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Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC, Nov 20, 2015.

  1. askewshair

    askewshair Well-Known Member

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    We found a vodka tea stall, what else do you need? And were all pissed within an hour of checking in.
     
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  2. DMD

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    Shame he was hanged. He would have made a good poster on here!

    IMG_2076.jpeg
     
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    He didn't get hanged, he escaped and went into hiding in Bridlington.
     
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    <laugh>
     
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  8. dennisboothstash

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    <laugh><applause>

    * I think it would have been better to have a full stop after ‘hanged’ and to start a new sentence after that.
    I’ll wait until he says whether I’m right or not though…
     
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  9. Ernie Shackleton

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    I’d have separated the clauses with a semi colon; a much underused punctuation mark in my opinion.

    I’d also have considered using hung as the past tense of hang; however hanged is an acceptable alternate form if you are referring to an execution, rather than an inanimate object.
     
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    Gallows humour?
     
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  11. balkan tiger

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    I always thought the past tense of hang was hung not hanged.
     
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  12. dennisboothstash

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    I respectfully refer you Ernie’s post above…


    I expect you’d prefer to be well hung rather than well hanged…

    (I think if he’d been hung for a laugh then pulled back up that would be have been correct, but to kill someone deliberately by hanging is usually hanged…I think)
     
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    Think the hung jury is out on this one?
     
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  14. Sir Cheshire Ben

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    IMG_9823.jpeg Milli Vanilli, Ibiza 1990
     
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    Copied off the bin on Marina (well that was the first one I saw clitterused a few years ago)
     
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    What snow
     
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