Sailnet Pet Peeves

[CapnHand]

Originally Posted by tdw

To let 'loose' something is to free that thing, as in let loose the dogs of war, to 'lose' something is to misplace it, as is "quite obviously the Wombat has lost his marbles".

It's actually "let slip the dogs of war".

My biggest pet peeve is when people nit pick someone else's post for something like grammar, spelling or misquoting.

[tdw]

Originally Posted by CapnHand

It's actually "let slip the dogs of war".

My biggest pet peeve is when people nit pick someone else's post for something like grammar, spelling or misquoting.

That sir is true but as it was the word loose v lose that I was trying to illustrate I tuk librtees with the rignal.

[tdw]

I do make the point that I'm not specifically nit picking grammar or even spelling errors. We all make mistakes, typos are pretty damn easy to overlook and no one is perfect in their spelling. Maybe I'm better than some but am by no means perfect and doubt that I'd be a contender in a spelling competition. Big deal. Life goes on. It was just that this use of the word loose for lose seems to be of epidemic proportions.

[sailaway21]

I am dispatched daily to houses where they are "loosing" water pressure and so, am sympathetic to the Wombat's Wail. I am more than a little surprised by the number of people who assumed the fluffy little marsupial did not know what he was talking about. Bear in mind that he was discussing proper spelling and not political science.(g) Game, set, and match to Fluffy!

[Valiente]

Originally Posted by tdw

I'd have thought better of the Canadians however.

So, alas, did I at one point.

[tdw]

Originally Posted by sailaway21

I am dispatched daily to houses where they are "loosing" water pressure and so, am sympathetic to the Wombat's Wail. I am more than a little surprised by the number of people who assumed the fluffy little marsupial did not know what he was talking about. Bear in mind that he was discussing proper spelling and not political science.(g) Game, set, and match to Fluffy!

Fuzzy Fluff Rools !!

[tdw]

Originally Posted by Valiente

So, alas, did I at one point.

Your only chance is to uproot the entire country and move down under with the kangaroos and the kiwis.

[sailaway21]

tdw,
Don't toy with us Norte Americano's affections that way. If you can detach it, I'll tow it.

[tdw]

Originally Posted by sailaway21

tdw,
Don't toy with us Norte Americano's affections that way. If you can detach it, I'll tow it.

I realise the simplest method would be to detach at the Panama Canal but this would require all you USAians, Mexicans, Guatamalans, Hondurans etc to decamp to Columbia for a few weeks while we make the move. There are some serious advantages to be had in this scheme. Admittedly those advantages are in our favour but what the hell do we care. When the Sways Continental Removal Service has done it's job you can all go home again, you just need to remember to keep your noses above water but you'll get used to it eventually. Or drown. Your choice really. Now don't start whinging. All I ever hear about it the desirability of waterfront property and, trust me on this, you will have lots of waterfront, lots and lots and I hear stilted houses are all the rage this year.

[sailaway21]

I was thinking more along the lines of a direct rip of the page with the starting crease being the St Lawrence seaway. This might put Montana at risk, but the prospect of millions of French-speaking Canucks adjacent to Austrailia is worth the risk. What is the french for wombat?