I like how the referree one adds a third sense of fair into the meanings of fairest of them all — I recently came to understand how people justifiably find something cringe about it meaning both most attractive and lightest complexioned in a way that equates them.
(Let’s try that again, with the HTML special characters protected.)
About the Mythtickle:
Are the remains of Egyptian Charlie Brown in that jar?
The snake’s speech bubble has a forked tongue!
I love the rhyming of <eye> before <bee> except after <sea>. Except … the snake says: “You spelled <bee> <eye> <bird> <snake> wrong. <eye> before <bee> except after <sea>, dude.” That is, he gave the wrong spelling first. That’s not how it’s usually done.
If someone misspelled the word “pie”, I would say:
“You spelled p-i-e wrong, dude. It’s I before E except after C.”
I wouldn’t say:
“You spelled p-e-i wrong, dude. It’s I before E except after C.”
Jack, you are of course correct. Also worthy of an award for pedantry. Which is not an insult–I’ve received several (virtually, of course)!
Apart from the ordering issue, this comment was totally helpful, as I hadn’t realized to say the hieroglyphs as beeeye and especially sea. The spelling advice is much more cogent when that isn’t taken as squiggles .
Mitch4, I only realized the sea joke when I was composing my reply. My knowledge of hieroglyphs is minuscule—I only know that the squiggles mean water due to the UK TV quiz show Only Connect. Here’s the episode where hieroglyphs are introduced in a breathtaking response to Greek letters being called “pretentious”.
Bingo, Mitch4 (4).
I feel for the mis-speller. Back in elementary school I had a major problem with seplling (as I seplled it). My third grade teacher took the time and had me stay after school to help me resolve the problems. While I might not always know how to spell a word, it did get me to the point that misspelled words would look wrong to me and I would know to check the word and find out the correct spelling. And,of course, the wonderful world of computers and spell check in the more recent years has helped me greatly also.
Hmm. just thought seplling or misseplling or even miss seplling might be a good password at some time.
Been a long week – it was bad enough that it snowed a small bit at the start of week, but husband has been developed a major fear of snow and we are about to get snow over the weekend – now raised from maybe 6 inches to double that – or more. Ran out food shopping today as he is afraid we will starve to death when we cannot go out for a week or more due to the one snow storm. We have a small company which does our (*very limited amount needed) mowing in the warm weather and our snow clearance in the cold weather – they are very nice and put up with his odd requests – such as asking them to clear the snow off the cars first so we do not end up throwing it back where they cleared.
I figure we will be watching a lot of movies on TV to keep his mind otherwise busy – have an extensive collection of Beta, VHS, DVD and Blue Ray – some movies on all 4 formats – and I will try to keep him to movies with nice weather in them. Movies always soothe him. A least since he retired he no longer has to deal with whether or not to close for snow day the children’s mental health agency/school of which he was Exec director for decades.
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I like how the referree one adds a third sense of fair into the meanings of fairest of them all — I recently came to understand how people justifiably find something cringe about it meaning both most attractive and lightest complexioned in a way that equates them.
(Let’s try that again, with the HTML special characters protected.)
About the Mythtickle:
Are the remains of Egyptian Charlie Brown in that jar?
The snake’s speech bubble has a forked tongue!
I love the rhyming of <eye> before <bee> except after <sea>. Except … the snake says: “You spelled <bee> <eye> <bird> <snake> wrong. <eye> before <bee> except after <sea>, dude.” That is, he gave the wrong spelling first. That’s not how it’s usually done.
If someone misspelled the word “pie”, I would say:
“You spelled p-i-e wrong, dude. It’s I before E except after C.”
I wouldn’t say:
“You spelled p-e-i wrong, dude. It’s I before E except after C.”
Jack, you are of course correct. Also worthy of an award for pedantry. Which is not an insult–I’ve received several (virtually, of course)!
Apart from the ordering issue, this comment was totally helpful, as I hadn’t realized to say the hieroglyphs as bee eye and especially sea. The spelling advice is much more cogent when that isn’t taken as squiggles .
Mitch4, I only realized the sea joke when I was composing my reply. My knowledge of hieroglyphs is minuscule—I only know that the squiggles mean water due to the UK TV quiz show Only Connect. Here’s the episode where hieroglyphs are introduced in a breathtaking response to Greek letters being called “pretentious”.
Bingo, Mitch4 (4).
I feel for the mis-speller. Back in elementary school I had a major problem with seplling (as I seplled it). My third grade teacher took the time and had me stay after school to help me resolve the problems. While I might not always know how to spell a word, it did get me to the point that misspelled words would look wrong to me and I would know to check the word and find out the correct spelling. And,of course, the wonderful world of computers and spell check in the more recent years has helped me greatly also.
Hmm. just thought seplling or misseplling or even miss seplling might be a good password at some time.
Been a long week – it was bad enough that it snowed a small bit at the start of week, but husband has been developed a major fear of snow and we are about to get snow over the weekend – now raised from maybe 6 inches to double that – or more. Ran out food shopping today as he is afraid we will starve to death when we cannot go out for a week or more due to the one snow storm. We have a small company which does our (*very limited amount needed) mowing in the warm weather and our snow clearance in the cold weather – they are very nice and put up with his odd requests – such as asking them to clear the snow off the cars first so we do not end up throwing it back where they cleared.
I figure we will be watching a lot of movies on TV to keep his mind otherwise busy – have an extensive collection of Beta, VHS, DVD and Blue Ray – some movies on all 4 formats – and I will try to keep him to movies with nice weather in them. Movies always soothe him. A least since he retired he no longer has to deal with whether or not to close for snow day the children’s mental health agency/school of which he was Exec director for decades.