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You would have to ask coasting, it was an inside joke, glad he picked up on it.

Pretty sure there was some Eddie Money in that statement.

Just a little :)

OK I got the Eddie Money line, it just took a few minutes.

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aero bikes with aerobelly stem set ups.

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Touching up scratches on bikes. It never looks good no matter how much care you take with the nail polish or model paint etc.

Oh my... not even I would suggest going that ridiculously far!

There be several grades of non-blue tape; the better (more expensive) non-blue tape is quite good - it just sticks more and the adhesive will do the crystallize and morph into zombie shiite sooner.

Dats a lot of leverage on that poor steerer. Those carbon ones asplode ya know. My eyes almost asploded just looking at it...

No, go back to school.

^ ahh, no.

First, there ain' no grammar rules, per se - there's study of usage, and th' publishing house style sheets; your pedantic schoolhouse grammar book(s) reflect a bit of both, along with a whole pile of crap carried along from the first English readers of Latin grammars, which were re-cooked Greek anyway, e.g. "personal pronoun" - what a sack o' crap! A pronoun takes the place of noun or noun phrase, peeerrriod. See "Modern English Grammar" and go on wif ya.

Second, the best dictionaries include both singular and plural examples (you see what me did there?).

Third, you din' follow Step Two correctly (emphasis added):

http://www.yak.net/fqa/138.html

Step Two: Use Really Big Words

[HR][/HR]
"This is a much simpler step in your ascendance to Divine [[a]hole]. All you'll
need for this is a thesaurus and a dictionary. Take some common place words and
replace them with obscure ones, instead of "beauty" say "pulchritude", instead
of "childish" say puerile. Make certain that you are properly using your new
obscure words; loudly correct anyone who uses them improperly."

Fourth, it ain't not the same as no superflous amount o' negatives, on account o' it be mainstream "correct" usage; besides, this ain' no Standard Grammar place!

So, yeah, you be WRONG!

Failed grammar nazi, yep, that's a peeve al' righ'!

...not a pet one tho', me ain't pettin' that lil' peeve.

Are you trying to suggest that early humans just started talking without making up rules for communication? How else would they know when they should use the pluperfect subjunctive (i.e. "Had you not effed things up, we would be eating that mastodon now rather than watching him run away")?

da fuq? You've been on the pipeweed as you posted this, eh? Sounds like you write for Motor Trend; their favourite bathroom reader is a thesaurus.

Let's do a bit of cliched Latin, per se, ergo, ad nauseam ad infinitum, etc.

Anyways, as Tiny Tim famously said, "A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, every one."

Nope!

...and, you're still wrong 'path.

"Second, the best dictionaries include both singular and plural examples (you see what me did there?)."

Actually, it's the pressure-sensitive adhesive that gets me so worked up.

Well, duh. Valid and correct, but they're the same type of dictionaries; singular and plural ones. Differences in colour, dimensions, publisher, etc, are irrelevant. Now try saying, "One of the best dictionaries is......." incorrect. But popular culture doesn't like to say, "One of the better dictionaries...." So have at it.

"... we would have been eating that mastodon..." ;)

Gah! Friggin' cavemen and their pluperfect subjunctive....

I never did learn all that pluperfect stuff at school. But as a cadet journalist, I had some cranky, imposing old sub-editors (akin to cavemen) storm out at me from time to time to verbally bash into me how stuff should be written. So I know how it's supposed to read, but be damned what the grammar is.

Wait a minute, wouldn't mine also be technically correct despite being in present tense in the subordinate clause because the of the conditional past in the first clause?

1. Trail gnomes who, instead of fixing drainage problems, clearing downed trees etc choose to "improve" tricky corners by building berms on them that a 3 year on a trike could ride fast;

2. Walkers on bike paths who walk down the centre, completely oblivious, and who invariably move in front of me just as I am about to pass - and *I* get yelled at! WTF - would you wander down the middle of a friggin' Interstate? What part of "bike path" is so hard to understand?

3. Suicidal rodents; and

4. The car/truck that zooms past, slams on the brakes, and then turns right in front of me. Fer crissakes dude, I'm doing like 35 km/h - that extra second of delay before your turn will not kill you - but your driving might kill me.

DG

I assume this is after you've done your part by announcing your presence with your bell or calling out "passing left" some distance back?

I'll add one on that note:

- Ipod zombies who wander aimlessly on MUP's and cannot hear my bell. ;)

Riders that pull up a hill and then coast down the other side without moving over. Drives me absolutely wild.

Pet Peeve, when "Good Will Hunting" cast takes over thread.

Long threads on BF that start in winter.