Jan 22, 2009

[Ross]

me and my friend Rich

my friend Rich and I

me and Posyden

Posyden and I

http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/di ... s/ime.html

Seeing as

Seeing that

http://www.bartleby.com/68/53/5353.html

I have ignored the missing commas for now, although you won't get away with that forever.

SPUD - preserving the language one post at a time.

Isn't there a grammar thread somewhere the mods could move this off-topic stuff to?

[Spud]

I don't think that anything is off-topic in the DRC.

[Teplin]

I don't that that either.

(edit: Now, now Spud. Editing your post after the fact is cheating)

[Teplin]

I don't have it yet, I won it on the Bay. But it is a guitar by Time of Vermont, 1984. I played one once about 20 years ago, having only seen them in magazines for several years prior. Nicest guitar I ever played. Well, I couldn't afford one then, or for many years after, and then they went out of business. They don't come around often and there's little info out there about them as well, so after looking less than obsessively, I finally got this one Thursday morning. I'll post pics and stats when it arrives, but it's most likely the last guitar that I'll ever buy. Psyched!

I looked them up, and they seem pretty sweet, congrats! Never heard of that brand before. Funky pickguard!

[Caravan Ray]

QotD: Are you happy with the scope of your audience?

I just got home from playing at this:
http://www.festivaloflights.co.nz/

The New Plymouth Festival of Lights at Pukekura Park


Great fun. I played one song at a showcase for local singer/songwriters.
Bit weird though - it was early evening and there were all these families picnicing and little kiddies running around - while up on stage a seedy looking Australian dude in a Songfight! Tshirt was singing a song about a cowboy with erectile disfunction......

Certainly not my normal scope of audience


Pukekura Park is a great place though. It is one of the big things that sold us on moving to Taranaki. A few years ago, they had a national survey to pick what should be the properties on a "Kiwi" version of Monopoly. Pukekura Park won the "Mayfair" spot! Awesome!
(errr...you Seppos probably have your own Monopoly I suppose - "Mayfair" is the most expensive one - the blue one next to "GO")

[Niveous]

a song about a cowboy with erectile disfunction......

So Blue?

[HeuristicsInc]

(errr...you Seppos probably have your own Monopoly I suppose - "Mayfair" is the most expensive one - the blue one next to "GO")

Yah, not at all like your Kiwi version... (heh, you're becoming one of them) It's Boardwalk.
-bill

[jimtyrrell]

The original Monopoly game got its properties from streets in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

[HeuristicsInc]

Yeah, I know, but why? Was Atlantic City more relevant back then than it is now?
-bill

[fluffy]

Yes.

[Caravan Ray]

The original Monopoly game got its properties from streets in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Yes - I just had to wikicheck that. I had always assumed the London street version was the original one.

That's weird! The Poms stealing something from the Seppos and anglocising it - rather than the other way around!

I've got a Star Wars version - which is really dumb because it is pretty meaningless to me as I've only seen one of the Star Wars movies and I'm not much of a nerd.


edit....something else weird I had never noticed before - even though in Aus we grew up playing Monolpoly with London streets - the money in the game was dollars - not quid. that makes no sense at all.

Edit...I remember a great sketch by legendary Aust comedian Norman Gunston (the original Ali G-style dumb/embarrassing TV interviewer) back in the 1970's. Norman was wakling around London with a Monopoly Board using it as a map - and asking bobbies why Park Lane was not next to Mayfair like on the map. Might not sound it in the retelling - but it was bloody funny when I was 10-years-old)

[Caravan Ray]

a song about a cowboy with erectile disfunction......

So Blue?

yes

[fluffy]

I've got a Star Wars version - which is really dumb because it is pretty meaningless to me as I've only seen one of the Star Wars movies and I'm not much of a nerd.

I would have never guessed that after your "Don't Break My Heart Again, George Lucas (pictures of Natalie Portman)."

[Caravan Ray]

I've got a Star Wars version - which is really dumb because it is pretty meaningless to me as I've only seen one of the Star Wars movies and I'm not much of a nerd.

I would have never guessed that after your "Don't Break My Heart Again, George Lucas (pictures of Natalie Portman)."

I thought that may make it obvious - that the most significant thing that I associated with George Lucas was Natalie Portman. These are not the actions of nerd, Your Honour!

I rest my case.


- well I have seen bits of a few of the movies. I just didn't like any of them much - except for the very first one. I recall I did see the first new one at the pictures - that's why I remembered Natalie Portman and Jar Jar Binks

[fluffy]

Nah, lots of big-N Nerds were metaphorically (and literally) jizzing over Natalie Portman when they found out she was going to be Amidala, with quite a few "countdown until she turns 18" websites and the like.

This all stopped when they actually saw Phantom Menace, of course.

[Caravan Ray]

big-N Nerds

Now there's a band name!