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@GrandpaJoeSux Maybe they were put off by that decade-long gap in your resume where you were lying in bed pretending to be crippled instead of supporting your destitute family. Then, as soon as Charlie gets a golden ticket, you are up and about like the last decade never happened. Sheesh.

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@JonErlichman This aged horribly, but I still think Padmasree Warrior’s (CTO of Motorola at the time) reaction to the iPhone was worse.

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@mookiealexander “The runner’s sudden demise was exhilarating.” —Dennis Miller

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@walterkirn These chains have really upped their wall-art game—unfortunately.

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@TheBearscast @DaBearsTakeOver Other angles show DJ Moore stopped running. If he had kept running and carved his route back to the QB, this is a contested catch at worst. He quit on routes a LOT that year, but in this case I have to think he was trying to play through an injury and just couldn’t do it.

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@_Jeffery0 It’s interesting how Charlie keeps interrupting Bill to argue with him, and he’s wrong every time. I wish he would shut up and let Bill talk. What a terrible “interview”.

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@walterkirn No

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@NielsHoven The funny thing is that my son learned to read the way I did—through repetition. I spent hundreds of hours reading to him. My son eventually taught himself to sound out words because he wanted to read Calvin And Hobbes when I wasn’t around. For me it was Dr. Seuss books.

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@buddingmonkey @Persimmons32 @NielsHoven Yes! I was trying to find this series to post it here. Thank you. The person who came up with this idiocy had no idea that they were basing their methods on observing the subset of kids who couldn’t read. There was no evidence to support it, and now lots of contrary evidence.

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@NielsHoven This became a popular method of teaching reading about a decade ago. The person who developed it did it by watching kids trying to read, not understanding it is a technique used by people who are illiterate. I thought it was abandoned now based on its terrible outcomes.

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@NiohBerg A man stabbed and two women burned: So, you’re saying that the boat contained both surgeons AND chemists?

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@annbauerwriter Armageddon

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@Betty_99_2 @donahue_jo5848 @552hoza @botticellibimbo Today’s grammar lesson is now concluded. Your grade is “F minus”.

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@Betty_99_2 @donahue_jo5848 @552hoza @botticellibimbo We’re actually getting beyond my knowledge of grammar, but I looked it up, and clauses must contain a subject and a predicate, typically a verb. Clauses do not need to contain objects. So, objects do not “make clauses”.

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@Betty_99_2 @donahue_jo5848 @552hoza @botticellibimbo “Hoping you understand this,” is actually not a clause because there is no subject. In the sentence, “I am hoping you understand this,” “you understand this” is a clause, which is complete with a subject and verb. “I” is the subject, and “am hoping” is the verb.

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@Betty_99_2 @donahue_jo5848 @552hoza @botticellibimbo “Hoping you understand this,” is not a sentence. It is short for “I am hoping you understand this,” and “am hoping” is a present participle.

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@Betty_99_2 @552hoza @donahue_jo5848 @botticellibimbo In your post above, “jumping” is a present participle, not a gerund. The original post was correct that half the responses in this thread are confusing the two. Gerunds are nouns. “Jumping is fun!” (gerund) vs “I’m not jumping on you.” (participle)

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@TRichUtah @caesar_pounce Lololol “I wish I had a time machine.” “To kill Lindsay Clancy?” “No, to take back my question.”

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@0fficerJimLahey @NormSNLJokes Bill Cosby is a great man. He’s one of my heroes, you know, I guess like Bill Clinton would be one of your heroes.

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@kurt13warner Probably not since my son was little and got stomach flu. These things are a lot easier when you are younger!