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fleursdemontblanc
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Hey Folks! I’ve won a fortune on ‘Euromillones Loteria Internacional’ in Madrid. They’ve matched my name and address to a ticket number and sent me a letter to let me know and all I have to do is send them all my bank details. I’d like to find the organizers and shove their ink-jet printed fake letterhead right up where the sun don’t shine. Or, wait . . . this could be a ‘what if?’ moment. There might be a story in there somewhere. Any ideas on how to wreak revenge?
'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction' Virginia Woolf
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notleyab
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Ooops, sorry abt tt, tt was supposed to have bn addressed to pERRy. Greetings from SUNNY while you shiver Madrid.
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PERRY
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Get them all the time by email, flersdemontblanc. Children's alphabetical building blocks, preferably the old wooden variety - or old news-printers placers - spelling out your details (but jumbled just in case) judiciously inserted in and up every orifice the spammers possess. No lubricants involved. notty what IS your problem? Are you so challenged by my obvious superiority  that you must attack me on every thread??  Or are you just waiting for me to acknowledge your weighty witticism  of upper and lower case arrangement?
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dancingsue
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Quote: fleursdemontblanc, Saturday, 4 Feb 2012 12:15Hey Folks! I’ve won a fortune on ‘Euromillones Loteria Internacional’ in Madrid. They’ve matched my name and address to a ticket number and sent me a letter to let me know and all I have to do is send them all my bank details. I’d like to find the organizers and shove their ink-jet printed fake letterhead right up where the sun don’t shine. Or, wait . . . this could be a ‘what if?’ moment. There might be a story in there somewhere. Any ideas on how to wreak revenge? That's funny, because I won a few months back! We should have a winner's get-together. I'll bring the pop and Ritz crackers.
the long and the short of it
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PERRY
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Provide our personal details and we can meet up in Paupers' Prison or Guantanamo, duplicate passports having been vested at various venues.
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notleyab
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Quote: PERRY, Saturday, 4 Feb 2012 12:55notty what IS your problem? Are you so challenged by my obvious superiority  that you must attack me on every thread??  Dunno, but yrs is starting to sound like pERRYnoia. Where do you read an attack in this?
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PERRY
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I don't, you fool. Nor do you mention "pERRy" on every post you make. You do understand the reason for emoticons, even if you don't like them?
This post was last edited by PERRY, 05 Feb 2012, 00:41
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safiaadam
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Ah come on guys - give it up. Neither of you are perfect, ditto the rest of us. Perry - congrats on your all 5* review from ChuckBuckner - feels good, eh? Notleyab - respect for containing yourself in your review of SR1984's work - I just reviewed it last night and took a peek at what other's said this morning, expecting the worst. A disgraceful example of a review on there by one, Goldenmind - 100 words of cut n paste from the reviewed piece (entitled The Last Resort if anyone wants to see what not to say to an inexperienced but enthusiastic writer)
Follow your bliss
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safiaadam
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Edit: the above contains at least 2 mistakes - should be neither of you is perfect and of course no apostrophe in others. See what I mean? Perfection is unattainable - accept it.
Follow your bliss
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PERRY
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Quote: safiaadam, Sunday, 5 Feb 2012 05:44Ah come on guys - give it up. Neither of you are perfect, ditto the rest of us. Perry - congrats on your all 5* review from ChuckBuckner - feels good, eh? Notleyab - respect for containing yourself in your review of SR1984's work - I just reviewed it last night and took a peek at what other's said this morning, expecting the worst. A disgraceful example of a review on there by one, Goldenmind - 100 words of cut n paste from the reviewed piece (entitled The Last Resort if anyone wants to see what not to say to an inexperienced but enthusiastic writer) It would be terribly boring if we were, safia - and thanks, yes it does. It pays to listen to reviews and act upon them. That's an interesting grammar correction there. Looking at it, you can feel that "Neither of you" deserves an "are" rather than an "is". While "neither" intrinsically requires the singular of the verb, there is always the haunting notion that the addition of "of you" to produce the phrase "Neither of you" does in fact pluralise it. If the lexicographers at OED can remove the hyphen from e-mail to pander to the idle, then surely we writers can argue our corners as to the aesthetics of the language.
This post was last edited by PERRY, 05 Feb 2012, 12:34
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