Apostrophe crimes

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Oi! I'm not the one with 2 pages of crime listed above :lol:
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Conky wrote:Another one of Captain Mainwarings classics seems apt...

"You Stupid Boy!"
I had to check, but the surname of George Mainwaring does not end in an ‟s”, so it can’t be claimed that ‟Captain Mainwarings classics” is some type of non-hyphenated compound adjective followed by an incorrectly pluralised noun (as in ‟a Captain-Mainwaring classic”). It should, of course, have said ‟Captain Mainwaring’s”. Judge for yourself whether any of his recently quoted words might apply.
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Derek T. wrote:Oi! I'm not the one with 2 pages of crime listed above :lol:
A Father is always harder on his Son. So being The Great Apostrophe's Love Child, I'm bound to be picked up on every little mistake.

:D Alan :D
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=4637#4637]Here[/url] Derek T. wrote:Corky - you could at least try to spell our new members name properly
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=4838#4838]Here[/url] Conky wrote:I suppose when all the banter peters out, it can be moved to Meaningless Drivel, and leave Dereks original first Post.
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=5247#5247]Here[/url] ADV wrote:Alan...blame the Americans...OK, your probably right
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=5434#5434]Here[/url] Conky wrote:there are some stupidly priced wines out there, who's prices can not be justified!
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In [url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=5582#5582]the same post[/url] Conky wrote:But your also going to have to put up with my batteries going in my cordless keyboard.
Oddly, a significant proportion of the characters affected by the weak battery have been quotation marks. How strange!
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Perhaps because the quotation marks and apostrophe keys are the least used they are therefore the first to be affected by declining batteries?
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Alex sent me this rant on the apostrophe thank you.

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AHB wrote:Perhaps because the quotation marks and apostrophe keys are the least used they are therefore the first to be affected by declining batteries?
Conky being a frequent user of the square and curly parentheses on some other bulletin board, presumably?
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jdaw1 wrote:
AHB wrote:Perhaps because the quotation marks and apostrophe keys are the least used they are therefore the first to be affected by declining batteries?
Conky being a frequent user of the square and curly parentheses on some other bulletin board, presumably?
I can only assume so. Could there be another explanation?
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Well, that same key seems to have failed again on Conky’s keyboard.
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I would like to dedicate all my hard effort and tireless work in improving my Apostrophe etiquette to Julian! A great inspiration and one helluva mentor.
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=6019#6019]Here[/url] ADV wrote:we are going to have 5 bottles of port tonight, plus some dry wines....just wanted to rub that in...now don't drink all you're port. We shall do that for you, after all, what are friends for
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=6067#6067]Here[/url] Conky wrote:Bobs not said hello yet? But if your out there, welcome Bob!
If ‟Bobs” is just a friendly term of endearment, then there’s only one apostrophe crime in here. Somewhat informal though for somebody one hasn’t met, and who hasn’t yet posted. In which case see previous rant about this perhaps Conky meant ‟Bob has”, abbreviated to ‟Bob’s”, so there are two crimes in this sentence. Hence the parentheses in the post’s title.
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=6564#6564]Here[/url] uncle tom wrote:The wine has already performed it's little party trick
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Conky wrote:
Derek T. wrote:Oi! I'm not the one with 2 pages of crime listed above :lol:
A Father is always harder on his Son. So being The Great Apostrophe's Love Child, I'm bound to be picked up on every little mistake.

:D Alan :D
Alan ,
The Great Apostrophy's love Child . . .
Can you say weird ??
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You can’t imagine how weird I think it is.

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You think that’s weird? You can’t imagine how weird I think it is.
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You're right Julian , I can't and don't want to imagine how thaught provoking .
Instead , I think I'll finish of my Niepoort LBV '98 ...
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With Julian suffering terribly from OCD when it comes to Apostrophe's,
(I'm told he revisits his Posts several times before he actually posts them!)

Imagine the fun when we finally catch him out???

It would be similat to finding the Holy Grail, Liverpool winning the Premiership, Derek staying awake at an Off-Line, Luc getting sick of Peanut Butter... well you get the gist.

I think the person who spots his first one should be allowed their choice in Port on their 'Author Box/Avatar' for a month. :D

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