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Friday Frivolities - mostly

Oct 05, 2007 11:00

Vanilla from Where?

The kettle came, it wasn't the one I'd asked for, but at least we can have properly hot drinks now. Tea made with boiling water etc. One thing though, it's noisy; sounds like one of our previous kettles used to when you'd switched it on & there wasn't enough water to cover the element properly.

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new kettle, iraq, ig nobel prizes

Comments 8

papertowlbtrfly October 6 2007, 06:24:56 UTC

HA HA I have to get my hands on a "gay bomb"

Burma.. annelaure October 6 2007, 09:12:25 UTC

There used to be a TV seriol in France called "Nestor Burma". or that least it was the name of the main character. Everytime I've read "blog for Burma" it has made me think about this guy !! :)

Re: Burma.. bronchitikat October 8 2007, 09:59:53 UTC

That really worked then!

So what did ol' Nestor do?

Re: Burma.. annelaure October 9 2007, 06:32:05 UTC

He was a detective.
Pleayed trombone and made a bunch of jokes as well. can't remember why I liked that show so much !

papertowlbtrfly October 7 2007, 17:53:10 UTC

Way off topic, but can I ask you what's wrong with this sentence?
How is it supposed to be formed?

But Thomas, who is also mayor of Edgewater, said his club's 261 members are required to wear fluorescent orange clothing whenever hunting on the ground with dogs to try to avoid such tragedies.

Hope you're feeling better, at least a bit. bronchitikat October 8 2007, 09:58:44 UTC

Never did much in the way of English grammar but:-

it starts with 'But' - which was a no-no back in the day.

'hunting on the ground with dogs' - dogs, being land animals, hunt 'on the ground' by default; unless 'the ground' referred to is a particular piece this is a redundancy. Not that that seems to bother many either!

Errr . . .

Otherwise I might have written,
"Thomas said that the club members are required to wear fluorescent orange clothing when hunting with dogs to try to avoid such tradgedies." Or something like.

I'd have left the 'mayor of Edgewater'here as it's kinda irrelevant to the point of the sentence. & I'd probably have written "Mr Thomas", or whatever his 'handle' is. Though that's just my formality with people I don't know. Of course, it could be that one of yr teachers is just being picky (pedantic), but then, lawyers are paid to be!

Any help?

Thanks :) papertowlbtrfly October 10 2007, 07:08:02 UTC

Actually, that was part of a news article. The reporter outright lied about some facts too. The sentence just struck me as "wrong" as well.

Re: Thanks :) bronchitikat October 10 2007, 08:21:29 UTC

Ah reporters, & the time when they had any command of English has long since gone. Sad. Well, unless they work for the Times or some such, & even then I wonder.

Still, recalling such headlines as "MacMillan flies back to front" I wonder whether there was ever a Golden Age of Journalism.

As for the lying about facts - we know that our local rag regularly gets details wrong. Whether it's intentional we don't know, just don't quote them on things about steam engines, the railway, local history (apart from the guy whose column that is) & several other things. Who was it said, "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story"?