He is a refugee from the Gynowars, a veteran of the Battle of the Bloody Gorge. Many good men fell that day to the illogical rage of the women. Other, like him, were dumped in a refugee camp in the so called Friend Zone before he could manage a passage to Earth.
He fought for the freedom of all Martian men against the red gynofascist army and he is not going to take any shit from earth women!
Many years ago a town truck clearing snow and sanding our street had some sort of glitch and depositied a 3 foot high pile of sand/salt mixture right in front of my house. Dangerous hazardā¦
A lot of hard work and a bunch of plastic 5 gallon buckets later and I had it all cleared up. Iām still sanding my driveway with it.
A professor tells his class one day that āIn English, a double-negative makes a positive. In other languages, like Russian, a double negative remains a negative.ā
He pauses, then adds: āThere are no languages where a double-positive makes a negative.ā
āYeah. Right.ā drawls a laconic voice from the back of the class.
I wish there were video of the crime. Disregarding how the court ended up ruling, itās he-said vs he-said. Except for the wood. Thereās gotta be more evidence than that. The mysoginist does a good job of making it look like an accident. I canāt tell whether itās true or not, but he definitely seems sincere. Since he did the wood thing, he made a mistake, either intentionally littering in a way that impairs the road significantly, or he didnāt tie down his load properly, which in my specific area is a misdemeanor.
Thatās universal for any American accent I know of, since there is associated intonation and timing providing reliable implication of either an affirmation, or a sarcastic retort. Among other options.
Itās negative concord - a form of grammatical agreement, not a logical double negation. While considered sub-standard in English, itās standard in many languages, e.g. Spanish: āNo dijo nadaā.
I remember learning about those in spanish class in high school. It felt like a total guilty pleasure, being grammatically correct while talking that way.
My mentally associated song with that topic (thereās a song triggered in my head for everything. Itās like life has a background score. Iād love it if I could actually hear it.) is the chorus of Lonely no More.
Thanks - thatās awesome.
(How come HL Mencken and Dorothy Parker get so much love and not this excellent fellow?)
The one about the pies is kinda reminiscent of the Monty Hall three doors mystery