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[Greg Truby]

Greg,

So did you accidentally misspell "think" as "thing", or were you just trying to be funny and misspell a word in a sentence defending yourself against misspelling words?

If you misspelled it, how deliciously ironic is that?

Aye, Joe, 'twas an That friggin' ten-minute lockout on editing is a royal PIMA! But thanks for pointing that out. I think I'd managed to sneak that one by Emma.



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I'm not a pedant. If I were, I would have commented on Dom's errant apostrophe on the last page...

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_apost.html Scroll to the section entitled Forming plurals of lowercase letters. Domski's apostrophe was not errant. [I gotcher back, Domski. :wink: Let's just hope Emma don't bring up the capitalization of it, 'cause then we're screwed.]


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to self: I wonder if cummingsea is going to be all excited when he sees his thread has twenty replies and then disappointed when he reads them? He shoulda posted in the Excel Discussion forum and not the lounge...

 

[MorganO]

This thread is really becoming fun! It is just like conversations I've have with friends in the past where you start out talking about the importance of the 10 commandments to the formation of current society and 30 minutes later you are discussing how dust balls are formed!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o>
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I've looked back and determined that this thread's conversations are (currently):<o></o>
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Open Office - Do you like it?<o></o>
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Multiply versions of Excel running on one computer<o></o>
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The really interesting thing is that the influencer of these conversation changes has been Cornflakegirl! You really do ask great questions that lead to interesting and thought provoking discussion! Keep it up!<o></o>
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[Case_Germany]

Hi Richard,

Excel IS a drug!

*ggggg* Yes it is. That IS could also fat be written. OK - however there are still different important things.

Case_Germany

 

[mattrx731]

Still sounds stoopid though

and standing in a field with a cow doesn't?

 

[cornflakegirl]

I think I'd managed to sneak that one by Emma.

Do I have to give my medal back?

Scroll to the section entitled Forming plurals of lowercase letters. Domski's apostrophe was not errant

Yes. One of the examples in that section is "minding one's p's and q's", so I don't think I'm going to take anything it says too seriously!

And wikipedia disagrees with you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym (Representing plurals and possessives).

And I just don't like it!

 

[RichardS]

And which Olympics is that, Greg? If we include the thread hi-jacking olympics, Lewiy attempted but Emma succeeded with this one. You just participated.

 

[Greg Truby]

And which Olympics is that, Greg? If we include the thread hi-jacking olympics, Lewiy attempted but Emma succeeded with this one. You just participated.

Why the pedantry olympics, what else? See post #5 by Bryony (aka Patience) here.

Yes, Emma's thread topic expansion skills are coming along nicely. My understudy (Schollar) gave her a nice opening and bless her heart, she took the ball and ran with it. And then she did a fabulous job of banking the plane over the fields of grammar based on a post of mine where I didn't even give her much to work with. I heartily approve!

 

[Lewiy]

The Pedantry Olympics Heptathlon<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o>
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100 Word Sprint – competitors write down 100 words as quickly as possible without repetition and without using any two words that are directly related to each other.
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5000 Word Essay – similar to the 100 word sprint, except more drawn out and boring to watch, competitors write a 5000 word essay on what makes them more pedantic than the others.
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Period Shot Put – Competitors stand 10m from a huge board containing a sentence and must throw their shot at the board, hitting it as close as possible to where the period/full-stop should be placed.
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Spelling Long Jump – The sand pit is divided into five different 50cm sections each representing a letter of the alphabet. Competitors are shown an incorrectly spelled word before jumping, they must attempt to land in the appropriate section for the letter that will correct the spelling of the word.
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Infinitive Archery – Various words are scattered across the archery target and competitors must fire arrows to hit firstly an infinitive, followed by it’s matching conjugation. If one fails to hit a matching pair, their turn ends and the next competitor makes his/her attempt. Successfully hitting a pair is rewarded with another go until all pairs have been hit.
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400m Tense Hurdles – A 400m sprint over hurdles. Hurdles must only be jumped if the sentence written on them is in the past tense. Other hurdles must be navigated around rather than jumped. Every hurdle jumped in error results in a 5 second penalty.
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Punctuation Pole Vault – Competitors are shown a sentence that is missing one type of punctuation mark. They then must identify the missing punctuation and select their pole, each pole has a different punctuation mark shaped end and only the correct one will fit in the slot at the end of the runway. Incorrect poles will fail to connect properly and result in a foul jump.

 

[cornflakegirl]

Mad as a box of frogs!

(Nice mixed metaphor, Greg )

 

[DonkeyOte]

The most valuable thing I've learnt to date on this site... more important than any of Aladin's formulae ... and that is: you can't trust the C-G...
(can you trust anyone who refuses to have an avatar for that matter...? The MrE equivalent of having two first names!)