that's such a funny story, it left me with a dangling participle. bob still chuckling "... phrase followed by an Expletive Construction will often be a dangling participle - but the expletive construction is probably not a good idea anyway." ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Brennan" <kimbrennan@MAC.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 1:50 PM Subject: ... A Rose by Any Other Name ...(Friday follies) NVC
> Many years ago I attended a "Highlander" convention (Highlander was > several movies and a couple of TV series dealing with Immortals than > can only be killed if you remove their heads, usually with a bladed > weapon). > > One of the actors on the show was a Welsh actor, Peter Wingfield. > > Various attendees were asking the actors (sitting at a table) various > question. Except all of the questions were being directed towards Jim > Byrnes (another actor on the show). > > Finally one lady got up and said: "I have a Peter question." > > The laughter was quite sustained. So she tried to rephrase it. "I have > a question about your sword." This kept the foliks rolling for another > long while. Another rephrasing to refer to this sheath (scabbard) > didn't stop things. In the meantime, Peter Wingfield looked quite > lost. Jim Byrnes finally leaned over and explained to him the slang > meaning of "Peter". > > Just a reminder that not all english speaking cultures have the same > slang terms. > |
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