A Subject Close To Our Hearts

[sbudzynski]

mjldba- We should play sometime, I could always use an extra set of eyes to look for my ball in the highgrass!

Haha I always say I could putt as well as the pros if I could hit it as close to the hole!

Maybe my approach would be closer if I werent hitting out of weeds!?

Must be my drivers fault (lol)

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Steve Budzynski


"So, pass another round around for the kids. Who have nothing left to lose and for those souls old and sold out by the soles of my shoes"

 

[UniqueFD]

Stella, for me, fast and legible are mutually exclusive.

Tony
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Reckless words pierce like a sword,
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[mjldba]

Always ready to stick a peg in the ground, anytime & almost anywhere.

Here's some food for thought: every putt you hit IS stroked as well as the pros but the hole is in the wrong place for THAT putt.

 

[sbudzynski]

haha exactly

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Steve Budzynski


"So, pass another round around for the kids. Who have nothing left to lose and for those souls old and sold out by the soles of my shoes"

 

[Stella740pl]

I can write fast and legible enough to understand myself later (like when I was making notes in college and then reviewed them before exams). In order to make it legible for everyone else, I must slow down just a little bit.

There were times when I had to write real paper letters, not e-mails, and all my projects and essays in school were handwritten - so I had to make them reasonably legible and still not spend all my waking time writing. It takes some experience/exercise, I must admit.

 

[mjldba]

I tend to use a hybrid form of print-writing for the benefit of others (documentation & instructions) and my name is the only thing I write cursively. I'm fast & I'm ledgible using this method, not to mention it looks pretty good too.

Any other attempts I make at cursive writing are usually greeted with puzzled looks, laughter, and comments like "You should have been a doctor".

 

[sha76]

Reading your posts about how bad your handwriting is I am wondering - are you pretending to be in IT and typing while flipping burgers? ))

-no, I'm in IT because my writing's so shocking I have to use a computer!


"Your rock is eroding wrong." -Dogbert

 

[CrystaLv]

I use to shorten words in college this is how I had written fast and legible.

Like 'I use to shrtn wrds in clge this is how I had writtn fast and legbl' - I never read it though

 

[gbaughma]

You know, I had this boss once who finished every sentence with "Okay?"

So, one day, I went into the Autocorrect feature on word, and had it replace the period with ", okay?" So every time he ended a sentence with a period, it put , okay? at the end of it.

He typed half a document before he realized something was really weird, and called me in a panic. His secretary and I had a great laugh over it.



Just my 2¢

"In order to start solving a problem, one must first identify its owner." --Me
--Greg

 

[Stella740pl]

I use to shorten words in college this is how I had written fast and legible.

There is nothing wrong with it, as long as you write it for yourself.
I also had my own system of shorthand writing in college - and could understand it later.

 

[2ffat]

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gbaughma,
[tab]So do you still work for him or did you pass it off as a virus?

James P. Cottingham
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[gbaughma]

lol... I still work here. He doesn't though. Go figure.



Just my 2¢

"In order to start solving a problem, one must first identify its owner." --Me
--Greg

 

[CrystaLv]

HAHAHA Even more hiollarious gbaughma

 

[SilentAiche]

So, one day, I went into the Autocorrect feature on word, and had it replace the period with ", okay?" So every time he ended a sentence with a period, it put , okay? at the end of it.

At hearing the following, your bowels might discombobulate (whatwever the heck that is). Gotta tell the story anyway.

A coworker, a young-bright-as-hell dude, though shorter than a chopstik, had this habit of calling dang near everybody "Cheezewhiz."

Naturally, I doctored his PC so the Autocorrect feature replaced his last name with "Cheezewhiz." I would not have done so had my cube not been next to his, so I could hear his comment, roughly translated as "What the fu@#?

Giggles gave me away, before I confessed/fixed my sin. Being a good-humored fellow, he laughed at the prank. (Obviously I never meant for the jolk to leave the office).

As far as I know, the object of my jolk now protects all of us in hs Fed job.

Er, Bob



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[2ffat]

BTW, "discombobulate" is a cool word. I tend to use it a lot, esp. when talking about computer glitches.



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[CajunCenturion]

Discombobulate is a good word, but an interesting one as well.

For those who really enjoy this sort of thing, here's a question to research. How did 'discombobulate' become a valid word, when 'combobulate' is not a word?

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[CrystaLv]

You will laugh, well, maybe you won't but i will tell you anyway.
I am reading my post just now
"HAHAHA Even more hiollarious gbaughma"

and thinking someone posted under my name. Because I can't figure out what is "hiollarious gbaughma" means.
Then I reading posts before and see that "gbaughma" is a person I was talking to and "hiollarious" - well, huge typo/misspelled word 'hillarious' typed in RUSH.

You said calligraphy?

 

[TheRambler]

>How did 'discombobulate' become a valid word, when 'combobulate' is not a word?
This is the first time I meet this word -I've never been to the wild frontier- so I had to look it up:

The Word Detective

"Discombobulate," meaning "to throw into a state of confusion, to disturb or disorient," is an invented word apparently formed as a joking alteration of "discompose" or "discomfit," both slightly musty terms for confusing or upsetting a person. "Discombobulate" first appeared around 1834.

World Wide Words

Another fine example of the speech of the wild frontier of the US of A, this came to life sometime in the 1830s. Whose invention it was we have no idea, except that he shared the bombastic, super-confident attitude towards language that also bequeathed us (among others) absquatulate, bloviate, hornswoggle and sockdolager.

It has much about it of the itinerant peddler, whose qualifications were principally a persuasive manner, the self-assurance of a man who has seen every sort of reluctant customer and charmed them all, and a vocabulary he had enlarged by gross disfigurement of innocent elements of the English language. In this case, the original seems to have been discompose or discomfit. In the early days, it sometimes appeared as discombobracate or discomboberate.

Here’s an example of a snake-oil salesman at work in 1860 (except that he was praising the water from the Louisville artesian well rather than any manufactured remedy). It was said to have been taken down verbatim: “It discomboberates inflammatory rheumatism, sore eyes, scrofula, dyspepsia, and leaves you harmonious without any defalcation, as harmonious systematically as a young dove”.

Worth a dollar a drop ...

It sounds "hiollarious" now, but we are always making up new words, on purpose or not... ;-)

 

[mjldba]

Can I assume that "discombobulate" originated in the same part of the country (same neck of the woods???) as "cattywhompus" which, when taken in context, seems to have approximately the same meaning?

 

[SilentAiche]

[red]"Disco, hmm, Bob, you late!"[/red]

WWW via[/URL] The Rambler] It has much about it of the itinerant (dancer), whose qualifications were principally a (percussive) manner, the self-Assurance of a man who has (sinned) every sort of reluctant customer and charmed them all, and a (dicktionary) he had enlarged by gross disfigurement of innocent elements of the English language

One must comBobpare and comBobtrast to understand. If you get that far, please let me know what the hell I meant.

Thanks,

I had no idea. Really.

R. Bob

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