Favourate Chewing Gum Flavour

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Sun May 19, 2002 3:49 am

Re: Re: Favourate Chewing Gum Flavour

Originally posted by C Elegans
I very seldom use chewing gum

CE must be the only person in the world who 'uses' chewing gum, rather than chewing it...

and I secong Kam's appeal for HUBBA BUBBA ATOMIC APPLE ! It rocks my salivary glands.

Ode to a Grasshopper · Sun May 19, 2002 5:32 am

Re: Re: Re: Favourate Chewing Gum Flavour

Originally posted by frogus
CE must be the only person in the world who 'uses' chewing gum, rather than chewing it...

I used it to stick up a shelf that had fallen down once. It doesn't work very well

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Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Sun May 19, 2002 6:23 am

actually, one of the sixth form toilet cubicle's locking mechanism broke about a month ago, and ever since then chewing gum was used to keep it shut

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Sun May 19, 2002 6:52 am

Re: Re: Re: Favourate Chewing Gum Flavour

Originally posted by frogus
HUBBA BUBBA ATOMIC APPLE

w00t.

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Sun May 19, 2002 7:04 am

Originally posted by Tamerlane
Hubba Bubba Strawberry

You see now you've made me hungry.

Hungry? But you can't eat bubble gum... at least, you're not supposed to, and it's not especially filling

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Sun May 19, 2002 11:54 am

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Sun May 19, 2002 11:56 am

Originally posted by Stilgar
s

Now that's a post

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sun May 19, 2002 12:39 pm

Re: Re: Re: Favourate Chewing Gum Flavour

Originally posted by frogus
CE must be the only person in the world who 'uses' chewing gum, rather than chewing it...

Blame my English...

Do you really say "chewing chewing gum"? Sounds like a tautology

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Sun May 19, 2002 12:49 pm

Re: Re: Re: Re: Favourate Chewing Gum Flavour

Originally posted by C Elegans

Blame my English... Do you really say "chewing chewing gum"? Sounds like a tautology

Hmm - but then Frogus laughed at my English recently - we have a genius in our midst who likes to point out such errors

PK for me

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Sun May 19, 2002 12:57 pm

@CE, actually it is usually referred to as "Chewing Gum" rather than adding the extra word, it is similar in many ways to "the previous day i had had a rectal exam..." one could just say the previous day i had a rectal exam, however many authors will use the extra word for no reason. There is a term in English for such things, i can't recall what it is though

Wriggleys Extra's for me

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Sun May 19, 2002 1:00 pm

Originally posted by Kameleon

Now that's a post

You know what the weird part is, i spend more time thinking aboout that reply then that I do in most other occasions.

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Sun May 19, 2002 1:20 pm

LOL. Yeah sleep is right. I could say 'I am using chewing gum', but then it isn't clear what I am using it for; Chewing gum has many uses, as Robnark has kindly demonstrated

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If I just say 'I am chewing gum' however, it is clear that I am not actually a stick of mint-based confectionary, and it is also clear that I am not chewing, for example, xantham gum. There is only one type of gum which is chewed (chewing gum), and hence the sentence can only be interpreted in one way (exceptional circumstances excepted of course

. Class dismissed.

@Sleep. Saying 'the previous day I had a rectal exam*' means that you were examined rectally the day before. 'the previous day I had had a rectal exam' means that the day before, you had experienced (on an unspecified day) a rectal exam at some point in your life. Think of the sentence 'I have a violin exam' the past tense of this sentence is 'I had a violin exam'. The sentence 'I had had a violin exam' on the other hand is not the same. It is the past tense of the sentence 'I have had a violin exam'. With the addition of 'the previous day', the first example becomes specific as to time, whereas the second does not. Detention over.

EDIT - @Sleep, what's a rectal exam by the way?

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Sun May 19, 2002 1:47 pm

Originally posted by frogus
@Sleep. Saying 'the previous day I had a rectal exam*' means that you were examined rectally the day before. 'the previous day I had had a rectal exam' means that the day before, you had experienced (on an unspecified day) a rectal exam at some point in your life. Think of the sentence 'I have a violin exam' the past tense of this sentence is 'I had a violin exam'. The sentence 'I had had a violin exam' on the other hand is not the same. It is the past tense of the sentence 'I have had a violin exam'. With the addition of 'the previous day', the first example becomes specific as to time, whereas the second does not. Detention over.

EDIT - @Sleep, what's a rectal exam by the way?

Personally i consider it bad grammar, the sentence in question can be constructed differently to fulfill the same end product and with a great deal of finesse

Rectal exam would be an examination one's rectum, in laymans terms ones ass

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Sun May 19, 2002 1:50 pm

Hey! How come you can write 'ass' without getting sensored?

ps shouldn't that be 'rectal examination'? Anyway...

EDIT - Wow. I can write it too. Ass ass ass. I can even write arse if I want. He hee. I've never felt so alive. So how come Grunty always writes @$$?

Locke Da'averan · Post by **Locke Da'averan** » Sun May 19, 2002 2:16 pm

damn i've used the a$$ 'cause i thought it was forbidden, one weight lifted from my chest, now the arbituous task of thinking how to lift the rest...

mr. oxford green leaf frog, you a grammar teacher or smth???

BTW Stilgar that 's' may well become one of SYM's greater mysteries that future generations ponder, it can be interpreted in so many ways or can it? now that is the question, or is it?

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sun May 19, 2002 2:19 pm

Originally posted by frogus
EDIT - Wow. I can write it too. Ass ass ass. I can even write arse if I want. He hee. I've never felt so alive. So how come Grunty always writes @$$?

ROFL

@Sleep and Frogus: "I am chewing gum", ok, you use chewing as both a adjective and a verb is this sentence. To me it sounds a bit funny, because in Swedish translation that would mean I'm chewing on a condom.

Regarding "rectal exam" - wouldn't that be an school exam of rectal knowledge, or can exam be used as short for examination = investigation? Great example sentence btw - how do you come up with these things, Sleep

*sigh* I think English is one of the easiest languages to pick up at a basic level, and one of the most difficult to master correctly at an advanced level.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Sun May 19, 2002 2:26 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans

*sigh* I think English is one of the easiest languages to pick up at a basic level, and one of the most difficult to master correctly at an advanced level.

Tell me about it! - and it is my mother tongue!

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Sun May 19, 2002 4:19 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans
Regarding "rectal exam" - wouldn't that be an school exam of rectal knowledge, or can exam be used as short for examination = investigation? Great example sentence btw - how do you come up with these things, Sleep

One in theory could use the trem "rectal exam" as a describing word, for instance "that was one hell of a rectal exam" in other words the exam wasn't particularly enjoyable. It could also be used as both of your examples.

How do i come up with these things? I guess it is skill

@Frogus, BTW it's censored not "sensored" (score one for sleep

) if i can't defeat you with properly constructed sentences then i will instead resort to petty correction of spelling

I actually meant to say "...be an examination of one's rectum"

Oh and don't over use the word ass, that would only cause it to end up on the censored list, then we would have no one to blame but the abusers of that word.

Omar · Post by **Omar** » Sun May 19, 2002 4:47 pm

n: Hubba Bubba Strawberry

awful: anything with peppermint!

Watch out for my bad breath!

Omar · Post by **Omar** » Sun May 19, 2002 5:55 pm

double post somehow?! (EDIT)