b. mitch to take calls around 2 or 2:20 pm

[hifigator]

bubbrubbhoya said:

hifigator said:

You kid yourself. In the world of College Sports, right now there is clearly only ONE team with claim to the label "The Team" and that would of course be ... to steal a phrase from Ohio St ....

THE Florida Gators!

#1 in Football
#1 in Basketball last year
#1 in Basketball this year
# 1 in Recruiting
#1 in Gynastics
and so many others we forget ...


We have an initiative to officially change the name of "Gainesville" to "Titletown."

Certainly not #1 in academics, otherwise you would know that "THE" isn't a "phrase," it's simply a word. And have I mentioned how much hatred tacking that word onto college names inspires in me? Don't you have alligators to wrestle, or anything to do other than post completely irrelevant/stupid posts on a board that has no bearing on your interests? Just wondering.

I will give you that one although that is somewhat debatable and in any case far from egregious error.

In any case if you would like to release the grammar and spelling police in full force then I am game. I don't think you really want to do that.

[Filo]

Whoa. Bubbrubb, that's sounds like a threat, dude. Maybe hifi wants to challenge you to a spelling bee.

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hifigator said:

bubbrubbhoya said:

Certainly not #1 in academics, otherwise you would know that "THE" isn't a "phrase," it's simply a word. And have I mentioned how much hatred tacking that word onto college names inspires in me? Don't you have alligators to wrestle, or anything to do other than post completely irrelevant/stupid posts on a board that has no bearing on your interests? Just wondering.

I will give you that one although that is somewhat debatable and in any case far from egregious error.

In any case if you would like to release the grammar and spelling police in full force then I am game. I don't think you really want to do that.

Yeah, bubbrubb, be careful. Hifi might challenge you to spell "gynastics" better than he did.

We use standard English spelling and grammar here, hifi. Your swamp rules don't apply.

[hifigator]

Cam, you aren't supposed to use the upper case "E" in that context. Personally I think that is a dumb rule, but they didn't ask me.

Secondly, if I spelled gymnastics like that then I made a mistake for sure. It is a "typo" but a mistake nonetheless.

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hifigator said:

Cam, you aren't supposed to use the upper case "E" in that context. Personally I think that is a dumb rule, but they didn't ask me.

Secondly, if I spelled gymnastics like that then I made a mistake for sure. It is a "typo" but a mistake nonetheless.

Dude, seriously... brasky pulled an ol' Number 6 on the wife and daughters. Let it go. No reason to torment us here.

[dajuan]

hifigator said:

In any case if you would like to release the grammar and spelling police in full force then I am game. I don't think you really want to do that.

Beware - Lichoya is the grammar police.

[bubbrubbhoya]

hifigator said:

bubbrubbhoya said:

Certainly not #1 in academics, otherwise you would know that "THE" isn't a "phrase," it's simply a word. And have I mentioned how much hatred tacking that word onto college names inspires in me? Don't you have alligators to wrestle, or anything to do other than post completely irrelevant/stupid posts on a board that has no bearing on your interests? Just wondering.

I will give you that one although that is somewhat debatable and in any case far from egregious error.

In any case if you would like to release the grammar and spelling police in full force then I am game. I don't think you really want to do that.

BubbRubbHoya accepts your challenge, my foolish, feebleminded, Florida friend (what I just did is a rhetorical device called "alliteration"). Let the inaugural (that means "first (1st)") HoyaTalk Grammar and Spelling Police Challenge begin! Your first challenge, should you be so bold as to accept it, is to deconstruct the following passage in which I recently participated. Please point out all errors in spelling, grammar, and syntax. You might want to get out your kids' Warner's grammar book to help you out in this one.

Me: "Well you wanna' wooWOOOO!! It's dat wooWOOOO! Ya know what I'm sayin? Then you got the flows...then it's about the flowmasta's and..."
My Lil' Sis: "It's decoration, man, it's just fo' decoration, thas it and thas all, man, we do it for decorations."
Reporter: "Do you have it on your car?"
My Lil' Sis: "Yeeeaaaahh, I got it on my car."
....
Reporter: "Some neighbors are saying, "Waaayy too loud."
Me: "Thas only in the mohnin'. Ya s'pose to be up cookin' breakfas' or somethin' by then thas all. Thas like an alarm clock...wwoooWOOOOO!!!!"

I cut off the interview after that, because I had to drive away (a task hindered by several parked cars and a stop sign). OK hifi, you answer my challenge, then you get to challenge me. That's how it works. Welcome to HoyaLand gynastics lover (doesn't it sound dirtier with that spelling?); this ain't no Gators Engrish class.

[Filo]

BubbRubb - sad to say, I know exactly what you are talking about in this post. Classic.

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bubbrubbhoya said:

BubbRubbHoya accepts your challenge, my foolish, feebleminded, Florida friend (what I just did is a rhetorical device called "alliteration"). Let the inaugural (that means "first (1st)") HoyaTalk Grammar and Spelling Police Challenge begin! Your first challenge, should you be so bold as to accept it, is to deconstruct the following passage in which I recently participated. Please point out all errors in spelling, grammar, and syntax. You might want to get out your kids' Warner's grammar book to help you out in this one.

Me: "Well you wanna' wooWOOOO!! It's dat wooWOOOO! Ya know what I'm sayin? Then you got the flows...then it's about the flowmasta's and..."
My Lil' Sis: "It's decoration, man, it's just fo' decoration, thas it and thas all, man, we do it for decorations."
Reporter: "Do you have it on your car?"
My Lil' Sis: "Yeeeaaaahh, I got it on my car."
....
Reporter: "Some neighbors are saying, "Waaayy too loud."
Me: "Thas only in the mohnin'. Ya s'pose to be up cookin' breakfas' or somethin' by then thas all. Thas like an alarm clock...wwoooWOOOOO!!!!"

I cut off the interview after that, because I had to drive away (a task hindered by several parked cars and a stop sign). OK hifi, you answer my challenge, then you get to challenge me. That's how it works. Welcome to HoyaLand gynastics lover (doesn't it sound dirtier with that spelling?); this ain't no Gators Engrish class.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! EPIC!!! I know its thrown around a lot, but for real.... post of the year candidate.

Try this grammatically correct sentence on for size:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

[hoyatables]

Unbelievable thread, gang. Keep up the good work.

[Coast2CoastHoya]

This board gets better and better with each passing day ....

So who's going to officiate the Challenge?

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tothebeach said:

This board gets better and better with each passing day ....

So who's going to officiate the Challenge?

I nominate The Attorney General. Hopefully this will get him locked in on hifi, and get him so Editeded off he deports that troll to Abu Ghraib or some other "detention center" where he'll have an "Oz"-like experience, if you know what I mean (think the shower scene in "American History X").

[ExcitableBoy]

hifigator said:

I find that 5th ammendment rather humorous.

So wait, HiFi, you do or do not support The Fifth Ammendment?

Because if The Attorney General is on your case, as has been suggested, you might want to come out in favor of the 5th - it will probably come in handy down the road.

[Coast2CoastHoya]

buffalohoya said:

tothebeach said:

This board gets better and better with each passing day ....

So who's going to officiate the Challenge?

I nominate The Attorney General. Hopefully this will get him locked in on hifi, and get him so Editeded off he deports that troll to Abu Ghraib or some other "detention center" where he'll have an "Oz"-like experience, if you know what I mean (think the shower scene in "American History X").

I second the nomination and move for unanimous consent.

[albertogonzales]

The Fifth Amendment to the revolutionary document that is the Constitution of these United States of America is perhaps the only point in which the Founding Fathers erred absolutely. That admitted criminals are allowed to cloak their criminal enterprise(s) under this shroud of the “right against self-incrimination” is an abomination, a tragic miscarriage of justice, and an affront to the American Way of Life. Those that stand in the shadow of the Fifth Amendment can rest assured their names have been emblazoned on The List.

As to policing this so-called “Grammar War,” I humbly accept the nomination.

Liberty can be delayed, but it cannot be denied.

[bubbrubbhoya]

Hifi it would seem to I that us are ready to roll on the HoyaTalk Grammar and Spelling Police Challenge Me would like to thank our upstanding and honorable and patriotic Attorney General for offering his distinguished services for this endeavour Much like David Bowie in Zoolander me am sure that the AG will run a fair and competitive Challenge Hifi me officially defy thee to bring it on, chump.

[hifigator]

bubbrubbhoya said:

hifigator said:

I will give you that one although that is somewhat debatable and in any case far from egregious error.

In any case if you would like to release the grammar and spelling police in full force then I am game. I don't think you really want to do that.

BubbRubbHoya accepts your challenge, my foolish, feebleminded, Florida friend (what I just did is a rhetorical device called "alliteration"). Let the inaugural (that means "first (1st)") HoyaTalk Grammar and Spelling Police Challenge begin! Your first challenge, should you be so bold as to accept it, is to deconstruct the following passage in which I recently participated. Please point out all errors in spelling, grammar, and syntax. You might want to get out your kids' Warner's grammar book to help you out in this one.

Me: "Well you wanna' wooWOOOO!! It's dat wooWOOOO! Ya know what I'm sayin? Then you got the flows...then it's about the flowmasta's and..."
My Lil' Sis: "It's decoration, man, it's just fo' decoration, thas it and thas all, man, we do it for decorations."
Reporter: "Do you have it on your car?"
My Lil' Sis: "Yeeeaaaahh, I got it on my car."
....
Reporter: "Some neighbors are saying, "Waaayy too loud."
Me: "Thas only in the mohnin'. Ya s'pose to be up cookin' breakfas' or somethin' by then thas all. Thas like an alarm clock...wwoooWOOOOO!!!!"

I cut off the interview after that, because I had to drive away (a task hindered by several parked cars and a stop sign). OK hifi, you answer my challenge, then you get to challenge me. That's how it works. Welcome to HoyaLand gynastics lover (doesn't it sound dirtier with that spelling?); this ain't no Gators Engrish class.

First and foremost, I apologize here in public, as I have previously done in private, for my belated response to such an intriguing invitation. I and also accept it as well.

As I mentioned in "chambers," I ask that no "electronic assistance" of any sort by employed. As we clearly have no means with which to enforce such a clause, we must either accept both these terms as well as the other's word on such matters or decline the competition altogether. As also mentioned previously, I have never used a "spell check" device of any sort. I have inadvertantly ... shall we say ... "experienced" them a couple of times from others' computers.
Having seen the gradual, if not even progressive and systematic deterioration of my penmanship during the very same period of time in which my typing skills inversely improved, I can logically surmise that there is likely to be a correlation between the two. That being said, I can only theorize that the use of "spell checks" and the sort, would have a similar detrimental effect on my spelling skills.

I would "love" to go into this further, but I have a matter to take care of at Rupp Arena.

Go Gators!

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hifigator said:

As we clearly have no means with with to enforce such a clause...

You've already lost, dumbass.

Game. Set. Match. bubbrubb.

[hifigator]

buffalohoya said:

hifigator said:

As we clearly have no means with which to enforce such a clause...

You've already lost, dumbass.

Game. Set. Match. bubbrubb.

I would hate to bastardize the Queen's language with such obvious, yet equally offensive verbiage as Game. is not a complete sentence ... even though I am more than tempted.

Suffice it to say that I hope that we are all looking to improve ourselves. And if any of us must resort to illustrations of that sort, then it is each of us which has already lost.

Let's not beat this dead horse any more.

[bubbrubbhoya]

hifigator said:

buffalohoya said:

You've already lost, dumbass.

Game. Set. Match. bubbrubb.

I would hate to bastardize the Queen's language with such obvious, yet equally offensive verbiage as Game. is not a complete sentence ... even though I am more than tempted.

Suffice it to say that I hope that we are all looking to improve ourselves. And if any of us must resort to illustrations of that sort, then it is each of us which has already lost.

Let's not beat this dead horse any more.

Hifi, I am embarrassed that you have the same internet posting privileges that I do, because you are that unintelligent. First, you never responded to the first challenge of the grammar-off...your failure, not mine (or any other Hoya fan's). Second (and this one is a long one), your post is extremely rife with grammar mistakes...poor show. I will itemize the list of failures for your convenience:
1. "Verbiage." I question the relevance of this word on the HoyaTalk board.
2. After, "as," and before, "game," correct grammar would demand a comma, which you do not include.
3. Also, "game," would normally have quotation marks around it, not the butch italics with which you surround it. Poorly done, sir. I take especial exception to this omission because you normally include extremely gratuitous and inappropriate quotation marks all over your terrible posts, which ALWAYS manage to divert attention from the HOYAS to you and the Gators from the state of Florida.
4. Starting a sentence with a lower-case, "is," is never advisable for someone who wants to be viewed as intelligent. FACT: It will never lead to a, "complete sentence."
5. Never start a sentence with, "And." "And" is a conjunction, which means that it joins two clauses and does not start a sentence.
6. "Then it is each of us which has already lost." First: before you write, "which," you MUST always use a comma (unless you use the, "with which," construction, which I used above). When referring to a human, however, the word, "which," is inappropriate, because the correct word to use is, "who."

I very much hope that you are looking to improve yourself, because you just lost a grammar competition. Go stick your head in the sand. AG, please call this competition now, because it is getting rather embarrassing for our friend from the retirees' state.

BR