To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

[Jan Van Quirm]

See! Rite of passage

 

[raisindot]

See! Rite of passage

No, I don't think so. It wasn't a true "pooh upon." No blood drawn, you see

J-I-B

 

[poohcarrot]

That's because I'm a reformed character these days. 8)

 

[Willem]

It's MALformed, not REformed!

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

You leave pooh alone Willem & Jeff - he can't help being a cuddlebunny

 

[raisindot]

That's because I'm a reformed character these days. 8)

Ahhh, well that explains why I saw Ronnie Soak's milk truck crossing the sky today....



J-I_B

 

[poohcarrot]

That's because I'm a reformed character these days. 8)

Ahhh, well that explains why I saw Ronnie Soak's milk truck crossing the sky today....



J-I_B

No, you saw Ronnie Soak's milk truck because you've got your head so far in the clouds, which would explain why you have trouble with the simplest tasks such as using the correct hyphons in your own initials.

 

[raisindot]

No, you saw Ronnie Soak's milk truck because you've got your head so far in the clouds, which would explain why you have trouble with the simplest tasks such as using the correct hyphons in your own initials.

Ah, there we are. Back to normal. Knew ths whole "reformed" charade wouldn't last.

And, while we're playing English Police here, I'm pretty sure on both sides of the Pond that the word 'hyphen' is spelled with an 'e' after the second 'h.' Unless this is one of those Japanese-English things.



J-I-B

 

[poohcarrot]

I've got to play fair and leave you with something to get back at me with, haven't I?

 

[raisindot]

I've got to play fair and leave you with something to get back at me with, haven't I?

So, so, predictable you are, Pooh. So much so I predicted it. Note my message hidden away near the very bottom of

http://www.terrypratchett.co.uk/forum/v ... 6&start=60

...predicting you'd say that. Posted an hour before you posted this above. You're losing your edge, sir!



And, yes, I know you saw that message.

J-I-B

 

[raisindot]

I've got to play fair and leave you with something to get back at me with, haven't I?

So, so, predictable you are, Pooh. So much so I predicted it. Note my message hidden away near the very bottom of

http://www.terrypratchett.co.uk/forum/v ... 6&start=60

...predicting you'd post something like this. My prediction was posted an hour before you posted this above.



And, yes, I know you saw that message. And responded to it. Ten minutes after you posted here. You're losing your edge, sir!

:twisted:

J-I-B

 

[poohcarrot]

I can't even really count the ways that I disagree with you on this. I think TFE is, if not the the best DW novel, certainly among the top 3, even with the desultory Colon-Nobs subplot.

Have I ever claimed to be the best speller in the world? No.
Did I recently state that my electronic dictionary had broken? Yes.
Have I ever said that it doesn't matter about spelling so long as people understand what you mean? Yes.
Did I pull you up fo a spelling mistake? No.
Did I pull you up for being slapdash and not even bothering to see if you had typed your signature correctly? Yes.
Did I make any comment about the fact that you can't even spell correctly one of the main characters from a DW book you claim is in your top 3? No.
Did it take me less than 30 seconds to find one of your spelling mistakes? Yes.


...and from the same post:

For the first time, she becomes his true partner, and, by becoming pregnant, she gives transforms Vimes from someone who sees himself as nothing but a copper to a man who will soon have a larger and meaningful purpose in life, creating the 'ultimate' Vimes of Night Watch and Thud!

There are just so many amazing scenes in this book: The bandit attack, where we first see Vimes's cool-and-collected persona emerge;

I reckon there are four mistakes in this bit.
Did I pull you up about them? No.

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Pooh - never change but don't try and kid yourself or us that you've reformed. Restraint in your case means you're busy with something else - like doing some proper writing...

 

[raisindot]

Vintage, Pooh! And quite predictable.

I generally don't point out spelling/grammar errors of others 1) because, as has been rightly pointed out, I'm guilty of the same and 2) what's the bloody point? But, really, someone had to draw him out of his quite uncharacteristically mellow mood. Glad to oblige, as usual.

How does this relate to "To Kill a Mockingbird?" Well, Pooh does have a certain Dill-ish quality to him, and the literary temperament of Bob Ewell.



J-I-B

 

[poohcarrot]

I was joking when I said I'd reformed. I was joking about saying I deliberately made a mistake with the hyphon.

 

[poohcarrot]

Ah, but J-I_B can you find the four mistakes? 8)
Feel free to take as much time as you want.

 

[raisindot]

Ah, but J-I_B can you find the four mistakes? 8)
Feel free to take as much time as you want.

I waste neither time nor effort to try to find my own mistakes...at least not on forum postings. Life is far too short. If others wish to do so and aim a verbal arrow at my fumble-fingered expense (as many certainly have done in the past), I'm quite fine with painting a bulls-eye on my back to facilitate matters...as long as I'm not treated like poor Tom Robinson, the ill-fated racial scapegoat of "To Kill a Mockingbird," which is, after all, the topic of this discussion.



Besides, my troll-thinking-helmet is on the fritz so I couldn't do it even if I wanted to.



J^I&B

 

[poohcarrot]

Just for the record here are the mistakes.

For the first time, she becomes his true partner, and, by becoming pregnant, she gives transforms Vimes from someone who sees himself as nothing but a copper to a man who will soon have a larger and meaningful purpose in life, creating the 'ultimate' Vimes of Night Watch and Thud!

There are just so many amazing scenes in this book: The bandit attack, where we first see Vimes's cool-and-collected persona emerge;

 

[Tonyblack]

Have you two finished yet?

 

[Dotsie]

Not nearly, I suspect