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« Reply #50 on: March 26, 2007, 06:49:52 AM »
If we can capture enough anti-pronouns in a magnetic bottle, we'll have a virtually unlimited energy source.
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« Reply #51 on: March 26, 2007, 07:24:56 AM »
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Quick poll: Are you for or against nouns?
I am pronoun.

No, that's not right.  

I is a pronoun.

No, that's not right, either.

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« Reply #52 on: March 26, 2007, 05:36:00 PM »
I is a pronoun.
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« Reply #53 on: March 26, 2007, 06:20:29 PM »
So is me.
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« Reply #54 on: March 26, 2007, 06:39:19 PM »
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Wouldn't an anti-pronoun be a connoun?
It's an antecedent.

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« Reply #55 on: March 26, 2007, 10:37:15 PM »
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So is me.
You is?
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« Reply #56 on: March 27, 2007, 06:14:08 AM »
Exactly.

So is they.
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« Reply #57 on: March 27, 2007, 06:16:49 AM »
:wacko:  
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« Reply #58 on: March 27, 2007, 06:44:37 PM »
I think Joe wins.
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« Reply #59 on: March 27, 2007, 06:46:40 PM »
*preen*

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« Reply #60 on: March 28, 2007, 11:55:13 PM »
Didn't know you had feathers.
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« Reply #61 on: March 29, 2007, 05:06:04 AM »
You didn't know that Icarus had feathers? :sarcasm:  
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« Reply #62 on: March 29, 2007, 06:10:44 AM »
Wow -- apparently AFR has never Seen You.

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« Reply #63 on: March 29, 2007, 06:15:26 AM »
I know he used to have feathers, but I thought he lost them.
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« Reply #64 on: March 29, 2007, 01:28:41 PM »
From the excessive preening, I suppose.
Fighting thread drift with guilt, reverse psychology, and chicken soup.
Sweet! Law of Moses loopholes! -- Anneke
I love Bones.  -- Sweet Clementine
She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef. -- anonymous