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    Cam/ronAndy Cush
    6/03/16 4:13pm

    “38-litre hats” is a hell of a phrase...

    Just like “bagged milk.”

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeCam/ron
      6/03/16 4:16pm

      The fuck is wrong with Canada?

      For all our fuckery, I’m glad I don’t live in a place where the milk comes in a bag like some kind of teat.

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      Erik LonnrotCam/ron
      6/03/16 4:17pm

      I have lived in Canada my whole life and never seen this.

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    Quasar FunkAndy Cush
    6/03/16 4:14pm

    or its spelling and grammar more accurate.

    *it’s

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeQuasar Funk
      6/03/16 4:15pm

      *tits

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      corvidaeQuasar Funk
      6/03/16 4:16pm

      No, ‘its’. Wrong you are.

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    JoinedToPostThisAndy Cush
    6/03/16 4:13pm

    Maybe walk 1.61 kilometers in their shoes first before rushing to judgment.

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      Johnny ChundersJoinedToPostThis
      6/03/16 4:54pm

      I’d buy that for 1.29 dollars!

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      MontoviroJoinedToPostThis
      6/04/16 10:43am

      Maybe walk 1.61 kilometers in their shoes first before rushing to judgment judgement.

      FTFY

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    IAmNotADamnWriterAndy Cush
    6/03/16 4:54pm

    “Once upon a time, before a piece of journalism was published in a magazine or newspaper, it usually underwent one or several rounds of edits, designed to make its arguments more forceful, its narrative more compelling, its language more unified, or its spelling and grammar more accurate.”

    FTFW.

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      Maxine Floeffler, Super DelegateIAmNotADamnWriter
      6/03/16 6:42pm

      I’m a writer/editor/copy editor/proofreader (you wouldn’t know it from my comment history!) Someone once said to me, “You’re lucky. You can do what you do for the rest of your life as long as your eyesight holds up. No backbreaking labor, no periodic licensing and re-licensing exams, no mobility issues to deal with, English is becoming ever more common, not less so…”

      And I said, “At this point I have a useful skill fewer and fewer people seem to want. I’m the guy who knows how to change the ball on the IBM Selectric if you want to change your font.”

      By the way, in the passage you quoted above, I’d change that last “or” to “and.” All those tasks were done; one wasn’t done to the exclusion of the others.

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      Just another GawkfugeeMaxine Floeffler, Super Delegate
      6/03/16 8:18pm

      Would you also remove the comma after “edits”?

      Also, should I have put the question mark in the previous question inside the quote marks? And should I have put a comma after “after”? And it is ok to begin a question with “and”? And in a question asking if it’s ok to begin a question with “and” should the “a” in the “and” in quotes be capitalized?

      Also, should I have put a comma after the first quoted “and” in the previous question? And if so, should that comma go inside of the closing quote mark or outside?

      Thanks!

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    Just another GawkfugeeAndy Cush
    6/03/16 4:20pm

    In case anyone’s interested,

    “Ten-gallon hat” is the result of a linguistic mix-up. “Galón” is the Spanish word for “braid.” Some vaqueros wore as many as ten braided hatbands on their sombreros, and those were called “ten galón hats.” English speakers heard gallon.

    http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2…

    According to Stetson, a 10-gallon hat only holds about 3 quarts.

    Or whatever that comes out to in those odd Canadian measurements.

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      Sid and FinancyJust another Gawkfugee
      6/03/16 4:54pm

      “Hat” itself has a fascinating etymology: The French refer to a head covering as a “chapeau,” from the middle-French “chapel,” a derivation of the late Latin “cappa.”

      And English speakers were all like, “That’s a nice hat, Frenchy.”

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    Misteaks were madeAndy Cush
    6/03/16 4:20pm

    performing in 38-litre hats

    Was Burt Reynolds at the high school rally?

    GIF
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      Chris ChristieMisteaks were made
      6/03/16 4:24pm

      Came for Burt, left happy. Thank you sir. Star for you.

      GIF
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    ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeAndy Cush
    6/03/16 4:17pm

    Canadians gonna Canadia.

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      LeftoverSpills╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      6/03/16 4:43pm

      Americians love making fun of Canadia. But a quarter of us moved there so enjoy all them freaks.

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      20 Shades of Grey including PorpoiseLeftoverSpills
      6/03/16 4:56pm

      Damn right.

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    Misteaks were madeAndy Cush
    6/03/16 4:17pm

    Oh America’s hat...never change!

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      mostyoulostonacointossAndy Cush
      6/03/16 4:16pm

      And they also spelled ‘liter’ and ‘center’ wrong. Dumb Canadians.

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        lena dunhams boobsAndy Cush
        6/04/16 8:26am

        Actually the high school band who performed is hardly inner-city. The band was the Linden High School marching band which is from Linden a city near Elizabeth and Newark but not actually part of those cities and is a blue-collar working town (formerly GM had their truck manufacturing plant there pre-downturn) but it also is the site of the Bayway oil refinery and a pharmaceutical research facility boarders it in Rahway.

        And the hats aren’t even 10 gallon hats. They are these. Likewise they weren't cheerleaders, they were the color guard which is part of a marching band

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