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Mu Beta Posted Jun 8, 2004
Look. You are wasting my time. See me this lunchtime.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 8, 2004
sobadatholdinghisbeerhefallsasleepwiththedog
If we're going to be childish about it 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 8, 2004
B, you thought a chicken burger from a kebab house was 'very nice'.
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Z Posted Jun 8, 2004
Ahh that thread all makes much more sense now I know the researchers concerned.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 8, 2004
That sounded horribly like someone saying "well, it's the usual suspects, headmaster".
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 8, 2004
Err, no I'm not, but thanks for asking.
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tanzen Posted Jun 9, 2004
*makes a list of people to never play scrabble with*
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Z Posted Jun 9, 2004
I'm cr*p at scrabble, not being able to spell is always a handicap.
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Beatrice Posted Jun 9, 2004
You could always vary the rules - RF and I played a very enjoyable variant recently where the only criterion was that the words must be ones you would find an a porn mag.
So, correct spelling was a distinct disadvantage!
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 9, 2004
I only buy them for the articles 
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Beatrice Posted Jun 9, 2004
Sorry, that was a response to Z, not a comment on Kerr's perfectly believable assertion about the articles.
Although where were you expecting to find misspelt words? 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 10, 2004
Err, but you were the one looking for misspelt words.
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Beatrice Posted Jun 10, 2004
Nooooo...I wasn't *looking* for them, I was merely using words "in the style of..." in order to play a game!
Phew! Got out of that one, I think!
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 10, 2004
Hmm. To know the style of something you to have have experienced it...
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Number Six Posted Jun 10, 2004
I always found 'we were playing backgammon' to be a perfectly acceptable euphemism 
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