tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post872565159900587175..comments2024-03-27T15:41:01.956-04:00Comments on rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague: Here a blog, there a blog, everywhere a blog blog...rhymeswithplaguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-82996613320301416332009-03-01T10:02:00.000-05:002009-03-01T10:02:00.000-05:00Me again, just to let you know that the current wo...Me again, just to let you know that the current word verification freaks me out, but rest assured: I do not accept it as an order!<BR/>It is: slyahrim. Isn't that creepy? They must know you are on to them.<BR/>I will stop mentioning the wv's from now on (unless they are really interesting).Carolinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288856854422999687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-35118463979433439572009-03-01T09:57:00.000-05:002009-03-01T09:57:00.000-05:00Interesting photo! Zandvoort in the Netherlands, T...Interesting photo! Zandvoort in the Netherlands, The Netherlands or Holland looks much the same in summer I hear. Fortunately I have never experienced it.<BR/>Lovely idea to introduce us all to each other. <BR/><BR/>WV: mosus (our cat is called Mozes. Coincidence?)Carolinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288856854422999687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-82203952250789076222009-02-27T16:03:00.000-05:002009-02-27T16:03:00.000-05:00RWP...It seemed the thing to do when you had a dim...RWP...It seemed the thing to do when you had a dime for the subway and it was too hot in Brooklyn...no yjer excuse. Of course we didn't go see to see the beach...one couldn't!Reamushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16507401745658729091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-14015050037936258472009-02-27T08:09:00.000-05:002009-02-27T08:09:00.000-05:00Love, love, love to hear from friends in cyberspac...Love, love, love to hear from friends in cyberspace!<BR/><BR/><B>Egghead (Vonda)</B> - You mean like a vacuum cleaner?<BR/><BR/><B>Rosezilla (Tracie)</B> - I checked out the 57th row back, just left of middle, but that was certainly no juvenile....<BR/><BR/><B>Jeannelle</B> - Well, we say "hey" like "hi" and Carolina in Nederland says "hoi" and up in Sweden the Swedes say "hej" and the Aussies say "g'die, mite" but Anna Russell always said "Good Ahfternoon."<BR/><BR/><B>Reamus (Michael</B> - Alexander the Great is supposed to have wept because there were no worlds left to conquer, but I want to know is why would you take the subway all summer long to a beach you couldn't even see? Or maybe the beach wasn't what you went to see. <BR/><BR/>The Owl and the Pussycat went to see in a beautiful pea-green boat....rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-81545393533166200462009-02-26T23:32:00.000-05:002009-02-26T23:32:00.000-05:00Thanks for the kind words RWP, and who said there ...Thanks for the kind words RWP, and who said there were no territories to conquer? They obviously have never used the Internet. It is the new frontier.<BR/>I am not in that particular picture, but I am in a similar one no doubt at that very beach a number of 4th of July weekends later. Used to take the subway there all summer back when the world and we were young.<BR/><BR/>Great post.Reamushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16507401745658729091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-80525785970526526272009-02-26T20:16:00.000-05:002009-02-26T20:16:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Reamushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16507401745658729091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-57052765384235837172009-02-26T17:15:00.000-05:002009-02-26T17:15:00.000-05:00Hi, again, rhymsie,We say "Hey" up here, too. Not...Hi, again, rhymsie,<BR/><BR/>We say "Hey" up here, too. Not really in place of "Hi", but when saying things like, "Hey, rhymsie....pass the ketchup" or "Hey, rhymsie, how'd you get to be such a great blogger?" Probably if I ran into you at the Readlyn post office, I would say, "Hi, rhymsie......what the heck are YOU doing here!"Jeannellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10506888396193293867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-43633524774861132012009-02-26T16:15:00.000-05:002009-02-26T16:15:00.000-05:00That's me, 57th row back, just left of middle. Tha...That's me, 57th row back, just left of middle. Thanks for thinking of me. And for some reason the fact that blogs suck Egghead in just cracks me up... I'm feeling somewhat juvenile today :)Rosezilla (Tracie Walker)https://www.blogger.com/profile/12265953530935691847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-32018495988181696572009-02-26T14:22:00.000-05:002009-02-26T14:22:00.000-05:00OK now I must find even more people to read about....OK now I must find even more people to read about. Blogs are so interesting....they certainly suck me in.Eggheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12929947510816062200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-89400570877320654812009-02-26T12:23:00.000-05:002009-02-26T12:23:00.000-05:00Hey, Jeannelle ("hey" is what we say in the South ...Hey, <B>Jeannelle</B> ("hey" is what we say in the South instead of "hi") - I think I see you standing near the Nathan's Hot Dogs stand. No, wait, that's Eleanor Roosevelt.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-31341316557348237712009-02-26T12:13:00.000-05:002009-02-26T12:13:00.000-05:00thinkg -> think, of course, and Thur -> Thus...thinkg -> think, of course, and Thur -> Thus.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-72444809049967687632009-02-26T12:11:00.000-05:002009-02-26T12:11:00.000-05:00Pat - I didn't even poison the well by revealing t...<B>Pat</B> - I didn't even poison the well by revealing that you aren't really from Arkansas at all, you're from Texas by way of New Mexico. Oops, I guess I just did.<BR/><BR/><B>answerstarts with you (Daisy)</B> - Let me begin by apologizing for calling you "answers" in another comment, as that would make you "answers tarts with you" (unless you really do intend to answer tarts with me, not that I know any) before I noticed that your blogname is "answer starts with you" so a thousand pardons from <I>moi</I>. <BR/><BR/>Secondly, I thinkg the 2nd (the one you preferred) <I>is</I> what it is supposed to be, not the first, and I think whoever rapped your hand and told you that is completely out of order and should be brought up on charges of abuse. I know the language is constantly changing (well, maybe not <I>constantly</I>), but two widely recognized authorities are Theodore Bernstein's <I>The Careful Writer</I> and Strunk and White's <I>The Elements of Style</I>. S&W says, and I quote, "In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last. Thur write,<BR/><BR/>red, white, and blue<BR/>gold, silver, or copper<BR/>He opened the letter, read it, and made a note of its contents.<BR/><BR/>In the names of business firms the last comma is usually omitted.<BR/><BR/>Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith"<BR/><BR/>Bernstein, a few years newer, says, "Should it be 'The colors are red, white and blue' or 'The colors are red, white, and blue'? The answer is either; the authorities do not agree and never will agree on whether a comma should or should not precede the 'and.' The only rule is that once you have made your choice you should follow it consistently."<BR/><BR/>So apparently you can do what you like and I can do what I like and never shall the twain meet.<BR/><BR/>I think that (a) you should go with your first "gut feel" and (b) you were the victim of a well-intentioned but completely wrong rapper.<BR/><BR/>So, unless "hubby, kid, dog and cat" is the name of a business firm, you know what you have to do.<BR/><BR/>This irreconcilable difference between us could be merely one difference in a Canadian education and an American education. Not that Canadians aren't Americans (North Americans).<BR/><BR/>I hope we can move on now.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-42759179309530041602009-02-26T12:04:00.000-05:002009-02-26T12:04:00.000-05:00Oh, rhymsie....what a great post! Good for many s...Oh, rhymsie....what a great post! Good for many smiles. Thank you for the mention. (I need to study up on Eleanor of Aquitaine....I hope she was nice....and kept her head.)<BR/><BR/>I'm trying to find myself in that crowded photo. I don't get to the beach very often, though. Were there beaches in Aquitaine, do you think?Jeannellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10506888396193293867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-21085501628824129422009-02-26T10:25:00.000-05:002009-02-26T10:25:00.000-05:00Well, that was a pleasent surprise. Thanks for th...Well, that was a pleasent surprise. Thanks for the link.<BR/><BR/>I got rapped on the hand about 10 years ago about the comma thing<BR/><BR/>blah, dog and cat<BR/>vs<BR/>blah, blah, and blah<BR/><BR/>where the 2nd is what I preferred, but the first is apparently what is supposed to be.<BR/><BR/>Now I can not tell you who rapped my hand, however, it got drilled into me.. so there you have it.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again,<BR/><BR/>Daisy, from near Toronto, Canada<BR/>with hubby, kid, dog and catAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-17309446865892614342009-02-26T09:49:00.000-05:002009-02-26T09:49:00.000-05:00Thanks for the referral, RWP. And for the links t...Thanks for the referral, RWP. And for the links to others who regularly read your blog. Those who are far, far away are as close as a click. Wonderful, is it not?<BR/><BR/>Sending a smile your way. :)Pat - Arkansashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11623638376731374600noreply@blogger.com