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Never heard that version - I knew Never Eat Chips Eat Salad Sandwiches And Remain Young.blueboatdriver said:Necessary ( Never Eat Cress Eat Salmon Sandwiches And Remain Young).
Oh, I was just going to post that one! I used that all the time when I was littleKristoCat said:I learned a fun one from reading Matilda. It's a cute little song for "difficulty":
Mrs. D, Mrs. I, Mrs. F, F, I
Mrs. C, Mrs. U, Mrs. L, T, Y!
The Trunchbull objected to the fact that all the women were married
Weird. I just watched Matilda on tele today. That's the second weird TBF coincidence. A friend of mine just told me she'd found the hack for her DVD player to play all-region, and I just heard about the website for getting DVD player hacks on the forum today.MonkeyCatcher said:Oh, I was just going to post that one! I used that all the time when I was little
Jemima Aslana said:A simple typo doesn't bother me, and I can ignore it just fine, but 11 errors some of which were repeated in one post with 4 lines - that's just too much.
ok first yes i will addmit that i cant spell and shence ive become a housewife with a dick all i have to do is chat on yahoo. ive been going to these punk chat rooms,yes i see the irony of a punk chat room. but ive run in to screen names like " get your shine box,and natzi prases. i dont know if anyone is bothered by this but it scares the hell out of me. remember thay really got big in the last republican rule and now thouse natzi punk fucks have grown up and are getting jobs in the system. so anyone else know if its coming back or if it ever left at all.and with this " terrarist" thing thay have a platform to stand on. i would like to hear opinions on this and suggestions. let tham talk and show there true colors and hope people are still good enough to reconize it as hate of fight it with everything you have?
THIS IS NOT A JOKE!
Ah, good ol' dictionary.com . It's so nice to haveabecedarian said:When posting in forums like this, If the word doesn't look right, I'll pull up Word and type the questionable word to see if it gets challenged, or I'll go to dictionary.com.
Oh yes, I know that one from Matilda tooKristoCat said:I learned a fun one from reading Matilda. It's a cute little song for "difficulty":
Mrs. D, Mrs. I, Mrs. F, F, I
Mrs. C, Mrs. U, Mrs. L, T, Y!
The Trunchbull objected to the fact that all the women were married
Doug Johnson said:Posting under your real name, and understanding Google, encourages you to double check every post.
I'd hate it if 200 years from now some 14 year old kid researching Catcher in the Rye stumbled across an archived Book Forum thread and thought "Doug Johnson was a terrible speller."
("Doug Johnson wasted a lot of time on Internet Forums," is a much better legacy. )
Shouldn't there be a colon or comma after "simply must point out that"? Isn't there a comma or two missing from that last sentence?Shade said:Sorry Miss Shelf, but in this pedantically-minded thread, I simply must point out that
a. ATM isn't an acronym as an acronym has to be a pronounceable word (eg NATO)
b. 'the hoi polloi' is technically incorrect as 'hoi polloi' itself means 'the masses' or 'the common herd' so the additional 'the' at the start is redundant. I accept though that this is the most pointlessly nitpicky comment ever made even in this thread.