I could care less.

[James Steele]

Are you looking for an argument?

"You're arguing right now!"

"No I'm not!"

"Yes you are!"

"I could just be arguing for fun."

Hahaha... I don't have that right, but I love that one. John Cleese and Terry Jones.

Also the vocational guidance counselor sketch where a chartered accountant wants to be a lion tamer.

[stubbsonic]

"... don't give me that you snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings.... shut your festering gob, you tit, you vacuous, coffee-nosed, mal-odorous pervert!"

Really takes me back.

[Phil O]

My son and one of his friends did the parrot skit at a talent contest at their high school. I think they were about 15 at the time and they nailed it - had the dialog down, got the timing right and did an excellent job. I didn't even know he was into Monty Python. The kids in the audience were rolling on the floor. I assume most had not seen the original skit. They took 1st place.

[monkey man]

"... don't give me that you snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings.... shut your festering gob, you tit, you vacuous, coffee-nosed, mal-odorous pervert!"

Really takes me back.

Interesting you thought it was "coffee-nosed" Stubbsy. I've heard peeps say "stuffy-nosed" as well.

I always heard it as "toffee-nosed" - a dig at the "high class".

As I like to say, "ridiculous!".

You mean ridiculou's?

I s'tand correct'd sir.

[Rick Cornish]

Oxford commas

It’s the difference between…

“I’d like to thank my parents, Bill Clinton, and Oprah."

…and…

“I’d like to thank my parents, Bill Clinton and Oprah." (Are my parents Bill Clinton and Oprah?)

[Rick Cornish]

Oxford commas

It’s the difference between…

“I’d like to thank my parents, Bill Clinton, and Oprah."

…and…

“I’d like to thank my parents, Bill Clinton and Oprah." (Are my parents Bill Clinton and Oprah?)

[stubbsonic]

I'm fully on-board with Oxford commas!!

That's a good example.

There's a grammatical/typing rule that says that punctuation always goes inside the quotation marks. I rebel. I put it outside whenever I feel like it. It's so liberating.

A friend asked me: "What do you want to do?" How should I respond? Should I say, "Let's go to the park"?

[James Steele]

My son and one of his friends did the parrot skit at a talent contest at their high school. I think they were about 15 at the time and they nailed it - had the dialog down, got the timing right and did an excellent job. I didn't even know he was into Monty Python. The kids in the audience were rolling on the floor. I assume most had not seen the original skit. They took 1st place.

Haha! “That’s a Norwegian Blue! He’s pining for the fiords!”

I love introducing younger people to old school classic comedy. Years ago I dated a gal whose teenage son convinced me to watch Napoleon Dynamite. First time I saw it I hated it. Didn’t get it. Second time, something clicked and I saw the humor in it.

As part of our generational exchange I then sat him down and we watched Young Frankenstein together. He loved it. Some of that stuff is timeless. “Abby someone… Abby Normal.”

[James Steele]

Okay. One of my favorites:

“Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power requires a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony! I mean you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!”

“Be quiet!”

“I mean if I went around saying I was emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they’d put me away!”

“I order you to be quiet!”

“Oh now we see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I’m being repressed!”

“Bloody peasant!”

“Oh what a giveaway! You heard that, right? You saw him repressing me!”

[mhschmieder]

One of the strangest from the catalog of modern phenomena is when we see a message or a file dated as "tomorrow".

Well, it's a peeve of mine anyway that we can't force things to just say the date and time. It's too confusing to have to sort through all the mislabeled today/tomorrow/yesterday markings to figure out the actual date/time of a message or file, especially as we communicate with people in multiple time zones and there is no uniformity over whether the sender or the recipient, or the file creator vs. the consumer, sets the timestamp.

[mikehalloran]

There's a grammatical/typing rule that says that punctuation always goes inside the quotation marks. I rebel. I put it outside whenever I feel like it. It's so liberating.

Outside the quote was the rule before typesetting. The punctuation was easier to lose if outside the quotes. When offset printing of newspapers became popular in 1968, the old rule never came back. I do it both ways, depending on context.

[Rick Cornish]

There's a grammatical/typing rule that says that punctuation always goes inside the quotation marks. I rebel. I put it outside whenever I feel like it. It's so liberating.

A friend asked me: "What do you want to do?" How should I respond? Should I say, "Let's go to the park"?

Both AP and Chicago style put punctuation inside quotes. The Brits put it outside, which usually makes more sense to me.

I agree with your example because the question mark at the end refers to the part of the sentence that precedes the quoted phrase.

(Fun with grammar now on MOTUnation? James—I think we need a new forum.)


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[joelfriedman]

The Python quotes make this “The Best Thread Ever.” Or is that “The Best Thread Ever”?


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[HCMarkus]

The Python quotes make this “The Best Thread Ever.” Or is that “The Best Thread Ever”?

Bestest.

[bayswater]

The Python quotes make this “The Best Thread Ever.” Or is that “The Best Thread Ever”?

Bestest.

Maybe gooder, but bestest?