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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sarah on March 16, 2007, 12:53:48 AM
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The official forecast for the morrow in my little ol' town reads in part "copious amounts of moisture will be brought north into our region prior to the arrival of the storm. As a result a slug of precipitation will overspread northern New England."
Unusually lyrical, I thought.
Yours, soon to be under a slug spurred by copiousity,
Sarah
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...a slug of precipitation...
Aside from the fact that that, too, was my nick-name in high school, I have to agree Sarah, at the poetry of that forecast - pretty amazing. Down here in southern RI, though, it's more like a "tasmanian devil of precipitation."
It's crazy out there this morning! And it was supposed to not be all that bad for us...
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Was that in your local paper?
Question: Is excessive use of ellipses widespread in the world of forecasting, or is this just a problem that plagues Miami (http://weather.herald.com/US/FL/South_Florida.html)?
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No... or yes...
Maybe?
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Aside from the fact that that, too, was my nick-name in high school
I think "A slug of precipitation" should be your new sig.
"tasmanian devil of precipitation."
I suspect this will be the case here tomorrow, when I will be dutifully standing outside protesting the war to no avail with a meager crowd of like-minded folk. We're supposed to get snow, then sleet, then rain, and the town will become an ice rink. I'm planning on wearing some fetching, brilliantly white golf shoes I inherited from a friend of my father's so that I'll be able to walk to the event without killing myself. 'Twill be a daring fashion statement.
Was that in your local paper?
Nope--it's from Weather Bug.
Question: Is excessive use of ellipses widespread in the world of forecasting, or is this just a problem that plagues Miami (http://weather.herald.com/US/FL/South_Florida.html)?
Judging from this (from the National Weather Service)--"Including The Cities Of... Ellsworth... Bar Harbor... Blue Hill... Eastport... Machias... Cherryfield"--I'd say it's a nationwide affliction.
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I think "A slug of precipitation" should be your new sig.
I think you're right!!
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I don't like it . . . (you know the rest)
But could you make an obsessive and no doubt annoying stickler happy and change the "it's" to "its"?
Sorry.
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But could you make an obsessive and no doubt annoying stickler happy and change the "it's" to "its"?
Sorry.
Don't be sorry - I'm ashamed of myself!
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I don't like it . . . (you know the rest)
But could you make an obsessive and no doubt annoying stickler happy and change the "it's" to "its"?
Sorry.
It's still unchanged...time to step up to the punctuation plate, son.
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"I bet its Ted Leo! He saw that other thread and got pissed. I bet he has been monitoring this board for YEARS."- From Disarm the Settlers
Oh dear.
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"I bet its Ted Leo! He saw that other thread and got pissed. I bet he has been monitoring this board for YEARS."- From Disarm the Settlers
Oh dear.
Can't we all just get along?
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This was the first snow storm where the students actually didn't want a snow day. Now we have graduation on a Monday.
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"I bet its Ted Leo! He saw that other thread and got pissed. I bet he has been monitoring this board for YEARS."- From Disarm the Settlers
Oh dear.
Holy Guacamole! It's fixed now, thanks Jason.