Comments on: Margaret Becket… Gone! http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/06/margaret_becket.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:55:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/06/margaret_becket.html#comment-13557 ninme Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:55:13 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/06/28/margaret_becket_gone.html#comment-13557 <p>Well, I suppose it would be USesA.</p> <p>A TiVo is indispensable during the Olympics. Unfortunately, ours is in the process of being emptied and retired.</p> Well, I suppose it would be USesA.

A TiVo is indispensable during the Olympics. Unfortunately, ours is in the process of being emptied and retired.

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/06/margaret_becket.html#comment-13556 Rueful Red Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:47:17 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/06/28/margaret_becket_gone.html#comment-13556 <p>The USA is still Olympic champion at rugby. They won it in 1920 and it has featured at the games since.</p> <p>Grammar query: The USA, singular or plural?</p> The USA is still Olympic champion at rugby. They won it in 1920 and it has featured at the games since.

Grammar query: The USA, singular or plural?

]]> By: RC2 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/06/margaret_becket.html#comment-13555 RC2 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:32:04 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/06/28/margaret_becket_gone.html#comment-13555 <p>The actual sports are fun to watch. The bathetic athlete bios (competing without an arm! a leg! his beloved mother! in spite of frenzy over alleged doping! having been force fed spinach as a tot! even though we've set her up to win an unprecedented 15 gold medals and will make her feel like a failure if she doesn't!) our media favor in lieu of actual coverage: ennh.</p> The actual sports are fun to watch. The bathetic athlete bios (competing without an arm! a leg! his beloved mother! in spite of frenzy over alleged doping! having been force fed spinach as a tot! even though we’ve set her up to win an unprecedented 15 gold medals and will make her feel like a failure if she doesn’t!) our media favor in lieu of actual coverage: ennh.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/06/margaret_becket.html#comment-13554 ninme Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:22:44 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/06/28/margaret_becket_gone.html#comment-13554 <p>Well, yeah, but it's still fun to watch. A bit hard to watch though when it's ever-more-rapidly approaching and they haven't done anything but plow up a historically important community garden for a footpath the architect himself says is unimportant and nearly build a mega-mosque to loom in all the wide shots.</p> <p>Of course, even with pros competing, the men's basketball team still got its ass kicked last time, so hey.</p> Well, yeah, but it’s still fun to watch. A bit hard to watch though when it’s ever-more-rapidly approaching and they haven’t done anything but plow up a historically important community garden for a footpath the architect himself says is unimportant and nearly build a mega-mosque to loom in all the wide shots.

Of course, even with pros competing, the men’s basketball team still got its ass kicked last time, so hey.

]]> By: RC2 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/06/margaret_becket.html#comment-13553 RC2 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:12:10 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/06/28/margaret_becket_gone.html#comment-13553 <p>That's possible, you think? My feeling is once they allowed professionals to compete it was officially over.</p> That’s possible, you think? My feeling is once they allowed professionals to compete it was officially over.

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