<div>Jeanene</div> <div>I'm not sure. The person who sent it to me didn't say. If I can find that book at the library, I will look to see. Thanks for the info.</div> <div>Do you live in Arizona? I bet it is hot there. Wish we could get some of the rain they are getting back east.</div> <div>Frank<BR><BR><B><I>"Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List" <gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT color=#000080 size=2>Is this from the very good book titled The Transitive Vampire : A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed? It sounds like something from there. It is one of my all-time favorite books. Karen Elizabeth Gordon has several books on the English language that in a
humorous way teach you the rights and wrongs of English grammar.</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV>Jeanene<BR>A child born with Hydranencephaly is one of Life's Little Miracles.<BR>They live, laugh, and love -- all without a brain.<BR><A href="http://www.hydranencephaly.com/">www.hydranencephaly.com</A> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=jeanenehea@comcast.net href="mailto:jeanenehea@comcast.net">Red</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, July 01, 2006 8:00 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [GCFL-discuss] The Rules of
Grammar</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><U>Here's another one for you Siarlys</U></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><U><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Frank</FONT></U></DIV> <OL> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Verbs has to agree with their subjects</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Prepositions are not words to end sentences with</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>And don't start a sentence with a conjunction</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>It is wrong to ever split an infinitive</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.)</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Also, always avoid annoying a</A></FONT><A
target=_blank name=1><FONT color=#003399>ssonance</FONT></A><FONT color=#ff0000>*</FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Be more or less specific</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>No sentence fragments</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Foreign words and phrases are not apropos</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's highly
superfluous</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>One should never generalise</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Comparisons are as bad as clichés</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Don't use no double negatives forever</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>One-word sentences? Eliminate</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>The passive voice is to be ignored</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical
words however should be enclosed in commas</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><A target=_blank name=1><FONT color=#003399>Kill all exclamation marks!!!</FONT></A>!</FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earthshaking ideas</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: "Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly."</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Puns are for children, not groan readers</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Who needs rhetorical questions?</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><A target=_blank name=1><FONT color=#003399>Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement</FONT></A><BR><A target=_blank name=1><BR><FONT color=#003399>And finally...</FONT></A></FONT><BR> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A
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