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Katana > Chain Saw > Baseball Bat > Hammer
> Big Tits Redhead (or "Sam") vs. Straw-bama . . . yes, this went on
> for a week . . . yes, people actually payed to keep this going . . .:
>
> <http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2008/10/24/>
The singular of "media" is "medium." That just ruined it for me.
Mike Beede
> The singular of "media" is "medium."
> That just ruined it for me.
=v= What's to ruin? The gag was lame.
<_Jym_>
It would have at least been a little funny if he used "manure" as the
punch line.
I must learn how to use that "sarcasm smiley," I guess. I'm
not sure any misuse of grammar could have rescued or damaged
that strip.
Mike Beede
I'm still trying to figure out what my big grammatic mistake was.
Payed/paid? Isn't that as interchangeable as gray/grey? Some of
English's subleties still bug me . . .
'Payed' is never correct.
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Doesn't the fact that there are *exactly* 50 states seem a little suspicious?
George W. Harris For actual email address, replace each 'u' with an 'i'
>On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:09:24 -0700, Antonio E. Gonzalez
><AntE...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:25:14 -0500, Mike Beede <be...@visi.com> wrote:
>>
>>>In article
>>><024a7150-0d70-4bc4...@t65g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
>>> LNER...@juno.com wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> > The singular of "media" is "medium." That just ruined it for me.
>>>> >
>>>> *More so than this semi-literate rant?
>>>>
>>>> "yes, people actually payed to keep this going . . ."
>>>
>>>I must learn how to use that "sarcasm smiley," I guess. I'm
>>>not sure any misuse of grammar could have rescued or damaged
>>>that strip.
>>>
>>
>> I'm still trying to figure out what my big grammatic mistake was.
>>Payed/paid? Isn't that as interchangeable as gray/grey? Some of
>>English's subleties still bug me . . .
>
> 'Payed' is never correct.
According to Merriam-Webster . . . it is!:
<http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Pay>
Inflected Form(s):
paid Listen to the pronunciation of paid \?pa-d\ also in sense 7
payed; pay·ing
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> On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:27:41 -0400, George W Harris
> <gha...@mundsprung.com> wrote:
> > 'Payed' is never correct.
>
> According to Merriam-Webster . . . it is!:
>
> <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Pay>
>
> Inflected Form(s):
> paid Listen to the pronunciation of paid \?pa-d\ also in sense 7
> payed; pay搏ng
Note that it says the "payed" spelling is used "also in sense 7," and
sense 7 is "to slacken (as a rope) and allow to run out -- used with
out."
So "people actually payed to keep this going" is never correct -- that's
sense 2a in this definition ("to give in return for goods or service").
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Jim Ellwanger <use...@ellwanger.tv>
<http://www.ellwanger.tv> welcomes you daily.
"The days turn into nights; at night, you hear the trains."
That was the only problem I saw. I wouldn't call it a big
mistake myself. LNER used a leading asterisk, which is almost
never called for. In fact, it's pretty hard to use one correctly
anywhere without a corresponding one somewhere else. One
example would be Nathan Hale's famous (and usually bowdlerized)
quote: "I regret have but one * for my country."
Mike Beede