Anthriel wrote: If I didn't know that the lot of you were such MAJOR English grammar geeks, I wouldn't have to go back and edit when I have overused certain words in a paragraph or gotten too wordy with qualifiers, or other such grammatical embarrassments.
Yes, Anth, relax . . . as you know, my posts tend to go on and on, failing all known rules of language parsing, circling round and round several different diffuse points and generally only tangentially touching on what it is that I, the Great and Powerful TORN, wish to convey to you, the adoring masses on this sad and pathetic excuse of a messageboard -- not to say that I view any one of you individually as sad and pathetic, or as sad or pathetic, or as sad and/or pathetic in turn, or in fact neither sad nor pathetic -- or, for that matter, not necessarily even that I view any collection of individuals -- in whatever multiple you may wish to posit -- as constituting an organic entity having traits of sadness or patheticism -- no, it is solely the collective whole that brings together all necessarily elements to constitute a truly sad and pathetic messageboard -- well, as I was saying, I ... ah ... well I mean ... hmmm ... yeah ... in any event, Primmy still deigned it appropriate to bestow upon me the honorific title of "Poltroo" . . . so there's still hope for you, my dear Anth.
and then Primmy wrote: What, Anth, you mean people like me make it hard for you to RELAX???!!!????? [I should note, by-the-by, Primmy's stea. . . I mean, borrowing of my patented underline+red+large+bold formatting]
SIGNED,
NIESZCZĘSNY MIEJSCOWY STRACHAJŁO