Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:

> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:34:57 +0100, Sam Nelson wrote:
>
>> In article ,
>>  Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:
>>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:47:46 +0100, Alex Buell wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:33:40 +0100, I waved a wand and this message
>>>> magically appears in front of Marc Wilson:
>>>> 
>>>>>>S'funny that, to me the sound of a light aircraft doing circuits is
>>>>>>as much part of the soundtrack of an English summer's day as the
>>>>>>thwack of leather on willow.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Odd girl, Willow.
>>>> 
>>>> Buffy would have replied with IAWTP.
>>> 
>>> Must dig out my "If I was at full Slayer power, I'd be punning right about
>>> now." T-shirt.
>>> 
>>> http://www.cafepress.com/slayagestore
>> 
>> Sigh.  "If I were at..." or "Were I at...".
>
> It's called realism. This is how people actually speak.

It may be how you speak, but SAm, and I, still use the subjunctive.

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who are you that I should have to lie?

On 25 Sep 2008 19:57:48 GMT, Marcus Houlden 
wrote this:

>I quite like the idea of the Pink Panther films with Mr Bean playing
>Clouseau.

That's dreadful.

I want to see Kelsey Grammer & David Hyde Pierce redo Derek & Clive.




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