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gabe_billings
President and CEO of Wirthlingsux Inc.

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[Click to view comic: 'Worst Episode Ever']

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

7-03-01 12:46pm (new)
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Spankling
Looking for love in ALL the wrong places, baby!

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yes

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7-03-01 1:52pm (new)
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crabby
I have an awesome avatar.

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Right?!?!?!?
But if you wanted it to be really annoying you should have used all CAPS!!!
PEOPLE HATE THAT!!!!

7-03-01 1:53pm (new)
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gabe_billings
President and CEO of Wirthlingsux Inc.

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Not me. I just installed a handy shareware program with a sophisticated algorithm that recognizes all-caps sentences and fixes them before displaying them on my screen.

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7-03-01 2:19pm (new)
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DexX
What the Cat Dragged In

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I just installed a handy little application that recognises wankers and filters out their posts.

So, who is this Crabby guy you guys keep talking about? ;)

PS. Love the zig-zag background, Gabe.

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7-04-01 10:18am (new)
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kaufman
Director of Cats

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So let me get this straight. It's a comic about Sam Kinison being reincarnated as a few fleas on Charlie Brown's shirt?

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7-04-01 9:46pm (new)
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gabe_billings
President and CEO of Wirthlingsux Inc.

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It's supposed to be Tony Danza, you idiot!

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

7-05-01 3:47am (new)
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crabby
I have an awesome avatar.

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I thought it was Gilbert Gottfried.

http://www.voicenet.com/~tobyclry/gilbertg.htm

7-06-01 11:27pm (new)
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bunnerabb
Some bloke.

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I've never used this glitch in the strip creator before, but on this one, it seemed appropriate. This would probably be the best thread use to post it.
[ Posted comic does not exist ]

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

7-10-01 2:25am (new)
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Jael
Resident Wench

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she sounds like that chick from Less than Zero.

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Women are fisher's of men because we all know.... The small ones you throw back. The medium ones you eat. The large ones you mount.

7-10-01 5:34am (new)
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ladyjdotnet
Snitcreator

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A title which always annoyed me, because it should be "fewer than zero".

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7-10-01 3:01pm (new)
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wirthling
supercalifragilisticexpialadosucks

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A title which always annoyed me, because it should be "fewer than zero".


That is not necessarily accurate, in my opinion. "Zero" can be used colloquially to indicate "none" in opposition to "some." If the object in question is not made up of discriminate parts, such as "tolerance," than "less" would be appropriate. The phrase "less than zero" would in such a case merely emphasize the certainty of the lack of whatever.

Example: "I have less than zero tolerance for pedantic dweebs."

In that case, "fewer than zero" would be grammatically incorrect.

Of course, one might argue that neither "less than zero" nor "fewer than zero" really make any sense grammatically, since there is no amount of countable things smaller than zero outside the realm of math. It is similar to the case of double negatives. Some modern grammarians argue that double negatives are an allowable exception from normal grammar rules when used for emphasis, while other grammatical traditionalists argue that double negatives ain't never acceptable.

Maybe Dr. Pedantic has an opinion on this issue...

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7-10-01 4:39pm (new)
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gabe_billings
President and CEO of Wirthlingsux Inc.

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Maybe that chick from Less than Zero is a math major and is talking about negative numbers.

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7-10-01 7:24pm (new)
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DexX
What the Cat Dragged In

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This is not a valid example, since the phrase is not complete without the word "tolerance" on the end. In this case, "zero" is not being used as a noun, as it is in the movie title, but is an adjective describing the noun "tolerance". Breaking it up into its component parts, you have to separate "than" and "zero" before "zero" and "tolerance". Besides, the movie title is not a piece of a larger sentence - it is an isolated phrase. Because "zero tolerance", as a grammatical unit, is measured by degree rather than number, less is the correct term to use.

On the other hand, here is another very similar example: "I have fewer than zero concerns about pedantic dweebs." "Zero" is again an adjective, but this time is specifying the numerical quantity of the plural verb, so "fewer" should be used, rather than "less".

Oh, and I glad DrPedantic hasn't had anything to say on this issue - he always smokes crack before commenting on this kind of shit.

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7-11-01 10:55am (new)
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