Off Topic Compare the cheese to no 10 thread

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Good band on in the cheese yesterday afternoon.Bunch of guys even older than me. When they were setting up, I told one of them about the Doobies / Dan concert I'd been to. All 6 of them were green with envy, but they still couldn't play any <laugh> They were competent, though.

Quite an attractive older woman came in on her own. She told me that the first time she'd come in, she got talking to me and eventually left crying with laughter. I asked i I was drunk. she answered in the affirmative. I asked if Denise was behind the bar and she was. SAMBUCA <laugh> She said she'd be coming back in. We shall see. A little closer than Gina <ok>

AHHHHHH...

Read it again. I had to before it made sense.
 
I read this:
She told me that the first time she'd come in
as:
She told me that it was the first time she'd come in
After that elementary error the rest made no sense, so I re-read it. It took about 10 seconds to sort it out but, as is customary on here the proverbial molehill has achieved Alpine proportions.
 
I read this:
as:
After that elementary error the rest made no sense, so I re-read it. It took about 10 seconds to sort it out but, as is customary on here the proverbial molehill has achieved Alpine proportions.

"She told me that the first time she'd come in,"

For me, it's the comma that adds the sense to it.

"She told me that the first time she'd come in,(comma) she got talking to me and eventually left....etc"
 
Good band on in the cheese yesterday afternoon.Bunch of guys even older than me. When they were setting up, I told one of them about the Doobies / Dan concert I'd been to. All 6 of them were green with envy, but they still couldn't play any <laugh> They were competent, though.

Quite an attractive older woman came in on her own. She told me that the first time she'd come in, she got talking to me and eventually left crying with laughter. I asked i I was drunk. she answered in the affirmative. I asked if Denise was behind the bar and she was. SAMBUCA <laugh> She said she'd be coming back in. We shall see. A little closer than Gina <ok>

should read:

She told me that the first time she'd come in that she had been talking with me

I asked if i was drunk. She answered....


I asked if denise was behind the bar and she was. Obviously a lot of Sambuca was served. (FULL STOP) She....

Grammar disaster this.

yoda you sound like HMMMM.
 
I read this:
as:
After that elementary error the rest made no sense, so I re-read it. It took about 10 seconds to sort it out but, as is customary on here the proverbial molehill has achieved Alpine proportions.

I skipped by to the big news that Denis was back, it only took seconds to re-read as suggested.

I agree though, you two make mountains out of every grammar mole hill so turn about is only to be expected.
 
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should read:

She told me that the first time she'd come in that she had been talking with me

I asked if i was drunk. She answered....


I asked if denise was behind the bar and she was. Obviously a lot of Sambuca was served. (FULL STOP) She....

Grammar disaster this.

yoda you sound like HMMMM.

Very, very clumsy. There are only two Grammar Kings on this website...........<whistle>
 
I skipped by to the big news that Denis was back, it only took seconds to re-read as suggested.

I agree though, you two make mountains out of every grammar mole hill so turn about is only to be expected.
Crimes against the language need to be summarily dealt with lest we turn into our colonial cousins.