I share the road with enough "golden years" people as is. The burning of Fossil fuels is the least of my worries with most of them. Survival of the fittest, indeed.
Mind your manners, youngster! You shall address Herr Meyer as "Mein Fuhrer!" and a proper sieg heil, while hanging a dangling participle at the gallows of public opinion! Didn't you know Scott was actually Adolf "verb conjugation" Hitler, the more-evil-than-the-Austrian-with-only-one-testicle clone of the original Fuhrer? Ah, of course not, you kids today don't know anything about history, or the re-writing of it!
okay, I know an apostrophe is sometimes used for plural rather than possessive, but isn't the plural of "Nazi" just "Nazis"? PBTHHHHHHHHHHHH. I'd much rather correct your grammar than Scott's.
Ops, first thing I read there is, again, a campaign about vegetarianism ... which is also supposed very good, surely against an American red meat and fast food diet ... can't apply to me XD.
The Boss's posture and last line in the strip really speak to me. It says, "I grudgingly acknowledge your point, and am willing to settle for whatever I can get."
As far as body language contributions to the overall efficacy of a comic strip goes, Basic Instructions is where it's AT!!
Classic. And as far as the nitpickers, it seems Scott writes how people talk, 'bad' grammar and all. Sheesh. But apparently Scott reads these comments because many of the nits are corrected by the time I read them.
Lol, you're right. An apostrophe is used for a plural for words that end in s, like Kris' house. I am a confessed Grammar Nazi. But of course, I wouldn't dare touch Scott's (or anyone else's) dialogue that's vernacular and how ever they say it is right. I will point out errors in the title or narration, I have before, but I only do so for Scott's benefit. If I were publishing I'd appreciate being shown such errors. If Scott doesn't want me to point them out, all he has to do is say so and I won't anymore. As always I love the strip.
I got some news for you now. Oil is not really a fossil fuel. That is the lie we've been told by the oil companies. The Earth produces oil and is producing it as we speak. Pressure, temperature, carbon and hydrogen is all that is needed. It's called abiotic oil. It does not come from dinosaur bones or decayed plants., or fossils. We will never run out of oil, just might have to go deeper to find it. Don't believe anyhting you've been taught because it's all lies. I dicovered that when I found about Santa Claus not being real. Damn.
Actually, the apostrophe after the "s" is still to indicate possessive, not plural, as in "Kris' house" meaning the house where Kris lives, not one house full of Kris(es). I believe that rule for pluralization of words ending in "s" is to add another "s" before the "es" as in "busses" but it's also common to skip the adding of that "s". Isn't the only time an apostrophe is added when you're talking about individual letters or numbers? As in, "there are a lot of 3's in your phone number".
People get real confused when trying to shorten something like the decade of 1970-1979. They'll try '70's or 70's. It's '70s. The 19 is left out and the apostrophe is used to indicate the omission, just like in "can't".
We often joke that an apostrophe means "look out, here comes an S".
So that they can tell us that supply is limited and prop up the price of fuel, there is an endless supply of oil and they don't want you to know about it.
Shouldn't the strip be in colour? And people aren't that small. And don't write what they want to say in speech balloons and hang them above their heads. And they should be moving. And in 3-D. And not existing in four places at the same time. Other than that, good comic.
July 29, 2009
Reader Comments (34)
Shouldn't it be "at retirement age" in the first balloon? :)
I share the road with enough "golden years" people as is. The burning of Fossil fuels is the least of my worries with most of them. Survival of the fittest, indeed.
Why do you have so many grammar Nazi's following your strip?
or "retirementally aged"
it's dialogue, not exposition, so really it should be whatsoever the author wants it to be.
Mind your manners, youngster! You shall address Herr Meyer as "Mein Fuhrer!" and a proper sieg heil, while hanging a dangling participle at the gallows of public opinion! Didn't you know Scott was actually Adolf "verb conjugation" Hitler, the more-evil-than-the-Austrian-with-only-one-testicle clone of the original Fuhrer? Ah, of course not, you kids today don't know anything about history, or the re-writing of it!
I know, right? I hate those fucks that all they can do is be the first to find mistakes and point them out. They probably did the same shit in school.
@ Rafael Cavalcanti: You, Sir, are a loser, with or without your :). SDASTFU.
Yeah...um...hmmm.
okay, I know an apostrophe is sometimes used for plural rather than possessive, but isn't the plural of "Nazi" just "Nazis"? PBTHHHHHHHHHHHH. I'd much rather correct your grammar than Scott's.
"She hates camping... and you." "Oh."
FUCKING BRILLIANT! Look at that hang-dog posture Mullet Boss has! Scott, you are genius.
No. An apostrophe is NEVER used for a plural. See this handy guide: http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
Nice one, good laugh indeed ... the strips are very very good lately.
And this reminds me that indeed I have to check my retirement plan.
. . . .And they are first to post, too. This is happening almost every comic, now. I'm laughing and then that really spoils it.
Scott Meyer's publicist, Scott Adams, has published a financial and general retirement plan. It is supposed to be very good.
I love the bit of 'information' at the top of panel three, it should be on a De-Motivational poster. Can I yoink it for a signature?
It would be awesome if you would make these a little bit larger :|
I can barely read it. D:
Ops, first thing I read there is, again, a campaign about vegetarianism ... which is also supposed very good, surely against an American red meat and fast food diet ... can't apply to me XD.
The Boss's posture and last line in the strip really speak to me. It says, "I grudgingly acknowledge your point, and am willing to settle for whatever I can get."
As far as body language contributions to the overall efficacy of a comic strip goes, Basic Instructions is where it's AT!!
Wow Scott, this is dark even for you.
Classic. And as far as the nitpickers, it seems Scott writes how people talk, 'bad' grammar and all. Sheesh. But apparently Scott reads these comments because many of the nits are corrected by the time I read them.
Lol, you're right. An apostrophe is used for a plural for words that end in s, like Kris' house. I am a confessed Grammar Nazi. But of course, I wouldn't dare touch Scott's (or anyone else's) dialogue that's vernacular and how ever they say it is right. I will point out errors in the title or narration, I have before, but I only do so for Scott's benefit. If I were publishing I'd appreciate being shown such errors. If Scott doesn't want me to point them out, all he has to do is say so and I won't anymore. As always I love the strip.
I got some news for you now. Oil is not really a fossil fuel. That is the lie we've been told by the oil companies. The Earth produces oil and is producing it as we speak. Pressure, temperature, carbon and hydrogen is all that is needed. It's called abiotic oil. It does not come from dinosaur bones or decayed plants., or fossils. We will never run out of oil, just might have to go deeper to find it. Don't believe anyhting you've been taught because it's all lies. I dicovered that when I found about Santa Claus not being real. Damn.
Actually, the apostrophe after the "s" is still to indicate possessive, not plural, as in "Kris' house" meaning the house where Kris lives, not one house full of Kris(es). I believe that rule for pluralization of words ending in "s" is to add another "s" before the "es" as in "busses" but it's also common to skip the adding of that "s". Isn't the only time an apostrophe is added when you're talking about individual letters or numbers? As in, "there are a lot of 3's in your phone number".
Nope, no apostrophe. 3s is proper.
Point 1: it still takes a long-ass time to form.
Point 2: burning it still throws nasty shit into the air.
There've been a good run of funny strips lately. Just thought I would take the opportunity to mention that.
Like you, I discovered that Santa was really my dad. However, I was not disappointed, because he really is Santa.
Bill... that's awesome
James... then why the f' would oil companies want to tell us oils is a fossil fuel?
People get real confused when trying to shorten something like the decade of 1970-1979. They'll try '70's or 70's. It's '70s. The 19 is left out and the apostrophe is used to indicate the omission, just like in "can't".
We often joke that an apostrophe means "look out, here comes an S".
Is it bad that the highlight of my day is when I find out you've updated?
Also, I really like your comics.
Doh!, you're right BI Fan. I was wrong about the apostrophe being used for a plural. I believe Mr. Atlas and Soul of Wit have the right of it.
So that they can tell us that supply is limited and prop up the price of fuel, there is an endless supply of oil and they don't want you to know about it.
Mister Atlas: Too true and Too funny!
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Shouldn't the strip be in colour? And people aren't that small. And don't write what they want to say in speech balloons and hang them above their heads. And they should be moving. And in 3-D. And not existing in four places at the same time. Other than that, good comic.