― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
I think this is the idea. Because if it's followed by the word "building," then it's supposed to be lowercase. But I'd find it a lot easier to swallow if the whole phrase was capitalized, like "the Nebraska State Capitol" (cf. "the White House").
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link
John and I are lying in bed. Jenny is sitting across the room, crocheting. John asks me, "Am I beautiful?" I sodomize his face.
Later I go to Jenny and want to know if John asked the question with the words Am, I and beautiful.
Is this the following correct?Hey Jenny, did he ask "Am I beautiful?"
Also, would you say Peter, Paul and Mary or Peter, Paul, and Mary? I vascillate between the two. I have no preference, but usually include the 2nd comma just to be consistent with myself.
― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Or perhaps| I think that indicates a finality that a period does not|
How's about those crazy French with their
― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link
how about those french and their >
― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link
I have been trying to post forever that I did not mean to suggest that your posts are in any way skimmable, Mr. Dan.
I know, I was just being self-deprecating. It's my way.
We are going to see Idiocracy tonight at 9:30 at the City North 14 at Western/Schubert if anyone is interested.
― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link
those french and their < < quotation marks > >
― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link
There are entire threads on ILX about serial commas. I vastly prefer them.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link
What is this about thirsting on Thursdays?
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Jesse: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22perverted+commas%22+joyce&btnG=Google+Search
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link
—Yes.
xpost Oh that will do just fine, then. Does the Polish buffet have veggie options?
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link
I've never been there before, but it seems like it could be an adventure. I'm choosing the restaurant as part of my duty for Restaurant Club (click for a hilarious picture of me in full beard), which means there could be random people I went to college with in attendance, but it's also a little out of the way and unconventional enough that I suspect most people won't bother.
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link
&mdash
― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh, he was never bad, but why hide that face? Nevermind, it's out of our hands anyway now. His girlfriend gets to decide if he has a beard or not.
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Idiocracy was quite funny.
― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 03:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 03:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link
You think so? I thought he shot his whole wad in the first five minutes, and the rest was plodding and, yeah, kinda stupid. It certainly didn't work as satire. Maybe it worked occasionally as dirty jokes ("Go away! I'm 'batin!") but what was really the point, other than that all of humanity is fundamentally dumb, likes junk food, and likes to screw? Was he trying to equate all these things? I take offense, Mr. Judge. I am not dumb, but I like to screw, I watch violent movies, I eat nasty-ass food sometimes, and I even enjoy advertising if I think it clever. I do not feel that I am going to be the downfall of human civilization. Was he saying that I am deluded? That I am at the bottom of humanity without realizing it? Was he saying that everyone in the world is stupid? That's not satire, and it's not clever. It's simple misanthropy. If that's his big statement, it's not likely to win him many friends. And if his whole point was to make fart jokes, why wrap it in such weak social satire?
Pretty bad movie.
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link
I can't get past this sentence. Did we see the same movie?
― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link
I misuse en-dashes - I put a space between them, and on the Internet I've made the choice to just use a simple hyphen. As opposed to the proper way--like this.
― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Satire of what, exactly? Everyone in the whole damn world being less smart than everyone who sees this movie? No wait, maybe his point was more subtle than that. Maybe it was that 500 years in the the future, everyone will see advertising everywhere they look! OMG even on their clothes! The dystopia of it all! I gag at the very thought!
Or maybe his point was something about our ruining the environment. Because 500 years in the future, we will be too stupid to know to water our crops with water instead of Gatorade. I'm not arguing for the plot to be logical on this point, but still. Really now. If this is satire, it's ham-fisted and silly. And so is this movie. At best.
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:06 (seventeen years ago) link