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[Carol]

Hello Hayes, Welcome to the farm, not the CIA ,though we do snoop sometimes.

[[deleted user]]

Hi Kitty, I tried to snoop, but you foiled me!

[Ken, Moderator]

Welcome, Ace!

-- King

[Carol]

What is WIP, Ace? Welcome to you from me.

[Carol]

Ace, King, Queen, and Jack. We are a deck of cards, thank God not a house of cards. On second thought maybe we are. See what you have let yourself in for Ace.

[Carol]

I do have a ray of wit on occasion.:)

[Ken, Moderator]

We all have WIPs, the biggest being ourselves. (And no, you need not call me King, Gabi. Just treat me like one -- and I don't mean Louis XVI.)

[[deleted user]]

Hi Ace, welcome to the group. Love that picture of La Hepburn, which I had never seen before.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Welcome Ace
Queen

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Ma'am will do (heehee)
I'm just Debs around here......wanna rum?

[Ken, Moderator]

Really, we're about as far from royalty as you can get. Debs is Kiwi rum-go, Ruth is California renegade, and I am Swamp Yankee.

Maybe, with that WIP, you should be "The Not-So-Anonymous Writer."

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Ummmm.....Kyle, perhaps you thought you were posting somewhere else? Need to leave the Xmas sherry til after you have posted?

[Ruth]

Not all of us took French, man.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I just found your comments...in any language.... to be a little odd and not entirely appropriate for this group.

[Tempest]

Hello! I'm Tempest from California, and I'm pretty new to Good Reads. I have a slightly obsessive love for words, so I think this is the right group for me!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Welcome Tempest....have fun here :-)

[Ken, Moderator]

Hi, Tempest. I see you've been reading some John Green of late. Hope you can get your hands on The Fault in Our Stars sooner rather than later. Great, great YA book. Just finished it yesterday....

[Carol]

Hi Tempest, welcome abored, which you will never be I am sure (spelling intended)

[Tempest]

Thanks, all! :) @Newengland: My local bookstore only has The Fault in Our Stars in hard cover, which makes it ridiculously expensive. But as soon as I can afford (or borrow/pilfer) it, it will be devoured enthusiastically!

[Tempest]

Library Library Library! By hook or by crook, I will have the book!

[[deleted user]]

Hi Tempest. Yay for libraries (and especially librarians)! I wish I had a good one nearby.

[Tempest]

My eighth grade English teacher later became a librarian--it was her dream job. She was one of the most inspiring teachers I ever had, and really awakened my love of writing in all forms. While music is my career of choice, I would love to spend time as a librarian or in a book store.

[Tempest]

Welcome, Thomas! Have fun here! :)

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Hi Thomas....another poet! Hope you enjoy the ambience here :-)

[Lindig]

Hey y'all.
Yep, a Southerner (note the cap S). Nevertheless, a lover of language, grammar, spelling, malapropisms, spoonerisms, and even puns. In my first career, I was a typesetter, and my second career was a (used) bookseller (the books, not me). I'm sure I'll enjoy the group.

[Lindig]

I forgot to mention that I'm a big supporter of the Oxford comma.

[Ken, Moderator]

Welcome, Lindig. Any friend of the serial comma is a friend of mine!

[Carol]

Welcome from Cali, Lindig.

[Lindig]

Thanks all. Yes, pronounced the easiest possible way but you wouldn't believe how often I have to spell it for people.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Hi Lindig....would love to know the provenance of your name......

[Lindig]

It's my great-grandmother's maiden name. Her father, Adolf Lindig, came to the US around 1850 from the Leipzig Germany area and settled near Baltimore MD. I always thought it was unusual in the US but there's lots, especially in the central Texas area where many "Bohemians" settled. Thanks for asking.

[Ken, Moderator]

Always wanted to be a "Bohemian," but then my life would be less settled (but more fun).

[Cheryl]

I'm usually the biggest fish in the small pond that is my real-life circle of grammar- and wordplay-loving friends... so I decided to take a dip in the ocean that is this group. Hopefully I'm not so small I get lost, or worse, eaten!

[Ruth]

Welcome, Cheryl. We eat no grammarians before their time.

[Carol]

I haven't been eaten yet Cheryl. Welcome aboard. Drop a line into whatever thread interests you.

[Ken, Moderator]

How do, Cheryl. I was once in your neck of the woods tracing Mark Twain's path via evidence from his book, .

As you might expect, I spent more time in Virginia City than Carson City.

[Ruth]

Cheryl, I just realized you're in Carson City. I drive through there every summer on our way up to our cabin on the Feather River.

[Cheryl]

Ruth, PM me if you want to visit! Thanks for the welcome, all. :)

[Ken, Moderator]

Hello, Michael. Love the anecdote about ear-pulling equating to adulthood. Anything to get in the club!

As for semicolons, you'll have good company if you "misuse" them. Every time I read a 19th century classic or earlier I see semicolons littering the grounds like leaves in autumn. Usually use a comma? Semicolon! Thought a period should go there? Semicolon! Have you considered a regular, old colon... semicolon!

In the past, everyone kept a semicolon as a mistress, I guess.

[Carol]

Hi Michael, I misuse everything, and they haven't kick me out or pulled an ear. They might pull a leg though.

[[deleted user]]

Thanks, Newengland and Carol. Pulled legs are okay; pulled pork is better. I have to say, Newengland, I love semicolons, used correctly or not; they appeal to my laziness. I also like jamming as many commas into a sentence as possible. Their numbers make me feel productive.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Welcome Michael.....what the hell is pulled pork?

[Ken, Moderator]

All the Southerners in our studio audience just gasped. I know because I'm in South Carolina at the moment.

[Carol]

Here Debs

http://bbq.about.com/cs/porkpulled/a/...

[[deleted user]]

Only heaven, Debbie.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Oh.....so that's what it is.....it sounded like something rude!

[Ken, Moderator]

To the pig, yes. Worse than rude.

[Barry]

Is there a group for codependents here? My wife is the grammar Nazi but I enable her by writing books for her to edit. ;)

[Carol]

Good one, Barry. Hee Hee!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Welcome Barry.....we are all co-dependents here in some way!