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| | Tags: | polls | | Subject: | Grammarmisms | | Time: | 11:04 am |
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| Also I noticed yesterday that the new version of Word recognizes and automatically capitalizes "Wikipedia."
Poll #1181387 Grammarmisms
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllCapitalized? One word or two? Oxford comma? | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Tags: | polls | | Subject: | VERY IMPORTANT | | Time: | 09:43 am |
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| Did you know that all artifical flavors come from a few factories in New Jersey? It's true.
Poll #951644
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWhat's your favorite artificial flavor (among those which approximate fruit)? Often popsicles come in two "packs." One contains cherry, orange, and grape flavors. The other contains banana, lime, and root beer flavors. This necessitates a decision to maximize preference while minimizing dislike. Which is your choice? You are confronted with a bowl of ambiguous candy and must select a piece to eat based solely on color. Has the existence of the vomit-flavored Harry Potter jellybean had the same affect on your life as it has on mine? | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Tags: | polls | | Subject: | Getting scraped from the upper crust | | Time: | 09:25 am |
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| Tonight is Tennis Class #2. Class 1 was quite a success. All the other students are adult yuppies like me, no kids to show us up, no cranky seniors to get mad at us for showing them up. Everyone is nice and equally humble about their complete lack of ability (this class is Level 1, no experience required, so equal footing is expected).
I do have a dilemma, however. We're having a cocktail party at work to celebrate the re-opening of one wing of the building. Two free drinks and unlimited snack food for all. How to balance this with tennis class, which immediately follows? I will have access to both alcohol and unhealthy food, yet both contribute adversely to tennis greatness. Free consumption then skipping class is not an option.
Poll #942455
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllHow many drinks can I have and still play tennis adequately? How much greasy cocktail food can I have and still play tennis adequately? Tennis? | comments: 8 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Tags: | polls | | Subject: | What I think is, this is a dumb poll, but I have smart pals who will know | | Time: | 10:31 am |
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| I've picked up this questionable writing habit, I think from reading too much Chuck Palahniuk, although I've definitely seen it elsewhere, where I put a comma in a really weird place to indicate sort of a pause, where I in speech I might say "like" or "sort of." Often follows the word "is."
Example. In my last post, I wrote:
What I'm also saying is don't make me angry, I guess. What I had originally written was:
What I'm also saying is, don't make me angry, I guess. Obviously, if you speak English, there is no call for that first comma. I'm no expert or nitpicker, but come on, no way. Stylistically, however, sure, I can dig that. I think it makes me read the sentence differently. Seems more like the way one would say something rather than the way one would write it. I've always felt it works well for Palahniuk, anyway.
Whaddya think?
Poll #930553 Grammarmisms
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllPossibly superfluous comma? Bonus question: Name something that you like that not enough of your friends care about, and it makes you sad. | comments: 10 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Tags: | polls | | Subject: | Die Kraftwerk Übersicht | | Time: | 10:38 am |
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| I've been listening to some Kraftwerk lately, because I am a hugely shameful nerd.
Poll #854406
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWhich Kraftwerk album cover do you dig the most? (Click the name to see the cover) Is Kraftwerk the nerdiest band ever? | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Tags: | polls | | Subject: | DEATHDEATHDEATH | | Time: | 01:15 pm |
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| The thoroughly inane Sprint company, which I have foolishly agreed to pay to provide me cell phone service for two years, has decided that a good marketing strategy is to place daily telemarketing calls to my number. The calls are automated, so I cannot answer without being hung up on. If I call the number back, a pre-recorded voice answers and thanks me for calling back Sprint, now with Nextel. Then I wait on hold for some dreary length of time until someone picks up and offers me extra services. Despite my protests, complaints, and outright refusal to buy anything else, Sprint continues their daily annoyance routine. Cursing is no longer enough. I've also created a poll.
Poll #778692 Sprint is the devil
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllHow lame is this? Is there any chance on earth I can get out of my contract with Sprint without paying several hundred dollars in penalties? Which of the following schemes (or combination thereof) might work to escape from Sprint? | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Tags: | books, polls | | Subject: | Attention, quitters! | | Time: | 11:51 am |
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| Poll #705977
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllDo you ever give up reading a book? Under what circumstances do you give up reading a book? How do you feel when you give up on a book? If you do give up on a book, will you ever try it again? | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment  |
| | Tags: | polls | | Subject: | I'm a'scared | | Time: | 01:12 pm |
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| Poll #695888 The Poll of Fear
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWhich of the following do you frequently have bad dreams about? Which of the following are actually frightening to you in conscious life, such as you understand conscious life? | comments: 7 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Tags: | polls | | Subject: | The highlight of my day, by Josh W., age 6 | | Time: | 01:02 pm |
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| I just noticed something about this icon. It's from a Philip K Dick novel entitled A Glass of Darkness that appeared in an old issue of Satellite magazine. I'm fond of the guy manipulating the planets solely with his mind. (A full version is here.)
However...when I cropped the image I managed to slice off the title text at, well, pretty much the most ironically humorous place possible. Quite by accident, really, I hadn't been paying attention to the words at all.
Poll #635078
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllHow should I fix this icon? | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Tags: | polls | | Subject: | Shame. Shame and ignorance. | | Time: | 01:48 pm |
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| I am stupid. Please help.
What is my piece of furniture called? It looks sort of like this, except not yet stained or finished.
Poll #617298 What is this piece of furniture called?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWhat is this piece of furniture called? | comments: 17 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Tags: | polls | | Subject: | Tell me how great you are! | | Time: | 11:11 am |
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| Because I care about you and your self-esteem:
Poll #582981
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllHow good does your hair look today? |
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