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To: Tax-chick; Silentgypsy; Monkey Face
"Back when I used to edit nuclear weapons safety manuals for the Navy, a misplaced modifier could, in theory, have vaporized the East Coast."

Just think what you could have accomplished with a placed modifier!

1,762 posted on 05/20/2012 11:43:53 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (I didn't feel up to going through a second childhood. That's why I had myself cloned.)
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To: NicknamedBob; Tax-chick; All

Well, kiddies, I’m heading for bed. The chicken won’t be done for hours, yet, and I may have to tranfer it to the Dutch oven. Maybe I should plan on making dumplings...tomorrow.


1,763 posted on 05/20/2012 11:55:30 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Stamp out circumlocutory sesquepedalianisms!)
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