pluses

plusses

The second one. But I refuse to GOOGLE it. Possibly <Howard> will know.

What were the MINUSSES (I spell how I want)???

Perhaps a EMU report?

Bus --> busses ??

Never mind.... Yeah, I will emu you with my purely personal critical observations of the building and the behaviour, or lack thereof- that went on inside...

Gotta practise for my Jazz vocal group now that starts in 4 hours... Lovely teacher but she demanded we know the lyrics to the songs we practised upto now; I wouldn't want to GET WHACKED OVER THE HEAD WITH A PILE OF SHEET MUSIC - now would ! ??

Stephanie is a very demanding (German descent) teacher...

jazz vocals- very exciting!! I want to hear some uploaded...

"There are three buses on this route."

"On Valentine's I got three busses."

A "buss" is slang for a 'kiss."

So it's not a strict spelling rule in terms of form.

Only usage.

Riding the busses-- not allowed.

On Valentine's I got three buses-- not allowed.

Unless someone actually gave you three buses.

I wouldn't be surprised if it would come to a performance someone would put it on "cam" and then upload it to YT -- perhaps Tryfon could delight us with some analysis and comments?

"Love for FFale"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78YW...

Say have you heard this fellah's sweet deliberate jazz interpretations of pop songs such as surfer girl and somewhere over the rainbow and what the world needs now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ddA...

So F'n Sweet!!!

Reminds me of- while still digesting- your Prince post, which was the truth. So close.

Hadn't encountered that before here on CG, except maybe for a few.

Going in for the clips now.

Then I found this on a UK <grammartogo> blog:

Quote: -- A colleague raised this question the other day and I found myself thinking further about it after I had answered quickly. First of all, he asked whether "plus" and "minus" are nouns nowadays? I think there is no doubt that they are. You hear people saying things like "A plus of the conference centre is the big car park, but the distance from any form of public transport is a distinct minus."

So, the words are being used as nouns. Once they are being spoken, they will be written and probably used in the plural. So we need to know how to spell pluses/plusses and minuses/minusses. "Minuses" seems to me to be quite clear. It rhymes with sinuses not with blunderbusses, and the emphasis is on the first syllable so there is no rule or precedent to suggest that it should be spelt otherwise.

What about plusses though? Pluses looks to me as though it should rhyme with abuses - and there are plenty of people out there (including BBC Sport) spelling it with a double "s". But then there is "buses". I don't know about you, but I have so far failed to think of any other single syllable words ending in a single "s". So, my preference is for pluses and minuses - after all, it seems tidier to follow the same rule for both unless there is a good reason not to.

Little nerdish note: bus comes from the Latin "omnibus" which means "for everyone". We have shortened it to "bus" which is probably why there are not many words like it.

-- Unquote

Though I agree with some of the reasoning, I do not share the conclusion, which is a bit messy, and inconsequent within itself.

Therefor I am 'plusses minuses' guy, for now.

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And while I'm here, I part of a program called 'Final Cut', and appropriately Ridley Scott's <Blade Runner> was being discussed in depth, with a brilliant scene starring <Rutger Hauer>.

Since we have just about TWO A list actors from Holland in Hollywood, I was wandering yer (<Jess> <Madly>, anyone) opinions on the other so called "A-list" actor, <Jeroen Krabbé>...

I think Krabbe can't even tie Rutger Hauer's proverbial actor's bootlaces!!

Recently Hauer was also in <Sin City>, showing his class.

They always meant the same thing, the highest title awarded by FIDE. As near as I can tell, FIDE invented the IGM name in 1953, and continued to use it after 1965. But the official title reverted to GM at least by 1978.

Since Nigel Short earned his title in 1984, it must have read just plain "Grandmaster."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9NU...

Just kidding I highly recommend "Punch Drunk Love" and "No Country for Old Men" and "The Wrestler". Plus the Vivian Leigh/Marlon Brando "Steetcar Named Desire" is so beautiful you might get stuck on REPLAY and your family will have to break down your door for an intervention!! Plus as long as we're in the 50s "Nights of Calabria" is another one of those incredibly beautiful heartbreaking movies i'm getting teary eyed just thinking about it. PS for all those ladies who hate the "subservient roles" ladies get need to watch any ALDOMOVAR movie...that man EXALTS the female exactly as they deserve.

It turns out the FN was used by the <Yankees> during the <War of Northern Oppression> as a place from which to launch raids on any southern women who happened to be around at the time. The most interesting aspect of the reaction was that it was based on stories that her grandmother told her from the time when the grandmother was a little girl (in the 1860s).

Thanks for dropping by!

I'm not actually <Betty Boop>, that's just an avatar.

heh

There was a great discussion last year where people were arguing about an avatar that was a national flag.

"That's an Azerbijani flag!"

"No it's an Armenian flag!"

So then someone Googled it

"See I told you it's an Armenian flag!"

Then, the last post in the thread--

"No it's not! It's a <picture> of an Armenian flag!!"

HAHAHAAHAH

I was just looking at that Bugs Bunny cartoon the same day as you posted the Cartman here.

Which makes sense! I started clicking on the "suggested vids" list after I watched the Cartman and soon they were displaying a bunch of <censored> cartoons- mainly for racism-- including a <Betty Boop> cartoon.

So I watched a bunch of them.

You know call me <anti-PC>, but there's something innocent about a cartoon that uses racial stereotypes.

Arguably, however, the way that Pop culture, and High culture, for that matter, passively reproduces stereotypes of an era is actually more insidious than deliberate racism.

Because one might notice it less-

On the other hand, it's very difficult to feel like condmening <Mel Blanc> and <Bugs> and the <Freleng Brothers> for a cartoon that's so funny.

Even with such an outrageous scene as the one you posted.

Hmm.. I suppose all I can really say safely is that I would like to see uncensored versions of these perhaps pernicious cultural oddities.

I don't like censored anything. Example- I feel the wish that some members of this website should be censored-- IE- kicked out--

But it's much better either to just ignore them or even put them on ignore.

Like I can choose to turn on/off the TV-computer- whatever.