Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for November 07, 2009

He must of fell in a hole.

If so, it would seem a waste of effort to get him out again.

The word is fallen, not fell.

vasaaaa said, The word is fallen, not fell.

I imagine Llewellenbruce was keeping in the spirit of Gasoline Alley in eschewing the grammatically proper “must have fallen”…

Maybe Phyllis has become a revenant member of the Black Lantern Corps. http://tinyurl.com/BlackLanternCorps

And the story continues on Monday. Poor Mr. Walt has to wait two days for rescue and probably more the way they drag this out.

Actually good writing avoids the wordy and static “must have fallen” for simply, “Fell”. Present tense is much more direct and immediate. He fell in a hole.

Oh, good grief. There you guys go again. One guy says beans and everybody flatulates.

“Fell” is a direct declarative statement – the speaker is asserting a fact. “Must have fallen” is speculative – the speaker is suggesting a theory.

I do not like thee, Dr. Fell, Why that is, I cannot tell. But this I know, and know full well: I do not like thee, Dr. Fell.

I’m not sure how to conjugate ‘flatulates’. I flatulate, you flatulate, he, she or it flatulates? I think I’ll just stick to ‘breaks wind’.

Good to be back. Was prevented the site since 10/30 until today.

“There was an old man in St. Paul Who died in a spring in the fall. ‘twould have been a sad thing, if he’d died in the spring, But he didn’t he died in the fall.”

Was it a Fell Spring, then? I’m vaguely recalling some descriptions from Lord of the Rings…

there was a young man in st. paul who had a hexahedronical ball.

dern, i fergit the rest…