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[MacD]

And they all seem to be infected with Noddy Disease. A little bit of animation is one thing, but I can't stand watching Judy Bailey, even if she isn't too ugly, as I'm worried one day the spring in her neck will break and her head will thud onto the newsdesk.

Don't worry, Judy Bailey was replaced by an animatronic a while ago, the $800K salary was really just the development cost. The director now just has a box with 5 buttons labelled Judy Nod, Judy Happy Face, Judy Sad Face, Judy Serious Face, Judy all-right-thinking-people-must-agree-with-my-thinly-disguised-opinion-piece-masquerading-as-news Face.

[Mooch]

Well done hitcher , This is my 200 post and it's only taken me roughly 18 months !. At this rate I'm going to be 240 y/o before reaching 5000.

[Big Dave]

I think you should just fuck up and get a life. snigger.

[Sniper]

Well done Hitcher. May your next 5000 be as educational and punctual as ever

[Wolf]

On a similar but related topic to "an horrific", of which I am a fan because it sounds nice; is the egregious practice of a flat "e" on "the" when used before a word starting with a vowel, rather than a bright "e" that flows into the second word, rather like a dipthong.

For example:
Bad = Thuh elephant. Thuh apple. Thuh apostrophe. Thuh arse.
Good = Thee elephant. Thee apple. Thee apostrophe. Thee arse.

Great! Now you've got me muttering to myself, trying out each to see which flows more naturally for me so I can determine which I normally use - and like any experiment, attempting to measure it affects the result. I'll be wondering about this for days, now.

[Eurygnomes]

You mean you can actually sound out 'thuh apostrophe' Wolf?? I find I can't...without jutting my head forward, knocking a few teeth out, not washing my hair for a few months, getting pregnant, runnign around in a stained singlet and short denim miniskirt (barefoot) and purchasing a stationary 'trailer'. Oh...somewhere in the scene is a ute with a confederate flag - it might be the fathers of the baby...

*grin*

Ick...Thuh gets me too Hitcher! I'm a 'thee' girl, through and through.

[Wolf]

You mean you can actually sound out 'thuh apostrophe' Wolf??

I guess I'm talented in more ways than you all expected...

[Sniper]

When it comes to clear diction, we have much to learn from our South African brothers and sisters...

[Ego Trip]

Many thanks to you my dear Hitcher. Hard to believe though that we were colonised by Dutch speaking individuals but learnt to speak and pronounce English better than some areas of the British Isles themselves.

[Ego Trip] End

[Slingshot]

Congrats on the big milestone Hitcher. May the next 5000 posts be as enriching as the last 5000.


And here I was thinking the post contained XXXXX porn

Me too, I feel ripped off now.

We should get a mod to move all of Hitcher's threads to the pointless drivel forum, then the posts wouldn't count