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29 Sep 12
Originally posted by HandyAndyOf course I do. Don't you? Without the preservation and refinement of the spoken and written word, coherent expression of thought within any society is impossible. Would you be comfortable on some gurney being wheeled to the operating suite by an orderly, who was mute, whose task it was to deliver your bag of bones to a surgeon who knew 17 words but able to correctly pronounce 8?
You took the post to heart. Tells me you give a damn about language.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyUntrue on two accounts: a) Those who are no longer here and under the yoke of social bondage, having been set free; and b) Those kind souls still here, strutting their stuff in rank in an internecine cadre, though their epitaphs were etched and duly recorded yesterday (and/or the day before).
Of course I do. Don't you? Without the preservation and refinement of the spoken and written word, coherent expression of thought within any society is impossible. Would you be comfortable on some gurney being wheeled to the operating suite by an orderly, who was mute, whose task it was to deliver your bag of bones to a surgeon who knew 17 words but able to correctly pronounce 8?
Originally posted by ChessPraxis(for the sweet sensitivities of the elderly and demented)
You and I are handcuffed together in the back of a police car.... Using ONLY three words what would you say to me?
are you comfortable???
you did what???
stop yer fidgeting...
where iz waldo???
grampy called them???
what's that smell???
it'z YOUR turn...
dear heavenly father...
bite me, you olde fart, report me, scratch my balls and then lick em...
