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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...0070121AAPFSFm
It all makes sense to me now.
Update - 12/22/07
The question was deleted from Yahoo Answers. I don't have it in my cache. Sorry. In summary, it said that the apollo landings had been faked in order to prop up the egos of white men.
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This woo woo has just read his first Erick Von D*ckHead book!!
Chariots of the Gullible revisited, the epic story of the space race between the Mayans and the Egyptians
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I like how the "United States" is in quotes like that, as if we as a country may or may not be real. I feel pretty real. The tax dollars I pay are very real. And those mind-numbing political commercials that will bombard us until next November are painfully real. But you know what, maybe we're not really a country.
Well, I know you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover (unless it's one of those monthly types that they keep locked up behind the counter...but I digress), but when one can't even start their article with semi-proper grammar, it's usually an indication of how sound the ideals contained within are. At least with the advent of the internet, trees no longer have to be needlessly waisted on literature like this.*major lie that the United States wants to keep alive for ego purposes is that...[close window]
*edit: oh, and just to be clear, that's how the sentence starts. No caps, no "The" or "A"
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That's just what someone who isn't real would say. You're not fooling me!Originally Posted by Fazor
Ignoring the irony of that dangling prepositionyeah, if you look around yahoo answers a bit, you'll see that it's primarily kids asking for help with their homework. It's becoming a *major* pet peeve to end a phrase with a question mark. I see a lot of questions with subject like this: "If someone went to the moon?" "Solve the equation?" It just urks me for some reason, like an itch I can't scratch. I guess that's the definition of a pet peeve.
I also have to admit that I've started reading the questions in the voice of the forest creatures from the South Park Christmas episode, particularly the bear that's always sad: "but, we have to have to have a star for our Christmas tree!" It makes reading yahoo answers so much fun!
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That's just what someone who isn't real would say. You're not fooling me!
The games up Fazor!
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Dagnabbit! Time to grab my snake-oils and youth-elixirs and head for them thar hills!
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"Aztecs invented the vacation! Men and women are the same sex! Your brain may no longer be the boss! Everything you know is wrong!"
---the Firesign Theatre, 1975
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...aircraft runway on the Moon....now there's something that knots my brain all up!
Maybe it had a thick atmosphere a thousand or so years back...
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Oh wow.as well as Atlantis,
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Deity help us if this is a kid......In the words of Daffy Duck, "what a maroon!"
Let me get this straight, no Americans went to the Moon, but this kid (or somone) has seen Egyptian artifacts there....Like, did they get up close and look at the heiroglyphics??
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K'hem.This woo woo has just read his first Erick Von D*ckHead book!!
I believe you mean "Erich Von Dumkoff".
Dumkoff= idiot
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Dumkopf -- and "irks".
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Thanks, I had previously only heard it said on TV shows.Dumkopf -- and "irks".
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You're welcome, but I actually misspelled it too. It's Dummkopf!
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In Australia we refer to him as "Erich von Dunnycan"
("dunnycan" being the slang for an old-fashioned non-plumbed toilet: they always smelled pretty bad)
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Pull a Foamy(tm) on them.Ignoring the irony of that dangling preposition
Kid: "If someone went to the moon?"
Foamy: Are you Sure?! Are you positive it's a moon?
Kid: "Solve the equation?"
Foamy: Really, are you certain that it is an equation? ARE YOU SURE?!!
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I'm still trying to recover from reading this one (Q is at the bottom of the page that tofu linked to):
Q: "Why didn't they let Americans know that there were 5 more landings on the moon after July 1969?"
A: "They have alot of secrets they dont want us to know. I think becuase they must have found something on the moon, and didnt want to tell us."
Is it just me, or is anyone else appalled at this level of ignorance? I can't help wondering what wondrous things we might have accomplished if more kids actually learned something about science in school.
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This reminds me of the fifth element in the beginning when the Egyptians were visited by aliens.
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OK, I bit, and responded. An excuse to link to here, Clavius, and ALSJ.
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That's not a dangling preposition, it's ending the sentence with a verb, which is grammatically correct, although not often used and a holdover from the Germanic roots of English.Ignoring the irony of that dangling preposition
Next thing you know hairs and infinitives you'll be splitting!
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Why not? Just zip down the runway until your speed is about 1.7 km/s (if I did the math right) and gently pull away from the moon. All without an atmosphere
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In English it is perfectly acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition. The "rule" against it was invented by a minister in the 1800s because Latin does have such a rule and he thought English should as well.That's not a dangling preposition, it's ending the sentence with a verb, which is grammatically correct, although not often used and a holdover from the Germanic roots of English.
Next thing you know hairs and infinitives you'll be splitting!
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See? Me know grammar well! No mistakes are not ever maked by me when I right!
I never paid much attention to parts of speach and rules of grammar (sorry Gillian). I just always use the grammar equivilant of phonetics; if it sounds right, then it's good enough for me.
When I'm posting I do write a lot differently than when I'm, well, writing. I do have a bad habit of run-on's and too many ()'s when posting. Sometimes it gets so bad that by the end of the sentance, even I have forgotten what my original subject was. But honestly, a lot of the time I think I'm better off if people can't figure out what it is I'm saying
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"That is something up with which I will not put." Winston Churchill, I think.
Fred
"For shame, gentlemen, pack your evidence a little better against another time."
-- John Dryden, "The Vindication of The Duke of Guise" 1684
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Hey, I'm a student!Is it just me, or is anyone else appalled at this level of ignorance? I can't help wondering what wondrous things we might have accomplished if more kids actually learned something about science in school.
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And you and students like you are why I said "more kids."
Maybe you can help me with this. How much were you taught about the space program, and Apollo in particular? Do you think that your school is doing a good job of teaching science in general?
My perception may be incorrect, but it seems to me that there are a lot of people who are quite ignorant about science, and I can't help thinking that the schools are at least partially to blame. But maybe I'm underestimating the number of people whose ignorance is willful.
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...he thought English should as well.
...leading to a famous (and possibly apocryphal) story in which Winston Churchill was chided for ending a sentence with a preposition, whereupon he responded, "Ma'am, that is something up with which I will not put."
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I felt/feel the same way. Now it's been diggity-ought years since I've been in highschool (okay, so 8 years since I graduated) but when I went through, we were only required to take introductory classes in the four schools of scinece they had it broken down to: Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. Each were half a (school)year long. Astronomy was an elective. Then you had to take the second-level to two of the four schools of science (i.e., Biology 2) which were also only two quarters each.
Therefore, you could be done with all your science classes by Sophomore year, if you crammed them all in. There were plenty of options for you to continue in the sciences, but they weren't mandatory.
I wasn't the most studious of students, and the only extra class I took was Astronomy (but it started at 7:00 am, so I rarely stayed awake through it.)
edit: Compaired to English/Litt, Math, And History/Social Studies, science was little more than an afterthought.
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For science in general, the education has been very good. We did a good bit on Apollo in fifth grade, and in eighth grade, we studied the physical geography of the planets, but didn't really go into exploration.Maybe you can help me with this. How much were you taught about the space program, and Apollo in particular? Do you think that your school is doing a good job of teaching science in general?
For the space program, and exploration in general, most of my learning has been out of school, from library books and the like. Without looking anything up, I can tell you:
Mercury was first visited by Mariner.
Venus by Venura.
The Moon by Russia's Luna.
Mars by Mariner, and first landed on by Viking.
Jupiter and Saturn by Pioneer.
Uranus and Neptune by Voyager.
And New Horizons will be the first to visit Pluto.
Last edited by KaiYeves; 2007-Dec-22 at 09:34 PM.
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Man, there's an echo on here...
Edit to add: Maybe it wasn't Winston after all.
Fred
"For shame, gentlemen, pack your evidence a little better against another time."
-- John Dryden, "The Vindication of The Duke of Guise" 1684
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