[CrackMonkey] Dem spuds aren't done without the dick, Don.
George Moffitt
zen at zork.net
Mon Jan 1 21:35:28 PST 2001
begin Paul J Collins quotation:
> GM> Anyway, just about the only times you SHOULDN'T use "whom" is
> GM> [...] Or if you're some pansy magazine editor who doesn't
> GM> want to look "fuddy duddy".
>
> To whom do you refer, Mister Moffitt? Examples, boy! Examples!
Jehaesus Christ, man, if I'd remembered the specific I'd have
cited it. I just remember reading a letter to a magazine editor a few
years ago correcting such an error, and that was the excuse the
magazine gave. I think they even said "fuddy duddy" in the reply.
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They pursued it with forks and hope; The Hunting of the Snark:
They threatened its life with a railway-share; an Agony in Eight Fits
They charmed it with smiles and soap. by Lewis Carroll
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