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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: The Peepmaster on April 05, 2008, 09:08:21 PM
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For goodness sake, don't let Mince have sight of the grammar in today's strip.
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Although I may be wrong...
Flo and Andy are at a wedding, and Flo says "Where are the happy couple?". I immediately thought, hang on, 'couple' is a singular term, and therefore maybe it should be "Where is the happy couple?".
Now I'm thinking the individual components of "the happy couple" could be in two different parts of the room, and so "where are" might be okay...
I need a beer.
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Couple is a collective noun and can be singular or plural.
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You have to remember that Flo is from the North East of England and when people from that area talk about---about---LOOK WHAT MINCE HAS DONE TO US!!!!!
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My students use multiple exclamation marks as well. I tell them that their life is not that dramatic.
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Really!!!!!
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I also tell them that one-word sentence fragments demonstrate an inability to string together an intelligent and coherent response.
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Mind you, I get ignored a lot.
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Sometimes I find myself in a topic all by myself.
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Really!!!!
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But then they come back and start repeating themselves, clear proof that they have run out of anything worthwhile to say.
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O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!!!!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!!!!!!
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Shakespeare contented himself with just a single exclamation mark in each case.
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You had to check though, didn't you? ;D
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Blimey! I've been out with a bird tonight, having posted my message, and come back to this. I'm really grateful for Mince saying about collective nouns being "singular or plural". It answers the question.
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Not really, Tarks. I have to teach Shakespeare to GCSE students, including Hamlet (once for A-Level) and I never came across multiple exclamation marks. So there.
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Blimey! I've been out with a bird tonight, having posted my message, and come back to this. I'm really grateful for Mince saying about collective nouns being "singular or plural". It answers the question.
You're being too nice. Are you taking the p#ss?
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No, I'm not!! I genuinely felt good about the fact that Roger wasn't in the wrong on this. If I came across as being nice, that was accidental, and I apologise profusely to everyone on here!!
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No, I'm not!! I genuinely felt good about the fact that Roger wasn't in the wrong on this. If I came across as being nice, that was accidental, and I apologise profusely to everyone on here!!
Apology accepted.
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Hmm! It's a pretty flimsy defence against the accusation of being nice, but I suppose we'll have to accept it.
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Hmm... Me... Mince... Nice... ???
No. Does not compute.
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Here are two things said by Peepmaster in previous posts:
Yes, it is fandabbydozy, Roger. Hats off to Mincey.
That's great, cheers Mince.
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Here are two things said by Peepmaster in previous posts:
Yes, it is fandabbydozy, Roger. Hats off to Mincey.
That's great, cheers Mince.
"Hats" was a 4-letter secret code, before the word "off".
The second example had quotation marks missing "That's great", cheers Mince. is how it should have read. (I was imagining Mince admiring my undoubted skills and talents).
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Peepmaster, you're a great man who always makes everyone laugh.
KEY:
great = moronic (Beau Peep slang)
man = t@#t-head
makes everyone laugh = (euphemism) gets on everyone's bloody t@ts
always = always
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Isn't it nice to see Mince and Peeps getting along so well - d'ya think it'll last the week-end?
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Isn't it nice to see Mince and Peeps getting along so well - d'ya think it'll last the week-end?
Mince'll have you for that hyphen!
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Not really, Tarks. I have to teach Shakespeare to GCSE students, including Hamlet (once for A-Level) and I never came across multiple exclamation marks. So there.
Did Hamlet pass his A level then?
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Not really, Tarks. I have to teach Shakespeare to GCSE students, including Hamlet (once for A-Level) and I never came across multiple exclamation marks. So there.
But the fact that you knew both lines ended in a single exclamation mark means you still checked...DIDN'T YOU? Or are we to believe that your knowledge of Shakespeare is so great that you have committed every line to memory, including the exact punctuation?
Hmm?
Actually, the really depressing thought is you probably have.
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It's easier than that. It's simply that I have never seen multiple exclamation marks.
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Shakespeare contented himself with just a single exclamation mark in each case.
You checked!!!!! :P
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Mince can hardly be an expert if he hasn't read "HAMLET!!!!".
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No, I noticed in each case that he used an exclamation mark that he used only one.
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Mince can hardly be an expert if he hasn't read "HAMLET!!!!".
The play about the rather excited baby ham was not by Shakespeare.
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No, I noticed in each case that he used an exclamation mark that he used only one.
Yeah, yeah!
You checked.
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" My Kingdom for a horse" originally had 17 exclamation marks after it but a zealous sub-editor removed them.
This is a quote from the biography " Me and Bill" by Zebediah Quirke.
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Was he the guy who also claimed that he changed the titles of "Much ado about ?" and "1? Gentlemen of Verona"?
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Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Isn't there a debate among academics about whether the word was "solid" or "sullied"?
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Isn't there a debate among academics about whether the word was "solid" or "sullied"?
Well there is now. It was "solid", Fydo, OKAY!!!??? >:(
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Roger said "academics", not "half-wits".
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Then you can't join in. **** off!
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:D
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Isn't there a debate among academics about whether the word was "solid" or "sullied"?
Well there is now. It was "solid", Fydo, OKAY!!!??? >:(
"Solid" has now been broadly accepted but a genuine debate exists. In the context of play and character, "sullied" makes much more sense. I'm off to watch the football now.
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"Solid" has now been broadly accepted but a genuine debate exists. In the context of play and character, "sullied" makes much more sense. I'm off to watch the football now.
I fundamentally disagree, although I acknowledge where your assertion stems from, given the nature of Hamlet. However, the suicidal metaphor, allied to the juxtaposition of the verbs "melt" and "thaw" would, I suggest, render the use of "solid" entirely appropriate in my opinion.
I don't have Sky - what's the score?
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"Solid" has now been broadly accepted but a genuine debate exists. In the context of play and character, "sullied" makes much more sense. I'm off to watch the football now.
I fundamentally disagree, although I acknowledge where your assertion stems from, given the nature of Hamlet. However, the suicidal metaphor, allied to the juxtaposition of the verbs "melt" and "thaw" would, I suggest, render the use of "solid" entirely appropriate in my opinion.
I don't have Sky - what's the score?
Academics 6; Half-wits 0
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Shakespeare's original "salad" was changed along with the exclamation marks.
Here's the original as penned by the master himself:
O dat dis 2, 2 salad flesh wud like melt and shit, man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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He's finally lost it.
Game over!
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Shakespeare never did like Mince interfering.
"Alas, you're a dick, Mincio. I knew it, Horatio."
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I stand aloof.
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Today's strip (that comes in the daily comics by email) was brilliant.
Roger is a genious - day after day - coming up with such clever ideas.
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I agree, Diane. He's a genius as well.
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Thank you. I don't know which one you're talking about, but thank you. (I quite like the idea of being a genious--I've decided it's a wondrous genie).
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There you go, Genious...
(http://www.comics.com/creators/andycapp/archive/images/andycapp2008036675411.gif)
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Hmm. Well, maybe semi-genious.
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No, that one did not make me laugh.
But I really enjoyed this one:
(http://www.comics.com/creators/andycapp/archive/images/andycapp2006112580409.gif)
I did once think of posting some of the Beau Peep strips that have made me laugh out loud just to see if everyone else considered them the funniest as well, but I think given the above that they won't.
The nomad's thought "I wonder if I could smack him in the mouth before his men got me." ranks as one of my favourites, along with "That's what I would have said had they not opened fire."
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This one tickled me as well.
(http://www.comics.com/creators/andycapp/archive/images/andycapp20122248080325.gif)
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Mince, do you really buy the Daily Star? I wouldn't have thought you were the type. Don't take that as a compliment, by the way.
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Mince, do you really buy the Daily Star?
No. In fact, I haven't bought a comic for years.
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Psst - Tarks... Andy Capp's in the Mirror.
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Peepmaster, do you really look like Andy Capp?
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Psst - Tarks... Andy Capp's in the Mirror.
Psst yourself! He was talking about Beau Peep.
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One of my hobbies is second-guessing other peoples work after they've done it.
I reckon the flo/aerobics gag works this way too.
(http://malcmcgookin.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/andy-capp-1.gif)
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What a very annoying hobby!
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What a very annoying hobby!
I don't think so. As I said before, it fascinates me how someone can make a living by sitting on his backside all day and dreaming up cartoons.
How someone arrives at a gag is interesting but irrelevant to whether the end result is funny.
I have noticed that often Roger makes me laugh not with something new, but with something old said in a different way.
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Yes, it is very annoying, but that's half the fun.
The secret is to make sure the other person has done all the hard work, then step in and offer "improvements" in a "you don't wanna do that" voice.
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Do you mean like what we did with your smoke-signal gag?
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There is a robotic arm element to all of this. Peepsie, Malc and Roger will know what I mean, but no-one else will. That's another annoying thing, isn't it?
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Do you mean like what we did with your smoke-signal gag?
....and my Frankenstein gag and just about anything else I've put up.
Having said that, I do post willingly, asking for opinions and expecting at least some jolly japes from you funny rascals, you.
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Do you mean like what we did with your smoke-signal gag?
....and my Frankenstein gag and just about anything else I've put up.
Having said that, I do post willingly, asking for opinions and expecting at least some jolly japes from you funny rascals, you.
And you get them in spades.
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I thought about the robotic arm, Tarks.
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Actually, it reminded me of the angry cupboard with the bad hairdo. Colin, Tom and peter will know what I mean, but no one else will.
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Actually, it reminded me of the angry cupboard with the bad hairdo. Colin, Tom and peter will know what I mean, but no one else will.
Oh, but I can guess. :o
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Actually, it reminded me of the angry cupboard with the bad hairdo. Colin, Tom and peter will know what I mean, but no one else will.
Now we go back far far back to the angry cupboard
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Actually, it reminded me of the angry cupboard with the bad hairdo. Colin, Tom and peter will know what I mean, but no one else will.
Now we go back far far back to the angry cupboard
Peter! You didn't used to lock Mince in the cupboard, did you?
Well done.
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I used to threaten my kids with the cupboard. Most people overhearing would think I was a monster, but "the cupboard" meant that I shut myself in and my kids used to cry for me to come out.
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;D
Please, please, turn that into one of your comic drawings!
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Er....ok ::)
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;D
Please, please, turn that into one of your comic drawings!
Are you going to listen to the little pleader, Malcolm?
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Er...no :-[
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What a very annoying hobby!
I don't think so. As I said before, it fascinates me how someone can make a living by sitting on his backside all day and dreaming up cartoons.
How someone arrives at a gag is interesting but irrelevant to whether the end result is funny.
I have noticed that often Roger makes me laugh not with something new, but with something old said in a different way.
Someone else once said this to me and I take it as a compliment. Let's face it, we all know, for example, that Dennis is going to say something stupid at the end of a strip. I can only hope that it has a sufficient twist to be MILDLY surprising.
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I can only hope that it has a sufficient twist to be MILDLY surprising.
No different to the rest of us, Roger. :P
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I can only hope that it has a sufficient twist to be MILDLY surprising.
I shall go through all my Beau Peep books and mark all the strips as MILDLY and NOT MILDLY.
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I can only hope that it has a sufficient twist to be MILDLY surprising.
I shall go through all my Beau Peep books and mark all the strips as MILDLY and NOT MILDLY.
I believe him. ::)
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Roger, do you mind if I introduce a third category - MILDLIERLY?
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And do you mind if he rewrites the English language?