Pokerstars, why are you doing this to me!?



Beat: Was looking up a money clip.

idk if this counts, but the guy who refuses to write 'black' is tilting the **** out of me

+1

I can't read that thread anymore because of it. And what's worse is that he's vowed to ban hip-hop culture if he ever gets the chance because it encourages improper use of the English language. That's like Elton John saying he wants to ban flamboyant clothing.

Someone posted this in the Mad Men thread. Genius.

This is awesome.

I swear at 0:57 Don is saying "lay down", where in the youtube description the author of the video goes on about him saying "lie down."

Anyone else hearing "lay down" there?

Yeah it's close. I can hear both if I try, so it's too fast and muffled to understand fully. But I agree with the author that since Don gets it right every other time, makes sense to give it to him this time. Also I mean come on, it's Don Draper.

Nice wikipedia article of the day:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing

True enough.

From a BBV thread:

sigh...

LOL- Doesn't drive me crazy, but mine do it as well. I chalk it up to the same type of speech that makes a fast-food chicken sandwich restaurant, that isn't open Sundays, into "Chic-a-lay!"


Of course, having said that.... whaddaya wanna bet that the word "versing" shows up 10 years from now in a dictionary?

You know when you're watching a movie or a TV show like Curb Your Enthusiasm, and you see an ass hole character do something totally dickish but it's hilarious because nobody would have the gall to do that in real life, so seeing it on TV is really funny in sort of a live-vicariously-through-that-character way?

Tonight I pulled a move so dickish that it could only have been done by a fictional Larry David or something, but I did it anyway just because I knew how funny it would be to tell the story.

Okay so I met this chick a couple weeks ago and slept with her. Then she got annoying and kept calling and texting, asking to go out again. I really didn't want to see her anymore, and assumed it would just be a one-night stand. But her texts kept coming so I decided I had to break it off tonight. I texted her back something about how I wasn't interested in dating, and she writes back:

"Oh but you were interested in ****ing me? I see. Well you could of just been decent and honest in the first place!"

And all I wrote back was: "could have."

My friends and I had a good laugh for several minutes that I actually sent that. Wow, what a dick I am. But I mean, come on. "Could of?" She's 27.

PJ, well done.

Yeah but you could of, though. B*stard!

The example is weak, since it was an SMS text. If it had been an e-mail, fair enough.

BTW is 'could of' any different from 'wanna'?

Oh, and obviously: good guy with bad grammar > bad guy with good grammar

Quality PJ.

I'm with the web developer on this.

Backgrounded = Act of assigning a task or process to a non-interactive potentially lower priority state.

That definition makes it sound even MORE made-up.

I background many times daily. I've never used the word backgrounded, but I've never used engined either (except on a scrabble board)

I'm gonna credit backgrounded as a legitimate word. It's an action that has only been possible since the invention of multitasking, inventing a new word is perfectly cromulent there.

PJ-
This isn't a grammer nit, just a composition nit:


This sentence is unnecessary and makes your story significantly less funny. You're answering the question you posed, but that question was rhetorical and had already sufficiently prepared the audience for a dickish act by you.

Oh hell yes.

First of all, "grammer?" Really?

Also, I guess you're right, but I wasn't going for shock value or surprise. And I was still a little drunk when I wrote the post.

Grammer is like moron or poast imo. Also if OOT isn't for fine tuning the humor value of anecdotes, what is it for?

Do you mean moran? Anyway, I didn't realize that. I'm behind the internet meme times.

Fair point.

When quoting someone, does the quotation mark go before or after the full stop?

I don't see a difference. You just typed the same thing twice.

But if you're asking about punctuation and quotation marks, read the thread -- it's been discussed a lot. The period goes inside the quote marks.

Also, if I am quoting someone from an interview who, for anonymity reasons, is now referred to as 'participant three', should the 'p' and 't' be in capitals?