I shan't be attempting NaNoWriMo this year. I have too much other stuff on.
In trying to work out where the apostrophe(s) go[es] in the contraction of 'shall not', I was reminded of my one-time housemate who claimed that 'shall' was the 'strongest word in the language' because it lacked a negation: he felt that due to its association with petulant middle-class girls 'shan't' was not valid for use. Just thought I'd share that with you.
In trying to work out where the apostrophe(s) go[es] in the contraction of 'shall not', I was reminded of my one-time housemate who claimed that 'shall' was the 'strongest word in the language' because it lacked a negation: he felt that due to its association with petulant middle-class girls 'shan't' was not valid for use. Just thought I'd share that with you.
Sorry for being a little slow on this one: I was away for the weekend and spent a long drive on Friday hearing about this on the radio. In Friday's Daily Mail, which I didn't read, General Sir Richard Dannatt said various things about the UK's presence in Iraq, later revised dramatically for a hasty press release. BBC News summarises the former and quotes the latter.
For those who read the Troy review and noted that I might soon be trying to get rid of a copy of The Prisoner on DVD, I have the following statement:
You can't have it. It's mine.
It's precious...
You can't have it. It's mine.
It's precious...
...this passes as a sewing pattern:
I was listening to Radio 1 on the way home last night (as I always do: I absolutely cannot stand radio commercials, and hence never listen to commercial radio), and Scott Mills was being surprisingly smart in his childish humour. Normally his great ideas (and those of his co-presenters, such as looking through a US phone book for people with 'humourous' names and ringing them up) are cringeworthy, and to be fair this one was little different.
As part of the ongoing feud between him and Jo Whiley - gone to and fro since he cut footage of her on a rollercoaster into a montage of moaning and squealing reminiscent of the café scene in When Harry Met Sally - she had sent him text messages pretending to be from David Hasslehoff, saying that he'll write a love scene for Scott and him in his musical. Scott replied, writing 'I can't wait to make love to you'. Jo of course read this out on air, giving Scott a[nother] recording that will bring him endless joy.
The calls he made with the sample were awful, as you'd expect, but I have to respect the manoeuvring to get it.
As part of the ongoing feud between him and Jo Whiley - gone to and fro since he cut footage of her on a rollercoaster into a montage of moaning and squealing reminiscent of the café scene in When Harry Met Sally - she had sent him text messages pretending to be from David Hasslehoff, saying that he'll write a love scene for Scott and him in his musical. Scott replied, writing 'I can't wait to make love to you'. Jo of course read this out on air, giving Scott a[nother] recording that will bring him endless joy.
The calls he made with the sample were awful, as you'd expect, but I have to respect the manoeuvring to get it.
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