Grammar is important! Capitalisation is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your Uncle jack off a horse.
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"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
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Pedants please note that the above is just a joke copy/pasted from the internet.
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
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Then why did you not post this thread in light relief?Originally posted by Ruprect View PostPedants please note that the above is just a joke copy/pasted from the internet.
Why not do the eats shoots and leaves one and put it in LR?Comment
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"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
Thomas JeffersonComment
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Sorry I was just being a pedant. I was not expected to be taken seriously.Originally posted by Ruprect View PostWho yanked your chain this morning then?!
I think the bigger issue is that neither Mrs BP nor my mistress have yanked my chain yet....Comment
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Ah! Too early in the morning for such subtlety!Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostSorry I was just being a pedant. I was not expected to be taken seriously.
I think the bigger issue is that neither Mrs BP nor my mistress have yanked my chain yet...."Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
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...and a very good one. However <extremepedant>it it should be "Uncle Jack" and "uncle jack" - uncle is only a proper noun when used as part of a name </extremepedant>Originally posted by Ruprect View PostPedants please note that the above is just a joke copy/pasted from the internet.
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“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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Got kicked by a horse.Originally posted by zeitghostComment
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Well, it made me laugh this morning!Originally posted by Ruprect View Post"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." CiceroComment
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