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[Mookie]

KEVIN!

Jen

[Mookie]

oops - Sooblue - you are a trainmaster? A real one? But you are so nice!

Jen

[Anonymous]

Who knows? Maybe it is true and the Angles and Saxons had nothing to do with it. On the other hand maybe we got so fed up with the inventor, we shipped him across the great water with the Vikings so his decendents could be around to annoy you. What do you think?
Pop

[sooblue]

No,
I'm not a trainmaster. I am a manufacturing plant mgr.
The "ROCK" is the owner and the "HARD PLACE" are the laborers that make it work.
Just as you said Ed, the position can be used to make things more efficent, however there is no way that the crew can work with me. What helps is if they respect me. Something that is earned.
I earn it because I will work with them as much as I can. Even at that though sometimes they just can't understand why I disapear and leave them to "work" while I "just sit" in my office. Little do they know.
Sooblue

[sooblue]

Hi Jenny,
If I was a trainmaster I would still try to be nice.
I like most people.
Sooblue

[sooblue]

Well, If that was the case than on the trip over the Vikings corrupted him and that is how we have such confused Engli***oday! So it's not our fault IS IT?
England can just send over a repair crew to straiten this mess out.
Sooblue

[zardoz]

THE IMPORTANCE OF PUNCTUATION (read both letters):
Dear John:
I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. I can be forever happy--will you let me be yours? Gloria

Dear John:
I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we're apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be?
Yours, Gloria

[zardoz]

THE IMPORTANCE OF PUNCTUATION (read both letters):
Dear John:
I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. I can be forever happy--will you let me be yours? Gloria

Dear John:
I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we're apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be?
Yours, Gloria

[zardoz]

Sorry the post entered twice; each time I posted I received an error message saying the post did not go through. Oh, well........

[zardoz]

Sorry the post entered twice; each time I posted I received an error message saying the post did not go through. Oh, well........

[zardoz]

Damn, it did it again. You'd think I'd learn the first time. I promise to not make the same mistake again. I hope.

[zardoz]

Let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England or french fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day an cold as hell another?
When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out and an alarm clock goes off by going on.
When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?
Now I know why I flunked my English. It’s not my fault; the silly language doesn’t quite know whether it’s coming or going.

[zardoz]

·Do not put statements in the negative form.
·And don't start sentences with a conjunction.
·Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
·Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.
·If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
·Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
·Never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
·Avoid alliteration. Always.
·Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
·Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.)
·Employ the vernacular.
·Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
·Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
·It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
·Contractions aren't necessary.
·Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
·One should never generalize.
·Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
·Be more or less specific.
·Understatement is always best.
·One-word sentences? Eliminate.
·Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
·The passive voice is to be avoided.
·Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
·Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
·Who needs rhetorical questions?
·Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
·If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
.Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.

[Anonymous]

who cares. nobody's perfect. this is nuts

[zardoz]

Sorry - I was on a roll. No more on this subject from me, I promise!

[Anonymous]

wasn't bad mouthing you. Sorry

[bfsfabs]

zardoz1, It's OK , a lot of us need a little reminder every once in a while.

[JoeKoh]

conjunction junction whats your function?
stay safe
joe

[Anonymous]

Joe! no more school house rock for you!

EEEE-lectricity EEE-lectricity!

[Anonymous]

Well Mr sooblue, you certainly raised a storm with this spell check, but in all honesty I can't wait to see what happens when the Hispanics finally take over this country and we all have to speak spanish. Think of the mess we can make of that language.

[sooblue]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Scottydog

Well Mr sooblue, you certainly raised a storm with this spell check, but in all honesty I can't wait to see what happens when the Hispanics finally take over this country and we all have to speak spanish. Think of the mess we can make of that language.

It's snowballin.
Rightnow I have a worker that is doin about a fine a job as anyone but He doesn't speak english. I have to show him what I want him to do since I don't speak Spanish. I don't mind because I needed another challange to get me interested in my job again[xx(][xx(]
It's a blast to see the owner try to talk to the guy HE hired. The owner wants him to stay longer and He just says one of two phrases he knows. "I GO HOME NOW"
What a blast[:D][:D]

The other phrase is "I GO BATH ROOM"
But he is one heck of a worker though!! once he knows what to do.
Sooblue

[JoeKoh]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

Joe! no more school house rock for you!

EEEE-lectricity EEE-lectricity!

I have it on a t-shirt with my other rr t-shirts in the closet!!![8D][:I][;)]
stay safe
joe