English majors partying

[tony]

You know I have suspected that certain of our members are English majors.

Just take a look at the unbridled excitement at one of their parties.

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[Mikeod]

:BigApplause:

[graciegirl]

I opened this post carefully, wondering what Boomer is up to now.:evil6:

[pooh]

Love it!!!

[Pturner]

:a20:

[K9-Lovers]

Did you get that cartoon from your newsletter subscription for English majors? :read:

Too funny.:oops:

[bkcunningham1]

That is funny Tony. I like the website too. I have a feeling Boomer will be coming in soon. Better straighten your dangling participles.

[Boomer]

Dear Mr. Tony, Mr. Admin, Sir:

Here we go again, I see. You are back to besmirching English majors. And not only is it a general, all-around besmirching of English majors, but you are cranking it up a notch now and besmirching English teachers.

Ohhhhhh, how I have tried and tried to make others see the difficulty that comes with being an English major. (Not that I am one, you realize.) But I do try to help English majors to be better understood. I guess you could say it is my cause.

Example: Not too long ago here on TOTV, chuckinca was telling us about Mrs. Traphagen his high school English teacher and how she scarred him deeply (or was it scared him deeply?) causing him to flunk her class. (Yeah. Right. I suspect that Chuck never did get around to turning in that two-page essay on Silas Marner.)

Anyway, I tried to help chuckinca get past it by telling him a little story to show that Mrs. Traphagen was surely a misunderstood woman who perhaps, like my friend who is also an English teacher, had to hang around in bars, telling lies about the kind of work she did. And I have been forced to tell that same story here on TOTV two other times, too.

So Mr. Tony, are you going to make me go find that story AGAIN and put it here for you to read? I use it to try to give people like you and chuckinca a little insight into the difficult lives English teachers must face every day -- and night. But (sigh) I do not think the story has been helping. I might as well hit guys like you with Sonnets from the Portuguese for all the good trying to explain this stuff does. (Sigh. Sigh. Sigh.)

I must think about this for a while…..

Sincerely,
Ms. Boomer B. Boomer the Besmirched

[tony]

K9, K9, K9,

I am not an English major, therefore I don't get English major newsletter subscriptions.

Now that I think of it, the way Gracie came trotting in here, I'm wondering if she is an English majorette.

[Pturner]

Now that I think of it, the way Gracie came trotting in here, I'm wondering if she is an English majorette.

Boy howdy!

[K9-Lovers]

Is this required reading for all English majors?

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/10/20/081020crbn_brieflynoted2

[tony]

I think uujudy has that one on reserve at the library, followed by Boomer.

[bkcunningham1]

Oh how I enjoyed Legends of the Fall. A masterpiece in three.

[Boomer]

Geez. Next thing I know, you people will be trying to get me to explain lie and lay. :shocked:

Boomer

[K9-Lovers]

These English major snowbirds should use this phrase as their signature line on TOTV:

"Have Quill, Will Travel"

[graciegirl]

Geez. Next thing I know, you people will be trying to get me to explain lie and lay. :shocked:

Boomer

Thank heavens us retired cheerleaders don't have to understand the difference between lie and lay but I think most people lie when they get ................

Oh. nevermind. Was that supposed to be capitalized?:shrug:

[Taltarzac]

...they all have enough stencils.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGWiTvYZR_w

[Boomer]

Tal,

That video you put here just made me laugh out loud. I almost snorted coffee out my nose. (most unladylike of me, and most certainly quite unattractive) The last time I was in TV, I ran into the same issue that Weird Al has in your video clip. At the time, I thought for sure Mr. Tony was the culprit, trying to set me up. Maybe I will have to go find that post and relive the horror of it all.

And, GG,

This post of yours makes me wonder. I have long noticed that even though you say that you are a retired cheerleader, you are known to come up with comments that show definite insight into things like character motivation, a. k. a. human nature. That is exactly the kind of thing that English majors do. So I am thinkin' -- thinkin' maybe -- I am thinkin' that this is an AHA! moment. You sure are talking like an English major in this one. English majors know this stuff about characters, and not just the ones in books....

Thank heavens us retired cheerleaders don't have to understand the difference between lie and lay but I think most people lie when they get ................

Oh. nevermind. Was that supposed to be capitalized?:shrug:

And now, back to that cartoon posted here by Mr. Tony, Mr. Admin, Sir....

Has anybody wondered if the guy in the cartoon who is blindfolded and holding the apostrophe is being set up by the others standing around? You know, when its is a possessive pronoun, there is no apostrophe. And that is confusing because we are used to apostrophes showing possession.

Sooooo, could it be that this is not a party game at all, but some elaborate hazing ritual where the real English majors are trying to establish if the blindfolded guy is a real English major or not? A real English major would know whether that apostrophe goes there or not. Even blindfolded.

The point is -- that guy could be somebody who is just trying to crash the English majors' party because he has heard how wild they are. Take another look at the cartoon and you might see a little more there. Everything is not always on the surface. Ask any English major about that -- uh....if you can find one I mean.

Boomer

[tony]

For somebody that is not an English major, Boomer know a lot about characters and apostrophe's.

[bkcunningham1]

For somebody that is not an English major, Boomer know a lot about characters and apostrophe's.

The last word in your sentence doesn't possess anything, isn't a plural possessive and it isn't a contraction. Should it have an apostrophe?

[getdul981]

What's all the hoop-la about a British Army Officer?

[tony]

AHA! Another possible English major!

:22yikes:

[graciegirl]

I like a person who has majored in engineering. They stare at their shoes.

[Boomer]

I like a person who has majored in engineering. They stare at their shoes.

I understand what you are saying, GG, but…..but….what about trying to have those lovely, deep, meaningful conversations from time to time? How does shoe-staring work for those?

I guess it must be a lot like trying to have a lovely, deep, meaningful conversation with a pilot. The only remote (and I do mean remote – at best) shot you got at that one is if you are inside. Outside…..pilots keep looking up at the sky.

Of course, all this dialogue this morning reminds me of yet another story. (Imagine that.)

In our younger days, another English teacher friend of mine had a thing for drag strip racers. She loved to hang around the drag strip track and she finally cut a lawyer loose from her social calendar to spend more time with her drag strip driver.

I asked her one day, “But aren’t drag strip drivers totally focused on their racing all the time? I bet they just want to talk about RPM’s and octane and, ‘Hey baby, could you get me a new set of tires for my birthday. You don’t have to wrap ‘em.’ – Wasn’t the lawyer more interesting to talk to? Doesn’t talking about racing all the time get really boring?”

Well, my English teacher friend quickly answered my barrage of questions, answered in one sentence, resting her case. She said, “So when did I say I wanted to talk?”

Boomer

[Pturner]

For somebody that is not an English major, Boomer know a lot about characters and apostrophe's.

It's, "For somebody who's not an English major".

[chuckinca]

Me thinks it's about time to set up a members only English Major thread like the Political board.


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[bkcunningham1]

I understand what you are saying, GG, but…..but….what about trying to have those lovely, deep, meaningful conversations from time to time? How does shoe-staring work for those?

I guess it must be a lot like trying to have a lovely, deep, meaningful conversation with a pilot. The only remote (and I do mean remote – at best) shot you got at that one is if you are inside. Outside…..pilots keep looking up at the sky.

Of course, all this dialogue this morning reminds me of yet another story. (Imagine that.)

In our younger days, another English teacher friend of mine had a thing for drag strip racers. She loved to hang around the drag strip track and she finally cut a lawyer loose from her social calendar to spend more time with her drag strip driver.

I asked her one day, “But aren’t drag strip drivers totally focused on their racing all the time? I bet they just want to talk about RPM’s and octane and, ‘Hey baby, could you get me a new set of tires for my birthday. You don’t have to wrap ‘em.’ – Wasn’t the lawyer more interesting to talk to? Doesn’t talking about racing all the time get really boring?”

Well, my English teacher friend quickly answered my barrage of questions, answered in one sentence, resting her case. She said, “So when did I say I wanted to talk?”

Boomer


That was a good one Boomer. Priceless.

[BaylorBear]

We English majors are masters of the wicked barb -- done in perfect grammar, of course!:MOJE_whot:

[uujudy]

I like a person who has majored in engineering. They stare at their shoes.

Gracie, only the shy engineers stare at their shoes.
The outgoing engineers stare at YOUR shoes. :laugh:

[K9-Lovers]

Me thinks it's about time to set up a members only English Major thread like the Political board.


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Oh yes, yes, please, pretty please? We could even have a 3-word game for phrasal verbs . . . oh my! :024:

[bkcunningham1]

Don't act up!!

[graciegirl]

Gracie, only the shy engineers stare at their shoes.
The outgoing engineers stare at YOUR shoes. :laugh:

oh.

Come to think of it, you are right.

[tony]

It's, "For somebody who's not an English major".

Aha! You see how easy it is to catch them?

[graciegirl]

Aha! You see how easy it is to catch them?

P is a journalist. That is different.

[Taltarzac]

Oh yes, yes, please, pretty please? We could even have a 3-word game for phrasal verbs . . . oh my! :024:

Yes, butt in.

[barb1191]

Gracie, only the shy engineers stare at their shoes.
The outgoing engineers stare at YOUR shoes. :laugh:

Hmmmm...er......ah.....uh

Strange.....I always found that "outgoing engineers" stared at another part of my anatomy. :shocked:

Different strokes for different folks, huh? :angel:

[Pturner]

Speaking of boring at parties... um... shouldn't we be picking on chemistry majors?

I went out with a chemistry major once. When he asked me out, he asked what my favorite food was. Oh joy, I thought. He'll buy me a box of chocolates. Think that's why he wanted to know? Of course not.

Ugh. He proceeded to tell me the molecular formula for chocolate.

... which, by the way, is Carbon-Holmium-Cobalt-Lanthanum-Tellurium (or CHoCoLaTe).

Sheesh

[tony]

This nothing wrong with chem majors, or so I have heard.