Comments on: Totally fried green tomatoes

By: Analogeyser

Analogeyser — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:15:55 +0000

That’s the key blurt-out line from the off-off-Broadway production of “The Last Words of Joey Gallo” by William Burroughs + Brion Gysin.

They just threw in any old verbiage, left-justified it and hoped people would be scared by the Beetniks.

By: MAMARILLA2

MAMARILLA2 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:28:14 +0000

I believe it was the two yutes dat did it.

By: beware the spoon

beware the spoon — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:30:21 +0000

Coach Z?

By: CaitieWithaC

CaitieWithaC — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:29:32 +0000

wowww…grammar fail. This makes me think of something that should be on Engrish.com haha

By: Personally Keeping

Personally Keeping — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:09:49 +0000

Best line: this we can not have

I cut and took the green tomatoes for myself initially, but they were stolen from my lunch bag by a co-worker.

THX SANDRA

By: notolaf

notolaf — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:51:15 +0000

Fake plastic deer……FAKE plastic deer…So, deer made of meat, then?

By: Delurker

Delurker — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:10:01 +0000

I think I graded this essay the other day–one of my 8th graders turned it in.

By: Flaboy2425

Flaboy2425 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:36:09 +0000

Ending a sentence with a preposition? Tsk. That is something up with which I shall not put.

By: TheOldSchool

TheOldSchool — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:35:48 +0000

Oh … Ash … stop … please.

By: park rose

park rose — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:30:45 +0000

To be fair… she is using difficult grammar…and doing pretty well.Future present perfect… I’m not surprised she forgot the past participle!

And why throw past tense after that ‘unless’? (Because she’s trying to write a participle clause, and a passive one at that). It’s just the wacky way that English is, is English is, is.
In fact, I’d have to drag out the books to check both of those, so if a fellow pedant out there wants to help, throw in your two bits’ worth!

As for the word order, well . . .
Overall, though I think she’s done a pretty good job!
Yaaay, frazzled green tomato lady. Sure you’ve got some redundancies, but we could weed them out. I couldn’t do what you have done in a language that was not my own.
My own language can do it in though, I! Witness .

I think that tomato stealing passive principals,
Without principles,
With dangling modifiers and participles,
Principals pretending to be perfect and passively progressive,
Instead of using passive perfect to hide their transgressive
plurals in disarray and non-agreement ,
Should not be given any extra treatment,
And should, yea verbally, have their day in court.
As should I…
Hung, drawn and courted.

She’s right on that one.
And so, I join Chi and Geek as the wordy wallflower with info no-one is really interested in.
I think I’ll join TOS at #36. It all makes so much more sense.

By: park rose

park rose — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:39:09 +0000

In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.
In 525,600 minutes – how do you measure a year in the life?

By: park rose

park rose — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:29:56 +0000

Nah, too seedy for me.

By: park rose

park rose — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:29:08 +0000

…never the vine.

By: park rose

park rose — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:16:47 +0000

“Court” and “caught” are homophones where I come from!

*not that there’s anything wrong with that*

Maybe I tourt this person. Blame me! Blame me!

I guess we just never figured what to do with that middle ‘r’ sound, so we got rid of it all together. Can I offer you a bee-(y)ah? in my cah? (ooh, we don’t know what to do with the final position ‘r’ either)

As the Beatles once famously said,

Baby you can drive my cah,
Yes I want to be a stah,
Baby you can drive my cah,
And maybe I’ll has been loving you… ♥