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you may have seen it before but I hadn't

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather
and ask for it back when it begins to rain."

:))

I love the quote Rose. I must remember that one!

Given themselves big bonus's

Blimey JC you're not going to physically 'dig them up' for their DNA are you !!

A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.

I like that Dermot but will add if it's what you want and nobody else does

"If music be the food of love, prepare for some indigestion".

There's only one JC around here ...

Years ago I'd found a site by Guy Etchells that showed the marriages of all of the last of the Rushlands of England, in the second decade of the 1800s in Leicestershire -- a batch of sisters, two of whom were married to my grx3 grandfather and one of whom was my grx3 grandmother. (Well, she wasn't actually married to him -- good middle class citizens that they were, he wasn't legally allowed to marry his deceased wife's sister!)

I believe I'd acknowledged his generosity with that transcription in threads at this site long before that whole 1921 brouhaha was even a glint in his eye. ;)

For every answer, there is a question.

Love it Rose, had not seen that one.

Dermot ...that is so true-jl

There are more people who don’t than do.

Less is more

So, being in a pedantic mood, I thought I'd drop back in here.

(Apparently JiminyCricket has deleted the post that was here, so Rose and I both look like we're gibbering.)

RR -- Tsk and tsk.

"Quote which I liked"

Quote THAT I liked, surely.

;)

You are quite correct Janey, very sloppy of me lol. :D

It's one I have to keep my eye out for in my own writing ...

Please get me the rake that is in the garage.
- not any old rake, not the rake in the garden shed -- the rake in the garage

Please get me the rake, which is in the garage
- the rake, and that's where to find it

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/which.htm

But few writers have ever followed these rules systematically, and it’s easy to find examples in which "which" is used to start a restrictive clause. Sir Ernest Gowers, writing in the 1965 edition of Fowler’s Modern English Usage, comments rather sadly about this situation:

"If writers would agree to regard 'that' as the defining relative pronoun, and 'which' as the non-defining, there would be much gain both in lucidity and in ease. Some there are who follow this principle now; but it would be idle to pretend that it is the practice either of most or of the best writers."


We're in good company. ;)

This is the quote that I liked.

This is the quote, which I liked.

Of course, we won't get started on "quote" vs "quotation" ...

:D

ooh no please do not start on quote / quotation...I am doing something I haven't done for over a year and my grammar may suffer on account of it...



drinking red wine !

I wanna glass.

No red wine in this house, a bit too broke with having no parliament for a few weeks ... work should be starting pronto with the house resuming on the 2nd ... as all the email updates I've been getting this week have been indicating ...

Ordinarily, I'm sitting at the keyboard on a Friday afternoon (it's almost 3 p.m. here) waiting for the Friday afternoon dump, somebody needs something urgently for Monday 8 a.m. ... that they probably could have requested earlier, but hey, it's not their weekend they're screwing. That did restart last Friday. Almost had something 10 minutes ago, but it got cancelled before I'd read the email!

So here I sit for the next 3 hours, just in case ... but then what else would I be doing? ;)

No.1 is out getting groceries between the rain. If it starts up again before his return trip, I probably won't see him again. As I understand it, he goes up in a poof of steam if rain touches him.

I'm sure he took his umbrella, though.

Oh look! Umbrella! Thread back on track ...

I cannot help everyone but everyone can help someone.

Or, in a letter of reference about a former employee ...

Nobody could do the job better!

:-D