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Fantastic word game

As we go along adding sentences to The Fantastic Word Game, we help each other to learn more and more about the rules of grammar so we don't make common mistakes such as using a misplaced modifier, using a plural pronoun with a singular noun, or writing a run-on sentence, such mistakes would be embarrassing.

See what I did there? By the way, a teacher once asked me, "How would you punctuate this sentence? 'The ice-cream truck is coming.'" I replied, "I'd make a dash after it." :)
 
Embarrassing is right, LARR, especially since that last part (such mistakes would be embarrassing) is completely irrelevant and a sentence unto itself.

At the very least, you might (but probably not) get away with a semicolon between 'sentence' and 'such' but, really, just end it there after 'sentence'. Perhaps we'll have you and Jeff run some grammar classes rather than punnetry classes. First rule of thumb: you can't write the same way you talk. Just because you THINK it sounds correct doesn't mean it is. Maybe I'll just run the grammar classes myself. :)
 
A sentence unto itself was what the judge passed down to the guilty party.

Leaving the courtroom, Perry Mason said to his alter ego, "Burr, it's cold out today..."
 
The guilty party, namely me, deliberately made a run-on sentence to point out how a run-on sentence is a mistake but apparently not everyone here realized it was a deliberate mistake and now some of you think that I do not know proper grammar, so therefore I must find ways to get my points across without having to deliberately make a misteak.

Oops!
 
Make a misteak on your spelling test and your teacher will not be inclined to give you a break.

In one of my high-school English classes, a teacher gave us all a list of 20 grammatical rules and each rule was included in a sentence which broke the rule. I wish I still had that list. Two of the broken rules I remember are "Sentence fragments, which are to be avoided" and "A pronoun must be singular when they refer to a singular subject." I admire Rewind for the clever way he made a point by using a run-on sentence. And I would admire him even if he wasn't me!
 
A break in the cold snap this time of the year in the northern hemisphere is as welcome as a break in the heat wave this time of the year in the southern hemisphere.
 
In the southern hemisphere, winter is summer, summer is winter and fall is spring, and if you fall in the spring, you will get much more wet than if you spring in the fall.

What a clever sentence! Ogden Nash, Dr. Seuss, Richard Lederer---eat your heart out! :)
 
In the fall which is spring, and spring which is fall, we have often heard Sandy Nelson's "Topsy" and Cozy Cole's "Topsy Part 2", even from the rockfest at Illusions.

Ya know, if it were not for us by way of MarcB I'll bet Illusions would have disappeared long ago. They're a huge success because of us and a case of bottled water that never got served by a cranky <former> Walmart employee. They're an institution at this point.
 
Illusions is a great place to rock out on Saturday Nights with great drink specials and half off on mechanical bull rides.
 
Mechanical bull rides are a great way to pass the time in between music sets especially when the lovely young library interns are visiting Illusions for the evening.

Gosh, sure would be nice if MarcB dropped by TFWG for a visit or two. Would love to get an update on himself, his cart jockey career, his mom, Cockroach. Maybe I'll reach out to him.
 
The evening of the odds in the local Little League game resulted when one team's shortstop, who is six feet tall and weighs 175 pounds, had to stay home with stomach pain brought on by eating too much pizza at Chuck E. Cheese following his team's victory of the previous day.

Surprisingly, the Jackie Robinson West little league team in Chicago never tried to acquire that kid! http://www.npr.org/2015/02/11/385537438/chicago-little-league-team-stripped-of-u-s-championship
 
The previous day of the week was Monday

I'm back. Here's my update. I haven't had a steady job since July 2013. Illusions got rid of their mechanical bull in 2013 to make room for a karaoke lounge. The owner wants to retire now and is selling the place. - Don't tell anyone. And a guy got hurt on the mechanical bull at Illusions competitor and is suing the place known as The Caddy Ranch. A story that made nationwide news last week.
 
Monday applied for a job as Robinson Crusoe's secretary but he did not get the job, nor did his older brothers Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, but Robinson Crusoe finally found someone who met all qualifications and that person's name was Luscious Lizzie Lavender.

What were you expecting? That I would go for the obvious? :)
 
Farm animals are sheep, goats, cows, horses, pigs, ducks and geese and never will you see swordfish on a farm, but I can't help thinking how fast a farmer would be able to plow his fields if he could put a tandem harness around a pair of swordfish.

Fast enough to return them to the water, ideally.
 
Swordfish and pretty much all seafood is not my cup of tea nor is tea for that matter.

So, MarcB, how is Cockroach? Did you two ever kiss and make up? And what about Mom? How is she? Sad to hear that Illusions got rid of the bull but there will always be an Illusions with a mechanical bull in our little TFWG World. I'll head down there tomorrow to talk to the guy about buying the place.
 
For that matter I like a lot of seafood including shark which tastes like salmon.

His name was Rodent, not Cockroach. Cockroach was Theo Huxtable's friend of The Cosby Show. Anyway I tried reaching out to him a few times and he's not interested in accepting my apologies. The few times I have gone to Price Chopper (which is changing its name to Market 32 by the way) to pick up a few things for myself or for Mom he gives me a nasty look. --- Mom is doing well. She did not suffer serious injuries in a serious head-on car crash last summer. (Just some minor burns from the deployment of the airbags). It was the other persons fault. She just turned 65 in December. As for myself I'm hoping to find permanent employment somewhere. Things went South at Shoprite in the Summer of 2013 so I bid them adieu. I worked 2 days for a grocery store from Long Island that opened its first location in Connecticut at the end of October 2013. They changed my job without telling me. Then for 7 weeks I was the cart collector at the Bristol, CT Walmart. I was laid-off after Christmas 2013. In September 2014 I started working at the new Hobby Lobby in bristol. For 2 1/2 weeks I was part of the store set-up team. Then the store opened and I was a Cashier. They started laying-off all the idiots that didn't do their jobs and then after Christmas I was laid off too as things aren't going as good as the company thought they would. On my last day the manager said he had to lay-off another 15 people including me. So that's everything that's been happening.
 
Salmon sounds pretty disgusting to me although I realize there are people who find it to be pretty damned tasty.

But not me.

Marc, sorry to hear about Mom but glad she is ok. And sounds like you need to look into something other than retail. Of course, that's coming from a guy who's been in retail for 30 years. Once PowerWorld and TFWG buy Illusions, we'll appoint you as manager.

And happy to have you back here at TFWG (as I prefer). I don't necessarily expect you to stay fulltime. I'd be perfectly happy if you dropped by once or twice per week as long as you stay. We're open 24 hours, you know. And, by the way, TFWG2 exists over at Radio Insight in case you'd like to join us over there.
 
Tasty treats are made by Miss Silkie but she can not be too hasty when she makes them or they will turn out pasty.

So there is no more mechanical bull at Illusions...but Jeff and I will do our best to make sure there is always a considerable amount of bull on the Fantastic Word Game. No, no---no need to thank us.
 
Pasty pastries might not be so bad if they are supposed to be pasty, as in cheese danish, which Marc might have to stock up on if he keeps writing those good stories that put us in mind of Mike Hammer or Father Dowling Mysteries.

Yes, I am being serious, Marc. But hey, who am I to give advice to one who just kind of trips along and falls into success without realizing it.
 


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