Marc and Framer as Private Dick

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Marc and Framer:

Good job, guys, of trackin' down the scoundrels Texan and Boots. I would call you collectively Monsieur Poirot but since Marc's from California, how about Philip Marlowe?
Dash Hammel would be proud of you two.
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Originally posted by Mel:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Ron Eggers:
Oh, stop it you guys. You're too modest.

It was ME.
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R-o-O-o-n,

Not to usurp MerpsMom's or Kit's positions as co-reigning Capt. Enlishpersons, but it is:

It was I .

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: </font>[/QUOTE]Oh, yeh? Well, it seems to I that it is 'Englishpersons,' not 'Enlishpersons.'

So there!
 
That's funny; I thought 'it was me' was mo' correcter, actually.

"Captain Englishperson?", Mel? :D Now THAT's leaning over and showing the world your political correctness!

Hmmmm.... I get the feeling that may have been a mixed-up, misplaced metaphor but I don't know exactly why.

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I'm with you, po' framer. I could never say, "It was I!" with a straight face.

But then, I could never say "Englishperson," either.

I did mention our "mail carrier" on another post. That should count for something!
 
Actually, guys, when I answer the phone and someone says "Is Michael there?" I say "This is he"

Be amazed at the number of people that say "Huh?" Or, "whadja say?"

same thing with "It was I" Makes'em stop and think. :eek: :eek:
 
That's odd way to answer, but it makes sense. I have one better: Since Boots said he was an old aquantance of mine, when I called Boot's number he answered the phone as Clark's Pest Control. Then did not answer it for the rest of the day, not today either.

I think "This is he." is far more preferable.
 
Marc,

I frequently don't answer at all when you call <u>me,</U> but sometimes I call back.

I hadn't thought about the pest control ploy.
 
Okay. I'm red-faced, :mad: (but not mad).

Really now, in the hierarchy of grammar, aren't typos farther down the list than mismatched subjects and pronouns?

You're right, these days "It is I" sounds stuffy and awkward, but this baby boomer had this drilled into me to the point I cringe when I hear anything else. Do you suppose I'm doing irreperable harm by correcting my daughters' "This is her" telephone greeting?

PS: I am an undeserving grammar snob. I just noticed another error in another message, that I wrote.
 
Back then framer called Slow (at the Kens Place location) to try and ver-ify if untimely DEATH may or may not be true.

He asked for the manager (assuming it to be the employee post-mortem poster. And then asked if the owner had bought the proverbial farm.

The manager verified this.

Bus as you read Boots and Slow's posts they said it was now he alone who helps the customers and answers the phone. So framer spoke to Slow-Boots and Slow-Boots said he was the manager and Slow had been toasted and flatened, and he wqas very sad. (I paraphrase liberally)

I wanted to ask where I met him, or where he knew me from, and to just ask, and in general "why?"

People do and say things online they would never do IRL becasue they feel anonymous and unaccountable.

A voice to the typed pixels on the screen brings in the fact that the words on the screen are being said to real people. The whole reality thing.

I once had a lady who did not like something I said (not too hard to do). She e-mailed me directly something really nasty. I responded in eloquent nasty. She posted my private response to a public forum. I e-mailed her for an explination. (no response). I asked again (no response).

So I looked at her bio, and called the shop number.

She said: "You can't call me. This was e-mail! You can only e-mail me!!!" I said I was a real person, and what she said was not cool.

Then she said she now realizes it is more than words on a screen, and those words go to real people.

Slow was posting as a persona and not himself, as such he sees or saw all the other names on the screen as personas or fiction and not reality.

So for him to kill himself off in the Twin Towers , was just to have some fun, it's just like the way you turn of the TV set in the middle of the show. The people on the screen don't die. It's not real.

He came back, but was still in a neverland of personaville. The problem with a persona, is needs to be common and not uncommon. The uncommon stands out and fails under scrutiny. Also if you make a fiction, make it a complete one, and not partial. Complete fiction will entertain. Partial fiction will bite you in the ass.

So the moral of the story is to tell a whopper or just be yourself. Screwing with others will usually just end up screwing yourself.

It's the whole burning bridges thing.
 
Well, I, too, say "This is she". I mean, we have to uphold standards here, right? We're Framers. We produce Beauty. We hold the reins of Civilization in our capable hands....[insert further hyperbole] And after we finish this, let's start in on those who don't know the difference between it's and its [present company excepted, of course] Maybe I should have been an English major, too.
 
Since this has totally left the subject never to return, I'll add, I usually say "This is Betty". I was never comfortable doing it wrong, and doing it right sounded yucky, so this works for me. What really drives me crazy is (supposedly) educated people such as newscasters, etc, butchering she/he, him/her, me/I, saying for example "they gave it to she and I". I have even heard teachers doing this.

Yeah Ellen, its, it's; ads, adds, who's, whose,... oops, don't get me started!

Betty
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I say "toh-may'-toh." If <u>you</U> say "toh-mah'-toh," that's likely to be the end of the conversation.

Actually, I find this whole discussion pretty interesting, but I'm going to try to continue it over on Warped. Wish me luck!
 
"to-may-toe" or "to-mah-toe"--is it "fillay" or "fillit" Me, I fillay a fish, but put a fillit in a picture

This is I I go home now. Tah tah
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Originally posted by Marc Lizer:


So the moral of the story is to tell a whopper or just be yourself. Screwing with others will usually just end up screwing yourself.

It's the whole burning bridges thing.
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Man this is great!!! Where else can we get framing info, life observations, english lessons, and online private dics?

It is an honor to be in such a group!!

Jerry
 
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