Sorry….Just a pet peeve of mine.

[George D. Stout]

#6295

#55 = Number fifty-five.

55# = Fifty-five pounds.

It’s that simple 🙄

[tailfeather]

#49821

Ok.

[stalkin4elk]

#49909

:lol:Which one is your bench?? Could not help it.

[MontanaFord]

#49989

LOL

[Mark Turton]

#50014

I agree, when the rest of the world uses kilograms!

[David Petersen]

#50047

George my friend — were you once a gradeschool teacher? :D:P:wink: Brother, if we want to go there, that’s just the beginning of the end. But then, neither am I much of one to pet my peeves in privacy. Those darned peeves seem to crave public attention. 😈

One from my own peeve kennel: “I thought to myself … ” We see this even in the NYT, supposed home of the most elitest of the elitest writers. Yet, as my wife puts it, “Unless we’re clairavouyant, who else can we think to but ourselves?” Just so.

OK, “the prize” goes to whoever first finds their own pet peeve being mal-petted in my above. What’s the prize? I’ll have to think about that, to myself of course. LOL dp (Hinjt: there are at least three.)

[Patrick]

#50170

David Petersen wrote: George my friend — were you once a gradeschool teacher? :D:P:wink: Brother, if we want to go there, that’s just the beginning of the end. But then, neither am I much of one to pet my peeves in privacy. Those darned peeves seem to crave public attention. 😈

One from my own peeve kennel: “I thought to myself … ” We see this even in the NYT, supposed home of the most elitest of the elitest writers. Yet, as my wife puts it, “Unless we’re clairavouyant, who else can we think to but ourselves?” Just so.

OK, “the prize” goes to whoever first finds their own pet peeve being mal-petted in my above. What’s the prize? I’ll have to think about that, to myself of course. LOL dp (Hinjt: there are at least three.)

Speling errers 😉

[George D. Stout]

#50230

I think I had a teacher in elementary by the name of
Claira Vouyant. I think she taught French.

[adirondackman]

#50915

“beginning of the end”

[MontanaFord]

#51212

Patrick wrote: [quote=David Petersen]George my friend — were you once a gradeschool teacher? :D:P:wink: Brother, if we want to go there, that’s just the beginning of the end. But then, neither am I much of one to pet my peeves in privacy. Those darned peeves seem to crave public attention. 😈

One from my own peeve kennel: “I thought to myself … ” We see this even in the NYT, supposed home of the most elitest of the elitest writers. Yet, as my wife puts it, “Unless we’re clairavouyant, who else can we think to but ourselves?” Just so.

OK, “the prize” goes to whoever first finds their own pet peeve being mal-petted in my above. What’s the prize? I’ll have to think about that, to myself of course. LOL dp (Hinjt: there are at least three.)

Speling errers 😉

Dave, here are your intentional errors. Funny thing about TBM’s “Reply” windows…they are equipped with spell-check. I just thought I would mention that for anybody that never cared to notice the little, red squiggly lines under misspelled or unknown words.

gradeschool
elitest (x2)
clairavouyant
Hinjt

Michael.

[Treetopflier]

#51219

Aha! While Patrick got “misspellings” in general, Michael got Peterson’s planted mistakes precisely, at least in spelling. But I Win “the prize” because I’m the only or at least first one to note the glaring grammatical “errors” in “… supposed home of the most elitest of the elitest writers.” Should be “home of the most elite of elite writers.”

Now—what’s “the prize”? A free guided elk hunt? The Shrew recurve Dave has for sale in the classifieds here? A rubber biscuit?” (And which brothers here gets that little joke?) TTF

[MontanaFord]

#51223

Ahh, yes…I forgot about the grammatical part. BUT, Dave did say there were “at least three”.

Michael.

[Mark Turton]

#51650

Claira Vouyant, and Miss Spelling taught English.

[Patrick]

#51831

Treetopflier wrote: Aha! While Patrick got “misspellings” in general, Michael got Peterson’s planted mistakes precisely, at least in spelling.

😆 Actually, my answer was precise, since Dave asked for the pet peeve to be pointed out, not the examples of the pet peeve.

[David Petersen]

#51891

Well good on all of you clever fellows. But your admirable spelling and grammar detective efforts notwithstanding, I get to keep “the prize,” as the pet peeve I was referring to, and illustrating through inadvertent examples aplenty, is folks like me who post sloppy messages during happy hour. :D:):)8) Of course none of you would do that, I’m sure. :lol::lol: dp

[Mark Turton]

#51907

I was just about to say that, do I still get a prize:?:

[tom-wisconsin]

#51991

For me when I want to say something I just need to get it out first, whether in words or on paper. Later if I have time I will do the spell checking or grammar. I have probably made errors already in this post.:D Please forgive I do not mean to offend. Sometimes I am grammatically challenged.

[Patrick]

#52082

David Petersen wrote: Well good on all of you clever fellows. But your admirable spelling and grammar detective efforts notwithstanding, I get to keep “the prize,” as the pet peeve I was referring to, and illustrating through inadvertent examples aplenty, is folks like me who post sloppy messages during happy hour. :D:):)8) Of course none of you would do that, I’m sure. :lol::lol: dp

My pet peeve is losing. 😈 😳 😆

[Don Thomas]

#59013

George–Speaking from the editor’s desk, you are correct. And if you catch this one in a future issue of TBM, you may contact Dave Petersen for your prize. Don

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