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[Michelle]

MRs. G,

Thanks for the laugh. I had forgotten the Swedish Chef and his instructions for making chocolate mousse!

M

[aldona]

No, Wallace & Gromit are not on DVD yet...the movie has only just started at the theater a few days ago. We had a pleasant night out with a couple of friends we haven't seen for a while - fish & chips for dinner at a nearby restaurant and then the movie. <img src="/ubbtreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

OK...you can all report me to the church board now... <img src="/ubbtreads/images/graemlins/seenoevil.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbtreads/images/graemlins/tongue1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbtreads/images/graemlins/icon_salut.gif" alt="" />

aldona

[Gail]

Great! No toe jam here! <img src="/ubbtreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[Michelle]

YOu can see how up to date I am--I see the "coming attractions" preview and assume that I've already missed it! (not that it's showing in HK--but I don't know, maybe I should check) I so seldom go to a theatre to see a movie that I just don't keep up to date (I think the last one I saw was part 3 of LOTR).

M

[cricket]

truly vs. truely

interesting vs. interresting

levees vs. levies

purposely vs. purposesly

Mrs. Gray vs. Mrs. Grey

Michael Brown vs. Michael Brown

son-in-law vs. Son in law

victims vs. victems

Nagin vs. Nagen

Dennis vs. Denis

[Michelle]

Christine--interesting list. Is this a recent news editing list?

m

[Michelle]

Aldona--is it "6 year old" scary? My 6 y/o adores Wallace and Gromit, but there are some scenes that, the first time, scared him. Is this one that is kid-safe and mother approved?

M

[aldona]

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Michelle said:

Aldona--is it "6 year old" scary? My 6 y/o adores Wallace and Gromit, but there are some scenes that, the first time, scared him. Is this one that is kid-safe and mother approved?

M

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Not being a mommy yet, I'm not sure what constitutes "6 year old scary"...My next-door neighbor's 7-year old was very excited the other day to tell me she had seen "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". <img src="/ubbtreads/images/graemlins/seenoevil.gif" alt="" /> (Whereas I have seen the old version of the same, and thought it was very "dark" and questionable viewing for children.)

Can your 6-year-old cope with the sight of a giant furry rabbit the size of King Kong going on a nocturnal rampage and gobbling up everybody's prized vegetable gardens? (I think that was just about the worst of it.)

What was it that scared him about the previous W&G films? (Let me guess...was it Preston the malevolent cyber-pooch and the "Sheep-O-Matic" machine in "A Close Shave"?)

aldona

[cricket]

Just a list of things that pop into my head as I read. Here's another one:

bureaucrat vs. bureacrat

[LynnDel]

Isn't fall just a fabulous time of year? The air is cooler, the grass suddenly gets greener when the trees diminish their demand for water, the weeds have mostly given up trying to make more work for the gardener, pomegranates and persimmons will soon be ripe, and there is the promise of colorful leaves drifting off the trees, puddling around the trunks on the green grass below. I know exactly the tree I want to visit when that happens.

LD

[cricket]

I scope out trees for the very same reason! (Thought I was the only one...)

[Paul Beach]

What happens if you drink soda pop and eat pop rocks at the same time?

[Gail]

Good sandwich...

[Michelle]

LEt's see, Aldona--it's more of suspense that he has a hard time with. Yes, the cyberdog in the sheep o matic had him going the first time. Also something in the wrong trousers--hmm, now I can't remember.

If a large rampaging rabbit is the worst of it, he could probably deal with it. He knows enough about Wallace and Gromit not to take it too seriously.

I read the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory book when I was a kid (unbeknownst to my mom!) and found it very funny and dark, but I was older than 7. Wouldn't let my 6 or 8 year old see it, but I'm rather conservative with them.

M

[cricket]

[raisingmyhandjumpingupanddown]Oooh, oooh! Mrs. Gray, call on me, I know!!! [unabletotakeitanylonger]I know, I know! When you drink soda pop (ahem...in St. Louis, it's just soda) and eat pop rocks at the same time, you clean out the earwax from the inside out!![/unabletotakeitanylonger][/raisingmyhandjumpingupanddown]

[cricket]

If you're happy and you know it, raise your hand!

[LynnDel]

I would raise my hand, but I need another to do it. The two hands I have are busy (L - eating pizza, R - keyboarding).

LynnDel

[Paul Beach]

On a traffic light, green means "go" and yellow means "yield," but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means "hold on," yellow means "go ahead," and red means "Where did you get that banana at?"

[Paul Beach]

You know they call corn on the cob, corn on the cob, but that's how it comes out of the ground, man. They should call that "corn." They should call every other version "corn off the cob." It's not like if you cut off my arm you would call it "Mrs. Gray." Then reattach it and call me "Mrs. Gray-all-together."

[Michelle]

Signals (by Shel Silverstein)

When the light is green you go.

When the light is red you stop.

But what do you do

When the light turns blue

With orange and lavender spots?

M

[Michelle]

Where in the world did we come up with these silly little personal pronoun sayings that some of us put on the bottom of our postings. Like, "/me ducks out of the room". Excuse me, when did "me" become a subject pronoun?

I have beginning EFL students who know the simple fact that "I" is a subject pronoun and "me" is an object pronoun.

Is this another example of Internet shorcuts changing our language? I already have students turn in papers with "ppl" written instead of "people." Must we perpetuate this?????? Especially since it tends to be the better-educated among us here at C/A who do this.

Personal gripe mode off.

M

[Amelia]

the /me.... comes from IRC chat. It is an action command that would have caused whatever was written after the /me to be either printed in another color or italics etc. It represents a visual of the typers actions. Say I was the typer and I wanted the room to know I was leaving the keyboard for whatever reason. I would have typed /me leaves the room. What you would see is.....Amelia leaves the room.

So in a sense it has become a type of cyber speak.

/me waves bye bye

[Michelle]

Thanks. I obviously was ignorant.

After I wrote this, I had a brain flash and thought that perhaps these were the folks trying to force everyone to use the KJV in church. They like the "methinks" of Early Modern English (Shakespeare is contemporary with KJV) and want to perpetuate this.

Anyway, thanks for the info. Now I'm not quite so ignorant!

M

[Nicodema]

Man, context is everything. Without context, things float in a meaningless vaccuum and there is no one to take note of them.

[Gail]

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