RANDOM RAVES : Kick it up a notch! (term is over!)

[Borachio]

I saw Moby Dick 2010 (same company that made Sharknado) last night and it was excellent.

Moby Dick is an excellent book in every way. It's certainly as outrageous as Sharknado. But differently.

Not an easy read, though. And there's a lot to it.

At one point, someone falls into a whale they're busy dismembering.

Someone else falls into the sea. They fish him out immediately. And he falls in again. So they leave him swimming about for a few hours to teach him a lesson before rescuing him. And ever afterwards he refers to himself in the third person because of the shock of the experience.

Or did he only ever talk in Latin after that? Nonono, I'm getting muddled. That was 100 Years of Solitude. Another very silly book.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Rave: Huzzah! All my new parts are in, assembled, and functioning. My new computer is truly awesome!

Now, time to download all the games, and finally see what Shogun 2 is like on all high graphics and a good framerate.

 

[SamSniped]

I was just at Oklahoma Joe's BBQ in KC. Some of the best BBQ I've ever had

 

[DroopyTofu]

Or did he only ever talk in Latin after that? Nonono, I'm getting muddled. That was 100 Years of Solitude. Another very silly book.

Haha I had to read excerpts from that in Spanish class. Insomnia becomes a plague and everyone forgets how to read, write, and use a cow, but it's ok because a Gypsy wanders into town with a magic potion to fix everything!

 

[JohannaK]

I will not tolerate insults to the best book ever written!

 

[Takhisis]

It's a good thing youre returning to your Christian roots, Joan.

 

[Borachio]

I will not tolerate insults to the best book ever written!

Oh you like it too?

It is one of my very favourite books.

 

[Phrossack]

Remarkable what a nap and a phone call can do to get rid of a bad mood!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Who did you call?

 

[Borachio]

Ghostbusters.

(Nonono, that doesn't quite work, I realize.)

 

[Takhisis]

*whom.

Rave: I got an opportunity to behave like a grammar nazi again!

 

[Borachio]

Look, Shakespeare would have used "who" in that context.

(Borachio said, using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.)

 

[hobbsyoyo]

*whom.

Rave: I got an opportunity to behave like a grammar nazi again!

From hell's heart I spit at thee!

(see wut I did there)

 

[Takhisis]

@Borachio: it's not my fault Shakespeare didn't know how to write.

You used 'thee' properly, hobbsyoyo.

 

[SamSniped]

Shakespeare was a plagiarizing hack. That is all

 

[cardgame]

Orange Is The New Black is fantastic

 

[Borachio]

Shakespeare was a plagiarizing hack. That is all

Certainly all of his works are derivative. Except the Merry Wives of Windsor, I think (though I may be wrong about that). And the poems.

Still, large junks of the plays are highly original and, as far as anyone knows, wholly his own work.

And what he does with the source material (much of it pretty ordinary stuff) is extraordinary in itself.

A few of the plays are obviously collaborative, too.

 

[Arakhor]

If you would say "him" or "her", use "whom". If you would say "he" or "she", use "who".

To whom it may concern = It may concern him/her.
Who dares enter = He/she dares enter.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Orange Is The New Black is fantastic

Yes it is, much better than Arrested Development Season 4. What a turd that turned out to be.

 

[Farm Boy]

If you would say "him" or "her", use "whom". If you would say "he" or "she", use "who".

To whom it may concern = It may concern him/her.
Who dares enter = He/she dares enter.

"Whom" is an object "who" is an actor?