Awesome post. Their has bin sum reel doosies posted on this forum. That's for sure. Always makes me chuckle. Of course, I never makes such mistakes.

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Adam Duncan
New York, NY

Good work. Was considering a similar post but decided not to after seeing how touchy some people got by having the p*ss taken out of there(sic) grammer(sic).

'There' is a place i.e. My dictionary is over there.

'Their' indicates possession i.e.Their grasp of English was poor.

'They're' is an abbreviated form of 'they are' i.e. They're in remedial English class.

'Your' is a possessive pronoun i.e Your grammar is terrible.

'You're' is an abbreviated form of 'you are' i.e. You're a bit lacking in your appreciation of correct syntax.

'Annual' indicates something on a yearly basis.

'Anal' is...ahhhh...my comments on this thread.

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"Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parents of it, the mind. No glass so mirrors a man's form or likeness so true as his speech." - Ben Jonson, Timber, or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter.

your all very annual about this. losen up!

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"Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parents of it, the mind. No glass so mirrors a man's form or likeness so true as his speech." - Ben Jonson, Timber, or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter.

you complaning over this? give me a brake.

Read the quote at the end of your thread.

I'll also admit that sometimes the bad grammar and spelling gets to me (years of my mother telling me to never put "at" at the end of a sentence, etc...).

We do need to remember that there are many posters from other countries who do quite well considering English is not their first language.

Also, don't you also find it ironic that the spellchecker dictionary for this forum lacks words like "ironman," "triathlon," and "triathlete."?

In defense of people who make typos and grammatical errors, I am the author of many books [you can go to bn.com or amazon.com, type my name ("S. Scott Zimmerman") in the search engine, and see the list of dozens of books I've published, mostly with my favorite coauthor, my wife Beverly], and I still make lots of errors.

BTW, here are examples of the typo and grammatical errors that bother me the most:

1. "I complete in alot of triathlons."
2. "The eventual winner passed my training partner and I half way through the bike ride."
3. "wreck havoc" instead of "wreak havoc"
4. "chomping at the bit" instead of "champing at the bit"
5. "button down the hatches" instead of "batton down the hatches"
6. "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less."

And here are some of the stupidest things sports announcers say:

1. "The team with the most courage wins." Hogwash.
2. "Now we'll see who want to win this one the most." Baloney. (Also grammatically incorrect.)
3. "The _______ (fill in team name) has a record of 10 and 2 when Joe Blow makes 8 or more rebounds." So what? [All sportscasters should be required to take a class in statistics before they are allowed to go on the aire.]
4. "Joe Blow is the best athlete at his position in the league." Says who? Give us some evidence.
5. "Joe Blow makes all the players around him better." Riiiight.
6. Announcers seem to think that, even though team A beat team B by only one point, team A did everything right during the game and team B did nothing right. Give me a break.

Okay. I'll quit there.

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Do not take counsel of your fears.--Andrew Jackson

I saw myself in this post,and English is my language(could not tell from my school grades) my excuse being in a hurry and not working in a field were i use my spelling and other skills enough,the amount of time it took me to write this(typing skills) my wife would have written a novel,but she can not rebuild the car engine.Lets not get to hung up on the spelling and grammar, people have good things to offer but might not have the same level of skills as you,i have seen this kind of thing on another forum and it almost ruined it.Thanks and sorry for all of my future grammar mistakes.

Hey ScottfromUtah...and others,

I definitely got a kick out of this thread...my grandmother was a college professor, and although she died when I was 8 (20 years ago), she had a huge influence on me, and I tend to notice and cringe at poor grammar.

However, I can butcher a cliche with the best of them...so thanks for clearing some of those up for me! "Champing" at the bit? Never knew that.

OK, I'll chime in here... one of my biggest pet peeves is when PEOPLE LEAVE THE CAP LOCKS ON WHEN THEY POST. PLEASE STOP YELLING AT US ;-)

My personal favorites are when professional athletes haven't heeded the advice of Crash Davis and learned their cliches.

My all-time favorite comes from the late-80s when the LA Kings were in the playoffs. While being interviewed after losing the game that put the Kings on the brink of elimination, Luc Robitaille said "Our backs are against the 8-ball."

Rusty, that's a great one!

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Do not take counsel of your fears.--Andrew Jackson

Along the lines of the sports commentators, how about these. Got this in an e-mail this morning

Comments Sports Commentators Wish They Could Take Back

> 1. Weightlifting commentator at the Olympic Snatch and Jerk

> Event: "This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch

> this morning during her warm up, and it was amazing."

> 2. Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator: "This is really a

> lovely horse, and I speak from personal experience since I

> once mounted her mother."

> 3. Grand Prix Race Announcer: "The lead car is absolutely,

> truly unique, except for the one behind it which is exactly

> identical to the one in front of the similar one in back."

> 4. Greg Norman, Pro Golfer: "I owe a lot to my parents,

> especially my mother and father."

> 5. Ringside Boxing Analyst: "Sure there have been injuries

> and even some deaths in boxing but none of them really that

> serious."

> 6. Baseball announcer: "If history repeats itself, I should

> think we can expect the same thing again."

> 7. Basketball analyst: "He dribbles a lot, and the

> opposition doesn't like it. In fact, you can see it all

> over their faces."

> 8. At a trophy ceremony BBC TV Boat Race 1988: "Ah, isn't

> that nice; the wife of the Cambridge president is hugging

> the cox of the Oxford crew."

> 9. Metro Radio, College Football: "Julian Dicks is

> everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the

> field."

> 10. US Open TV Commentator: "One of the reasons Arnie

> Palmer is playing so well is that before each final round,

> his wife takes out his balls and kisses them. Oh my God,

> what have I just said?!"

> CHARLES BARKLEY.........

> "You know the world is off tilt,

> when the best rapper is a white guy,

> the best golfer is a black guy,

> the tallest basketball player is Chinese,

> and Germany doesn't want to go to war."

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"Strategy? The strategy was in the preparation" - Lance Armstrong after winning 2000 TDF

The inside back cover of Triathlete Magazine. Someone tell the folks at Litespeed that it's kinematics, not kenematics.

These are great. They remind me of horse race footage and audio that I heard on a sports bloopers show. The race was fairly eventless. The humor came from hearing the announcer say the lead horse's name over and over. The horse was named "Hoof Hearted".

You know, Jack M, I actually considered whether or not I violated my signature rule with this thread. I probably did violate the dictum with my semi-rant on John Cobb's status last week so I knew I trod on thin ice here. In the end however, because comic relief comprised at least 50% of my reason for posting, the direction this thread has taken vindicates my dual purpose of education and humor (or is that humour?) There is certainly a lot of folks here more funny than me!

At any rate, this has been a good break from the rigors of aero testing and wind tunnels.

I replied to the comic 50%.

Shouldn't that be 'are' and not 'is'?

"There are certainly a lot of folks here more funny than me!"

and isn't "more funny" better replaced with "funnier"?

"There are certainly a lot of folks here funnier than me!"

You should have known this would come back to haunt you Bri!

"Shouldn't that be 'are' and not 'is'?"

If "lot" is plural then there is only one possible way to spell: "There are lots of...". But if there is only 1 lot, isn't it acceptable to write: "There is a lot of..."?

Arrrggghhhhh! Foiled again! Again, my attempt at humor falls flat! Both of you provided accurate corrections for my attempt at poor grammar.

I are bein uh fool now.

<-- Eting kro