Happening/Ain’t Happening: Artistic Differences
July 11, 2007
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Previous Happening/Ain’t Happening’s
Happening/Ain’t Happening: Getting Older
Happening/Ain’t Happening: Back from the grave
Happening/Ain’t Happening: Ain’t looking good
Beats Entropy
http://beatsentropy.com/
Fearless Leader
July 11, 2007 at 11:49 am
“inuit throat singing haikus in handicap washroom with the janitor”
oh aj.
July 11, 2007 at 11:55 am
What? The accoustics are great in there.
July 11, 2007 at 1:13 pm
“Clams of exceeding dignity”
My first thought was: God AJ, learn to proofread your material more. You spelt calms as “clams”.
But then I kept reading… and yes, yes indeed it’s clams of exceeding dignity. I should’ve known better than to doubt you.
July 11, 2007 at 2:28 pm
I would sooo pay a nickel to see a grown man throw himself down stairs!
(AJ: I emailed you a gift)
July 11, 2007 at 2:30 pm
As always your razor sharp perception and refusal to be confined by such antiquated notions as rationality inspires and entertains
July 11, 2007 at 3:10 pm
“Totem Animal: Hair lipped aardvark with a delinquent condo co-payment. ”
I can only assume that said Aardvark is also late with the alimony to his ex-wife that he still follows around sometimes. Hopefully he find some work soon or it’s time to hit the poison ant jar.
July 11, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Oh ya, lets all poke fun at the spirit animal with a birth defect.
I’m addicted to pain killers too, anyone want to laugh about that?
Really classy AJ, really classy. Good fucking luck next time you take a crazy chemically induced astral voyage, cause Andy the motherfucking aardvark ain’t gonna be there to bail you out!
July 11, 2007 at 5:48 pm
@Kenji:
You misspelled claims as calms. :)
and it’s spelled, not spelt.
Your friendly neighbourhood grammar nazi.
July 11, 2007 at 10:22 pm
@engtech: You’re the reason we’ve got fewer irregular verbs in the English language than we did a hundred years ago. That, and A.J.’s forty-dollar time travel special.
‘Spelt’ is perfectly acceptable; moreso, even, than the dumbed-down regularization ’spelled’.
July 12, 2007 at 10:54 am
Yes, but spelt is a type of wheat. The word does not mean what you think it does.
July 12, 2007 at 11:01 am
Spelt is both wheat and a proper variation of Spelled.
And this site is the last place to be having arguments about proper word usage/spelling.
spell 1 (spěl) Pronunciation Key
v. spelled or spelt (spělt), spell·ing, spells
v. tr.
To name or write in order the letters constituting (a word or part of a word).
To constitute the letters of (a word): These letters spell animal.
To add up to; signify: Their unwise investment could spell financial ruin.
July 12, 2007 at 1:30 pm
kenji started it :)
Turns out that ‘spelt’ is the British past tense of ‘to spell’ while ’spelled’ is the American past tense.
I wonder why the Firefox spell checker shows it up as a mistake? I guess it uses American by default?
July 12, 2007 at 1:33 pm
This explains how to change your dictionaries in Firefox:
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/11/firefox-2-spelling-dictionary-hacks.html
It also gives a list of common computer terms and companies from Wikipedia. Going to have to try that out.
July 14, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Wow…the comments on this post went downhill faster than AJ faceplanted into the third floor landing in his office building during two for one tuesday.
I do sometimes wonder where you come up with this stuff…marine life, I ask you?