"Robert Bonomi" wrote in message
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In article ,
Robatoy wrote:
In article ,
Mr. Moose wrote:

Now I will go play with my son and figure out what type of lathe to
replace my dead one with.

Strunk & White are rolling over in their graves.
Their booklet, The Elements Of Style, is an invaluable companion to
anybody trying to communicate in English.

Now I will go play with my son. Then I am going to try to figure out
with which type of lathe I am going to replace my dead one.

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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with
which I will not put.

(Sir Winston Churchill)

The chairperson of the Department of Nits rears its head and states:
The correct quotation is:
Sir Winston Churchill, upon being chastised for ending a sentence
with a proposition: "That, Madam, is a piece of pedantry up with
which I will not put."


Then, however, there is the young child, in the 2nsd-floor bedroom,
questioning Daddy's choice, from the bookshelves downstairs, of
bed-time story book:
"Why did you bring _that_ book for me to be to be read to out
of up from for?"

As I remember it, the book was about Australia, and the quote was more like
this:
"What did you bring that book which I didn't want to be read out of from
about 'Down Under' up for?" I learned about in the Guiness Book of World
Records.

http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxprepos.html

- Owen -

On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 23:37:11 GMT, Groggy
scribbled:

What is particularly sad is that some people will attack you for
attempting to offer advice to make this a better place. IMHO, I'd
rather read 50 OT emails like this one than even *one* more political
diatribe.

Other than noting that a post about how the wreck should operate is
*on-topic*, I share Groggy's sentiments.

Luigi
Replace "nonet" with "yukonomics" for real email address
www.yukonomics.ca/wooddorking/humour.html
www.yukonomics.ca/wooddorking/antifaq.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...ct_Woodworking

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:58:48 -0800, Luigi Zanasi
wrote:

Other than noting that a post about how the wreck should operate is
*on-topic*, I share Groggy's sentiments.

Luigi

nope. that sort of post should be directed to rec.woodworking.d (which
doesn't exist)

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:09:37 -0700, s scribbled:

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:58:48 -0800, Luigi Zanasi
wrote:

Other than noting that a post about how the wreck should operate is
*on-topic*, I share Groggy's sentiments.

Luigi

nope. that sort of post should be directed to rec.woodworking.d (which
doesn't exist)

Ok, let's split the group then.

Luigi
Replace "nonet" with "yukonomics" for real email address
www.yukonomics.ca/wooddorking/humour.html
www.yukonomics.ca/wooddorking/antifaq.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...ct_Woodworking

On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 15:48:32 -0500, Robatoy
wrote:

In article ,
Mr. Moose wrote:

Now I will go play with my son and figure out what type of lathe to
replace my dead one with.

Strunk & White are rolling over in their graves.
Their booklet, The Elements Of Style, is an invaluable companion to
anybody trying to communicate in English.

Now I will go play with my son. Then I am going to try to figure out
with which type of lathe I am going to replace my dead one.

Yeah, I bet ya Strunk and White didn't actually try to write their
book after several sleepless nights with a teething toddler. Otherwise
it'd go something like this.

"Make sure you freakin' include an apostrophe or something like that,
maybe it's a comma, I don't know, but put in some damn punctuation and
an ampersand, chicks really dig those, right Strunky?"

"Yeah, and adjectives. Lotsa adjectives. Stop using verbs if you must,
but keep the adjectives."

"And no passive voice. God I hate the passive voice! It makes me want
to break all my furniture!"


Mark, who is going to say goodnight to his son and do some turning.

Ok, let's split the group then.

If it's an uneven number, who gets the hair lip?