Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2006

Whom is the Flonker?
I need to reconfigure the alias for questions at totally dash official punkt
(perry) com(0) and need to know where the alias map should point.
Certainly not because of eleemosynary concerns, but rather because I

UPDATED VERSION.
Even if you read this before, you should read it again since I UPDATED it
with more EXPLOSIVE DETAILS about these UNDERCOVER FBI and
NSA PSYCHOPATHS.

★ Xah's Lyrics Appreciation ★
Like It Or Not
Like It Or Not, is a fantastic song of Madonna↗ (b1958) of her
Confessions on a Dance Floor↗ album, released in 2005.

"Flat champagne" - no fizz, I guess:-)
But "made dishes" - would that be "non-appetizing," "plain"?
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Her relatives considered that the penury of her table discredited the

Which of the following is right?
1 Now, a bigger house is not just a luxury.
2.Now, a bigger house is just not a luxury.
(to indicate a bigger house is a necessity now.)

I'm setting up a program for a concert.  The text given to me reads:
Italics indicate soloists.
Should it be 'indicate' or 'indicateS' ?
I'd like to just reword it as "Soloists in italics", but don't dare

It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or
travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin
doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four,
or six children, all in rags and importuning every passenger for an

Here's a guy who have come to us for help in English.  The following
appeared in an Adobe Photoshop newsgroup I read:
could you point me a tutorial to make a sh.t with foldings like these
examples?

Is there any quote for this meaning? "Because we cannot see any mistake, we
assume thereis no mistake."

"Candy-a.s" a cowardly person.( They mean arse and they don't mean
candy floss or a donkey ). "Eye-candy". the expression doesn't really
exist outside of KDE it is meant to mean attractive icons. These yanks
are so f.cking stupid and they are too stupid to realise it.. Shameless

I read a sentence like that,
The old man kept walking back and forth outside the door, with his
hands putting in his pockets.
Usually we say we put things on the table. Then why not we use "with

Letter to the Editor in today's Lakeland Ledger:
"... Thank you to the Unitarian Universalist congregation for accepting
people for whom they are, not for what some think they should be."
Gary Eickmeier

I read a sentence like that,
The old man kept walking back and forth outside the door, with his hand
putting in his pockets.
We usually say we put things on the table. Then why don't we use "with

I always thought that a hoodie was a person who wore a hood.  Now the term
seems to be applied the hood itself.  So what do we call the person now - a
hoodieie?
David.

Seen on package for sugar-free Halls cough drops. Google indicates this
is associated with one of the artificial sweeteners (sugar alcohols?)
Why have I never heard of this before? What constitutes "excess
consumption"?