if you had a wish ... what would you chance in the rockets team?

What?

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"We messed with the Bull, and we got the horns." -- Larry Brown "quote" from AirBullard.com

 

ch...cham...championship?

i don't get it.

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Chris Webber at the July 28, 2001 3:00 PM news conference when he announces where he will go:

"It seemed tough, but with guidance from Steve Francis, I learned my true destiny. That destiny is to play for the Houston Rockets, to bring them back to championship glory. One big man is all they need, and I believe I can fill that void. Thanks to the loyal fans in Sacramento, but Houston, Texas is where I belong."

 

Nothing in this makes any sense... we are all dumber for reading this!


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BILL KENNEDY SUCKS!

 

I suppose the younger demographics were bound start to showing up sooner or later....



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The season's almost over...and I still really need that keg of Pepto-Bismol.

 

ohhhhhhhhhhhh what would I change?

I finally figured out what the hell he was trying to say.

Uniforms dude, that's what I would chance.

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Nothing in this makes any sense... we are all dumber for reading this!
[/QUOTE]

Billy Madison quote..., SWEET!!

you rule, NO ODOYLE RULES

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Hanta-Force Paintball
www.hanta-force.com

 

Hey Tybrave! What is happening? The first thing I would change on the Rockets would be the names on the back of the uniforms. I would strip off all the last names and replace them with

<font size=4 font color=red>MAYBE, MAYBE NO?</font>

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Bob Rainey is my hero!

 

GRAMMER LESSON:

Today's lesson will cover the proper use of the ellipsis. Whenever you wish to omit a word, a phase, a sentence, from a quoted passage, you use the ellipsis to do so. For example, "These...times...try men's souls" or "these are the times that try men's...." with an extra period to indicate the end of the sentence.

There is really no reason to use an ellipsis if you are say something yourself. Unless, of course, you want to muzzle your own words. Some of us, I know, use the ellipsis to indicate that the conclusion of the subject is in the thread itself, which is fine. But the ellipsis cannot be substituted for a period!

That will be all for today class, carry on....

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I am an invisible man.



[This message has been edited by kbm (edited March 30, 2001).]

 

So who's gonna be the first to correct kbm on his grammer lesson?


...yer grammer sucks! so does yer gramps!

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"I hate being in the lottery as much as the next guy, but come on people, that's where we need to be right now. We still don't have all of the pieces" -- Gascon, in conjunction with Clutch's Lottery Generator, has fired the starter's pistol on this season's lottery race. Let the tanking begin!

 

GRAMMAR! Am I right?

Also, the singular form is ellipse, therefore the plural should be ellipses, not ellipsIs.
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[This message has been edited by tacoma park legend (edited March 30, 2001).]

 

Well done TPL!

gram·mar [grámmr ] (plural gram·mars) noun

1. rules for language: the system of rules by which words are formed and put together to make sentences

2. particular set of language rules: the rules for speaking or writing a particular language, or a particular analysis of the rules of language Spanish grammar case grammar

3. quality of language: the spoken or written form of language somebody uses, as related to accepted standards of correctness

4. grammar book: a book dealing with the grammar of a language

5. analytical system: a systematic treatment of the elementary principles of a subject and their interrelationships


[14th century. Via Old French gramaire and Latin grammatica from, ultimately, Greek grammatikos , "relating to letters," from grammat- , the stem of gramma "written character, letter" (see -gram ).]

Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P) 2001 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.


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Bob Rainey is my hero!

 

I am a work in progress DoD. But hey, DoD, Mango's got his "Spring cleaning" angle. I guess I can be the grammer police from now on.

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I am an invisible man.

 

Oh me, I mispelled grammar! I guess I better crawl back to my hole. But I refuse to remove the word!

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I am an invisible man.

 

TPL,

You are wrong here. Look up the word again. Also, the comma between the word "ellipses" and the word "therefore" is a comma splice.

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I am an invisible man.



[This message has been edited by kbm (edited March 30, 2001).]

 

If the word you were talking about meant a plane curve, then you would be right, but you're using the literary ellipse, which means the plural form of the word should be ellipses I believe

I always forget my commas

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[This message has been edited by tacoma park legend (edited March 30, 2001).]

 

I propose that all posts be graded by an English teacher, and all grades be posted at the end of each month. Anybody with a D or F should have to post rough draft first to a grammar commitee before a final post can be published.

I nominate my 8th grade English teacher, Mr. Goddard, to be the judge. In the event Mr. Goddard is dead (I was in 8th grade a long time ago), TPL should choose a teacher.



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Bob Rainey is my hero!

 

Whatever TPL, you should really look the word up. You are also mispelling the singular use of the word, which is the version I used. I suggest you grab a dictionary.

But hey, this post was all in fun. I violate grammar all the time.

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I am an invisible man.

[This message has been edited by kbm (edited March 30, 2001).]

 

U no wat? Eye am sik an tider ov deez stoopid theds. Evry time I go on this bored; I see deez dum theds. It hace two stopp. From knOw on, poof-reed yore posts... My dog, Eye haev nevre sean suche stoopid theds befour, Gow too skool, lern to spel, and get a lief...


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Hackeem /The Dream" Olajuwan is the greatets player in the histry of baseketbal. If you disagre, U R not a Rocet fan.

[This message has been edited by ZRB (edited March 31, 2001).]

 

ellipsis
n., pl. ellipses

1. a.The omission of a word or phrase necessary for a complete syntactical construction but not necessary for understanding.

b.An example of such omission.

2.A mark or series of marks (. . . or · · ·, for example) used in writing or printing to indicate an omission, especially of letters or words.



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