Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer for September 30, 2011

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    rayannina  about 13 years ago

    September 30th. Meyer’s gotten too soft. Too trusting. Especially with women. Hrrmm …"

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    Tirasmol  about 13 years ago

    oh Scott … did you do it on purpose just so we grammar sticklers could cringe and cry and rip our clothes and gnash our teeth?

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    ajnotales  about 13 years ago

    @tirasmol: shouldn’t that read: “do it on purpose just so THAT we grammar sticklers…” ? :-)

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    Sardonis  about 13 years ago

    That’s a great idea, Scott! If you really would, try to do SOMETHING to fit Hershey squirts into a comic! For some reason, I’ve got a silly sense of humor, and that would just be too funny! lol For instance, the first Basic Instructions I read got me hooked! It was the… advertisement one you did. About the cars or minivans or something like that. THAT was a trip! lol

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    Sardonis  about 13 years ago

    As an afterthought, if ya’ll are wondering, “What is he talking about?” This was several months ago, so if you’ve been reading for that long, you probably remember.

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    Ray_C  about 13 years ago

    In the third panel, “…if Rorschach was an idiot” should be “…if Rorschach were an idiot,” unless there is some thought in her mind that Rorschach really may have been an idiot. Strangely, Strunk & White are silent on this all-important distinction. Maybe they was idiots.

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    AlwaysReading  about 13 years ago

    Not Strunk & White, but Harry Kemelman, in a Rabbi Small short story, “A Nine Mile Walk”, used his knowledge of how people speak to establish a crime was committed, where, and find the perpetrator.

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    tsandl  about 13 years ago

    “That’s brilliant, Strunk!”“It was elementary, my dear Elwynn. In the future, reserve your exclamation marks for use after true exclamations or commands.”“Yes sir!”“What’s that?”“Uh… Yes sir.”“Much better. Really, even you could have solved this case if some pig of a policeman hadn’t tampered with the evidence.”“Some pig? Some pig. Hmmmmm…”

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    eb110americana  about 13 years ago

    “Sometimes our problem is not having no ideas…”The grammar sticklers say, don’t not use no double negatives.

    How about, “Sometimes one’s problem is not a lack of ideas…”

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    EricAlder  about 13 years ago

    Winnie The Pooh and Fozzie Bear: Do bears have the Hershey squirts in the woods?

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