I don't remember there being this much whining the first time around. Maybe this game wasn't such a good idea after all....
BTW, I came in second place at my school's 4th grade spelling bee, so to be out this quick is a tad embarrassing.
What I want to know (and I'm certainly not reading through this thread to find out) is how many times has someone been booted for a post they made in this very thread? By the way, you guys are freaks, and around here, that's quite an achievement.
http://bbs2.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=1297813#post1297813 Kill, or is codell safe by a technicality? It is a typo, but it happens to be on a proper noun. (That is not a fun thread to get a kill in.) B
B: not fun to get killed in my birthday thread either. But, then again, I didn't get killed. codell's dead. Even if "Surgarland's" a proper noun, it's not north of Highway 6. Maybe my opinion here will hurt my standing with the boss. So be it. I trust his fairness and will abide by his ruling. There is a lot of whining this time around. I don't accept any responsibility for whining, since I wholly disagree with B and fadeaway and my 'death' is both in dispute and, more importantly, unprecedented. But the things rockets-#1 and Fatty got killed for have long been understood as violations. The its/it's thing is a kill and always has been (Anyway, Fatty would have gotten the your/you're thing wrong before too long -- he always does. Really weird for a certified genius, since the rule of thumb is pretty darned simple, but facts are facts.). Typographical errors are kills. We all know that. Whining about that stuff is silly. Still awaiting a ruling on my 'error.' It really doesn't matter since I definitely won't win. Thing is, you guys could get me on something better -- something real -- if you tried. I post a lot, I'm not careful, I don't review my posts before posting and I never spell check. The thing I got called on wasn't a kill. Unless codell says it was. But maybe he can't talk anymore, since he's already dead.
http://bbs2.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=1296622#post1296622 Weak kill if it counts, but "commish" is not in the official dictionary. Heath is not an easy one to kill, hence why I am trying to stretch on this one. B
B: lay off the dictionary. "Commish" is accepted slang. You'll find that kind of stuff in any decent poster, if you look for it. Is this a spelling contest or an anti-slang contest? This one's even dumber than the one you tried to kill me for. If you want to kill people, look for ERRORS instead of slang. If this is a contest to bust people for using slang (and spelling that slang CORRECTLY), it's boring and I quit.
Sorry to try to kill you on your birthday. I thought you could only contract "is" with pronouns, nouns and question words. Your use of "want" was as a verb. I think you need a subject to use the contraction properly. B
Yeah, I thought the use of "commish" was fine, and I have used it many times myself, so I will retract my kill statement on Heath. I just wanted to have one more kill before I get killed myself. B
First, like I've said, if slang is good for a kill, I'll happily suicide myself. Second, you didn't kill me. You made a weak stab and fadeaway weakly backed it up. None of that's official. Third, are you taking special pains to not only use proper English in your posts but to dictionary check them? Cause if you are, that's just sad. (Yes, I said "cause" when I should have said "because!!!!" Am I dead again? ) How boring, how boring, how boring, how boring. That stuff's not what this contest was ever supposed to be about. I could post boring stuff with the best of you. I used to write grants for a living. This ought to be about busting freewheeling, arrogant posters (you've gotta be arrogant to sign up in the first place... I'm drunk right now and still posting more words in this post than you have since the contest started) for unknowing spelling errors. And the contestants ought to post on a regular basis and go out on a limb instead of hanging back, using spell check to work out technicalities based on slang. But I'm not the boss of it. Dead codell is. Where is he anyway?
Let me wipe the sarcasm off that last post. I never said I was an uber-genious.... I said I was an uber-genious at 5-6 years of age. Still can't figure out why I would lie about this, but regardless, my friends have a lot less doubts about it than any of y'all. The problem, in my opinion, was that My principal in elementary school brought my folks into the school to talk about moving me from kindergarten to the third grade. My parents, and I've got no ill-will towards them whatsoever, decided that I would be better off with kids my own age, so they kept me in the same grade. Problem was that I already knew everything they were teaching, ad-nauseum. I could read when I was three, could write when I was four, and could do multiplication and division in my head when I was around 4 1/2. I attribute a GREAT deal of this to the fact that my grandmother was head-mistress at the "Little Red School House." Anyway, my personality didn't work well this way. I became extremely disenfranchised with school very early on. Imagine going over the alphabet every day now. It gets old quick. So I tuned out and became a troublemaker. Problem was, I was a big p***y who didn't like to fight, so I'd open my mouth and get my ass whooped. I was transferred into a program called G.A.T.E. in the 3rd grade, but that only increased the whoopings, and I still knew everything they were teaching. I began to hate school because it seemed such a glorious waste of time. I still recall getting my first C in 6th grade in an advanced math class on a progress report. I literally had to leave the class sobbing, because I thought I just learned everything immediately. The problem was that by the sixth grade, your learning habits are already very well established, and I just hadn't studied for anything ever, before. Add to that the fact that my family moved to Alaska for the seventh and eighth grade, where I was finally able to just hang out with the "normal" crowd. That was so refreshing to not receive beatings on a regular basis. I still remember turning in blank homework for the "0" so I could keep my grades average. Add to that moving back to Houston. I grew up in Baytown, but this move placed us in Kingwood. I had fun there at first, but I was 15 at the time and broke my wrist in a three-wheeler accident. When I got back to school, a rumor had spread that I had broke my hand masturbating. I was ostracized for that the ENTIRE two years at Kingwood until I simply couldn't take it anymore. Needless to say, school had just received another unremoveable pockmark to me. God love my parents, they moved the entire family to Bellaire to finish high school. But all I wanted was to be popular, so I skipped classes all the time. There was a rule at Bellaire that if you had more than six unexcused classes at any class, you automatically received a "50". I still remember a friend looking at my report card and saying "Damn! This looks like the American flag! I've never seen anything with so many "50 stars" on it. (They would place an asterisk next to the 50 if it was due to absences.) I'll be more than happy to elaborate my college experience, as well if need be, but that pretty well might explain more of my private life to y'all, just so I'm not branded a "liar". Kid you not, I've always been honest on this board. Sheesh.
Fatty: That is a sad story. No lie. But you didn't post any of that before. You just posted that you were a genius. Don't bust us for calling you on it. Also, if you weren't dead before you definitely are now. You misspelled genius.
I have spent a good part of the past two years editing technical documents written by engineers. I know all about boring. Do I really care if I find an exciting mistake or a boring, lame technical one? Do I post as much as most other people? No, but I am trying to be more active for the sake of the contest. B
