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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on November 28, 2006, 09:50:20 AM
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Well, I made it. How will people get here normally? Will this make the Beau Peep site obsolete or do you still have to go through there to get here?
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I'm here too. Very nice place. Be great when you get the carpet down.
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Hello, I'm here now as well, although I may look slightly different!
I've decided to reveal my secret identity; as in the other forum I was Wild West Will... :o *gasps all round*
It's also easier to type...
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Good to see you all here. I assume that Peepmaster will provide a link from the Beau Peep site to here. If everyone posts here from now on, rather than the old board (and the older old board), we can keep all the posts in one place. I assume that Peepmaster will make a general announcement on the other board to direct everyone here.
I can keep this board open as long as you wish. It costs me nothing (or next to nothing) to do so. If Roger wants to move the database of posts onto his own website host at any time, he is free to do so, and it's easy to do so (and no one will notice the move because the cameldung.co.uk URL will remain the same).
So that everyone understands, Roger and Peepmaster are ultimately in charge of everything here. They own full rights to all the posts made here. It's their board and always will be. I'm just free hired technical help.
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Im here too, great innit ;D Lets have a party
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Hello everyone, squelch here, from now on to be known as Joan - probably just brought the other boards to a grinding halt with the length of my post over there. Off to bed now - it's very late and I can hardly see. Quick work, Mince - wondered what you were doing up at 2am your time on the other forum today - now I know. Much quicker response! (http://users.tpg.com.au/pdcs01/coolguy.gif)
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Nice to hear from you again, Joan, and I'm glad the Dalwhinnie Malt is going down well1
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To be truthful, Roger, I haven't had a Dalwhinnie for a while - wine is so plentiful and cheap here at the moment that I've become a bit of a wino, it's too easy to drink, and I just can't take the combination of grain and grape any more. Not sure that I ever could, but it's definitely a lot more painful these days! I did notice yesterday they had it on special down the road, so maybe I'll drop hints to Santa. Mind you, Santa's usually myself these days.
At least you can get some decent whiskies here now. When I first arrived it was basically Glenfiddich or Glenlivet in malts and in blends, Johnny Walker and some dubious looking bottles of locally bottled stuff - occasionally bottled and blended in Japan!
All this talk of drink reminds me there's no wine in the fridge - will just go and pop one in while I remember, for Friday evening, of course.
Have a good Wednesday - yours is just starting in the UK and I'm just off to find something for dinner.
I just noticed all those groovy buttons up the top there, Mince - looks like enough to make a web page in a post! Must have a little play sometime. ;D
Take care,
Joan
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Hi Joan
Yes, there are a lot of groovy buttons. I have another message board on this same host, a student board for my students. (I am a private tutor.) I use the board to check their English for mistakes and for them to contact me during the week with problems. I've banned them from using the "groovy" buttons, and writing whole paragraphs in pink, or in alternating colours. I allow them to use only italics and bold, and then only sparingly.
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Joan, are you in Sydney?
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Yep, Malky - North, on the edge of Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, about ten minutes from the Northern Beaches. Where are you?
I don't know where "groovy" came from - my language use is very confused these days. Don't know whether I'm speaking Scottish, Australian or English - petrol station, service station or garage? Bottle shop, liquor store or off-licence? Ocean or sea? Crikey! Will be minding my ps and qs if you're an English tutor, Mince - makes a change from cringing at the English on some other forums. If youd ever been their, you would of found it like extremely irritating to read some of there posts. ;)
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Joan posted: If youd ever been their, you would of found it hard to read some of there posts.
I am a very strict English tutor. For example, the above sentence written on my student board would have earned the poster the following corrections:
Write out "you'd" 100 times.
Write 10 sentences with "their" and 10 with "there".
Write 10 sentences with "would have".
Write 10 sentences with "there" and 10 with "their".
But of course you were being ironic.
I even set corrections when my students talk rubbish. Here's an example:
STUDENT 1: Yeah, he done it yesterday.
STUDENT 2: Is it?
TUTOR (exploding): He did it, for God's sake! "Done" is a past participle. Do you say things like "He taken it" and "He flown there"? And stop saying "Is it?" to everything. It should be "Did he?".
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You're/your, there/they're/their... it continues to infuriate me. Just ignorance. But some things seem to be a natural evolution of language, and I quite like it. Generations have to have their own development/input. Just nature I suspect.
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Joan, I'm in Brisbane, or at least just outside in the Redlands Shire
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"Would of" drives me nuts - my daughter told off her friend the other day for just saying it - told him it should be "would have", and then raved at me for making her notice these things. It's obviously a generational thing in our family, because split infinitives just jump out at me off the page and every time somebody says "It is me." I want to say "It is I", which is what my mother would have said. Those were her two bugbears which I've assimilated (quite torturous in this day and age) and neither of them are considered to be incorrect any more - an example of language changing, which is fine by me too, Peepmaster. If only I could get over the irritation. It's just so ingrained because of the way we learned as well - parsing sentences week after week - subjective clause, objective clause, etc. I still try to put adverbial phrases in the right order, for goodness sake! Anyone else remember that - time, manner, place?
Right, I'll just go off and put my hand up for an Australian version of "Grumpy Old Women". On the "oldies" radio station here they have a segment called "What really gets on your goollies." where people phone in and tell what really gets on their nerves. I've been meaning to phone in, but I just can't decide which thing to choose out of the hundred or so I have at the back of my mind (most of them to do with driving!).
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I still try to put adverbial phrases in the right order, for goodness sake!
I do that. In Beau Peep Book 8, one of the Arabs says "Tell him that it is forbidden for him to walk this land by ancient laws.", and all I could think was that "by ancient laws" should be modifying "forbidden" and not "walk". It should be "Tell him that it is forbidden by ancient laws for him to walk this land." or even "Tell him that ancient laws forbid him to walk this land." I guess Roger will just blame it on the Arab.
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Are you still doing cartoons in newspapers, Malcolm? I have to confess, I had a peek at your profile on cartoonebooks - it came up on Google. My Mum was born in Saltcoats, btw, and her family lived in the area for some time. My uncle was there till he died about three years back.
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I guess Roger will just blame it on the Arab.
LOL - thanks for the lunchtime cackle, Mince. I suppose you forbid your students to use "LOL", etc too.
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Yes, I do. They are not allowed to use text messaging or slang, and I tell them off for typos as well.
What's your profession, Joan?
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What's your profession, Joan?
Oh, God, the dreaded "p" question! There's no straight answer to that, Mince. I trained as a bi-lingual secretary (German mainly, with a bit of French), but have never actually used the two together. Had rather a chequered career in hotels, accountants offices, oil companies, tourism and now do the admin for our small business. I have started a proofreading and editing course, for my sins, but haven't completed it yet as other things have got in the way. I will probably start up a business soon offering secretarial and editing skills. At the moment, the taxman has taken an interest in us, so most of my working time is taken up with checking up that everything is okay! Everything else has been pushed aside (luckily, the family will feed themselves now - the offspring only when starving, and with a lot of grumbling) and I really should get back to it right now!
I just realised, you must be a real night owl, Mince - it's 2.55am in your neck of the woods.
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I'm battling with the php coding for this (and my student) forum. I'm making headway, however.
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Joan, no I just do gag cartooning now, plus a lot of corporate stuff.
If I could get your uncle's name, my mum will know him undoubtedly. She knows everyone in Saltcoats.
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Owed Two The Spell Czech Er
Eye have a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lea marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid,
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite.
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it.
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew
Spelling
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead;
For goodness' sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat.
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.)
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
...Just had to post them...
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LOL, so true, Tom, and if you're particular about using "proper" English, don't ever create a document in Word with US English as the default language and spell checker turned on to automatic. You'll end up with lots of "z" words and goodness only knows what else. English is such a spelling mess, isn't it? I'd hate to have to learn to write it as a foreign language.
Malcolm, my uncle's name was James Campbell. He was a solicitor, and his firm was Jas Campbell & Co (http://www.jascampbell.co.uk/about.html). There's a little bit about him at the bottom of the page. I hardly knew him, though. The rest of the family were quite close, but Jim tended not to get involved unless there was family business to attend to - oops, to which to attend. I'm sure your mum would at least have known of him. People have varying opinions of solicitors, though, to say the least - I know, my dad was a solicitor in a small country town.
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Joan, I ought to point out that my name is also Malcolm, and for a while you had me confused.
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Malcolm Mince. Great name.
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At least I can spell my own name.
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Joan,
My family being the way we are, gor' bless yer, guv'nor, we will have undoubtedly made acquaintance of your uncle's services.
My sister-in-law Barbara has worked in a solicitors in Saltcoats for many a long year and it may be the very same business, I will check tonight when I phone home.
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Oh. My. God.
Look at the bottom of the "Contact Us" page under Paralegals. Do I not see the name Barbara McGookin?
Joan, we're practically related.
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LOL, of course we are, we're Scots. With every Scot I've met here or on my travels, there's always a connection somewhere. My good friend Elaine is Roger's cousin-in-law - took us a few years before we realised it, but we'd already worked out at least two more connections before that one came up in casual conversation. Of course, I would never have made the connection if Roger hadn't become famous. ;)
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Joan, I ought to point out that my name is also Malcolm, and for a while you had me confused.
Okay, from now on, I'll stick to Malky and Mince, unless there's something else you'd rather be called?
I'm only doing a separate post because I think this one may make me tipsy.
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No, only Mellow - probably a better condition for this time of day.
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Seeing Mince's "Pickled Poster" tickled me and made me chuckle...!
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Just realised that you cant post unless you are logged in. :(
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No, only Mellow - probably a better condition for this time of day.
Looks like its you and me Joan at 02:32 my time. Hope your not drinking ;D
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Ah, no I wasn't, Colin, it's a while since I had a drink at 1.30pm on a Saturday, but has been known to happen in the not too distant past.