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A twist on "the good one/the bad one" at Bob, the Angry Flower...

In the future, just give the obligatory apostrophe link.

... the same thing.

I do believe this may be appropriate:

http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

Send to all your friends. Hours of fun.

The poster-sized version of this is hanging above my desk right now.

And if you liked Atlas Shrugged, you'll love the sequel!

Whom cares? Only the grammer nazi's...

Don't follow Bob's example...

The best description I've read explains things in terms of a fridge full of beer.

The uncrumpled piece of paper is attracted less slowly than the crumpled version despite the fact both contain the same amount of "earth". Thus, a counterexample to a previously accepted axiom.

That's also a counterexample to the currently-accepted theory of "gravitation"- both papers have the same mass, so their downward acceleration should be the same.

To rectify gravitation with the falling movement of paper, you must understand that air is matter and be able to concieve of a vacum- and that prequisitc concept is actually a greater mental leap.

The stupidity of the Pythagorean mystique was another source of grief.

You can't really attack the old Greeks for failing to reach the level of Newtonian Calculus. It seems that most North Amercians are unable to grasp it today, even though they have access to all of Newton's writings and 10 years of free education to explain it all.

Really, the only reason England reached calculus and Greece didn't is because they had more people to work on it. Not only does the larger total population increase the chance of producing a single special genius, but also (as Newton himself said), much previous work (including the best of Greece) was available for him to start from.

More people * more time = more results.

(Other beneficial factors, such as "oceangoing empire" and "no slavery" I attribute as results of "more time". The only other thing that pushed England over Greece was mineral resources... which were actually an important part of getting practical benefit from math)

Time for this link again, I see.

Well then just read Bob the Angry Flower. you may still be bitter and pissed when your done but at least you will know not to try to escape Ur-Quan space in a Vux Intruder.

Your wish is granted!

Homosexual Robot Cop, courtesy of the coolest comic ever, Bob the Angry Flower.

As in Bob The Angry Flower:

http://www.angryflower.com/astero.gif

And do not forget to visit Bob the Angry Flower, that's where I got the link... and this week's cartoon (Bombs of love) is hilarious too.

Yeah, but I bet even someone as illiterate as you seem to think he is could learn the rules for apostrophe usage ;-)

That should be:

Because Cobind Desktop only uses XFce and not the more popular KDE, it's entire design is based on a clutter free workspace.

(just in case it wasn't a typo)

..and you know what gets on MY nerves? APOSTROPHE ABUSE!

it annoys me no end when people can't use apostrophe's properly.

Oh, the irony , it burns!

I suggest you look at what Bob has to say about apostrophes.

That's where Marketing comes into play!

"Linux has outstanding support for modern OS features, without losing incredible legacy support for older hardware, which allows you to leverage your current investment and lower your TCO!"

Iron's

I see it's time for another round of Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots.

http://angryflower.com/destro.gif

(It's all in humor!)

http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

Really? What do they own?

So here's a simple guide to some basic grammar, you illiterate morons.

: )

learn how to communicate

Hey, it's been like fifty years already, give the guy a break. He's past all that, now.

It'd be pretty funny to see this tool in a jacket with an apostrophe error.

A precious few of we Americans also learned a few things about that most mysterious of punctuation marks, the apostrophe.(That link is thanks to a certain Canadian cartoonist.)

what colleges im going to apply to

I'm not going to get into stylistic subtleties here ("what" instead of "which", preposition "to" separated from its object, using "but" twice in the same sentence with differing puncutation). Instead, I'd like to remind you that the first person singular pronoun is always capitalized in English and that contractions contain apostrophes. I've attempted to read your blog, and you are no e. e. cummings, sir. The poet I mention had very specific justifications for his capitalization, laziness and ignorance not being among these reasons.

Here's another viewpoint.

I was hoping to find a college with a major, along the lines of Network Engineering, but I have yet to find one.

The comma is commonly used to separate clauses which supply extraneous information. Let's see how well your sentence stands without it:

I was hoping to find a college with a major, but I have yet to find one.

Indeed.

Slashdot is not an instant messaging program. Your words were read by thousands of people. You should at least attempt to demonstrate a mastery of the language you've been using since shortly after your birth. After all, if you present enough of a communication barrier to your superiors, they won't have any qualms looking to the Far East for their engineering.

You're a loony.

OTOH, you'd probably appreciate this.

Nope, sometimes it stands for "it has," as in, "it's been going on for too long."

Just send folks here.

What bothered me even more than the misused apostrophe was the missing word in that same sentence: ...NASA was forced destroy..."

Terminator 5: Skynet Triumphant

The education of Stryker, an 18-ton military monster truck, begins in the warehouse lab of General Dynamics in Westminster, Md

There, Stryker, one of the U.S. Army's newest infantry vehicles, is fitted with a "ladar" scanner, the equivalent of a mounted pair of eyes that see by emitting 400,000 laser and radar beams and snap 120 camera images every second. Its brain -- a 40-pound computer system tucked inside its body -- processes that data, and makes instant judgments on how to act and where to go.

Where can I get one. I don't care what it costs, I want one.

As someone whose productivity is always enhanced by thinking about giant robots, I need one of these to help me work smarter, especially after those bastards in Las Vegas cancelled the SRL show.

I shall never get a grip on my total fixation on robots!

Terminator 5: Skynet Triumphant

The education of Stryker, an 18-ton military monster truck, begins in the warehouse lab of General Dynamics in Westminster, Md

There, Stryker, one of the U.S. Army's newest infantry vehicles, is fitted with a "ladar" scanner, the equivalent of a mounted pair of eyes that see by emitting 400,000 laser and radar beams and snap 120 camera images every second. Its brain -- a 40-pound computer system tucked inside its body -- processes that data, and makes instant judgments on how to act and where to go.

Where can I get one. I don't care what it costs, I want one.

As someone whose productivity is always enhanced by thinking about giant robots, I need one of these to help me work smarter, especially after those bastards in Las Vegas cancelled the SRL show.

I shall never get a grip on my total fixation on robots!

Terminator 5: Skynet Triumphant

The education of Stryker, an 18-ton military monster truck, begins in the warehouse lab of General Dynamics in Westminster, Md

There, Stryker, one of the U.S. Army's newest infantry vehicles, is fitted with a "ladar" scanner, the equivalent of a mounted pair of eyes that see by emitting 400,000 laser and radar beams and snap 120 camera images every second. Its brain -- a 40-pound computer system tucked inside its body -- processes that data, and makes instant judgments on how to act and where to go.

Where can I get one. I don't care what it costs, I want one.

As someone whose productivity is always enhanced by thinking about giant robots, I need one of these to help me work smarter, especially after those bastards in Las Vegas cancelled the SRL show.

I shall never get a grip on my total fixation on robots!

Bob the Angry Flower disagrees.

For what it's worth, your article only has one exception for the case of abbreviations with periods and lowercase letters where the non-apostrophed 's' would be confusing (I believe the use of apostrophes on upercase letters is incorrect and more confusing). That's a very small corner case, and just goes to show that there is an exception to every rule. That doesn't make the rule wrong, though.

I've seen this somewhere before... Where was it...?

Oh yeah... Right here.

I tell ya folks, it's uncanny...

Those who are interested in this story may also be entertained by this week's "Bob the Angry Flower" cartoon:

Dalek Shell

Your opinion is wrong.

Bob the Angry Flower.

Atlas Shrugged 2

;)

You need to read Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.

You need to read
Bob the Angry Flower ;)

Some enviromentalists won't be happy unless we all freeze in the dark. It's a simple power scheme. They ask for something that they cannot have, so that they can keep dictating what has to be done.

True enviromentalists actually work for significant change, such as reducing coal plants even if it means dead birds or nukes.

After all, the problem of nuclear waste is actually quite a bonus: all the waste is in one location, instead of spread all over the world like coal pollution is. Heck, we could probably turn some useless island (like Greenland or Australia :)) into a nuke dump and keep everything else nice and clean.

Nukes for everyone!

Steven Notley (Bob the Angry Flower creator) has a review here.

Someone has already forseen these problems, and come up with a solution.

Someone has already forseen these problems, and come up with a solution.

doub't

Honestly. Where'd that one come from?

A DVD "is comprised of" ...

I wince every time I hear that.

OK everyone, the parts comprise the whole, the whole is composed of the parts. Got it?

and while we're at it...

Sounds about wrong.

An article on Think Secret reveals the reason behind it's mysterious disappearance.

Contrary to popular belief, "its" and "it's" are NOT interchangeable. "It's" is equal to "it is."

See here for an illustrated explanation of this.

I know this post is offtopic; this is elementary-school level grammar though. Having misplaced "it's"s all over the place doesn't speak well for /..

One 10-Watt halogen light with a lead-acid battery. It's lasted me for several years, but is starting to loose it's charge.

I don't get it. Isn't the point of a battery to "let go" of its charge so that you can use that to power whatever devices you choose (a light, in your case)? I'd think that a battery loosing a charge would be optimal and ideal, not a problem to complain about.

Ooooohhhh. You meant it's starting to lose its (notice, no apostrophe; interestingly enough you got it right earlier in the sentence, but not here) charge. I guess I'd be annoyed, too, in that case.