Monoclinic

Yes, last year. It was widely covered in the news, and we had a fair few ranters here. Robert Runcie died?

But where's Freddie Starr? I remember my first and thankfully only package holiday to find the European sun at the age of 18. In flight entertainment was Freddie Starr. I think I must have been the only one who had never heard of him. My friends and I were the only ones not laughing, so I guess the rest of the flight was from Cumbria then?.

Typo or intentional crudeness? Let me guess..... Yup you guessed right, the I and the E are practically nextdoor to each other (but not before C) on my keyboard. Edit - Buggar that'll be A not E, however the sarcasm still holds.

Are some of the Scottish counties that don't end in shire (the Lothians?, Moray? Lack of Scottish Geography compels me to stop) still effectively shire counties? i.e. Those which aren't metropolitan counties. Say for instance Cornwall and Devon are still shire counties (in fact didn't Devon used to be called Devonshire?)

I think basically we are trying to say that the original argument lacked substance. There are people out there who have continued to show potential after ditching the band. Then there are those who have formed new and equally famous bands, with great potential. Forgot to add - good call with Will Smith and Jizzy Jeff.

sorry MC, but the worst Police song (Tea in the Sahara, perhaps?) is still better than the best Sting song. Fair enough, I'm not going by my favourite artists but by the fact they sold lots of records by themselves. I thought that was the jist, I'm sorry. I think Ten Summoners Tales must have gone at least platinum, I'm sure a keen googler woud tell me. However someone like Gary Barlow should definitely not have bothered. I'll add a few more who you'll probably think are contentious.. Ozzy Osbourne. Eric Clapton. Justin Timberlake. Peter Gabriel. Brian Wilson.

And Sting. And Michael Jackson. And Paul Weller. More to follow...

I have never said I was a man. In fact several things I have said in the past would indicate to the contrary and have been cross examined by the relevant auhorities around here. It's a shame you have been banned from language classes because there is an easy clue in my franglais Heureusement Je Suis Une Temporary Resident. If I were a man I'd have written un. I can't be arsed with the rest of this pointless discussion. I will continue to pass comment on football, science and music. If that makes people think I'm a man then sod them. I'm not going to start talking about making jam or pressing flowers just to live up to some Victorian ideal on the female mind. As I have said before I couldn't give a damn. To quote my late grandad (thoroughbred yorkshire man) laissez-faire. Moving swiftly on and back to felching death links. There's nowt so queer as folks.

So I've just got you to admit that you're lying? Obviously I wanted to see your response on my five word - three word and you haven't actually admitted anything, but you've just strongly hinted that you could be any gender. Now I find you very interesting Monoclinic, but I've actually heard one male member say 'If Monoclinic is a woman I have a vagina' a very strong assumption but personally caught in the commotion of decision I might have said you could be male as well. In my judgment one who wants to disguise themselves and promotes the proposition of one being a man, is certainly a woman having a big laugh. I might be wrong and personally I wouldn't be surprised, but I still think your a woman. I'm also for the 'believe no - one policy' You never know. Maybe you have inferred from my comments that I lie. However I am reminded of the old adage that to assume makes an ass of you and me, and assumption is the mother of all feck ups. I, just like yourself, could state here that I do not lie, though I might well be lying. I was merely pointing out that if I were to reply to your three/five words you still wouldn't be able to separate fact from fiction owing to the anonymity of this cyberspace entertainment. For the man of ambiguous genitalia all I can say is that you are very precious my dear. Hermaphrodites make up only a tiny percentage of the population and to my knowledge none in a public domain (although should I cite Jamie Lee Curtis as a maybe?). However you should not rush to book yourself in for genital reassignment surgery when you can have the best of both worlds by yourself (I thought I should live upto expectations and be crude). If you are in any way curious then in future may I suggest that you run my posts past the Gender Genie which may help you in your future decisions. I would do the same for your posts Banshees but unfortunately they cannot decipher grammatical errors so I think any results aside from being complete bollocks in the first place, would be somewhat skewed. I find it very convenient that you (BS) have these people in the wings saying I'm not who I say I am or that I'm crude yet no one else (i.e. your sources) has concurred. I could assume that you were making up these comments but I doubt this forum has room for two asses.

Please don't remind me. Anyway I'm just curious, when somebody says Monoclinic three words come to mind. Tell me if I'm off the wall with this. Solitude. Crude. Brunette. Attractive. Selfish. So your maths is as good as your English I see. I make that five. Think what you like, we all know the internet is a hotbed of lies, who knows who's telling the truth. I'm concerned with viewpoints and even these are often fabricated. You can never really know who you are talking to, I adopt the believe no-one policy, then again I've always been taught to question facts until you are sure they are facts yourself.

A Scotsman unable to part with his money. Now where have I heard that before? Just joshing. I have some Scottish friends who, when they find themselves in England taking an instant disliking to any shopkeeper/barman that they meet, they will "give 'em the pound". It is fun to watch the reaction when they reply "what's this?" swiftly followed by a deadpan reply "pound note". I suppose, as the saying goes, you have to be there.

I think you have overlooked Chris Marsden, football genius.

By using my left hand welshman, but it took ages to do, so I only posted once after that (in the ladies forum I think). Aww, I would be the same CO . There is no way I would let my Great Pyrenees lie on my arm, bound to cut off blood circulation as he weighs over 11 stone! Yogi has been helping me recover by climbing onto the bed when I have been resting and helping me eat chocolate, I'm sure he just doesn't want me to get fat . I hope the recovery is swift painwise but not too swift washing-up wise. As far as washing up goes I think a year or two ought to do it, maybe more?

No capital letters, no punctuation and all round bad English. Sound familiar?

What I read between the lines was Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes, who also went to Wichita: ...And the feeling coming from my bones says find a home. I'm going to Wichita, far from this opera for evermore. I'm gonna work the straw. Make the sweat drip out of every pore. And I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding right before the Lord. All the words are gonna bleed from me and I will sing no more. And the stains coming from my blood tell me go back home.

On your Tff Death List thread it says you've scored with Piara Singh Khabra making it 4-2 but I can't seem to see them on the list in the first post. Can someone please tell me what number he is on the list before I rush to get my eyes tested?

Ah, so you'll be wanting to talk about the weather then?

Can I have the Manics? Or does there have to actually be an identified corpse? BTW I like your choice too.

One day a confused little boy asks his dad "What is politics?" His Dad says, "Well son, it's quite difficult to explain so try this analogy: I'm the breadwinner of the family, so let's call me capitalism. Your Mum, she's in charge of the money, so we'll call her the Government. Now as we're here to take care of your needs, we shall call you the people. The nanny, we'll consider her the Working Class. And your baby brother, let's call him the Future. Now, go away and think about that, see if it makes sense." So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what his Dad had said. Later that night, he is woken by his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his nappy. So the little boy goes to his parents' room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed. The next morning, the little boy says to his father, "Dad, thank-you, I understand the concept of politics now." The father says, "Good son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about." The little boy replies, "Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the Future is in deep sh*t."

Though it's hardly ever one word is it? I think what some people, myself included, are trying to say is that you can't really embark on this crusade if your English is not spot on. Sure, make a kind request to capitalise, however if you are going to continue with this crusade then be prepared to heed the advice of others regards your own numerous faults. Accept criticism, as Winston Churchill once said "It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” As I said before I can glance over capital letters. I also glance over blatant errors as it doesn't faze me. There are more important things to worry about and besides you can never be too certain who actually has English as a mother tongue on an internet forum.

So what about the other 16%? I didn't find any unusual examples, might be unusual to US anglophones I suppose.

http://www.anglolang.co.uk/cgi-bin/web_test.cgi/grammar.html It might not tell you what your chosen profession is, nor how psychotic you are, however for those interested here is a link to an (easy) online grammar test. I'm sure some of our linguists here could direct us to something a lot more challenging.

First of all, I was obviously kidding with what I said to CarolAnn. Not everyone needs things spelled out. Secondly, I'm pointing out that, above the utter and complete pointlessness of criticizing people for something like capitalization on an internet forum, that you, above nearly enough, have no right to be telling anyone how to post properly on a forum. Nor do I of course but, then again, I don't tell people how to post. I am with you CP. I can live with people not capitalising, I don't let it get to me. More to life and all that jazz. In fact if I am honest it is far easier to understand someone who hasn't capitalised than someone who has made a handful or more of linguistic errors, mentioning no names.

If it's prawn cocktail you're serving I'd definitely start with Roy Keane ;-) I'd quite like my grandparents (from one side of my family) there too as they were both dead by the time I was 11. Maybe my ancestors who I've never met or known one from each century perhaps. Famous people would most likely annoy me.

Arise Sir Aaron V. Humphrey, trainspotter extraordinaire. On the whole, I prefer to put songs I like on my mp3 player . I've been trying to see if I can ever fill up my MP3 player. On reflection it would have been better to do it at a better quality than 128 and not put everything I've ever owned or have on a compilation from the cover of Select! Ahh the teenage years... I also recently made it my mission to "obtain" MP3 copies of albums I previously had on tape. Legal disclaimer this mission has in no way been completed and I have never been told where one might find music sharing programs to download.