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For cripes sakes!
In the name of good punctuation!

I mean really, its so hard to write without them. Its just a little slash thing hangin up there. Why cant we ban asterisks instead? Or semicolons! Nobody likes those...

WTF!
Stratd00d
7:17:45 PM
11/11/09

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last edited: 11/11/09 7:36:55 PM
viOLiN
7:33:51 PM
11/11/09

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viOLiN
7:34:51 PM
11/11/09

It's easy to fix.

Isn't it?
viOLiN
7:37:54 PM
11/11/09

look at violin
he knows computer stuff
whoooooo
crash bang
7:38:49 PM
11/11/09

Of corse he does, hes the one who hacked TT
Stratd00d
7:44:06 PM
11/11/09

I hope you two are the first to be banned under the new regime.
viOLiN
7:47:47 PM
11/11/09

I miss violins links from old
OPIE
9:46:05 PM
11/11/09

its as if im in a dfrnt world thats for shore. postings arent as fun and dont make since.
thriftyhiker
5:53:31 AM
11/12/09

Why do you like astrophobes?

Oh, nevermind.
pedxing
6:45:55 AM
11/12/09

the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe
turkey baster
7:14:55 AM
11/12/09

We'll haven't a gnat's chance .
hyway
7:29:25 AM
11/12/09

Me and Randel saw some hogs like that on Buffalopalooza...”
Stratd00d
10:42:13 PM
11/11/09

Bring back back proper subject usage and proper spelling of the names of people that you spent an entire weekend with, alone in the woods, in the name of good grammar!

"Me and Randel saw some hogs"

really?
REALLY?

would you say "me saw some hogs"?

what a looser. theyre is know reason four such pour Engrish.
last edited: 11/12/09 8:48:21 AM
crash bang
8:47:16 AM
11/12/09

you get a lot of spit balls to the back of the head, dont you?
thriftyhiker
9:24:47 AM
11/12/09

cb, is that an indictment of the State of Arkansas educational system? If so, what do your basic math questions say about your states math achievement? It goes both ways.
last edited: 11/12/09 9:29:18 AM
dayhiker
9:28:42 AM
11/12/09

no, that was an indictment of straps language skills. nothing more
crash bang
9:36:45 AM
11/12/09

Where would country music be, if it was Crash instead of Cash?
salebored
9:37:25 AM
11/12/09

SING. PL.
1st pres. ic eom
ic beo we sind(on)
we beoð
2nd pres. þu eart
þu bist ge sind(on)
ge beoð
3rd pres. he is
he bið hie sind(on)
hie beoð
1st pret. ic wæs we wæron
2nd pret. þu wære ge waeron
3rd pret. heo wæs hie wæron
1st pret. subj. ic wære we wæren
2nd pret. subj. þu wære ge wæren
3rd pret. subj. Egcferð wære hie wæren
salebored
9:51:35 AM
11/12/09

If so, what do your basic math questions say about your states math achievement?

considering it has been more than 20 years since i graduated from high school, very little
crash bang
12:46:48 PM
11/12/09

So it is ok for your to suck at math but strat cannot suck at grammar?
dayhiker
1:09:36 PM
11/12/09

i dont suck at math
crash bang
2:06:26 PM
11/12/09

are you practicing to be a mod? i dont suck at math. maybe compared to you i do (arent you an engineer?). my math questions were at a high school level. strat should have excised his errors by 5th or 6th grade. anyways, i dont think im a grammar nazi, unless someone else makes glaring errors as they are simultaneously being grammar nazis. it was just a light-hearted jab, since he was calling for better punctuation, while at the same time displaying poor grammar. they are closely linked language skills, and should be at about the same level of skill. if anything, grammar is slightly more important, since in the spoken word, you dont hear punctuation, but you do hear bad grammar
last edited: 11/12/09 2:12:29 PM
crash bang
2:12:01 PM
11/12/09

Ever hear of starting a sentence with a capital letter?

~eyeroll~
stratd00d
2:20:59 PM
11/12/09

explain it away, that is ok.
dayhiker
2:21:02 PM
11/12/09

nicely played strat.
dayhiker
2:21:25 PM
11/12/09

explain it away, that is ok

so youre biased against logic? why is explaining ones own reasons a bad thing?


Ever hear of starting a sentence with a capital letter?


my lack of capitalization is a result of not wanting to bothered to hit the shift key, not a lack of knowledge of the rules of capitalization. your poor grammar, on the other hand, IS a result of lack of knowledge. im sure you knew at one time. youve just forgotten
last edited: 11/12/09 2:28:35 PM
crash bang
2:27:57 PM
11/12/09

why are you being so trollish, day? thats not like you. slow day at work?
crash bang
2:30:31 PM
11/12/09

No, I was watching UFC and had the keyboard on my lap and was distracted but if it makes you feel better, just keep drinking the hateraid, bruh....
stratd00d
2:31:49 PM
11/12/09

just keep drinking the hateraid, bruh

lighten up, dude.
crash bang
2:39:27 PM
11/12/09

just keep drinking the hateraid, bruh

lighten up, dude.”
crash bang
4:39:27 PM
11/12/09

Ironic post of the day.
dayhiker
2:41:29 PM
11/12/09

Hahaha. Hateraid. Hahahaha.
roseymonster
2:44:19 PM
11/12/09

im not accusing anyone of being hateful, which i consider to be a non-light thing.

wth is with you today? strat and i going around and around occasionally is not out of the norm. i find it entertaining and fun. youve never given me this much sht. or anyone that i can recall
crash bang
2:45:58 PM
11/12/09

stove put u up to this, didnt he? youre me and im stove. holding up a mirror or something

well gayed
crash bang
2:46:57 PM
11/12/09

Where did someone say you were being hateful?
dayhiker
2:49:20 PM
11/12/09

just keep drinking the hateraid, bruh....”

stratd00d
last edited: 11/12/09 2:53:16 PM
crash bang
2:51:34 PM
11/12/09

By saying ironic post of the day for you telling someone to lighten up, when you_re going OCD on teasing about grammar?
dayhiker
2:53:08 PM
11/12/09

it takes two to argue. if im so OCD and youre not, why do you keep replying?
crash bang
2:55:08 PM
11/12/09

Ahhh, you had to edit it from my post to strats post. I thought he was saying gatoraid and hit the h instead since the h and g are next to each other on the keyboard.
dayhiker
2:55:15 PM
11/12/09

I am not arguing. I am picking at your need to have the last word and explain trivial matters.
dayhiker
2:56:24 PM
11/12/09

well, if you must know (and you must), its more of an adhd thing than an ocd thing. i find it entertaining, and id rather entertain myself than do what im supposed to be doing, which is doing my math homework (which apparently i suck at)
crash bang
3:00:24 PM
11/12/09

touche
dayhiker
3:01:36 PM
11/12/09

seriously, I NEED SOME FCKING RITALIN!
crash bang
3:03:01 PM
11/12/09

Sounds like my 12 yr old son.....only hes way more mature....

BAAAAAHHHHH!!
Stratd00d
5:23:33 PM
11/12/09

and is probably better spoken than you
crash bang
5:39:54 PM
11/12/09

to recap:

im lazy
strat is dumb
crash bang
5:58:57 PM
11/12/09

test
test-test-test-test-test-test
Tllt
8:15:02 AM
11/13/09

test
(and
Tllt
8:18:32 AM
11/13/09

*decay*
Tllt
8:19:56 AM
11/13/09

test
user.... But
Tllt
8:20:55 AM
11/13/09

test
off-topic
Tllt
8:21:53 AM
11/13/09

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