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Re: Limits of Defence Stunts ?
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2011, 03:43:51 AM »
Sorry about that too I am dyslexic but I have defiantly been letting that go. It was sloppy of me and I will check my posts in future so as to avoid any further offense.   

Try doing what my dyslexic friend does.  It's a pain but doesn't add that much time to posting.

He writes what he wants to say in Microsoft Word.  That gives him the red and green squiggly lines.  Then he just fixes his text there and copies it, then pastes it as a forum post.

His posts look really nice on forums even though what he starts with looks like something a 6 year old wrote.  :)

Your posts really aren't /that/ bad so it should go pretty quickly for you.
Myself: If I were in her(Murphy's) position, I would have studied my ass off on the supernatural and rigged up special weapons to deal with them.  Murphy on the other hand just plans to overpower bad guys with the angst of her short woman's syndrome and blame all resulting failures on Harry.

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Re: Limits of Defence Stunts ?
« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2011, 03:57:54 AM »
And, really, my standards are a bit high; I just spent the previous semester doing a student-teaching seminar class, in 6th-8th grade English classes.  So I'll be the first to admit that I've become a bit hyper-sensitized to that sort of thing.  (and now that I know the reason, I'll keep it in mind, instead of assuming sloppiness, promise)

BumblingBear's suggestion is a good one, but remember that it won't catch everything.  Definitely/Defiantly, effect/affect, and so forth.  Or, as the wonderful little bit of humor I shared with my students went:

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly Marx four my revue
Miss steaks eye can knot sea.
Eye strike quay and type a word.
And weight four it two say
Weather I eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is made
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the era rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter- perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

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Re: Limits of Defence Stunts ?
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2011, 04:03:28 AM »
^^^ That made my eyes bleed.

Kill it.  Kill it NOW.
Myself: If I were in her(Murphy's) position, I would have studied my ass off on the supernatural and rigged up special weapons to deal with them.  Murphy on the other hand just plans to overpower bad guys with the angst of her short woman's syndrome and blame all resulting failures on Harry.

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Re: Limits of Defence Stunts ?
« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2011, 04:04:20 AM »
If you use firefox, you can use the After The Deadline plug-in to check your spelling and grammar from the browser.  

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Re: Limits of Defence Stunts ?
« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2011, 04:08:02 PM »
^^^ That made my eyes bleed.

Kill it.  Kill it NOW.
ROTFLMAO! 

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Note to self: BumblingBear is allergic to puns.  Symptoms include bleeding from the eyes.    :o  Thus, save weapons-grade puns for when clearing the field is necessary.   ;D
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Re: Limits of Defence Stunts ?
« Reply #20 on: February 09, 2011, 04:12:08 PM »
What do you call drinking Tequila at Night?
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Re: Limits of Defence Stunts ?
« Reply #21 on: February 09, 2011, 04:28:43 PM »
What do you call drinking Tequila at Night?
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 ::)  Lightweight.  Here, have a really nerdy one:

The new commander in Iraq hears that a Scottish regiment has a specialized field hospital that's doing fantastic things with the troops. He wants to know what is so special about the place, so he arranges a tour.

When he gets to the ward, it's full of patients with no obvious sign of injury or illness. He's perplexed, so goes up to the first bed and greets the soldier there.

The patient replies:

"Fair fa your honest sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin race,
Aboon them a ye take yer place,
Painch, tripe or thairm,
As langs my airm."

The general is confused, so he just grins and moves on to the next patient.

That soldier responds:

"Some hae meat an canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat an we can eat,
So let the Lord be thankit."

Even more confused, and his grin now rictus-like, the commander moves on to the next patient, who immediately begins to chant:

"Wee sleekit, cowerin, timorous beasty,
O the panic in thy breasty,
Thou needna start awa sae hastie,
Wi bickering brattle."

Now seriously troubled, the general turns to the accompanying doctor and asks, "Is this a psychiatric ward?"

"No, not at all," replies the doctor. "This is the Serious Burns unit."
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Re: Limits of Defence Stunts ?
« Reply #22 on: February 09, 2011, 04:36:34 PM »
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Re: Limits of Defence Stunts ?
« Reply #23 on: February 09, 2011, 06:02:07 PM »
"No, not at all," replies the doctor. "This is the Serious Burns unit."

Sadly, the general was too late to see the fatal spectacle of poor Robert browning.
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