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The Great Toad
Joined: 12 Jun 2004
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 Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: Ask the Great Toad (He is the Most Clever of All) |
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ASK and I will ANSWER...
The truth is I am brilliant! I am astoundingly grand in mind and span of my mullizations When I ponder the seeds of Providence's Righteousness flows through my Brian and I think right always. There have been some sorts of asked already yet:
The world has held great Heroes,
As history-books have showed;
But never a name to go down to fame
Compared with that of Toad!
`The clever men at Oxford
Know all that there is to be knowed.
But they none of them know one half as much
As intelligent Mr. Toad!
`The animals sat in the Ark and cried,
Their tears in torrents flowed.
Who was it said, "There's land ahead?"
Encouraging Mr. Toad!
`The army all saluted
As they marched along the road.
Was it the King? Or Kitchener?
No. It was Mr. Toad.
`The Queen and her Ladies-in-waiting
Sat at the window and sewed.
She cried, "Look! who's that HANDSOME man?"
They answered, "Mr. Toad."'
SO ASK and I will ANSWER... |
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| When ever I see you in public why does it look like you are about to shi.t your pants? |
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C.M.
Joined: 02 Dec 2005
Location: Gangwondo
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:00 am Post subject: Re: Ask the Great Toad (He is the Most Clever of All) |
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[quote="The Great Toad"]ASK and I will ANSWER...
"The truth is I am brilliant! I am astoundingly grand in mind and span of my mullizations When I ponder the seeds of Providence's Righteousness"
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To touch upon syntax for a moment...I think your sentence would have carried a heavier hit had you written "the seeds of the Righteousness of Providence"......the latter has more Melville-ness. Right. Carry on then. |
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The Great Toad
Joined: 12 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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Dan The Chainsawman
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| When ever I see you in public why does it look like you are about to shi.t your pants? |
No need to be earthy, but it is a valid question. As all pro racers know- and snipers beside, sometimes you just have to crap your pants because you are too busy racing or in the case of a Marine sniper low crawling. But I'm not now a Carlos Hathcock type sheet in ur camis low crawling active Marine, or Pro Racer. And if I had been I suspect I'd only pooed my pants after I ate a lot of chocolate or Mexican food like Greg Lemond in the Giro. |
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The Great Toad
Joined: 12 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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C.M.
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C.M.[quote="The Great Toad"]ASK and I will ANSWER...
"The truth is I am brilliant! I am astoundingly grand in mind and span of my mullizations When I ponder the seeds of Providence's Righteousness"
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To touch upon syntax for a moment...I think your sentence would have carried a heavier hit had you written "the seeds of the Righteousness of Providence"......the latter has more Melville-ness. Right. Carry on then. |
my syntax mmm well I mean to say that Providence has put the great seeds into my head and that they were in possession of the Divine before this- so I have a holy mindset; lofty and pure with only kindness in my heart towards the smaller brained and less brilliant besides the generally less noble than me. There is a Divine Hierarchy and some are set at the pinnacle of the Great Chain of Being whilst others are the footmen who in the Gentries' good pleasure are blessed thorough the Arbitrator of the original Blesser. But thanks for the input I like to think of myself as smarter than Melville since I hope to not die drunk in a gutter. |
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Dan The Chainsawman
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| When ever I see you in public why does it look like you are about to shi.t your pants? |
No need to be earthy, but it is a valid question. As all pro racers know- and snipers beside, sometimes you just have to crap your pants because you are too busy racing or in the case of a Marine sniper low crawling. But I'm not now a Carlos Hathcock type sheet in ur camis low crawling active Marine, or Pro Racer. And if I had been I suspect I'd only pooed my pants after I ate a lot of chocolate or Mexican food like Greg Lemond in the Giro. |
Mad props for being honest at least.
Hatchcock is god. |
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coffeeman
Joined: 24 Nov 2005
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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Why did you write "the most clever"? Don't you know your grammar? Clever is a two-syllable word not ending with "y" so the correct answer is "the cleverest".
I am beginning to doubt your credentials (as the cleverest person on Dave's).  Ah! I get it! You're using irony! That's clever! |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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How come you never learned how to ride a bike properly?
I always see you with pictures of wicked road rash, cuts and scrapes and bruises; I think my 5 year old nephew falls off his bike less than you do.
Perhaps you are a wee bit too ambitious and maybe you should scale back to a less demanding model, something more suited to your skill level:
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Teufelswacht
Joined: 06 Sep 2004
Location: Land Of The Not Quite Right
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| Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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How come you never learned how to ride a bike properly?
I always see you with pictures of wicked road rash, cuts and scrapes and bruises; I think my 5 year old nephew falls off his bike less than you do.
Perhaps you are a wee bit too ambitious and maybe you should scale back to a less demanding model, something more suited to your skill level:
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To be fair to the Toad, I have driven past him many times on the roads of Jeju. He is usually peddling along at a pretty good clip and looks in good form. I have personally seen him riding on roads that made me nervous driving my car.
Unfortunately, whenever I pass him I never seem to have a full can of beer to throw at him! Just kidding. I would never throw a can of beer at you, Toad! Beer is too valuable. Maybe a tobacco spit-cup. Hmmmm.
Hathcock - the last of a breed. |
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The Great Toad
Joined: 12 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Why did you write "the most clever"? Don't you know your grammar? Clever is a two-syllable word not ending with "y" so the correct answer is "the cleverest". |
I am a Lord Grammarian as well and if you look back far enough you can always justify a strange way to use adjectives Mine own skills in Grammar are supreme.
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| How come you never learned how to ride a bike properly? |
err I never did learn as well truth be told I still draft trucks (or did before I cracked my frame) you assume I would stop drafting after I body slammed and bent my 200 dollar wheel into the back of a car in the US but I still do it. Bicycle safety and submission to mortality may come but Smaug and I both have self esteem issues.
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He is usually peddling along at a pretty good clip and looks in good form. Maybe a tobacco spit-cup.
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| I can recall when I was dehydrated and sickish the hard dog Captain made me eat some Cherry Snuff it made me even more whosey however no need to fear on the biking cuz like I lamented before I cracked my Merlin road frame so now you only see me thrashing about on my MTB when I ride down to Jeju City. |
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Supremely different grammar skills for sure. |
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Hatchcock's Wimbledon Cup wins are stuff of legend right along with his impressive kill count in Vietnam. Yes he was one of the few left of a dying breed. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| "Most clever" has precedent in some very elevated poetic writing, think bible, and "Most high". It provides very strong emphasis, and is all together grander than "cleverest". The Toad inscrutable to be sure. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:39 am Post subject: |
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A 2-syllable word not ending in "y" should have "-est" at the end, instead of "most" before it?
That's the foreignest and perhaps modernest idea I have heard in a while. |
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