 | | Re: Construction Toy Grading Standards Now Live! —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | (...) Trust me, if I ever say "could care less" there's an IMPLIED "but not much less" tacked on there.... (I am reminded, completely non apropos, of "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." Can you name the (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Construction Toy Grading Standards Now Live! —John Neal
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| | | | | (...) Either Churchill or Groucho. -John (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Construction Toy Grading Standards Now Live! —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | (...) 8?) (...) It's rumoured that it was an English, cigar-smoking prime minister, however it was actually Sir Ernest Gowers in "Plain words" (1948), who started the anecdote with "It is said that Churchill...". So the correct answer's not all that (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Construction Toy Grading Standards Now Live! —Julie Krenz
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| | | | (...) Yoda? (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Construction Toy Grading Standards Now Live! —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Short? Check. Elderly? Check. Balding? Check. Ears that stick out? Check. Not the snappiest dresser? Check. Sometimes unintelligible to Americans? Check. But no. Yoda wasn't a cigar smoker. (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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