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The_Doc_Man said:
On another theme, I noticed the spelled/spelt discussion. A similar case occurs for spilled and spilt. Further, I actually heard the word "spilt" in a movie. Near the end of "Ghost Rider," Johnny Blaze tells the Devil he will show up at any place where innocent blood is spilt. I've got to admit, the first time I heard that, I had to look it up. But sure enough, it is a legitimate usage.
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There are more t endings for past tense dreamt leant learnt for example

Brian
 
Someone recently hit a skunk in the road in front of our drive and the skunk did not spray as a last act of defiance. Moving it is like tending to one of nature's unexploded ordinance because you never know when a dead skunk is going to go off :eek:
Have to move the carcass to the ditch, otherwise sooner or later someone is going to run over it and trip the trigger...

The_Doc_Man said:
With my typical luck, the only time I ever hit anything was many years ago while traveling through rural Alabama to visit relatives. I was driving so my parents could rest. It was a night drive because before the USA's Interstate Highway system, those old winding 2-lane blacktops were murder in the daytime with heavy traffic.

So anyway, there we were, some place between Toomsuba (MS) and Tuscaloosa (AL), when I hit it. We never saw the blood. We never saw a dent. But we knew what it was from the one piece of evidence we couldn't ignore. And apparently the booger saw me coming so committed a final act of defiance. I had just killed... a skunk.

Took us a week and four trips through an automated, steam-spraying car wash to get most of the stench off the vehicle. By then, the inside of the car had absorbed a certain ... how shall I say this? gut-wrenching, puke-inducing, eye-irritating odeur that hung around for another four or five weeks, despite the best odor absorbers we could buy at the time. The worst part is that it was around a curve and that "woods pussy" was mostly black. That little white stripe hardly showed up in the dark on a 2-lane blacktop. Further, while I was still young, I wasn't crazy. My parents were in the car so I wasn't speeding and I was definitely looking out for hazards. But that one escaped my notice.

On the other hand, we were pretty sure that we could leave the car unlocked. Nobody was going to steal it. Even though we were hoping...

On another theme, I noticed the spelled/spelt discussion. A similar case occurs for spilled and spilt. Further, I actually heard the word "spilt" in a movie. Near the end of "Ghost Rider," Johnny Blaze tells the Devil he will show up at any place where innocent blood is spilt. I've got to admit, the first time I heard that, I had to look it up. But sure enough, it is a legitimate usage.
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Fifty2One said:
Someone recently hit a skunk in the road in front of our drive and the skunk did not spray as a last act of defiance. Moving it is like tending to one of nature's unexploded ordinance because you never know when a dead skunk is going to go off :eek:
Have to move the carcass to the ditch, otherwise sooner or later someone is going to run over it and trip the trigger...
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I would think that a garbage bag would be your number one tool in that extraction.
 
When driving through a Rural area in the UK I was 'hit' by an alien spacecraft who beamed me up and experimented on me sexually...

Iv'e never experienced anything like that since despite driving down the same road purposely about 100 times... ;)
 
scott-atkinson said:
When driving through a Rural area in the UK I was 'hit' by an alien spacecraft who beamed me up and experimented on me sexually...

Iv'e never experienced anything like that since despite driving down the same road purposely about 100 times... ;)
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Last week they told me that the sourthernerns weren't upto much and preferred Northern men, especially us older ones. ;)

Brian
 
I think you're both cracking up.

Everybody knows aliens always land in the USA, and in a remote town where nobody like CNN can get there quickly to prove the fact.

Col
 
ColinEssex said:
I think you're both cracking up.

Everybody knows aliens always land in the USA, and in a remote town where nobody like CNN can get there quickly to prove the fact.

Col
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And always abduct the most ignorant, uncredible people.... :p

This statement only applies to US abductions of course, not UK ones.... so I am not calling scott-atkinson ignorant or uncredible. (I am not even sure uncredible is a word, I just mean not credible...)
 
Kryst51 said:
And always abduct the most ignorant, uncredible people.... :p

This statement only applies to US abductions of course, not UK ones.... so I am not calling scott-atkinson ignorant or uncredible. (I am not even sure uncredible is a word, I just mean not credible...)
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It's ok. We don't have aliens landing here. They are too busy landing in the USA.

Col
 
ColinEssex said:
It's ok. We don't have aliens landing here. They are too busy landing in the USA.

Col
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:confused:Scott Akinson claims to have experienced an abduction in the UK....

scott-atkinson said:
When driving through a Rural area in the UK I was 'hit' by an alien spacecraft who beamed me up and experimented on me sexually...

Iv'e never experienced anything like that since despite driving down the same road purposely about 100 times... ;)
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Rabbie said:
Scott has a british sense of humour. He was doing IRONY :)
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So.... he wasn't being serious about being abducted? Because I always believe the Americans who claim to have been abducted.... :p
 
georgedwilkinson said:
Then what does "incredible" mean?
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I always associate incredible with over the top, or sensationalism. I know its not the dictionary definition. When I think of something having credibility or not, it doesn't have the same conotation that "incredible" has.... Maybe through usage it has lost some of its meaning. Probable not dictionary wise, but certainly speaking wise.
 
Vassago said:
I can completely attest to that, I've been hit by a deer before...

I start to wonder if they did it on purpose just to scare the hell out of us... :D
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That was funny Josh.

I too, can attest to being completely surprised while driving very late at night on a country mountain road and having a couple of deer suddenly bolt out of the woods and into the highway. It happens so quickly you don't even have time to react. Thankfully, in our case, neither animal hit our vehicle but it did scare the bejesus out of both of us.

I'm sure they had quite a laugh about it later around the campfire.
Startling people is loads of fun.
 
The_Doc_Man said:
A similar case occurs for spilled and spilt.
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I was going to bring that one up myself as I remember seeing that spelling as a child.

Here's a question. When does one use "whilst" as opposed to "while"?
Is there a rule?
 
TessB said:
I'm sure they had quite a laugh about it later around the campfire.
Startling people is loads of fun.
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And thus enter the Far Side - Gary Larson
 
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