h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Semantics?
Bad blinking grammar, more like. An infinitive (eg 'to beat') should never be 'split' by an adverb (eg 'to boldly go', 'to physically beat'). Capeesh?

but Nexus I put to beat physically... that is Phil's point!

*red mist descends*

See?!! Men correcting women. They do it all the time!

Pah!

I know and it wasn't even wrong!!!!

Well, excuse me Amy; if you would care to peer through your red mist, you'd see that I was being jovial in my criticism.

Plus Abi has used that distinctly unfair posting editing tool that the italics have access to. Not fair.

Well maybe so, but I only saw the beat physically thing.

Thanks for the compliment Abi, though I might disagree with it on some points.

What editing tools - I see no editing tools!

Methinks the lady doth protest too much...

Jovial in your criticism? That's what they all say.

Choose another way to be jovial.

That sounds like a line from Trainspotting...

*adjusts voltage to high and uses cattle prod on N7*

Just being jovial in my cattle prodding.

Amy I am well acquainted with Nexus' perculiar brand of humour. Unfortunately, everytime I see him my ego is reduced to a bloody mess on the floor. But some how I struggle through...



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Hmm, Amy, be careful or I'll start labeling you as sexist

'perculiar'? [sic] Time to break out the editing doodah again, Abi.

I'm not so hard on the ego as all that, am I?

Oh here, I could enjoy watching this Just so long as I don't get quite so involved as with the auction.

You're welcome to, if you want, but you'd be wrong. I would have meted out the same punishment to a woman breaching netiquette in the same way (jovially, of course ).

But women don't correct other women like that unless they are very weird. A headmistress I once worked for once did a dance around the staffroom when she found a mistake in one of my reports but she was mad - red eyes, hair on palms on hands, MAD.

I've got friends like that, good job my ego can take a bashing!
hxx

*doesn't like the implications of that posting *

*is repentant if mickey-taking mistake-spotting is against proper netiquette or whatever*

*doesn't want to be cattle-prodded again*

But mine is a fragile as a crystal butterfly

Ooops - I was referring to Amy's post, not Mrs V's ego-bashing one.