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# Whyyeeeeeeeee
won't it snooooooooow? Liiiiiiike they said it woooooooooould?
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(tomsk, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:42, archived)
# careful you
you'll have the apostrophe police on you.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:44, archived)
# nobody expects the...

oh, you did
(I helped save b3ta! Slim has found god. He was down the back of the sofa., Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:46, archived)
# Didn't he
use it correctly?
(I helped save b3ta! Milkman Dan, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:54, archived)
# I corrected
myself.
(tomsk, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:56, archived)
# I asked Word spellcheck
and both won't and wont are acceptable.
(I helped save b3ta! Milkman Dan, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:57, archived)
# "Wont" is a word,
but it wouldn't be acceptable in the above context, because it means something competely different.
(tomsk, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:01, archived)
# as is the difference
between wanton and crispy wonton
(I helped save b3ta! Slim has found god. He was down the back of the sofa., Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:05, archived)
# mm
crispy wantons
(I helped save b3ta! tumph, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:19, archived)
# I stand
utterly corrected, and enlightened. Good job I didn't post after 5:00 :)
(I helped save b3ta! Milkman Dan, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:21, archived)
# that's the trouble with spellchecks.
"wont" doesn't mean the same thing.

[edit]We are a pair of perfectly-matched pedantic fuckers, aren't we? :)
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:02, archived)
# Wont as in
He was wont to ask him.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:03, archived)
# Gah.
Yes. Sorry.
(tomsk, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:05, archived)
# chinese water gardens.
...and dictionary definitions

Awww, you guys. how sweet.
(Blessed Rolo, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:14, archived)
# To Windoze
Perhaps
(I helped save b3ta! GR33DY, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 16:02, archived)
# Easy where you're pointing that dance.
We've got about 12" over here in Canada.

*fnar*
(I helped save b3ta! Evil Prof. Pixel Masher I made this!, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:49, archived)
# i was working at one of their gigs recently
and when they sang that one, we turned on some snow machines just to prove 'em wrong.

it's the little things which keep me amused
(I helped save b3ta! tumph, Wed 11 Dec 2002, 15:56, archived)