Posted on 06/03/2016 8:32:43 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
CNN: "Whoa!" Hillary Clinton's podium toppled at a California rally."
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Daaaamn, he actually gave her the 1 - 2 fist elbow combo
In so many ways.. including the gravity of her legal situation.
I want to apologize for my snarky comment last night. I was in a crappy mood last night, and took it out on you. I had no business posting anything last night. But then again, there really wasn’t any excuse for me going full A-hole.
I love writing, and completely understand both of your sentiments regarding the proper use of words.
Once again sorry for my comment last night; I was out of line.
Would You say ,
“I have a Plethora of Podiums”?
Not a problem. I tend to be snarky at times. :)
Points and “Grunts”,
Good.
ABAOUT,,,,
I caught That!
LOL!
The last person who had a stage collapse was the snarly looking one. She dropped out and joined the cabana club with canadian Ted from Texas. Maybe hilary should now pick Ted as VP before she becomes the nominee?
Remember also. Those instructions that are given on “Can you find the mistake” in whatever is shown like: Find the mtisake in this number sequence 123456789. People always would go look at the puzzle without bothering to read the instruction where usually the mistake is located.
The media played that awkward scene over and over, with the implication that it was a metaphor for his "collapsing campaign."
And now, the MSM is using this incident to do the same thing to Hillary.
Or not.
How about when the poor, hapless Gary Bauer was flipping pancakes and flipped right off the stage.
Losing our language by polluting the meaning of words
IS NO LITTLE THING! You need the grip.
Cankles must be putting on the pounds.
“We use them quite frequently, because someone or other at work is always calling meetings and the podium is where the mike is at.”
Well since grammar/terminology has entered the discussion, here are my two cents. My paternal grandmother (also a Texan) could not stand the word “at” on the end of a sentence. To her it was almost universally incorrect and unnecessary. Rarely was she asked any question constructed in such fashion (e.g., Where is it at?) without responding, “Sitting on the ‘a’ looking at the ‘t’.” or, “Behind the ‘at’.”
Today it is quite common to hear “at” used in this manner especially by the media. In many cases simply omitting “at” as the last word in a question or statement communicates the meaning just as clearly. When the “at” is preceded by a contraction, for example “it’s” or “they’re”, dropping the “at” and using the contracted words in full will convey the same meaning.
It’s funny how things from childhood take on a different light later in life.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain
The 6 and 9 are reversed!
Grammar is always a tricky subject. There is a common belief that one should not use prepositions at the ends of sentences, yet it is difficult to find that written out as a hard-and-fast rule in a grammar guide. Furthermore, the linguistic contortions one has to go through to avoid end-of-sentence prepositions are often quite convoluted.
When I was in Texas, a phrase that I sometimes heard was "might have could." It makes little sense, and it is something I have only heard from Southerners (well, those in the far south, not Marylanders). I gave up on trying to understand what the point of the redundant phrase is.
If six and nine equal 2 then what does 87590 equal?.
Title: Group-Grope 2017.
Makes you feel warm & fuzzy.
When I was in Texas, a phrase that I sometimes heard was “might have could.”
Not sure of that one, nor the ilk of those from which you heard it. Maybe you were still over in Oklahoma? It’s a big country (Texas) and though we mostly speak english (of some sort), of that expression I’m not familiar. On the other hand you might take note of a far more common saying, “Don’t be ugly!” A former associate of mine (from Ohio) was so vexed by this statement she would say, “You’re born ugly! You can’t be ugly!.”
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. - Mark Twain
That was then and this is now
AT THIS POINT WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE??
It is Bush’s fault.
Or a sniper took it out.
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