I don’t play the game… Sorry… I just give tips on it. I’d say my most effective range is about five feet in front of me, though, since I just throw coins at my opponent.
Why doesn’t “weird” conform to the I-before-E-except-After-C rule? I have often wondered this to myself and now am lucky enough to be able to wonder it to the DSS.
Bobzilla is one of my husband’s several nick-names. You surely are not the bobzilla in my house, are you? You don’t use his speech patterns. Very astonishing coincidence.
So it was my educators that let me down!! They only gave me part of the I before E mantra. Thank you DSS and bobzilla and, well DNT didn’t really help me with this conundrum but she made me laugh! So thanks!
Hey, Holly! I’m male. Or did you make a typo?
I never heard JohnB’s exception before, either; I just seem to be able to remember the exceptions. I don’t like to get hung up on the correctness, though, since these words can be a rich source of LOLZ.
I still remember my young brother, one Christmas many years ago, reading from the side of the box the tree lights came in: “These lights are weird…….”. What it actually said was “These lights are wired in series”. To this day, one of us is likely to use his version, any time something with lights isn’t working right.
Sure about the gender change, Droll. Those folks without a gender specific name – well, I usually assign them one on the basis of how interigent they sound (giggle and snicker). Because you’re so quick-witted I gave you the wrong gender. **waiting to be hit with cries of “Sexist”. All in jest, guys.
I liked your Christmas memory. All families have them I think. When my two daughters were growing up they complained about the fact that there were no Halloween carols. So we made this one up and still call each other and sing in each Halloween:
(sung to the tune of Jingle Bells)
*Jingle bats, jingle bats
flying through the air,
in your little red felt hats
you look so debonair*
You had Peskor. I had him twice: English 11 (1979) and Nature of Language (English 12 elective, Fall 1979). The man was brilliant. I teach HS English, and he’s my role model. He never got up from his seat behind his desk and still held us entranced–a genius of a teacher.
I think you nailed it. That makes a lot more sense, although I wouldn’t call it obvious. I just realised it’s been quite a while since I last used a match!
The drawing is not terribly high-quality, but it appears to be a square (in cross section) wooden kitchen match, of the kind most of us used to keep around the house until electrical stoves came to replace gas in most homes. I still find them indispensible in camping, for such tasks as lighting Coleman lamps. We haven’t been camping in several years, actually, but the Coleman lamps came in handy last February when we had that awful ice storm and were without electricity for five days (and we were lucky to have had it out only that long! Many folks in Kentucky went three weeks or more…)
Dreadful Spelling Sprite would be glad to correct your spelling here, if it were entirely clear whether you intended to say “euphemism” or “euthanasia.”
hardcore scenery = especially attractive scenery? Colloquially that makes sense though it’s a strange way to say it, but on a sign it’s still downright comical.
Now THAT is my kind of fire making!
Baby, you can light my fire…
And that’s when the scenery area gets hardcore!
I prefer hardcore scenery to be at least a little fiery!
Perhaps both!
Who pays attention to the dialog when watching p0rn anyway???
I think I’ve seen this film.
The fireman puts out her fire with his 12 inch hose!
But how is there fire to put out? did they not read the “no firemaking” sign?
Perhaps “fire extinguishing” is ok though.
They just didn’t expect to start a fire by rubbing two things together.
That sort of thoughtlessness as to the consequences of one’s actions could lead to worse than accidental firemaking – they should be more carfeul!
It is everyone’s responsibility to practise safe sightseeing.
If you already have cataracts, however, it is not necessary to put condoms over your eyes.
So safe sight-seeing is no sight-seeing? Is this that old “Just say NO” to sight-seeing campaign? The original one worked soooo well.
Yeha, it’s a remarkably effective approach. Tell an addict to “just say no” to drugs. So simple!
And so effective!
Only you can prevent bush-fires.
I undress myself and extinguish it.
Thank you for sharing.
That’s why they’re putting it out, before they get caught.
Speaking of putting out….
The music is worse in the Hardcore scenery area. It just keeps repeating itself.
Please make your fire in the areas with more tame scenery.
How am I supposed to level my cooking?
Just keep fighting monsters until you have enough experience.
Range lvl?
Equip your ranged weapon, and you should have no problem.
What’s Your range lvl?
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Omg update ****** RS up.
Yaawwwnnnnnnnn
I don’t play the game… Sorry… I just give tips on it. I’d say my most effective range is about five feet in front of me, though, since I just throw coins at my opponent.
I used to.
Oh snap!
You have to go to the softcore area to do that .
I prefer softcore scenery myself.
If it didn’t say anything on the sign and i saw it while walking by I would think it meant no fire baseball : P
or no hitting fire <_<
I’d hit that.
Holy f–king sh-t! That scenery is f–king hardcore!!
Yet another case of totally appropriate avatar facial expression (:
WIN!
you know I can usually guess what something in Engrish is supposed to mean….this one however has got me quite stumped.
It’s not how a native English speaker would normally say it, but the only thing that’s wierd rather than “unusual syntax” is the word “hardcore”.
Dreadful Spelling Sprite notes that “weird” is spelled weirdly.
Dear Dreadful Spelling Sprite,
Why doesn’t “weird” conform to the I-before-E-except-After-C rule? I have often wondered this to myself and now am lucky enough to be able to wonder it to the DSS.
Sincerely, Wierd Hol Yankee Witch
To be summed up in three words (one being a contraction),
because it’s dumb.
More: Vein, reign, neighbor, beige, deity, feisty, eight, et cetera…
Bobzilla is one of my husband’s several nick-names. You surely are not the bobzilla in my house, are you? You don’t use his speech patterns. Very astonishing coincidence.
Old MacDonald had a farm,
EIEIO…
The way I learned the rule was:
I before e except after c,
or when sounded as “a” as in sleigh or weigh.
Exceptions: Sheik seized weird height weir either neither leisure.
So it was my educators that let me down!! They only gave me part of the I before E mantra. Thank you DSS and bobzilla and, well DNT didn’t really help me with this conundrum but she made me laugh! So thanks!
Hey, Holly! I’m male. Or did you make a typo?
I never heard JohnB’s exception before, either; I just seem to be able to remember the exceptions. I don’t like to get hung up on the correctness, though, since these words can be a rich source of LOLZ.
I still remember my young brother, one Christmas many years ago, reading from the side of the box the tree lights came in: “These lights are weird…….”. What it actually said was “These lights are wired in series”. To this day, one of us is likely to use his version, any time something with lights isn’t working right.
Sure about the gender change, Droll. Those folks without a gender specific name – well, I usually assign them one on the basis of how interigent they sound (giggle and snicker). Because you’re so quick-witted I gave you the wrong gender. **waiting to be hit with cries of “Sexist”. All in jest, guys.
I liked your Christmas memory. All families have them I think. When my two daughters were growing up they complained about the fact that there were no Halloween carols. So we made this one up and still call each other and sing in each Halloween:
(sung to the tune of Jingle Bells)
*Jingle bats, jingle bats
flying through the air,
in your little red felt hats
you look so debonair*
“Sorry about the gender change” not sure…sorry!
I seem to be in touch with my feminine side. Fortunately, she enjoys it.
“Sorry about the gender..” not “sure”! Sorry!
Is there an echo in this room?
I didn’t hear one.
I didn’t hear one.
Thank Mr. James R. Peskor, my 10th grade English teacher, and the first teacher I ever had who really taught the most important thing, how to think.
James R Peskor?, Walt Whitman HS? He was awesome!
Beyond awesome. A genius. He loved The Doors and Chaucer. What more could you want out of a HS English teacher?
You had Peskor. I had him twice: English 11 (1979) and Nature of Language (English 12 elective, Fall 1979). The man was brilliant. I teach HS English, and he’s my role model. He never got up from his seat behind his desk and still held us entranced–a genius of a teacher.
I’ve never heard the “or when sounded as an ‘a’ ” bit before.
Old MacDonals was dyslexic,
IEOEI
And on that farm he had a god……
With a wofo wofo here, …..
and the whole cricket bat in the fire part. that is quite odd.
I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be a thermometer, but why they thought it belonged on the sign is another mystery.
I’m sure you’ll feel foolish when I point this out, but it is, rather obviously, a burning match.
I think you nailed it. That makes a lot more sense, although I wouldn’t call it obvious. I just realised it’s been quite a while since I last used a match!
The drawing is not terribly high-quality, but it appears to be a square (in cross section) wooden kitchen match, of the kind most of us used to keep around the house until electrical stoves came to replace gas in most homes. I still find them indispensible in camping, for such tasks as lighting Coleman lamps. We haven’t been camping in several years, actually, but the Coleman lamps came in handy last February when we had that awful ice storm and were without electricity for five days (and we were lucky to have had it out only that long! Many folks in Kentucky went three weeks or more…)
I KNEW THAT !!!
Funny. Funny. Funny.
Is ‘fire making’ a euphanism for something hard core?
Dreadful Spelling Sprite would be glad to correct your spelling here, if it were entirely clear whether you intended to say “euphemism” or “euthanasia.”
The grass is shaved off in the hardcore park.
I did not realize that I was going to be in a hardcore scene.
But you knew we were playing hardball here, didn’t you?
The scenery prefers Brazillian waxing, or so I’ve erm…seen.
That’s bull. I’ve seen plenty of bats in hardcore scenery making areas. And in the ‘scenery’ too.
Of course you have, although you might not have realized it at the time.
I believe that X in a square is a Wingding
Meaning “Do not”?
Or maybe Wing Ding is the name of the signwriter.
I always thought X in a square was a strike.
lmao!!!
hardcore scenery = especially attractive scenery? Colloquially that makes sense though it’s a strange way to say it, but on a sign it’s still downright comical.
Ya offcourse Hardcore always rock and HARDCORE SCENERY AREA is my favourite, its really a fantastic area..
dude… i wonder what the goings-on are at a hardcore scenery area…?
Engrish sexy