My shout in the Pendraken Mess

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Orcs

30 December 2018, 11:50:02 AM #20
Quote from: FierceKitty on 30 December 2018, 11:14:11 AM
Using it right now...where did the full stop at the end of the sentence above get to?

It escaped, and is here.  .
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d_Guy

30 December 2018, 11:42:28 PM #21
"...a full stop, like a full or perfect point, is obviously not an imperfect point or stop, whether as brief as a comma or as clear-cut as a semicolon or as disruptive as a dash or as smooth as a pair of parenthesis or as culturedly poised as a colon: here ends the statment, here ends the sentence."
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pierre the shy

31 December 2018, 06:46:16 AM #22
One Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster and we're into a serious discussion on punctuation.....just as well I limited it to one round  :)
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31 December 2018, 09:06:09 AM #23
The kitty is a tad fanatical, but then foreigners often are !!!! What make it bad is about 250m of they canna spell proper !  ;)
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Ithoriel

31 December 2018, 02:50:25 PM #24
Quote from: d_Guy on 30 December 2018, 11:42:28 PM
"...a full stop, like a full or perfect point, is obviously not an imperfect point or stop, whether as brief as a comma or as clear-cut as a semicolon or as disruptive as a dash or as smooth as a pair of parenthesis or as culturedly poised as a colon: here ends the statment, here ends the sentence."
Partridge

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Last Hussar

31 December 2018, 03:32:08 PM #25
Let us annoy less grammar nazis

:d
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Ben Waterhouse

31 December 2018, 04:05:53 PM #26
Quote from: Last Hussar on 31 December 2018, 03:32:08 PM
Let us annoy less grammar nazis

:d

*Nazis*...

d_Guy

31 December 2018, 05:41:22 PM #27
Selplnig i3 mstloy iatmmerial a3 sohwn b7 t4e lsat treh hdeut yras hov ltiuatr.

I'll have a single malt, light on the soda.

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Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

01 January 2019, 10:32:03 AM #28
Quote from: d_Guy on 31 December 2018, 05:41:22 PM

I'll have a single malt, light on the soda.


Soda - in a single MALT - PHILISTINE

Also NAZIS should be all capitalised - its initials of the party name  ;)
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Ben Waterhouse

01 January 2019, 11:18:51 AM #29
Quote from: ianrs54 on 01 January 2019, 10:32:03 AM
Soda - in a single MALT - PHILISTINE

Also NAZIS should be all capitalised - its initials of the party name  ;)

Right on the Malt (shudder). Wrong on the Nazi; in English usage of course, in German it would be NSDAP...

fsn

01 January 2019, 11:56:03 AM #30
Quote from: d_Guy on 31 December 2018, 05:41:22 PM
I'll have a single malt, light on the soda.

Sir, that is not the action of a gentleman. I think you should retire from the bar and consider your position.



In my time as a young barman, I was confronted with a customer in the flashy suit, gold dripping off every orifice, young fluff on his arm. He demanded a malt whisky and lemonade. I, of course, refused to serve him. I suggested he use a blended whisky if he wished to add lemonade to it, or perhaps choose the malt with a little water. He took umbrage and complained to the landlord, who, to his credit, supported my decision.   
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d_Guy

01 January 2019, 03:00:35 PM #31
I have never been mistaken for a gentleman - a ranker through and through.

But I do agree, dilution is pollution.
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fsn

01 January 2019, 04:13:07 PM #32
One can be a ranker and a gentleman. One can also be an officer and clearly not a gentleman. As Wellington said "a French officer will slit your throat if you tell him he is not a gentleman, but that does not make him one."

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d_Guy

01 January 2019, 04:38:01 PM #33
Which logically leads to:
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Duke Speedy of Leighton

01 January 2019, 04:43:31 PM #34
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.
Mark Twain
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d_Guy

01 January 2019, 04:45:22 PM #35
I've heard that more often applied to bagpipes, again I fail as a gentleman.
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Ithoriel

01 January 2019, 04:46:17 PM #36
Alternatively, Will, "A true gentleman is a man who may know how to play the bagpipes – but doesn't" :)
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Ithoriel

01 January 2019, 04:47:02 PM #37
Ah! Great minds, d_Guy ..... or possibly the alternative :)
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Duke Speedy of Leighton

01 January 2019, 04:47:19 PM #38
https://youtu.be/IB-PaZaiXOA

I was looking for Jeeves discussing the banjo, but as a gentleman, he would not say.
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d_Guy

01 January 2019, 05:11:46 PM #39
 ;D
Had forgotten about Bertie and Jeeves!

Quote from: Ithoriel on 01 January 2019, 04:47:02 PM
Ah! Great minds, d_Guy ..... or possibly likely the alternative :)

Fixed!  ;) :D

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