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Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7613
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 8:54 pm: | 
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So many stupid threads started by dopey libs.. Rather than respond to each pointless post I just assume make this blanket statement.
Libs are morons. |
The3ofUs
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Username: The3ofus
Post Number: 77
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 8:59 pm: |
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Don't you wish just once that you had something really, really smart to say? |
tom
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Username: Tom
Post Number: 5363
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 9:04 pm: |
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I think the idiom you're looking for is actually "I'd just as soon make this blanket statement:" (note the colon; ending with a period doesn't seem right here because you're setting up the statement). But the praiseworthy alliteration of "pointless post" poses your position in a practically picture-perfect way.
And your first sentence (fragment, actually) should only have one period.
But your last sentence is well-done. Third time's a charm! Some day if you keep practicing you'll be able to write grammatically correct sentences of four or even five words. |
Mr. Big Poppa
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Username: Big_poppa
Post Number: 812
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 9:11 pm: |
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Tom, 
8:54pm on a Friday, at least Strawberry can blame it on the beer. |
Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7614
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 10:10 pm: |
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Actually, Tom is wrong as well.
The saying is "I Just as soon". There's no such thing as "I'd just assume" or "I just assume."
Poor Tom. Even when he attempts to sound smart, he makes it clear he's not.
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Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 2173
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 10:29 pm: |
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The saying is: "I'd (short for 'I would') just as soon," meaning, given a choice, I would rather do one particular thing (than another).
That's English and American usage for you, Straw. People who read a lot of English are familiar with Robert Frost's (he's an American poet) sentence, "I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."
Then there's a George Strait song (he's an American country singer):
You say you want to talk it over
Want to try again
But there's no way of workin' out
This love that we're not in
We could talk and talk and accomplish nothin'
We've tried it all before
It's time somebody did some walkin'
And I can see the door
So I'd just as soon go
I'd just as soon say goodbye
There's no reason to prolong
What we should just let die
And I'd just as soon stop
I'd just as soon end the madness
Knowin' what I know
I'd just as soon go.
All this thread does is validate one's suspicions that Strawberry's vocabulary consists at best of two syllable words, the most frequent one being "moron." He does use the word "lib," ( 1 syllable ) leading me to assume he has never dared to venture into its 3 syllable version li-ber-al.
A dictionary and a phrase book of American usage would help you a lot, Straw. They have those in Florida, don't they? I could imagine what the improvements would bring. |
Twokitties
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Username: Twokitties
Post Number: 477
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 10:36 pm: |
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Straw: How funny that you suddenly point to grammar as an indication of intelligence? NUCULAR!!!!!!!! |
Factvsfiction
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Username: Factvsfiction
Post Number: 1230
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 10:50 pm: |
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innisowen-
So I trust the SOMA MENSA meeting is always held at your house?
I think that if you read the posts on MOL you will find some posters that more than validate Straw's opinion. But I would think you would also find that on a message board located in a red state area of NJ.
A massive concentration of political likeminds tends to create an effect akin to those 2 banjo players in "Deliverance". Never healthy.
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anon
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Username: Anon
Post Number: 2895
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 10:57 pm: |
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Talk about starting a stupid thread! |
Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7615
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 11:01 pm: |
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Innisowen is up to 2173 posts and just about all of them are about me..Talk about an addiction..
"What's Straw saying?? What's Straw saying? OMG, Did Straw say something?"
Son, I do believe we had this talk once but obviously it's time we do so again. You need to create your own identity on MOL rather than attempt to attach yourself to others.It's why we still commonly refer to you as a pointless troll. Frankly, we don't even know if you're a liberal since you never say anything of substance.
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Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 2175
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 11:10 pm: |
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Straw;
I have responded to your posts. That's true.
However, on this note, you were just grammatically dumb, and you stepped in the turds by yourself. Nobody had to help you.
The indicator shows you have 7615 posts, and I wouldn't bother to look them up but I'd bet that most of them consist of one two syllable word. In your case, brevity is NOT the soul of wit.
So much for YOUR identity on MOL.
Have a nice coup de soleil. |
Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 2176
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 11:14 pm: |
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Fiction:
You object to Robert Frost? My god, every school kid in this country reads at least some of his poems at one time or another.
Every radio station in every town in this country plays a George Strait song at least once in a while.
What's your problem? You'd think I was quoting from Xenophon's Anabasis.
It really does all go back to your reading ability. |
Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7616
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 11:29 pm: |
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Innisowen validating the name of the thread.. |
Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 2177
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 12:13 am: |
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Strawberry:
I read your posts and say to myself "consider the source."
What would you "just assume" say now (to use your original expression)?
Knopf publishes a good dictionary of American usage. Want the ISBN? |
CFA
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Username: Cfa
Post Number: 1673
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 4:52 am: |
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I still can't believe that Straw is a decent person when you meet him because he's definitely an ••• hole on here. |
The3ofUs
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Username: The3ofus
Post Number: 78
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 6:34 am: |
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Because he (anyone) can fake being a decent person in real life, where on here his true colors show because he is not in "social check" given that he and his fingers are his only babysitter.
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The3ofUs
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Username: The3ofus
Post Number: 79
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 7:11 am: |
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Strawberry, instead of your usual "bad news for libs" campaign extolling the virtues of Bush and his administration while insulting your neighbors at the same time, why don't you ever just start a thread on something really great your president is doing or has done and then defend him articulately without condescension? You see, your problem is that you start every thread and post with a negative even when you mean to be positive in your own weird way. You may find that you gain some respect on this board because right now it must suck to be you, given that Southerner and the exiled SLK are the only guys on here that ever agree with you.
Note to self: If I ever feel like I am unliked or unwanted on MOL consistently, make like a banana and split. It is not good for the psyche to be constantly ridiculed, even online. |
jeffl
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Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 1800
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 8:24 am: |
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I rarely venture into the Political Soapbox but did this morning. It's just amazing to me, after all these years, Straw can write "Libs are morons" and get so many people to respond angrily. It's Pavlovian. |
Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7617
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 8:49 am: |
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I agree with Jeffl. It's comical. |
jeffl
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Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 1801
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 9:14 am: |
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Straw, do you fish? I've got to believe you're a great fisherman. |
Strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7618
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 9:29 am: |
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Here and there. I'd love to take up fly fishing. Have yet to try it. |
llama
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Username: Llama
Post Number: 803
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 10:16 am: |
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Sounds like the perfect activity for Strawberry...
Men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Southerner
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Username: Southerner
Post Number: 1375
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 10:31 am: |
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"make like a banana split"
This is so easy. |
tom
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Username: Tom
Post Number: 5366
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 10:52 am: |
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So does that mean Straw is like some kind of brain-damaged Pavlov? Years after proving that his dogs drool, still sitting there ringing his bell and giggling hysterically when they do? |
Southerner
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Username: Southerner
Post Number: 1377
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 11:13 am: |
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Yes. But it's fun.
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Glock 17
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Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1621
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 12:19 pm: |
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Libs are morons, correct, strawberry. But so are Conservatives. Anyone who aligns themselves with either of the two ruling parties of this country is essentially a fool. |
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