09-15-2007, 05:45 PM
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#181 | | Senior Member
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| Today, I am fed up with money-grubbing petty little people who only live to put one over on the next person. Sadly, the city where I live is full of such unrefined crass nasty types. True, they've never actually done anything to me, but then again I don't associate with such people, and their simple abundance here lessens my enjoyment of what otherwise is a great place to live.
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05-05-2008, 06:56 PM
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#182 | | Senior Member
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| I killed the thread! Sorry.
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05-05-2008, 07:04 PM
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#183 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston, but South
Posts: 2,206
| It still seems acceptable to post here...
I just bought my LP foil a while ago and someone wanted to see it. I couldn't think of any excuse not to let him see it besides covering it with my body and saying "NO! Mine!!!" so I let him see it. (He's a 7ft tall senior, I am a lanky 6ft tall freshman) He seemed to know atleast a bit about fencing since he held the pistol grip right, rather then having the index finger where the thumb goes. Upon returning it to me, he decided to flip it up and hand me the grip. He underestimated the weight of the grip compared to the rest of the blade and dropped it... It landed on concrete. Right on the rear protrusion. Ruined the insulation on the most common place for a weapon to ground on... ;_;
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05-06-2008, 08:21 PM
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#184 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Ithaca, NY
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| I hate ellipses and would strike them from the English language if I could.
What are ellipses? These lovely things: ...
People use it all the time...like this...to show that they're thinking really hard while they type...and have to pause occasionally...to organize...more...thoughts.
Or they use it to make a sentence trail off into nothing even if it was perfectly fine without it...
Makes it sound like some sort of implication even in the most mundane sentences.
Example: I bought some bread. It was good...
Finish the sentence. Use one period. It's not hard. Commit, god damn it. I hate reading internet posts or emails that have nothing but sentences that trail off. It makes me want to rip my hair out.
Some of my favorite posters here never ever ever use ellipses.
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05-07-2008, 06:19 PM
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#185 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Katman  Some of my favorite posters here never ever ever use ellipses. | Oh dear.... opps, I'll try to not use ellipses so often. There. Much better. I have control over my right hand. No!!!!! don't do it Fencergrl............................ ahhhhhhhhhh I cannnnnnnn't stopppppp!!!!!!
This may take some time.
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05-08-2008, 10:23 AM
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#186 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Fantasy Land
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| Don't be hatin' on ellipses..... | |
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05-09-2008, 03:07 PM
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#187 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Ithaca, NY
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| *rips his hair out* 
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05-09-2008, 03:18 PM
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#188 | | Senior Member
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05-10-2008, 06:46 PM
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#189 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
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Originally Posted by Katman Some of my favorite posters here never ever ever use ellipses. |
I am devastated... 
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05-10-2008, 11:18 PM
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#190 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Katman Finish the sentence. Use one period. It's not hard. Commit, god damn it. | Or not...  This Is Just To Say
William Carlos Williams
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
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07-02-2008, 09:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Have At You How come it's six years after 9/11 and ground zero is still just a big empty hole in the ground? And they haven't even knocked down that one demolished building next to it yet? That's just pathetic. Where's the American can-do spirit, the gumption, the know-how? Where's the New York attitude? Where's the git-r-done builders and workers? It's pathetic and I am so ashamed of what it says about us. I'm angry. Rant off. | Well, now it's 7 years, and it's still just a big f***ing hole in the ground.
And now they've announced that it's gone way over budget (on what?) and even the subway stop won't be finished anywhere near 2011.
What the devil has happened to this country? This is such an embarrassment.
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07-02-2008, 09:23 AM
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#192 | | Senior Member
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| What ever happened to this country? This: the "greatest generation" were sucky parents. As were their children. And mystically, things fall apart when that goes on.
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07-04-2008, 12:32 PM
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#193 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Cubicle 13A on the 13th floor
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| When talking about equipments, why is n00b only cares about colors and other useless fashion items instead of functionality? Then again, that's why they are beginners, regardless how long they have fenced.
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07-04-2008, 05:11 PM
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#194 | | Senior Member
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| [see the Birthday thread, I seem to have placed my Soapbox in the Birthday thread on the occassion of my past birthday, which was duely noted by the Fencingnet people of dot net.
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