
It's too easy - I've caught 4 5 today already!

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Mon 21 Jun 2004, 12:07,
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like from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
"Lollipop's. Lollipop's...Would any little pedants like my lollipop's?"
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Mon 21 Jun 2004, 12:49,
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"Lollipop's. Lollipop's...Would any little pedants like my lollipop's?"

\bloody pedants don't know when they're dead
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Mon 21 Jun 2004, 12:30,
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I'd have gotten away with it if hadn't been for those pesky McFlimbies
Edit: I do rather like your profile too
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Mon 21 Jun 2004, 12:13,
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Edit: I do rather like your profile too

can you help clean this tea off my TFT please??

it's sic beauty is it's sic simplicity. thats sic brilliant thats sic. *aaaarrrrggggghhh!!!!*
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Mon 21 Jun 2004, 12:20,
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It bothers me too.
Why can't people work out the difference between your and you're? *gets out marker*
Aarrrghhhhh!
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Mon 21 Jun 2004, 13:18,
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Why can't people work out the difference between your and you're? *gets out marker*
Aarrrghhhhh!

the point of me missing the point about him missing the point.
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Mon 21 Jun 2004, 20:14,
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It's funny 'cos it could happen to me so easily.
I've even had some stickers made that say, "Please check your grammar: this apostrophe/comma/_____ is redundant / there should be a semicolon/apostrophe/_____ here" and I baleet/fill in the appropriate bits and stick 'em down.
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Mon 21 Jun 2004, 15:59,
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I've even had some stickers made that say, "Please check your grammar: this apostrophe/comma/_____ is redundant / there should be a semicolon/apostrophe/_____ here" and I baleet/fill in the appropriate bits and stick 'em down.

One day the legions of English Literary Knights will rise from the dark corners in which they reside!
You foul apostrophe demons shall be ravaged (with forks and other sharp devices of displeasure) !
YOUR ALL DOOMED !!!!
.... ;-)
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Mon 21 Jun 2004, 22:18,
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You foul apostrophe demons shall be ravaged (with forks and other sharp devices of displeasure) !
YOUR ALL DOOMED !!!!
.... ;-)

shurely ?
(and how do peeps feel about a pre-query or pre-exclamatory space ? cool ! huh? ... I know THIS! is 'correct' but surely an extra space is more, graceful ? Does not it add to the gravity of the punctuation by allowing the character it's own room to Be ?
Any thoughts gratefully recieved before I unveil this to an unsuspecting world of punctuational ennui ...)
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Mon 21 Jun 2004, 22:30,
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(and how do peeps feel about a pre-query or pre-exclamatory space ? cool ! huh? ... I know THIS! is 'correct' but surely an extra space is more, graceful ? Does not it add to the gravity of the punctuation by allowing the character it's own room to Be ?
Any thoughts gratefully recieved before I unveil this to an unsuspecting world of punctuational ennui ...)

Is just the pause added at the end of the sentance waiting for some form of response ...
Not me randomly pressing keys like a monkey.
Honest ....
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Tue 22 Jun 2004, 11:33,
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Not me randomly pressing keys like a monkey.
Honest ....


This shop is on London Road, Westcliff-on-Sea

Not many cold water fish in the tropics so guess there should be a comma before 'Cold Water' ?
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Tue 22 Jun 2004, 15:13,
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there is no E in fishy.
:)
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Tue 22 Jun 2004, 15:56,
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:)

that the 'I' and the 'S' are the wrong way round in 'business'
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Wed 23 Jun 2004, 2:33,
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Maybe someone can work on the shark a little better.

Now I know why Jade Goodey visited Southend the other day.
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Thu 24 Jun 2004, 16:07,
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makes me twitch every time I walk past it! I did notice the other day that they have it correctly spelt on the small board that stands outside. Not that that makes up for it. Grr.
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Thu 24 Jun 2004, 10:08,
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