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Old 12-29-2009, 02:19 PM   #1
Shawnee123
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce View Post
People that, is grammatically correct.
The car needs cleaned, is not. :p
People are WHOs, not THATs.


"Vegetables are sensual, people are sensuous."
--Dean Wermer's wife

(or is it the other way around?)

And, to transpose, it would have been "the car needs cleaning" since I said "needs enlightening."

I never said anything about cars being cleaned. I was talking about people being enlightened. Besides, I washed my car saturday and now it's filthy with road salt and road dirt and I bought new windshield fluid only to find no fluid is coming out and I was blind half the way home last night and, and, and...

Now, see. The fucking terrorists WON!

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Old 12-29-2009, 02:23 PM   #2
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People I know are whos, people I don't know are thats. It's grammatically correct.:p
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