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Seriously, it's five to seven bucks at Amazon.

I hunted around for a while recently. The best I found for my needs is BigOven, but there is a (tiny) subscription for the premium features.

Considering that a big part of creating games is arbitrary constrictions (you can only move this piece in that direction; you can't play a spade if you have another play, etc.) then it seems like this would work because it's a bit of gamification. Not a bad idea.

Are you my brother/sister?

ranhalt's talking about the SECOND it's, as in "...to require it is own program?"

The example given is indeed a sentence which would benefit from the addition of an Oxford comma in order to clarify that it isn't an appositive. The proper sentence is: "…highlights of his [Peter Ustinov's] global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod, and a dildo collector." Without the

Oh, that's just cruel. CRUEL!

That's exactly the relationship I point out to my students, and I believe it helps. Possessive pronouns NEVER have apostrophes. You wouldn't write hi's or her's, so don't write it's unless it's a contraction. It can also help with whose vs. who's.

As a teacher: If you use the Oxford comma, you are correct. If you choose to not use the Oxford comma, you are not incorrect. It's a subtle difference, but it's there. (And, no, I don't actually verbalize this to my students, but it's the belief I hold.)

Um, yeah. I'm a teacher. If I had been browsing LH on my lunch break today, and I had any students in the room, things could have been very, very bad.

Obligatory:

Hil. ar. i. ous.

But what if I want water that tastes like coffee-flavored water?

What? It's not the top ten of top tens? Man, such a wasted recursive/inception/redundant opportunity.

So... "gone" = "nested appropriately within another diagnosis". Got it.

In my years of teaching special education, it's always been considered as being on the spectrum of autism spectrum disorder. I'm actually surprised that it wasn't listed that way in the DSM until now.

Meh. It's a middle school fashion statement (or, rather, it was - it seems to be "out" now). They're kids. I won't be grumpy and judgmental about it.

Oh, well, if the city's okay with people picking up leaves that are already earmarked for them, then that's not bad at all. Since compost and compostable materials have value, I figured that they'd have the same policy as they do for trash itself (i.e. dumpster diving is illegal because it's the property of the

My thoughts exactly. I think we're getting a little willy-nilly with our willingness to shock people.

1) Why on earth are they separating out the brown bags instead of just tearing them up and leaving them in the pile?