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Alert: I just received notice that a lethal virus is on its way...
"Postcard from Hallmark" is supposed to be particularly vicious to our computers. I thought obliged to share this news here with you good guys.
Murph

You know, I hope my computer doesn't get it.
or
You know I hope my computer doesn't get it.
or
I hope my computer doesn't get it.
or

"It" is an old (2006/2007) hoax being passed around again just to alarm old English Teachers.
Reference: https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/ ... ur-friends

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Duly noted. Thanx, Wayne.

[rogruth]

Wayne,
You see I didn't have to go to any of those other sites.
You did it for me.
However,rather safe than the alternative,

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

That "you know" crap every third or fourth word is absolutely painful to listen to. But there's something else that really scalds my a$$. How about "he was like, or she was like, or it was like". Overheard two girls talking; one telling the other about a kid that was hitting on her, and her conversation went something like this. "He was like, "Will you go out with me on Saturday"?, and I was like "No, I don't think so." And then he was like "But we'll have fun, there's a dance at the firehall". And I was like, "No, I have to wash my hair".

Now, I'm just a high school graduate, but one thing I excelled at in English class was grammar and the proper use of words in speaking. God!! It's just maddening to listen to this younger generation. Had those youngsters been related to me, I would have been tempted to slap the taste right out of their mouths.

I was going to bring up "I'm like" but you got it first!

I was/am awful at the English language, but I try. My wife said I write like I speak, I guess I get a bit "wordy" sometimes. Oh well, too late to change that now.

Maybe I should have paid more attention when my mother tried to teach me Welsh

[MurphOnMillerAve]

That "you know" crap every third or fourth word is absolutely painful to listen to. But there's something else that really scalds my a$$. How about "he was like, or she was like, or it was like". Overheard two girls talking; one telling the other about a kid that was hitting on her, and her conversation went something like this. "He was like, "Will you go out with me on Saturday"?, and I was like "No, I don't think so." And then he was like "But we'll have fun, there's a dance at the firehall". And I was like, "No, I have to wash my hair".

.... God!! It's just maddening to listen to this younger generation...

That's like, soooooooooooo tooooottaaaaallllyyyyy true, like yes. You know? I mean, whateeeeeevaaaahhhh! Totally. Like.

Did I leave anything out, Mitch, and guys, or exaggerate?

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That "you know" crap every third or fourth word is absolutely painful to listen to. But there's something else that really scalds my a$$. How about "he was like, or she was like, or it was like". Overheard two girls talking; one telling the other about a kid that was hitting on her, and her conversation went something like this. "He was like, "Will you go out with me on Saturday"?, and I was like "No, I don't think so." And then he was like "But we'll have fun, there's a dance at the firehall". And I was like, "No, I have to wash my hair".

Now, I'm just a high school graduate, but one thing I excelled at in English class was grammar and the proper use of words in speaking. God!! It's just maddening to listen to this younger generation. Had those youngsters been related to me, I would have been tempted to slap the taste right out of their mouths.

I was going to bring up "I'm like" but you got it first!

I was/am awful at the English language, but I try. My wife said I write like I speak, I guess I get a bit "wordy" sometimes. Oh well, too late to change that now.

Maybe I should have paid more attention when my mother tried to teach me Welsh

Hate to say it, but virtually anyone in the government has more professionalism and integrity than our commander-in-chief. What a disappointment.

I liked some of his ideas, but his ability to sell it and deliver is pathetic. I'm afraid reading "Cliff Notes" isn't going to work in his case and they don't have a "president for dummies" book to my knowledge.
BH

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...and it seems a bit late for a President to learn to keep his trap shut. His needs to learn to pick his fights, not fight with everybody who thinks differently than he, or opposes him, and not have them decide when to whip around and bite him in his ego. The whole show seems so amateur and embarrassing. IMunHO. da Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

God!! It's just maddening to listen to this younger generation.

I wonder how many thousands of years that one generation has said that about another

[MurphOnMillerAve]

God!! It's just maddening to listen to this younger generation.

I wonder how many thousands of years that one generation has said that about another

So very true. For example, I can remember the older generation (grandparents, not parents) looking with squinted and rolling eyes every time a rock-n-roll record came on somebody's record player/phonograph or on the radio. I theorize that generation was nostalgic for all the dreamy, sincere "Big Band" music, like Cole Porter's "Night and Day" (actual music, not just thumping gyrations or twerking) that sang about enduring relationships (men going off to war would inspire such thoughts, I'd imagine) and deep love for one other person, along with the hopes the men would be returning home after the war to begin their families with the women waiting ( two of whom invented me!)

[rogruth]

Yeah, Murph. But there was also the "three little fishies that swam over the dam" to go see the "cement mixer,putty-putty". Then they met the "witch doctor" and the "one eyed ,one horned flying purple people eater" and the "flat foot floogie with a floy floy".
There are many more but just thinking of those made me tired. One last one and others can belittle us with our popular songs.
"Mairze doats an doesie doats an liddlelambsiedivie.Akiddledivie too wooden yew?" Spelling. Anyone who knows the correct spelling can fix it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

"Mairze doats an doesie doats an liddlelambsiedivie.Akiddledivie too wooden yew?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62P6Gm9jpE

It is happening again.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

"Mairze doats an doesie doats an liddlelambsiedivie.Akiddledivie too wooden yew?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62P6Gm9jpE
...

So, near as I can make out, it is: "Mares eat oats; does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy."
That's all I got. That's all I ever had from that li'l ditty.

[rogruth]

"Mairze doats an doesie doats an liddlelambsiedivie.Akiddledivie too wooden yew?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62P6Gm9jpE
...

So, near as I can make out, it is: "Mares eat oats; does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy."
That's all I got. That's all I ever had from that li'l ditty.

Next. Akiddleedivytoowoodenyou. A kid will eat ivy too wouldn't you.
I don't remember the rest, thankfully.

[webenda]

"Mairze doats an doesie doats an liddlelambsiedivie.Akiddledivie too wooden yew?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62P6Gm9jpE

It is happening again.

That was the first episode of season two of the television series Twin Peaks. Leland Palmer, Laura's father, sings the song when he first appears with his hair turned stark white and a reformed outlook on life.

It was a bold move on ABC's part to air such a thing. Surreal, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, visually stunning and funny, Twin Peaks was like no movie or TV show I had ever seen before. I was hooked by the premiere and had to watch every episode.

The opening soundtrack was right on for the mood of the show [opinion].

It was the seventh episode of the second season where Agent Cooper is warned by The Giant that "it is happening again."

Here is the, "It is happening again", scene:=> https://youtu.be/4QBl-BuEIV8

[Rufus T. Firefly]