Re:The Bard's Not Here Coffee Shop, New for 2008 - 02/27/2008The rest of this week we're (allegedly) having temps in the low 50s with plenty of sunshine .
Time will tell - but it IS gorgeous outside right now --- and we're all inside sick with some sort of nasty flu-cold .
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antryg
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Re:The Bard's Not Here Coffee Shop, New for 2008 - 02/25/2008I feel for you Garnet. It was 87F here today. I sure hope that you weren't suffering from the cold like I was.
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Re:The Bard's Not Here Coffee Shop, New for 2008 - 02/24/2008I'm reportiing antryg to the authorities for blatant semicolon abuse.
FalconDance wrote: It was supposed to be warmish today but the wind has a bitter cold edge and the next few days claim to hold all manners of wet, cold and generally unfriendly-to-any-but-polar-bears type of weather.
"Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer." -- Plutarch
That quote was on the front of a literary catalog I just got; which work of Plutarch's it was lifted from, I know not.... but it immediately reminded me of you, Garnet, and all your chilly-climed compatriots up there. Down here, we usually get some form of winter, probably what you'd consider a wimpy version of yours. This year, however, it has been strangely warm. Last year, too.
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Re:The Bard's Not Here Coffee Shop, New for 2008 - 02/20/2008Here; allow me to serve you another; just-the-right-hotness; chococoffee beverage. I; personally; found the article very; very; very; very interesting. It; the article; has inspired me; to use semicolons; on a much more regular basis.
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Re:The Bard's Not Here Coffee Shop, New for 2008 - 02/20/2008Hmmmm, there doesn't seem to be a facility to shorten or substitute text for urls. Without Helene, I have no idea how to enable such a function (I dunno how to do all that super-uber stuff on this site since I didn't build it nor do I maintain it).
Could I get a warm-up on my chococoffee, please? It was supposed to be warmish today but the wind has a bitter cold edge and the next few days claim to hold all manners of wet, cold and generally unfriendly-to-any-but-polar-bears type of weather.
Well, I suppose we should be gladdened semicolon usage was attempted. More often that not, a comma is inserted or no punctuation whatsoever results. Ask the Bard - he's becoming infamous here for his errant commas .
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Re:The Bard's Not Here Coffee Shop, New for 2008 - 02/18/2008Mmm... a bit o' chococoffee sounds lovely... make it two if you don't mind, and can you talk with the herds of ghosts that are hogging all the tables?
I loved all the quotes by grammatical & linguistic experts. Sort of silly. And Noam Chomsky never changes.
Also loved Kurt Vonnegut's old quip about semicolons in general.
edit: well, the link works, but it doesn't look pretty... was there some way to embed the URL that I couldn't figure out?
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Re:The Bard's Not Here Coffee Shop, New for 2008 - 02/17/2008Here's the chococoffee. I've heard about Winter. Falcon Dance, haven't seen it but I've heard about it.
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Re:The Bard's Not Here Coffee Shop, New for 2008 - 02/17/2008Please pour me a cup of java with extra chocolate. It's raining and glum here -- but I guess that's better than the ice and snow that's supposed to cover over it later today.......
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The Bard's Not Here Coffee Shop, New for 2008 - 02/16/2008After a whole year in service, it's time for a new Coffee Shop thread. You might be wondering why I would open up a shop in a ghost town on a ghost planet on the ghostly web. The answer is simple and two-fold. I like ghosts but don't like people. This place is full of win.
ahhhhh coffee!
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