It's been about a year now... Donations!

I'm in

Just put a PayPal in... Took less than two minutes.

Long live the board.

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Lt. Commander John R, Lewandowski, P.E., P.L.S. was my father. He proudly served 23 years in the USN before returning home to the family engineering business. Unfortunately, he passed a number of years ago...but it was nice to see LTC Lewandowski in your post. Made me smile. - Thanx - Matt

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Here's my thoughts on increasing donations.....

.....for every $20 you donate you get one free name-calling.

You can either use the name-calling yourself, or you can donate it to the poster of your choice.

I am having dippy idiot withdrawal...:-(

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What kind of dippy idiotic idea is that?;-)

Strike one?:-(

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I don't think it is a strike if you call an idea a name, but in my heart I know you are really calling me that......thanks!

> You guys are too much. :-$
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Dang Wendell... I was going to chip in right now, and my internet is only doing that "half-load-up" BS that I post pics of. I'll hit it this weekend!!

It's about to be BEER:30 here on the East Coast...

so HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!

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salud!

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Just trying to help. You're welcome.

Here's my thoughts on increasing donations.....Steve

I have 1 1/2 Free name calling passes available, and being the good pal that I am, I am giving you the 1/2 part.

Here's my thoughts on increasing donations.....Paul

Sweeeet!! Does that cover the dippy part or the idiotic part?

Here's my thoughts on increasing donations.....Steve

> I have 1 1/2 Free name calling passes available, and being the good pal that I am, I am giving you the 1/2 part.

1/2? Is that because you called someone a son-of-a...? I take it, that's only worth a 1/2 credit. ;o)

JBS

Here's my thoughts on increasing donations.....Steve

> Sweeeet!! Does that cover the dippy part or the idiotic part?

Hmmm, Steve ol buddy, why didn't you simply read the instructions that came with the 1/2?

Here's my thoughts on increasing donations.....JBS

>Here's my thoughts on increasing donations.....
>by D. J. Fenton , Winchester, VA, Friday, April 29, 2011, 13:43 (17 minutes ago) @ Paul >Plutae
.....for every $20 you donate you get one free name-calling.

I Paypal a $ 30, so the math part of me thinks I have 1 1/2 free passes..well, just ONE now JBS :clap:

Here's my thoughts on increasing donations.....Paul

The instructions seem to have been translated by the same guy that wrote my Topcon manual so trial and error seems the best strategy.

Here's my thoughts on increasing donations.....JBS

> .....for every $20 you donate you get one free name-calling.
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> I Paypal a $ 30, so the math part of me thinks I have 1 1/2 free passes..well, just ONE now JBS :clap:

Did not Justice Cooley write that you get as many (or a few) free passes as required to maintain harmony in the community, irregardless of the math?

Here's my thoughts on increasing donations.....JBS

> > .....for every $20 you donate you get one free name-calling.
> >
> > I Paypal a $ 30, so the math part of me thinks I have 1 1/2 free passes..well, just ONE now JBS :clap:
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> Did not Justice Cooley write that you get as many (or a few) free passes as required to maintain harmony in the community, IRREGARDLESS of the math?

Two reasons for responding to this post:

1) To bring the whole "pitch in, please" to the top; and

2) Question; Without googling, is "irregardless" that same as "regardless"?

Here's my thoughts on increasing donations.....JBS

Answer: No, with that kind of double negative wouldn't that be like saying "regardful"?

Here's my thoughts on increasing donations.....JBS

Donations to the top!

Also, I looked up IRREGARDLESS this morning. This is interesting:

"Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so."

I don't mean to be a smarty pants because I didn't know any of the above, but that word never sounded right to me.

Don

Don

> Donations to the top!
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> Also, I looked up IRREGARDLESS this morning. This is interesting:
>
> "Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so."
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> I don't mean to be a smarty pants because I didn't know any of the above, but that word never sounded right to me.
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> Don

Jeez, must I repost this every time I use "irregardless" 😉

There is a rapidly disappearing tradition in formal English of using the redundant negative as a means to express a point (unboundless, undauntless, uneffectless, unfathomless, etc).

Since formal language tends to evolve from dialect; the use if "irregardless" signifies that the user is concurrently a traditionalist and ahead of his time.

Don

O.K., now that we're on the Wordcraft board rather than Beer Leg, all I can say is: Ouch!
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Don