Very definitely not hypo

[sniffnoy]

I think this conversation speaks for itself.

(17:52:10) Sniffnoy: Elana is not a cabbage, nor is she a day of the week
(17:52:25) Sniffnoy: But cabbages that eat giant armadilloes just might actually be pandas
(17:52:39) Sniffnoy: Pandas that eat giant armadilloes, though, are very weird snow days
(17:52:54) Grenadier 32: ...
(17:53:03) Sniffnoy: This is why cabbage is bad for weeks, unless they only have Tuesdays
(17:53:10) Grenadier 32: Random item relationship generator?
(17:53:13) Sniffnoy: but weeks never only have Tuesdays
(17:53:18) Sniffnoy: you could call me that, yes :)
(17:54:51) Sniffnoy: if a week only had Tuesdays, it would have to have cabbage as well
(17:55:04) Sniffnoy: but that's a contradiction, QED weeks never only have Tuesdays
(17:56:52) Sniffnoy: Giant armadilloes do not make good pandas, or jackets.
(17:58:50) Sniffnoy: weeks make very good jackets
(17:58:57) Sniffnoy: Elana is not a week, she is an evil cabbage
(17:59:07) Grenadier 32: Can this be proven?
(17:59:21) Sniffnoy: No, it is an axiom of Evil Cabbage Theory.
(18:02:38) Sniffnoy: "I've got tofu in my ear. Can I be excused?"
(18:04:23) Sniffnoy: OOH! I want tofu in my ear!
(18:04:25) Sniffnoy: no, wait
(18:04:27) Sniffnoy: I probably don't
(18:04:36) Sniffnoy: considering what happened when I stuck Froot Loops in my ears
(18:04:41) Sniffnoy: I might attract giant armadilloes
(18:04:46) Sniffnoy: which would be really really neat
(18:04:54) Sniffnoy: but armadilloes don't eat tofu, do they?
(18:04:58) Sniffnoy: maybe giant ones do
(18:05:10) Sniffnoy: hm... giant armadilloes who eat cabbages and program in Perl!
(18:05:13) Sniffnoy: nah...
(18:05:19) Sniffnoy: cabbage hates tofu
(18:05:42) Sniffnoy: cabbage is a good way of getting rid of jackets, it just swallows them up
(18:08:16) Sniffnoy: am I right, or am I an evil cabbage that doesn't like mice or woodchucks?
(18:08:31) Sniffnoy: or am I just a fish in disguise as a day of the week?
(18:08:32) Grenadier 32: You haven't proven anything!
(18:08:38) Sniffnoy: perhaps not
(18:08:42) Sniffnoy: but you have!
(18:08:47) Grenadier 32: !?
(18:09:17) Sniffnoy: sure you have
(18:13:35) Sniffnoy: haven't you proven that fish don't eat cabbage, or that days of the week can never be weeks themselves?
(18:13:51) Grenadier 32: I...cannot speak of this!@
(18:15:42) Sniffnoy: can you write of it?
(18:15:55) Grenadier 32: I...cannot write!
(18:16:07) Sniffnoy: can you sign of it?
(18:16:42) Grenadier 32: All I can do is shoot holes in the shape of katakana symbols on walls
(18:17:18) Sniffnoy: OOH, neat!
(18:17:20) Sniffnoy: do my name!
(18:17:27) Grenadier 32: ...
(18:17:40) Grenadier 32: Is it worth the loss of a perfectly good wall?
(18:17:50) Sniffnoy: YES!
(18:18:02) Grenadier 32: You don't care about the cold wind?
(18:18:16) Sniffnoy: nah, I have a jacket
(18:18:21) Sniffnoy: it's a good jacket, made by pandas
(18:18:31) Grenadier 32: *sighs* Alright...
(18:18:37) Grenadier 32: *does so*
(18:18:54) Sniffnoy: YAY!

-Sniffnoy

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Quid agis viri !!
Omnes tui arx sunt habetur nos.

Comments

[ashleyisachild.livejournal.com]

Firstly, I cracked up over your entry.
Secondarily, you were right (about terminal prepositions), and Mirriam-Webster confirms this:
"...that so-called rule is, according to grammarian H.W. Fowler, nothing more than "a cherished superstition." It seems folks have been ending sentences with prepositions since the days when Old English was spoken, which makes terminal prepositions as entrenched a construction as a construction can be."
...
"The first criticism of the terminal preposition didn't appear until the late 1600s, and to this day, usage commentators do not know precisely why the poet John Dryden objected to it. It may have been because the terminal preposition does not exist in Latin."

There you go.

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

Exactly where in which of Merriam-Webster's publications is this? I want to be able to quote this, just in case people don't trust Richard Lederer. :) (Need to find that book, too...)

[ashleyisachild.livejournal.com]

http://www.m-w.com/wftw/03oct/101503.htm