Uppercut wrote:More worried about injuries playing on frozen turf with rocks for balls...but hey thats football I think Hawks will find it a challenge and respond
Old but Slow wrote:River, I assume you are not going to this one. And, by the way, good job by you and Irish Greg in Arizona! I miss having IG in the forum with his intelligence and vision.
Nope, not going to this one. I can't see trading our 20-30 degree weather here in the Tri Cities for 0-10 degree weather in Minnesota. Besides, I'm about out of vacation time. I'm off to South America next month, going to do Machu Picchu and an upper Amazon cruise with an old friend that's retired and widowed.
Agreed about IG, he's a very intelligent football fan, way more knowledgeable than me, and a lot of fun to hang out with. We've made a pact to attend two road games per year, this one being Cincinnati and Arizona. We have several in our sights next year, including Tampa Bay, Minnesota, and Santa Clara, depending on how the schedule breaks.
I'll put a burr under his saddle, tell him that a number of posters remember him with the same degree of appreciation that you and me do, and ask him to come in and lay down his marker.
obiken wrote:Its very close River, but I give the edge to you! I wish when I lived in MF that we could have met. What ever happened to Global?
obiken wrote:Sure 20 of them off the top of my head River.
Hawkstar wrote:Anyone ever really know Normy (or Normey) ~ I used to get a head ache trying to read and comprehend is post.
Oh yeah, on point. It's going to offing cold! Big ground and pound coming from the three headed rushing attack behind WT. All 298Lbs of him.
RiverDog wrote:On the one hand, reading Normey's butchering of the English language was a little like listening to Archie Bunker do the same. It made me laugh. But on the other hand, his musings were all too typical of what in my opinion is the degeneration of the basic, fundamental skill of reading and writing proper English in the generations that have followed my own. I suppose mykc14, being a teacher himself, can relate more than I can to this disturbing trend.
One of the reasons why I like this forum is that most of the contributing members are articulate enough to string together a couple dozen words and make a coherent form out of them. You would be amazed at the embarrassingly bad the English used by some of my managers that have way more job points than I have. Proper English is becoming a lost art.
RiverDog wrote:On the one hand, reading Normey's butchering of the English language was a little like listening to Archie Bunker do the same. It made me laugh. But on the other hand, his musings were all too typical of what in my opinion is the degeneration of the basic, fundamental skill of reading and writing proper English in the generations that have followed my own. I suppose mykc14, being a teacher himself, can relate more than I can to this disturbing trend.
One of the reasons why I like this forum is that most of the contributing members are articulate enough to string together a couple dozen words and make a coherent form out of them. You would be amazed at the embarrassingly bad the English used by some of my managers that have way more job points than I have. Proper English is becoming a lost art.
NorthHawk wrote:Part of the grammar and spelling in this forum can be attributed to mobile devices. I know that when I'm on one I make more mistakes than when on the PC even if the mobile device has spell check and my PC doesn't. For me it's the keyboard or rather lack thereof on the mobile device.
You are correct about bad English in today's society. I was unfortunate enough to be shown an excerpt from a resume from a job candidate who held a PhD and it was atrocious. They didn't tell me who it was, but they were appalled by the idea that someone with that much education could make it that far and still not know how to write a proper sentence. I could understand it a little if English was his second language, but he was born and raised in North America with English as his mother tongue.
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