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Isnt tommorrow the day LAC is fully cured after receiving medical care. I am looking forward to notice the change in character!
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Come on LAC, brighten my elderly life; some people (especially those who spoil motoring) fail to.
Vroooom!
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Yo LAC cool dude (along with yer Lada)!
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Poor Chris needs counselling. How would you lot like constant whackings from a ferocious, cruel, stair rod wielding father.
Its no wonder he needs treatment. We all would......
However I have great faith in him. One day his genius will make you all proud to have known him.
Alvin
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for tonight and tonight only, i will be the old LAC (chris watson), do you want to hear about my friends pink chieftain tank, that i have just converted to perpetual motion, i am also going to customise it, by putting red flashing lights along the tracks.
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Just can't wait Chris put us out of our misery and tell us.
Alvin
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it will also have a pink and black zebra skin affect gun turret cover, a four hundred watt radio, a rear parking bleeper (just to tell the other cars in the car park that you are going to crush them), it will need about 6 alloy wheels on each side, and a 35 tone musical horn (i dont think the police will stop me in a tank), i will be putting a supercharger on it, and sticking some nodding dogs on top of the machine gun. the radio will be run on a hamster in a wheel turning a motor which powers the radio (and to be nice to the hamsters, when one get tired i will put another in its place).
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You are *really* turning people off this forum you know. Please give us a break and get to the point.
Does your Father know how much you are costing him on his phone bill?
Hang up the connection and go to Sea Scouts - far more rewarding.
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i am just giving people what they want, because from 2.30pm tomorrow, i will be a different person.
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Really?
Well, the first thing you MUST do is change your nick.
Ladas are NOT cool, therefore by persisting with the nick you are proving that you are either
(a) fibbing or
(b) demented.
How about a nice new nick? - May I suggest a few:
RODney
Salad is cool
ladas are cr*p
Walter Mitty
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Also at least get it right - what is a ladas? If you mean collectively that Lada cars are "cool" (not my words there) then it's Lada's are cool
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No.
Misuse of apostrophe there, DanJ.
same as saying "ice-creams are cool"
However, you could talk about a Lada's wheel, or engine - the apostrophe denotes possessive.
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Ian
Correct, it's good to see correct understanding of apostrophe use.
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And I am the one who always gets mad when I see "potato's for sale" (regarding the apostrophe use - nothing against vegetables of the tuber variety)
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However, "CD's for sale" is legit.
The apostrophe covers the missing letters of 'Disc'.
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As Mr Higgins sang:
"Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?"
Or write, in this instance...
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Different maybe - better, never!
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Dan J
Not when I went to school! Methinks you owe someone an apology....
R
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Dan,
These girls are devils, they don't say much then drop on you when you least expect it.
PS. She's right.
David
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Or it could show a shortening of "is," as in "My Lada's knackered," or "has," as in "My Lada's broken down again." Tricky blighters.
Chris
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Or on the outside, as in "Ladas' gearboxes always pack in."
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Actually there is a problem with the moniker. He uses a lower case "l" when Lada is a proper noun and should have a capital.
Chris
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2.30!
LAC's rehabilitation's ended.
Think that's right.
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Grammatically yes.
Factually - remains to be seen.
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If you want a useful rule of thumb for the use of the possessive apostrophe, it goes outside the thing possessed.
Thus:
"A Lada's engine is slow" (single Lada)
"Ladas' engines are unreliable" (multiple Ladas)
Useful to remember this when wondering about 'children's games' - children is the plural of child, so the apostrophe goes before the 's'.
Am I making sense chaps? Pay attention at the back!
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Of course I blame my teachers (no apostrophe)...
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Those bl**dy apostrophes again, makes you wonder why the rest of the world ever wanted to learn to speak/write English - marginally easier than Chinese I suppose and everyone does it so well..... :-)
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i am now a truth telling person, all things that i say are true from now on.
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Just slightly off subject... here's something I was sent recently ...
"As a junior crew member Pan Am 727 Flight Engineer, I was listening to the radio waiting for start clearance out of Munich, Germany. This was the conversation I overheard (I don't recall call signs any longer):
Lufthansa: (In German) "Ground, what is our start clearance time?"
Ground: (In English) "If you want an answer you must speak English."
Luft: (In English) "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?"
Beautiful English Accent: (before ground could answer) "Because you lost the bloody war!"
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