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Fantastic word game

Rule with an iron fist, you may, but I will only respond with a single finger.

I promise...it's the pointer finger, and I'm wagging it back and forth at you in disbelief. How in the hell is a lyric from "Life Is a Highway" two sentences, when Tom Cochrane himself wrote it as one? On this one, you're gonna have to educate the redneck.
 
High diving into this latest scrum 'tween rosecity and CT, I will, believe it or not, have to side with rosecity on this one.

Some of the lovely young library interns alerted me from afar and asked me to pop in. Sorry, CT, I see nothing wrong with this particular contribution from rosecity. rosecity, I suppose you COULD have changed it to 'Life is a highway that..' but, in this case, I recognized the contribution as a whole needed what you gave it. I will have to toss aside those demerits that Kayla so dutifully threw at rosecity.

And Stuart, Stuart, Stuart. Tsk Tsk Tsk. Think you know me, do you? Hmmm??? Hmmm??? ;)
 
This one was a sweet victory, and a little taste of retribution, considering how the Linguistics Czar's petite, young intern left my poor old cow brokenhearted and in desperate need of a certified therapist.

Stuart, I never realized you had met my mom. I'll give her your regards.
 
A certifed therapist is going to be need soon because I had to edit this post because someone beat me to the punch.

Since there is talk for handing out demerits, one of you can take some of mine, and that will mean less paperwork, which is good for the environment, and we know the DoL just loves to be environmentally friendly!

I will add my humble opinion for what it's worth (not much, I'm sure) on the "Life is a highway" mention. It doesn't matter what the original lyrics were; what matters is what was written, and in this case, what was written was grammatically correct.
 
Someone beat me to the punch the other day, and then did everything in his power to cover-up my wayward play.

...but then turned around and called me a sum' bitch tonight. I'm beginning to think Stuart needs to visit the therapist ahead of poor ol' Connie.
 
My wayward play cost my kickball team a crucial game during first-grade recess back in the early '60s, and I'm still having terrifying flashbacks.

Sign me up for a couch session with that therapist when Connie and Stu are done. I'll bring the intern. The shrink can bring his spouse or life partner if he (or she) wishes, or we can just make it a three-way. (Is this still G-rated, or have we crossed the PG-13 line now?)
 
Flashbacks to contributions past reveal this now long running sidebar of comical events got its start from someone we'll just leave nameless writing a poorly constructed, but certainly hysterical, sentence.
 
A poorly constructed, but certainly hysterical, sentence that I recall quite well was funny, indeed, but it also was grammatically correct, which meant that demerits were avoided by you-know-who.

You, rcm, will not be as fortunate. "Long running" should be "long-running," and you know what that means. Yep, those three demerits that someone (I believe he goes by "you-know-who") relieved you of a few posts back in a typically misguided, ham-fisted ruling are coming right back at you.
Kayla, file these under "r" and hop right back into my ... ummm ... office,
 
You-know-who, I know who, even Connie knows who, but does he know who, and would who admit to knowing him?

Now, you know cotton picking (cotton-picking??) well the Lone Star State edumacation system don't teach no hyphenationing. The Queen seems pleased, though, and says to keep them demerits coming. They're apparently so much softer than the typical one-ply we usually buy off The Amazon.
 
"The vest" could actually mean "the west" if it's being spoken by someone whose first language is German or Russian, neither of which contain a "w" sound.

Further comment on the "Life is a highway" demerit controversy. I could have sworn that there was a comma instead of an "and" after "highway" in rosecitymedia's sentence when I continued from it. That triggered my objection, citing the one-sentence rule. But now I see "and," which makes the sentence perfectly OK. What happened?
 
"A&W Root Beer," oddly enough, contains not a single "w" sound, which makes the above sentence factually incorrect but linguistically acceptable,

The "w" sound is heard at the beginning of "will" and "window." Unless you're Elmer Fudd and pronounce "root" as "woot," that sound is not in the phrase "A&W Root Beer." One and one-half demerits, subject to revocation by WMC, because I'm not sure if I have jurisdiction over factual errors.
 
Acceptable does not, in any way, describe The Linguistics Czar ending his sentence with a comma.

I'm in more shock that he went and made a misstep like that, than if I'd have grabbed a hold of a hot electrical wire[/b].
 
"The Three Martini Lunch" was a regular event for the first radio station owner I worked for, but thankfully, he was always jovial and quite agreeable when he returned to the office.

I learned early on that if I needed the boss to agree to something, it was best to wait until after lunch to ask him. However, it was also important to get his approval in writing because there was always the chance that he would not remember giving a yes answer the next day.
 
When he returned to the office, the Director of Linguistics realized that he needs to give himself some demerits for ending a sentence with a comma.

I have some demerits I will happily return to you. :D
 


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