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One of my big problems, is I use commas when they are unnecessary, as a result my sentences become magnum opei, instead I should punctuate more accurately with use of full stops in appropriate places.

Another thing who out there honestly uses ; correctly?

not many, including me!

Not many people use the semi colon nowadays - even I tend to use the hyphen as a way of connecting sub-clauses (see?). It's a shame as it's such a fantastic punctuation mark.

BTW, ten out of ten for effort in attempting to pluralise magnum opus, except the plural of opus is opera :-(

[fascist]

Just for AndrewT; Robert, its fascist!

Thanks, that was one of the itches I was trying not to scratch 

It's not the only one, mind...

Surely if she'd asked to borrow money from you the correct response would be to acknowledge the problems caused by inflation!

"That's a cracker!!"

At the risk of winding myself up, what about handwriting? I distinctly remember at age 11, first week of Grammar school being catagorically told by a history teacher "You'll be a failure your whole life with handwriting like that boy." god I hated that school

Handwriting, that takes me back.

Ah, the memories of my youth; fingers going numb after writing out tens sides of A4 essay, a well developed lump on the inside of my middle finger where the pen would rest - what ever happened to handwriting? I do everything now on computers - I can't remember the last time I had to write out anything longer than an address on an envelope.

My handwriting was (and, I assume, still is) dreadful - 'child-like scrawl' doesn't even begin to cover it. Hurrah for keyboards!!

Tightend, couldn't you just ask her to use her credit card, as you'd heard she'd been given some extra plastic recently?

Lazy spelling/punctuation is something that drives me bonkers. I am one of the most laid-back, easy-going guys you'll ever meet, but seeing people write 'could of', 'your an idiot' etc, without even realising that there's anything wrong gets me in a tizzy. I worked as a book editor for four years and spent endless hours having to correct the text of authors who, it would appear, hadn't even bothered to read what they'd written back to themselves, so obvious were the mistakes.

I have had to resist the urge to go through this thread and correct the spelling/punctuation of blondites' posts in which they are correcting someone else's post as it would make me appear to be the world's biggest pedant.

A stand must be made against today's feckless youth and, seeing as the powers that be won't let me do it with guns, I choose the apostrophe as my weapon 

*re-reads post ten times before pressing the Post button*

In my opinion one name sums up whether a backed player is any good or not. T J Cloutier. IMHO the greatest tournement player in the world, bar none.

He said in an interview, that theres a very long list waiting to back him,and I dont doubt it.
Like I said earlier, there is a multitude of reasons why a person asks  or gets asked to be backed, its just in the UK we look at it in the negative.

There's a very good reason why TJ is always backed, and that's because without backing, he probably wouldn't be able to enter any big tournaments. There's a classic study in bankroll management right there; no matter how good your poker is, stay away from the craps tables.

my 2 pence... again!

Keep an eye on that bankroll Junior - all those two pences add up...

I go all-in with AK. Ironside (THE FISH) calls with 32 offsuit, and wins.

WHAT A FISH!!!!

seriously?

Exactly, you couldn't make this shit up.

Also, I didn't mention that I flopped my King. He flopped a 3 and hit his 2 on the river.  WHAT A FISH!!!

I go all-in with AK. Ironside (THE FISH) calls with 32 offsuit, and wins.

WHAT A FISH!!!!

Ironside (THE FISH) hit a set on the river to double up through RED DOG.

WHAT A FISH!!!

Ironside (THE FISH) reraised my AQ all-in with A6 and hit his six.

WHAT A FISH!!!

The problem with betting the 2K with 4K left is that it looks like a 'bet a bit and fold if reraised' kind of play. Many players will reraise you here with a lot less than a great hand, simply to give you the chance to 'make the good laydown' that will give you a warm glow at having saved 2K.

OK, here are mine.

1 - 1st Juha, 2nd El Blondie

2 - 1st Me, 2nd Who cares?

3 - 1st Peter, 2nd At-it

4 - 1st Andy Black, 2nd Julian

5 - Lots of unknowns to me here. Lets say 1st Stuart, 2nd one of the internet qualifiers, Carmy maybe.

6 - 1st Jani, 2nd Christer

7 - 1st Tony, 2nd Surindar

Seriously, though, my heat is really tough - lots of dangerous players. When I told one of my mates who was in with me, he said 'You're the only name there I don't recognise...' 

OK I give up!!!

Note to self:  Don't post anything on Blonde that is FREE again!

 

Free email is fine Trace, just don't start giving away any books you've written - that can cause trouble...