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Fantastic word game

The statisticians and calendar planners are jumping ahead to the summer band camp volunteer schedule to determine how much more manpower is needed.

I see that LARR is volunteering about 25 hours per week of his own time over the entire summer above and beyond his normal schedule here at PowerWorld. Very generous of you, LARR, thank you.
 
Manpower is needed which certainly qualifies me for the job, being that I am of the male sex.

[size=8pt]Hope that clears up any confusion on that other thread over there. Yes, I know I have some components that are somewhat, I guess, abnormally big for someone of my gender (puberty and Mother Nature were not kind to me at all) bit I always have been a Martian and always will be.

Whomever posed as me and spread false testimony to LARR's wife that I was a female will be tracked down and given a public lashing at dawn with the cat o' nine tails, at their own expense!
 
I am of the male sex last time I checked and it seems Mrs. LARR needs to be reminded by LARR how to tell the difference.

Darth, you're alive!! Seems you've been posting on just about every other thread that exists at Radio Discussions except for this one. Nice of you to drop in. I'm guessing we won't see you again for 3 or 4 weeks. ::)
 
How to tell the difference between dominant and tonic chords is really the thing, innit?

[size=8pt]Of course I'm alive. After the last couple years' project of finally bringing the University's computer facilities into the 1990s along with the rest of the world ran its course, Bruce's graduation last term and the building at the former VanPDX campus burning down, there really hasn't been much lately to report on that's remarkably interesting. Expect that to change this coming summer break when we retire the two 11/780s from operation after nearly 30 years and migrate to a rack of a half-dozen far more efficient and powerful (and modern) MicroVAXen.
 
Really the thing, innit, when Darth talks in all the computer jargon that the rest of us don't understand but, nevertheless, even when he has no work to work on, we'd still like him to be here because every little bit helps us on our course.
 
Our course to grow the thread will continue as I make contributions in which I vow to never to use semicolons again. ;)

I've always believed a sentence with a semicolon was considered one sentence. Either I've been wrong all these years or the rules of punctuation have changed since the "old days".
 
Again I'm going to see how much trouble I can stir up by using a semicolon; and by using runtogetherwords, and by using an ellipsis...and by PUTTING SOME WORDS IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, because I know that people will contribute more to the FWG when they're angry and upset.

That sentence is probably going to get me another figurative poke in the eye!
 
Irrational thought has led many individuals to lose all sense of dignity and self-respect and start engaging in all kinds of outrageous behavior and making spectacles of themselves in public, but I shouldn't say any more because I think I've already said too much about Tom Cruise.

Now the Scientologists will give me a poke in the eye!
 
Tom Cruise gets all the hot chicks in his movies and that's about the only good thing I can say about him.

scanman, my point (and I do have one) regarding semicolons was they are fine (although I still don't like them) if they are used correctly. They aren't to be just dropped haphazardly in a stream of words because you feel like it. According to dictionary.com, a semicolon is "used to indicate a major division in a sentence where a more distinct separation is felt between clauses or items on a list than is indicated by a comma, as between the two clauses of a compound sentence". I'm not going back a page or two to diagram your contribution but, as I recall, you could have reworded it slightly and added 'because' rather than dumping in a semicolon in the wrong space. I realize I'm probably making way too much of this for some people but I'm also trying to keep us at our rule of one sentence and, really, is it that big of a problem to write a sentence?? I suppose that's one reason why we don't have a lot of contributors here. Well, that, and I'm pissy to people about the rules. ;D Again, I'm just trying to keep our mostly one rule (one sentence) intact even if LARR is doing his best to completely junk that up.
 
The only good thing I can say about him is that Mister WMC is very fastidious and insistent about getting us to comply with the "one-sentence" rule, and I hope that he won't think I'm using "fastidious" as a combination of "fast" and "hideous."

Me? "Junk things up"? Me??? No no no! I have a bizarre sense of humor, that's all, and sometimes I get overly sarcastic, but I don't consider myself to be an up-junker (to coin a word).
 
All the services LARadioRewind performs are rather important contributions, when you consider that it gives our little game that backwards, Wonderland kind of atmosphere.
 
That backwards, Wonderland kind of atmosphere is something I suppose I will have to accept because it continues to move us forward to Page 10,000 even though that backwards issue is how TheDude was ousted from his own thread.

If it had been left to him, this thread would not have lasted nearly this long.
 
TheDude was ousted from his own thread because he wasn't being the most awesome dude he could possibly be.

He could have also tried being a cool dude or a radical dude as well. 8)
 
He could possibly be radical as he once asked the moderators (of Radio-Info at the time) to shut down the thread because we didn't stick to his vision.

He had left the thread for a very long time. When he came back, we had evolved from the simple one-word clue instructions on the first page, he didn't like it. He tried to upset things. He ended up leaving again, never to be seen again.
 
"We didn't stick to his vision," said one contact lens to the other after they both fell off Mister scanman's eyeballs and dropped into the tall grass, and now Mister scanman is afraid to mow the grass until he finds those contact lenses.

If I may add my two cents' worth---or three, adjusted for inflation---nobody would ever have any problem starting a sentence with only one particular word. The FWG is much more challenging when a sentence has to start with a lengthy phrase. I'll prove it to you: the next sentence I write will end with something such as "a herd of puce-colored llamas parasailing over Macchu Picchu while an Amish woman in a Barney Fife mask attemps to engrave the lyrics to Gangnam Style on a bowling ball carved out of butter." Well.....maybe I won't be that bizarre. That is a bit extreme, even for me.
 
Contact lenses may be necessary for some, but not all, to properly see places of absolute beauty and grandeur, where life is slower and everybody knows what's going on and what's expected of them, and which provides a stark contrast to the way life is back at the homestead where the air makes you choke, people don't know you and trust is a joke.

[size=8pt]That place is known as "Cascade Locks" (http://wikimapia.org/#lat=45.6756495&lon=-121.8693486&z=14&l=0&m=b) and in that particular place is a magnificent and historic landmass called "Thunder Island" (http://wikimapia.org/#lat=45.6686923&lon=-121.8970719&z=16&l=0&m=b). A lot of people don't know it, but I've heard that's where Jay Ferguson supposedly was hanging out when he wrote his song. It's necessary to stay there to see the sunset behind the western terminus of the Bridge of the Gods, especially when it's forest fire season east of the Cascades.

A few more miles out is the town of Leonard, ND (http://wikimapia.org/#lat=46.6517282&lon=-97.2495712&z=15&l=0&m=b) which doesn't have any hotels (so you'll need to make reservations in nearby Casselton or Fargo) but is a must-visit if you're a city boy.

As for me, I wear glasses. Tried contacts a number of years ago, couldn't get used to them, never went back.
 


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