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A woman and her husband decided to help police in Washington State (US). After the grandmother tackled the suspect to the ground, she taunted him a little:
"I whispered in his ear, 'How does it feel to be taken down by a mother of five and a grandmother of three?'", she said.
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Police thanked Powell for her service and one officer gave her a high five.
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Hilarious. Of course if a cop would have done what she did it would have been called police brutality. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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This woman - mother of five, grandmother of three - at forty?
Me thinkith there be another story in there, somewhere. I'll see if I can call her when she gets back to her trailer.
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Bacon is the single most important food item in the universe, next to a good slice of pizza.
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Slacker007 wrote: next to a good slice of pizza
Why would you want to pollute the purity of the bacon with Pizza? Just add bread, butter, and brown sauce...
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Well if I add bacon to my pizza, it then purifies it and increases its spell power by 200 for 40 minutes. It is in the manual.
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Only if you are holding the True Amulet of Yendor
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Quote: Why would you want to pollute the purity of the bacon with Pizza
Poor Slacker007[^]
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Quote: Just add bread, butter, and brown sauce...
For an alternate, and equally delicious, recipe try adding bread, butter and ketchup.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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He has some errors in there.
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Lovely topic, but the guy is illiterate. I couldn't get past apostrophe without gagging on his errors.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Interesting. The only item in apostrophe that seemed wrong to me was the acronym possessive (which seems to depend on what style guide you look at). Which other errors were there?
TTFN - Kent
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Creating a plural for a single letter has often been done, but it's not correct.
Making an acronym possessive is also incorrect, in that an acronym is already a noun.
Will Rogers never met me.
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In both of those cases, the style guides vary. At the risk of citing Wikipedia[^], it recommends an apostrophe for single letters. Other style guides disagree:
Chicago manual of style: Q. Is it the three R’s or Rs? The NYT seems to use R’s—I thought I’d double check with you folks before I publish something.
A. Either way is fine, but Chicago style is Rs. (The New York Times evidently prefers to follow NYT style.) Please see CMOS 7.14.
Similarly:
In fact, style rules at The Times (and some other publications, including the Chicago Manual of Style) do call for using an apostrophe in the plural of abbreviations that include periods.
But do not use apostrophes for plurals of abbreviations without periods, or for plurals formed from figures: TVs, PCs, DVDs; 1990s, 747s, size 7s.
Either way: you disagreed with two of his items wrong on fairly obscure uses of punctuation. How do you go from that to, "the guy is illiterate"?
I should add that I agree with your use of the apostrophe (at least in the acronym camp), I'm just being a lame tone troll here. (Some days I think there is just too much crankiness in the Lounge)
TTFN - Kent
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Some days?
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Well that's very true. I guess I should have said, "it bugs me more somedays." Ah well, two days off now to recover and recharge.
TTFN - Kent
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Oi'm frum Portsmuff, so Oi fink pedants shud ave there balls chopped off.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: there balls
Surely you mean "their balls".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If ever a reply deserved an upvote...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I have misplaced a button in the designer - the one that displayed the form in its current state and allowed simulated button clicks, checkbox checks, etc.
It was there in 2003 (and I think in 2005) but I've misplaced it in 2008. It there one? If so, where is it?
Thanks.
Gus Gustafson
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gggustafson wrote: I have misplaced a button in the designer
How would we know where you put it?
I actually don't know what button you're talking about. Then again, I haven't done windows forms in a long, long time. 
Hope you can find it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It also worked for WebForms
Gus Gustafson
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