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If I may, I'll just interrupt with a
YEEEEEEEEEAAAHHHHHH Andy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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« Reply #3511 on: 21:49:12, 30-06-2008 » |
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All this red ink, Andy!
At our school we're not allowed to mark in red ink. We have lovely pens of green, pink, gold, purple, turquoise, orange and blue ink - all very pretty.
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« Reply #3512 on: 21:57:48, 30-06-2008 » |
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Sorry about all the red text MJ, I'll try to use another colour next time. I usually put quotes in blue but I thought I'd try something different this time.
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« Reply #3513 on: 22:05:33, 30-06-2008 » |
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Sorry about all the red text MJ, I'll try to use another colour next time. I usually put quotes in blue but I thought I'd try something different this time.
I wasn't complaining, just commenting! Should have included a  We're also not allowed to put a cross after an incorrect answer, not even a pretty x or x or x or x or x or x or x! |
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« Reply #3514 on: 22:11:09, 30-06-2008 » |
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I thought you had cut yourself Andy(ha ha)!!!
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« Reply #3515 on: 22:21:02, 30-06-2008 » |
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We're also not allowed to put a cross after an incorrect answer, not even a pretty x or x or x or x or x or x or x!
So what do you put when the answer is wrong? X is a good abbreviation for "wrong". I assume, if you're not allowed to use it, that it has some further connotations. Do you know what they are? Joke: what goes tick-tick-woof? A dog marking homework, not that I'm suggesting that you're a dog MJ! (the correct answer is, of course, a watchdog |
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« Reply #3516 on: 03:06:45, 01-07-2008 » |
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It would have to be Mrs Briggs's, Andy, for the reason stated above: it would only be Mrs Briggs' if the cherry belonged to a plurality of people called Mrs Brigg.
Eh?!? Is this a rare moment of confusion from Big Ron? Mrs Briggs' and Mrs Briggs's are acceptable alternatives for something belonging to a Mrs Briggs. In the unlikely instance that one was trying to communicate the existence of several people each called Mrs Brigg, who had joint ownership of the object in question, I think a re-phrasing would be called for (not least because it's difficult to use "Mrs" to form an analogy to the pluralisation of "Mr Brigg", which is "Messrs Brigg" ... not "Mr Briggs"!). |
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« Reply #3517 on: 07:36:22, 01-07-2008 » |
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re the 'Messrs'. People nowadays dont seem to use that word anymore. Pity, because, I think it accurately describes the situation.
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« Reply #3518 on: 11:25:52, 01-07-2008 » |
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Hmm <checks watch> Tommo and Martle seem to be a tad tardy   Is this involved? Tommo Is the morning after too late to get one's post up again? "Would Mrs Myers and Mrs Briggs please proceed to the lost property office on platform 11. You will have to ask the staff member to let you through the barriers, which may be contrary to last night's experience. Failure to retrieve your small round red objects may result in a bill from Mr Baker, and will certainly revoke your claim to citizenship of a certain pair of american states. We shall also start calling you Mrs Zavvi and Mrs Zavvi." Tommo |
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« Reply #3519 on: 08:13:16, 02-07-2008 » |
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Morning all
Feeling a bit better this morning though my stomach is still sort of weird-feeling.
The sun is shining though and I have to be in the cathedral in two hours to install a thistle or some such so I'd better get a move on.
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« Reply #3520 on: 12:04:19, 02-07-2008 » |
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Hope you have a good day then hh.
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« Reply #3521 on: 12:21:22, 02-07-2008 » |
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Hope you have a good day then hh.
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« Reply #3522 on: 12:27:34, 02-07-2008 » |
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What we really need is:
"(Mrs Myers and Mrs Briggs)'s cake"
Here's another one: my local supermarket is called Sainsbury's. Is the bread that they sell Sainsbury's's bread?
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« Reply #3523 on: 12:34:30, 02-07-2008 » |
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I would've thought it would be Sainsbury's bread, as it belongs to them.
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« Reply #3524 on: 15:24:22, 02-07-2008 » |
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Definitely one for the waffle thread ... My office canteen has just started selling packets of what are quite clearly those utterly delicious Dutch snacks, stroopwafels ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroopwafel... but the packets claim to offer "real food from Wales."  So ... is there some ancient link between the biscuit traditions of Wales and the Netherlands that I'm unaware of? Can anyone shed some light on this vital subject? |
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