Stopwatch by Will Dockery

[Barbara's Cat]

[ mercy snip ]

I did notice that you misspelled it's in the line, "I think its time
to leave your smile."

Thanks - the whole it's/its situation I've been grappling with for some time
I've been interested in seeing some discussion on, and until it is resolved
for me without doubt, I'm going to opt for the good old fashioned "it is"
for now, and that change has been made.
Perhaps you know of a good link that explores such apostrophe problems?

Elementary school.

[Barbara's Cat]

[ mercy snip ]

I did notice that you misspelled it's in the line, "I think its time
to leave your smile."

Thanks - the whole it's/its situation I've been grappling with for some time
I've been interested in seeing some discussion on, and until it is resolved
for me without doubt, I'm going to opt for the good old fashioned "it is"
for now, and that change has been made.
Perhaps you know of a good link that explores such apostrophe problems?

Elementary school.

[Barbara's Cat]

I think its time to leave your smile.
I think it is time to leave your smile.

[Dennis M. Hammes]

I think its time to leave your smile.
I think it is time to leave your smile.

"I think it is time
To leave your life of crime;
Slide away on your slime
And leave UseNet the dime."
-- Ira Gershwin, Rob Evans, etc...

"I think it is time to leave your posts unopened."
-- Vera, etc...

"I think it is time to leave your fifty on the dresser."
-- Dockery's Best Overrated Friend

"I think it is time for you to leave UseNet forever and don't come
back even one teeny-tiny little bit ever ever. Really."
-- God Built, etc...

"
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-- gg, etc...

[Dennis M. Hammes]

Post by Barbara's Cat
[ mercy snip ]

I did notice that you misspelled it's in the line, "I think its time
to leave your smile."

Thanks - the whole it's/its situation I've been grappling with for some time
I've been interested in seeing some discussion on, and until it is resolved
for me without doubt, I'm going to opt for the good old fashioned "it is"
for now, and that change has been made.
Perhaps you know of a good link that explores such apostrophe problems?

"Jimmy Dean's Pork Breakfast -- 'It's Great'!"

Post by Barbara's Cat
Elementary school.

Haven't you hear'd? Like everyone else anywhere in the universe,
Elementary School /lie'd/ to him.
Now he will accept the credential's of no less an Authority than
the "Old School" of Apostrophe's.

[Orson Wells as CitizenCain]

Stopwatch

= snip =
I don't need a stopwatch

No, I don't see you running any races anytime soon.

Duckery, you dumbshit, *I* wrote that comment. Once again your pathetic
attempt at post-editing has backfired like a muffler on its last legs.

[Orson Wells as CitizenCain]

A perfect opportunity for me to repost this classic bit of trimeter.
Note the masterful double rhyme. (OTOH, the punctuation is
intentionally basic).
The Dink

BZZT! the format is a *double rhyme'. The second rhyme is at the end
of the first foot, and has the same aabbcc...
pattern as the end-rhyme.
Please try again. It's not something you can just toss off, so it's
not writing that you're used to; but of course you can do it.

Poor Uncle Hammy... always coming up ''short''.


Poor Duckery...always making a quacking sound.