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Sun Jan-27-08 12:49 AM
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'I' before 'E'' except after 'C' is such BULLSHIT! |
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Neither.
Anyone remember the word neither? Where was neither at when this rule was being made up? Out getting drunk in a sleezy bar and humping a prostitute?
Why does neither hate America?
Oh but wait? What's this? More fucking riff-raff!
Deity enters the room.
Science waves.
neighbor flips you off.
foreign pisses on your lawn.
'I' before 'E' my ass!!! It's all a sick, vicious trick to fuck up children trying to learn and put them in years of therapy!
FUCK ENGLISH!!!
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Sun Jan-27-08 12:54 AM
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1. English is the language of the damned. |
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There isn't a single rule that doesn't have more exceptions than examples. I honestly don't know how people learn English as a second language: it seems impossible to me.
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Sun Jan-27-08 12:58 AM
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2. The full quote is: "I before E except after C or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh" |
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:01 AM
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5. OMG when did they add that? |
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Fuck my school teachers from twenty years ago then!! :D
Still though... doesn't help with most of the asshole words I mentioned.
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:21 AM
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24. More than twenty years ago. |
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I learned it that way... well, probably fifty years ago (yeah, yeah, I'll be dead soon). My parents knew it that way, too. Before them neither of their families spoke English. :hi:
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:54 AM
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35. Holy hell... my teachers really DID suck! And here I was just kidding around.... |
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..SCREW YOU MRS. BRUBAKER!!!!! :P
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:38 AM
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27. It was featured in A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969) |
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Sun Jan-27-08 12:59 AM
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3. I am here to take a strong stand against the letter C |
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What good is C? Either it's ripping off K, or pretending to be S. It has no sound of its own! Down with C!!
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:02 AM
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6. Seriously! The revolution will not be televised, my friend! |
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C, your days are numbered.....
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:13 AM
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:05 AM
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11. LOL!!! Okay that made me really laugh at work. |
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:07 AM
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:05 AM
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12. Oh, *now* you've done it! |
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"Anyway, you're interested in one of our adventure holidays?"
"Yes; I saw your advert in the bolour supplement."
"The what?"
"The bolour supplement"
"The colour supplement?"
"Yes; I'm sorry, I can't say the letter 'B'."
"'C'?"
"Yes, that's right. It's all due to a trauma I suffered when I was a spoolboy. I was attacked by a bat."
"A cat?"
"No, a bat."
"Can you say the letter 'K'?"
"Oh, yes — khaki, king, kettle, Kuwait, Keble Bollege Oxford..."
"Why don't you say the letter 'K' instead of the letter 'C'?"
"What, you mean... spell 'bolour' with a 'K'?"
"Yes."
"'Kolour.' Oh, that's very good! I never thought of that! What a silly bunt!"
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:42 AM
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28. And don't forget "X" and "Q" |
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Neither has a unique sound. They can be replaced with "ks" (or "z" at the beginning of a word) and "kw".
But seks just doesn't look right, somehow...
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:54 AM
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I'd find that very disq...
Shit. x(
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Sun Jan-27-08 02:25 AM
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42. But then how will civil engineers.... |
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build qanats?
Oh, the humanity!!!!
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:48 AM
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Without c we couldn't spell Czesko .. Czcheo .. oh, Hell, they split the country in two anyway.
(Seriously, I advocate using 'c' for the 'ch' sound! Brilliant, huh?)
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Sun Jan-27-08 12:59 AM
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:02 AM
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:03 AM
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8. Oh wait.... in the New World Order, "Y" is now called a vowel right? |
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It got waved in or something by future generations.....
You lazy bastards!!! Back in MY DAY we had to make sentences without considering Y as a vowel!!
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:03 AM
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:05 AM
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13. Ah HA! LOOK!! ANOTHER ONE!! *WEIRD* |
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:yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks:
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:08 AM
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I was afraid you wouldn't. Or at least feign ignorance. ;)
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:12 AM
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:12 AM
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17. " I before E, except after C, what a weird society." |
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The letter C should be only used with the letter H.
For the S sound, use an S, for the K sound, use a K.
Success would now be spelled Suksess.
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:13 AM
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18. This reminds me of a Brian Regan bit |
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:18 AM
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21. I bought two boxen of doughnuts! |
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:22 AM
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i before e except after c and when sounding like a as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!
Good stuff and so true!
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:35 AM
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He's funny without being obscene, which is honestly pretty rare these days.
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:51 AM
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32. I started listening to his stuff in college |
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my roommate at the time forced me to listen to that entire CD with her one night and I'm glad I did because I was instantly hooked
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:59 AM
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Sun Jan-27-08 02:07 AM
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38. look at that, it's a legit word! |
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Sun Jan-27-08 02:24 AM
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41. And y'know who he came up with? |
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Sun Jan-27-08 02:35 AM
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43. of course a career .240 hitter, what other team would he have come up with? |
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especially in the mid 60's lol
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Sun Jan-27-08 02:48 AM
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45. Stengel made him famous |
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When he came up at the end of '65, or maybe in camp in '66, Stengel said, "We got a kid here named Goosen, 20 years old, and in 10 years he's got a chance to be 30."
Trouble for Goose was he came up at the same time as J.C. Martin.
Two years later he's at Tidewater, and Jim Bouton's at Newark, I guess, or Jersey City — whichever was the Jankees' Triple-A club in the International League — and there's a bunt back to the pitcher with runners on and Goose jumps out from behind the plate yelling "FIRST BASE! FIRST BASE!" Pitcher goes to second and everybody's safe. Goose stomps back behind the plate and Bouton yells from the dugout, "Goose, he had to consider the source!"
:rofl:
But, check it out — he's been Gene Hackman's stunt double for like 20 years.
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Sun Jan-27-08 02:59 AM
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47. wow that's interesting, I didn't know that thing about him being a stunt double |
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Sun Jan-27-08 03:02 AM
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until I went fishin' for his photo.
I sent the bit from "Ball Four" to baseball-almanac.com, since there was no quote on Goosen's page. If you go there and look up Jeff Nelson, that's my quote too. :D
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Sun Jan-27-08 03:05 AM
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49. cool I'll check it out |
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Sun Jan-27-08 02:13 AM
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40. Omg, I'm dying over here.... |
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How have I never seen this guy before? OMG, my stomach hurts from laughing now.... :rofl:
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Sun Jan-27-08 02:38 AM
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44. he has a bunch of clips on youtube... |
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Sun Jan-27-08 02:51 AM
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46. Check out his Little League bit |
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"SNO-CONE!"
"How many outs, Brian?"
"GRAPE!"
:rofl:
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:17 AM
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20. I see you've studied this in your leisure time, but don't have a seizure about it... |
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:52 AM
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:19 AM
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all those tricks don't help me spell a lick!
:hi:
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:21 AM
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23. Excellent rant. I like. |
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:44 AM
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29. Dude ... pick a fight you can win. |
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You know not what gods you may be provoking.
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Sun Jan-27-08 01:50 AM
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31. Preach it reverend! Tell it! n/t |
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Sun Jan-27-08 02:01 AM
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:rofl: Yes, English sucks for following rules, for sure!
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Sun Jan-27-08 02:09 AM
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39. What About "Sometimes Y"? |
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What is that all about? It's like "Y" is a booty call vowel. You know like when a word feels in the mood for something a little different.
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