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Quote from: Wheezer on August 09, 2008, 01:10:39 AM

Quote from: Kerm on August 08, 2008, 03:46:10 PM

Quote from: Andre Dawson's Creek on August 08, 2008, 03:15:52 PM

Quote from: Eli on August 08, 2008, 03:01:16 PM
How about you build a time machine, then go back in time so you can sleep with your grandmother and become your own grandpa?

How about that?

That's too 12 Monkey's Futurama for me.

Fry'ed.  Fried?

David Gerrold TDubbs on line 3.

BONERTIME'D

Quote from: PTanner on August 07, 2008, 09:03:24 AM

CT might just as well come and say he's Pre, since Pre always pays and never shows anyway.

I wonder if I can use my status as GAYLORD BALDWIN to bluff my way in...

Quote from: CT II on August 07, 2008, 08:51:52 AM

Quote from: TJ on August 07, 2008, 08:40:32 AM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but we have 34 people going, and cubbiebluestew and wife are what's keeping us from an even three dozen?

And WHY ISN'T CT going? I demand answers.

*Turns out empty pockets*

*Sits down on curb next to Weebs*

*Weeps*

Dammit. There's no more room left on the FUMING curb...

Quote from: CT II on August 04, 2008, 08:22:35 AM
Last two episodes have been great.  Last night's have been my favorite of all time.  When the Cap'n rushed into the room with his arm tied off screaming "I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE" and they tranqed him, I lost my shit.

Me too.

I wouldn't mind a Guild of Calamitous Intent Shirt.

Do you carry that bat with you EVERYWHERE you go, powen?

I hope the answer is yes.

Quote from: RV on July 18, 2008, 08:40:35 AM

Quote from: Andre Dawson's Creek on July 17, 2008, 11:01:59 PM
Looking good, Billy Ray...

http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb/watchmen/watchmen-tlr1_h720p.mov

Holy balls. Looks like it's going to be filet tits.

I've had my reservations, but I'm cautiously optimistic.

I see this show randomly on late nights. It's pretty good.

Quote from: RV on July 03, 2008, 09:32:28 AM

Quote from: Jon on July 03, 2008, 08:44:16 AM

Quote from: Wheezer on July 02, 2008, 11:05:17 PMan amateur Beckerovka treatment for gout some three days ago.

Homoepathic remedies are the best.

Dr. Yeti? Paging Dr. Yeti?

Or Dr. Freud.

Damn this theatre "career."

Quote from: Wheezer on July 02, 2008, 11:05:17 PMan amateur Beckerovka treatment for gout some three days ago.

Homoepathic remedies are the best.

Quote from: 5laky on July 02, 2008, 11:52:40 AM

Quote from: Thrillho on July 02, 2008, 10:41:18 AM

Quote from: Jon on July 02, 2008, 09:04:28 AM
Another good style guide:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

QuoteBut one can often be in doubt about the effect of a word or a phrase, and one needs rules that one can rely on when instinct fails. I think the following rules will cover most cases:

(i) Never gild the lily by using a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Think outside the box, lest you beat a proverbial dead horse.

(ii) Never utilize sesquipedalian verbiage where compendious phraseology will suffice.

(iii) If it is possible to cut an unnecessary, superfluous word out, always cut that extraneous word out.

(iv) The passive should not be used where the active could be.

(v) Never use un mot étrangère, technical lexis, or 733t5p34k if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than sound like Bocaj.

Mike Fontenot is a simulacrum'd

Dude, you need to embolden your changes. Embolden? Embiggen? Either way, that post was most cromulent.

Upon further perusal, I have cogitated that the rubric "Genius," while oft applied in a manner both jejune and impetuous to such ephmera as the daily cogitations of an internet journal is not disingenously apllied to this missive.

Quote from: Thrillho on July 02, 2008, 10:41:18 AM

Quote from: Jon on July 02, 2008, 09:04:28 AM
Another good style guide:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

QuoteBut one can often be in doubt about the effect of a word or a phrase, and one needs rules that one can rely on when instinct fails. I think the following rules will cover most cases:

(i) Never gild the lily by using a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Think outside the box, lest you beat a proverbial dead horse.

(ii) Never utilize sesquipedalian verbiage where compendious phraseology will suffice.

(iii) If it is possible to cut an unnecessary, superfluous word out, always cut that extraneous word out.

(iv) The passive should not be used where the active could be.

(v) Never use un mot étrangère, technical lexis, or 733t5p34k if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than sound like Bocaj.

Mike Fontenot is a simulacrum'd

I must break you.

Quote from: ChuckDickens on July 02, 2008, 01:18:28 AM

Quote from: Gil Gunderson on July 01, 2008, 05:41:14 PM
By linking to "Elements of Style," you have immediately made my day.  I had a copy of that book in my bag all throughout college and now in law school.

Good call...

Oh yeah? Well, I've got two copies and one of them is illustrated.

A winner (and loser) is me.

Is the illustrated one in crayon? Like mine is...

Another good style guide:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

QuoteBut one can often be in doubt about the effect of a word or a phrase, and one needs rules that one can rely on when instinct fails. I think the following rules will cover most cases:

(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

(ii) Never us a long word where a short one will do.

(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

(iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.

(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

Quote from: MDZ on July 01, 2008, 04:09:19 PM

Quote from: bocaj on July 01, 2008, 12:49:31 PM

Quote from: Jon on July 01, 2008, 09:21:10 AM

Quote from: bocaj on July 01, 2008, 12:54:56 AM
"A Bucket of Blood"?

That is one of my top five films ever.

Anyone who uses "sapience" instead of the much more common and pretty much synonymous "wisdom" probably needs to stop checking the thesaurus and just watch the movie before he decides to say "dipsomaniacal" in lieu of "drunk," or other such callow douchery.

I know what every word I use is and means before I use it (i.e., I don't look up synonyms). My lack of full comprehension of a particular word or usage of certain words that may not be most appropriate in their respective context does not equate me entering every word I use in a post to find similar words and then using said similar word in a newly updated post. C'mon, you're more smart (or, wait, should I have used "perspicacious"?) than that!

First off, you're just wrong.  If you don't understand the proper usage of a word, then you don't know it.  Improper usage only makes you look like a pretentious imbecile.  There is a proper time and place for every word in the language, and there's absolutely no reason to overcomplicate your thoughts with an unnecessary word choice.  It hurts any argument that you make.  Having heard of a big word, and vaguely knowing what it means does not make you intelligent.  In fact, improper word use shows two things:  ineptness or insecurity (either in yourself, or the validity of your ideas). 

Do yourself and the rest of us a favor and get this book: 

http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-William-Strunk/dp/0205313426/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214945969&sr=8-2

I approve of both this post and your avatar.

Quote from: Andre Dawson's Creek on July 01, 2008, 12:57:35 PM

Quote from: bocaj on July 01, 2008, 12:49:31 PM

Quote from: Jon on July 01, 2008, 09:21:10 AM

Quote from: bocaj on July 01, 2008, 12:54:56 AM
"A Bucket of Blood"?

That is one of my top five films ever.

Anyone who uses "sapience" instead of the much more common and pretty much synonymous "wisdom" probably needs to stop checking the thesaurus and just watch the movie before he decides to say "dipsomaniacal" in lieu of "drunk," or other such callow douchery.

I know what every word I use is and means before I use it (i.e., I don't look up synonyms). My lack of full comprehension of a particular word or usage of certain words that may not be most appropriate in their respective context does not equate me entering every word I use in a post to find similar words and then using said similar word in a newly updated post. C'mon, you're more smart (or, wait, should I have used "perspicacious"?) than that!

Why not just use "smarter"?  Turd.

Because he is the Platonic ideal of an Undergrad.

Quote from: bocaj on July 01, 2008, 12:54:56 AM
"A Bucket of Blood"?

That is one of my top five films ever.

Anyone who uses "sapience" instead of the much more common and pretty much synonymous "wisdom" probably needs to stop checking the thesaurus and just watch the movie before he decides to say "dipsomaniacal" in lieu of "drunk," or other such callow douchery.