SIDEBAR @ "Story by Sentence"

Ok, this probly won't fly....

But, the dang Aussie, needs a story... and, dammit... he should get one.

The areas of venture seem to be with regards into "venture" or at least "add-venture"

Lets look at the fact to build this story:

1) the guys an Aussie..... he probably started the sentence after wild crock love. (something about clothess ripped off the gator licking all the eyefluid from his sockets)

2) he likes beer

3) uhhhh, c'mon people lets make the sentence story... this is a possible newbie thread:

a "counter thread" ie to "to step to the sidebar and bitch or explore..."


4) Bessy, go fetch us some beers.


5) If the mans sentence story don't get dropped and killed, then call for a "sidebar" and discuss it.

6) Mayhaps Mr UT could edit it.

7) (i thought that was funny calling the birds getting infected, human flue.

and PS ... Im not trying to be an asshole... I'd just like to the multiple story lines come together.

I'm on it.

I think I just discovered where the English and the American language parted....

Cyclefrance wrote:

I think I just discovered where the English and the American language parted....

There actually is American English; it's just not universally spoken here, unfortunately. The pervasive "progressive" enthusiasm for relativism is killing it slowly; a semantic demonstration of Gresham's Law.

You can still see examples of actual American English, as well as some insightful speculation on why it's becoming rarer here.

Interesting stuff, Maggie, but I am sure the split came sometime around the infinitive. After that it was (Eng) certainly going to be/ (Am) going to certainly be downhill all the way...!

Cyclefrance wrote:

Interesting stuff, Maggie, but I am sure the split came sometime around the infinitive. After that it was (Eng) certainly going to be/ (Am) going to certainly be downhill all the way...!

Resisting split infinitives comes from obsessing about how directly English translates into Latin. As big a fan as I am of prescriptive grammar, ordinarily infinitive splitting is not something up with which I will not put.

It's hardly worth worrying about at this point, given some of the larger battles in progress; a pecadillo in the face of the high crimes and misdemenors currently before us. But in your example, the actual transgression isn't the split infinitive. It's the misplaced modifier. That it's misplaced into the middle of the prepositional phrase just compounds the crime.

I blame Webster

At the link, what is the late Mr Mitchell bending over?
It looks like something that might go with a printing press.

MaggieL wrote:

Resisting split infinitives comes from obsessing about how directly English translates into Latin. As big a fan as I am of prescriptive grammar, ordinarily infinitive splitting is not something up with which I will not put.

It's hardly worth worrying about at this point, given some of the larger battles in progress; a pecadillo in the face of the high crimes and misdemenors currently before us. But in your example, the actual transgression isn't the split infinitive. It's the misplaced modifier. That it's misplaced into the middle of the prepositional phrase just compounds the crime.

too bloody true!

TiddyBaby wrote:

I blame Webster

Didn't he end up in Morocco?

I'm not sure, but that book he wrote, (the one with all the words) reeked havoc on the Kings English.

I also blame AOL.

TiddyBaby wrote:

I'm not sure, but that book he wrote, (the one with all the words) reeked havoc on the Kings English.

I also blame AOL.

Aah Tiddy, the evidence of a clear difference in ages shines through yet again - The Morocco reference stems from an old Bob Hope movie 'Road to Morocco' in which the title song makes a reference to Webster's dictionary, as Bob and Bing sing 'Like Webster's dictionary, we're Morocco bound' - an interesting play on words - they being on their way (bound) for Morocco, while Websters Dictionary sported a a label declaring it to be Morocco bound(covered in Moroccan leather - Morocco being a popular source of leather at that time).

Gotcha, Cyclefrance... hahhaha, yeah it's good play on words. (I forgot about the "Road to..." movies, in fact I don't think I've seen them all)

@ Cyclefrance, i liked the links in sentence story partII (and all the "b b b b" words")

@ Beestie---- that pic cracked me up. That must be the PBS guy who had tv program in learning to paint landscapes... hahahaha He would always paint cliff, mountains, rivers.
Always somewhere in the program he'd come up with "I think we need to put a big ol tree in here" (I always wonder what kind of big ol tree he would put in a glacier landscape)
And he had a catch phrase he'd always said.
Martha Stewart owned "It's a good thing". This guy had something like "... and its just that simple"


@MaggieL, I'll have to see about getting some material, or samples, of the Mitchell works.

Why thank you Tiddy - you are clearly a fine, perceptive and intelligent person. Such praise will serve to make me strive harder still to please and amuse you, of that you can be sure....

Well, what the hell... thank you, you old fart.

NOW I want to send ya something from my own PERSONAL collection. (ok, i did load one link to a song in another thread)

So, while you're biking around town, go here and download this to your personal player.

(It's a hoot... Sgt Peppers done in a 50's R&R style)

Cheers!

Big Daddy

Having trouble with that one Tiddy, keeps asking me to buy software, and being a tight-fisted old bastard I only take the free stuff. Maybe it wants to download it stright to my Player, which would prove a problem as I don't yet possess one....

hmmmmm. is it the "winrar" thats asking for $$? the file site/link shouldn't ask.... Let me try a zip file, instead.

... will post download link, i need to re-install winzip and make the changes first.


Am curious about "don't possess a player"? No winamp or window media player? (the files are data mp3)

If all else fails, i'll just load up one file/song at a time... Sendspace.com lets ya keep up to 1500megabytes, so size is no problem.

Well I downloaded/installed latest winzip... tested it out, went to sendspace.com uploaded, downloaded

Which resulted with the winzip popup asked the question of using evaluation or purchase choice... (of course the evaluation choice worked )

Being that I am clueless as to the unzipping utility (of choice) that the majority of cellar users use, ... I'll just post each file separately.

(not on this post, because i gotta do the wordy/sentence/linky thingy first...)

I'll come up with a "test" post to make sure all this hyperbolizing I espoused, will indeed become sound.

TiddyBaby wrote:

I'll come up with a "test" post to make sure all this hyperbolizing I espoused, will indeed become sound.

"Becoming sound" being the ultimate objective. :-)

Why on Earth would you .zip an MP3? You can't possibly pick up more than a few percent in compression ratio...hardly enough to compensate for the extra hassle.

TEST ONE:

SGT PEPPERS done by assorted early R&R stylings: Doowop, Bill Haley type(ish) combo, Frankie Vally(ish), Buddy Holly(ish).. ect...
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01 Sgt Peppers

02 little help from my friends

03 lucy in the sky


04 getting better

05 fixn a hole

06 shes leavin home


07 benefit of mr kite


08 within you without you


09 when 64


10 lovely rita


11 good morning


12 sgt peppers (reprise)


13 a day in the life

My bad, miss Maggie I meant "zipping" the collective of mp3(s) into a single file.