Gaius Octavius

When Sir William Woo invented the loo!

Good time to buy an A/C.

Only a pleonasmic charlatan.

Ambrosiana's article: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c...001&sc=1000 I may be in error, but wasn't Kingsley once accused of faulty research and conclusions? Sorry, didn't realize that it was already in.

I don't foresee any real difficulty in handling this one, Octavius. Let me deal with it. A.D., a man of your dignity, gravity and intelligence will surely set this particular subject-specimen to rest. A full report of your travails would be greatly appreciated.

The amount of grammar I know could easily fit on the head of a pin and leave room enough for the proverbial gaggle of angels to dance on. What Gaius said was: "If this is what you mean:" Would A. & A.D. please supply examples of the 'wrong' and 'right' constructions, i.e., examples that avoid any possible confusion? Are you possibly speaking of idiomatic usage? We don't want to leave more confusion than we started with. ----------------------- In my case, this happened much earlier: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15383124/

Better!

I think that you might like to add this to your arsenal. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15383124/

Gentlemen: I hope all of your investigations have proven successful. I have had a problem with this specimen. Do any have any views on this subject? http://donne.alice.it/gallery/miss_italia_...,zoom=6100.html

Large cars, stetson hats, gun crime. Don't forget the Marshall Plan.

Gentles: As I suffer Early Onset Alzheimer's, I can't recall if I told you that we are joined by a fourth brother. Stiffed me on the subscription, so he is a natural for this collection. His biography runs thus: He parks his boots in some god forsaken place called miSHH-a-gin. This land mass sits on a giant toad stool. Its main city rests on a humongous salt mine. He may be a closet neo-con. Is a devotee of Air America and Al Franken in particular. He is not ethnically acceptible. A tea-totaler. He garners his lucre as a door-to-door pretzel monger, which, in reality is a cover for his night time job as arms supplier to the militias. Nothing with four legs or two wings is safe from his perditions. As the father of three unmarried beautiful young ladies, he is an advocate for the passage of the 35th Amendment which simply states: "Nanny government shall bear the truck for all wedding receptions." Has no facility with language. As the self appointed governor of our forum, it will be my burden to re-transmit to all, your 'Letters to the Editor', so long as they are scurrilous, scandalous and slanderous; obscure, oblique and opaque. Since I don't know how to excise any matter of a personal nature (yet), use your noggin. Recently one of you questioned my sanity. Another accused me of philological criminality. The last threatened to use medical terminology on me. To the first, I tender one half the victory sign and an obscene Brooklyn arm motion. For the second, hail me in front of your Peregrine Praetor. See if I give a fig. The Shade of Cicero will defend me. For the last (a philogynist, if ever there was one), whose threat was the slightest cut of all, I have spent more time with physicians, yourself included (albeit, inebriated), than you did at Quack School - sober. So there! Whilst all y'all were monitoring The Gospel According to lush rimflower, I was educated by Public Radio International. It seems that after your ancestors ravaged the Glorious Roman Empire and brought on the Black Plague, some monarch decided to bathe at least once a month. Did it for three months and promptly became a corpse. People wore the same clothes for years. One lout, after only two years, announced that he would bathe and change clothes. Crossed the River Styx. It was the law then, that, before emptying ones chamber pot on the tetes of the unwary peasants below, one had to shout: "Watch out below!" I was also informed that Barry Bonds, Giambi, et al., (as to any records they set as a result of their pill popping), are safe from persecution. Soon genetically modified athletes will enter on the stage and eclipse these records with ease. The philological crime of yester morrow, committed by a head line caster on the tube, was: "...downed power lines down...." The rot-gut has been replenished, so I am off for a libation. Per Aspera Ad Astra, Gaius SPQR

"Old man...."? :nopity: :giljotiini:

Doesn't matter.

What went on at the bond hearing?

Eh, they make up half of the words...I'm sure of it. But you don't know!

DoL, such language! Tut! Tut! I am appalled! Anyway, there isn't a player in baseball who wouldn't prefer to wear a Yankee uniform. The Yanks have won more World Series than these two teams have won pennants - put together. When the Yankees come to town, in the outlying districts, the yokels fill the seats. In order to keep the yahoos interested in the game, and thus garner their gold, we must throw some events.

A.D., to my way of thinking, all wars of aggression (including the wars of religion) have had as their ultimate object and cause some economic gain, no matter what the stated reason.

This may be for 'American' English. From: "Using Better English"; by Wimberly, Peterson & Owens; The Ronald Press, 1937; pp 252-5. "Write i before e Except after c Or when sounded as a In neighbor and weigh" Exceptions: "weird, leisure, seize, either, neither, foreign, counterfeit, height, their, heir, inveigle, obeisance, ancient, financier, conscience" ------------------ Capitalization: 1. The first word of every sentence. 2. The first word of every line of poetry. 3. The first, last, and all other important words in titles of books, plays, stories, articles, poems, magazines, and newspapers. 4. Proper nouns (Viggen, Austria, English) and proper adjectives (Oxford University, Socialist Party) 5. Capitalize the titles of persons. 6. I, O and certain abbreviations. (I am, O Viggen; Mr., Dr., Jr.) _____________ From a Webster's Columbia Concise Dictionary: Aggrandize (verb; transitive): To make great or greater: especially to make greater in power, wealth, rank, or honour; to exalt; to elevate; extend; enlarge. Aggrandizement (noun): The act of aggrandizing; the act of increasing one's own power, rank or honour; advancement. In my opinion, the use of either word in the title of this thread is an awkward usage even if technically correct. ______________ If for nothing else than your amusement, peruse: http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?automo...ry=464#comments and http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?automo...p;showentry=467 and http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?automo...p;showentry=459 Try to disregard any pleonasms. ( )

or when pronounced as 'ay' as in nEIghbor and wEIgh.)

AoS, maybe they are the ones who fought with the Green Berets during the Viet Nam war.

Did you put a hex on the Yankees? You will pay for it if that is the case! :nopity: My agents will find out. :smartass:

I simply can't be cruel to a Lady - this evening.

From 'The Godfather': "Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer."

The Pats, of course. The Pats, of course.