharacterCounts
He do you trust? Him do you trust? Which is correct? Just as you do when you diagram a question, turn the question around.
Do you trust he/him?
Do you trust him?
and back to...WHOM do you trust?
150
posted on
04/30/2003 8:26:09 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
To: bannie
My kids say "This kid said..." I say, "this guy or that guy?" They don't like this business. We also go at it with "He went..." "He went where? To the store? To the bathroom?"
Eminem blew it for my with "...between you and I, females lie."
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but his grammar fails.
This thread is classic FR.
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posted on
04/30/2003 8:27:13 PM PDT
by
nicollo
To: Conservativegreatgrandma
While we're on this kind of thing,
does anyone know the code to remember the planets?
Mary's Violet Eyes Make John Sit
Up Nights Periodically !
Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn
Uranus Neptune and Pluto !
.....THUNDER......
To: All
OK, here's another one that makes me crazy, and
lots of a lot of many educated folks do it - using an apostrophe in the possesive form of "it".
it is = it's
belonging to it = its
I believe it's the only possesive form that doesn't use an apostophe.
To: not_apathetic_anymore
The effect of hard drugs will affect your health.
154
posted on
04/30/2003 8:31:35 PM PDT
by
paix
To: bannie
Any tricks with pronouns, I,me, he, she, him, her.
155
posted on
04/30/2003 8:32:43 PM PDT
by
Coleus
(RU-486 Kills Babies)
To: bannie
You don't have to tell me. I know how it works. The shock is seeing all the college educated professionals and broadcast journalists screwing it up.
156
posted on
04/30/2003 8:34:21 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: pipecorp
lie/lay
"Lay" is a transitive verb...it needs an OBJECT
"Lie" is an intransitive verb..it nees no OBJECT.
Lay it down. ("It" is an object.)
Lie still. ("Still" is just an adverb describing the verb "lie.")(Of course, the subject of both of these is "you understood.")
"transitive" means that it carries the subject across to an object..."TRANS" (across)...The subject does something TO something. While, with "intransative" means the subject can do something without doing it TO something/someone else.
I hope that one was clear.
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posted on
04/30/2003 8:34:42 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
To: bannie
Well done, and I hope that everyone who reads it remembers and uses it! (Now, to get people not to write "loose" when they mean "lose"...)
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posted on
04/30/2003 8:35:14 PM PDT
by
jejones
To: Freedom4US
That's the mnemonic to recall the standard Resistor Code Haven't scrolled down and someone may have done this, but you forgot: "....willingly, Get Some Now." G,S,N for Gold, Silver, None for the precision bands.
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posted on
04/30/2003 8:35:17 PM PDT
by
j_tull
(Keep the Shiny Side UP!)
To: bannie
I'm not even going to use those words around you!! LOL
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