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Back to YA (in a very limited way) after a couple years' break. ♦ Love to laugh ♦ Love to think Don't much like to clean the sink Atheistic ♦ Humanistic Almost always realistic Usually kind ♦ Rarely blind Try to keep an open mind Evolution ♦ Resolution Sometimes peaceful revolution Now and then a good solution ♦ If you should ask a stupid Q, I may just throw it Back at U ♦♦
Does it annoy you when people use apostrophes in words that are not plurals or possessives?
It seems to be more and more frequent. Using those grammar skills, this question would have read:
"Does it annoy you when people use apostrophe's in words that are not plural's or possessive's?" I also see a lot of it in abbreviations:
PC's instead of PCs;
CD's instead of CDs, and so on.
5 AnswersWords & Wordplay1 decade agoWhat have you always wanted that you will never have?
I have always wanted an older brother.
7 AnswersPolls & Surveys1 decade agoWho has used Windows 7 and what do you think?
I am very interested in upgrading from XP (and not sorry I bypassed Vista), but wonder if I should wait until it's been out for awhile. Tell me your experience so far.
Yes, I know it's only been officially out for less than 2 days, but I know there are plenty of people who have been fooling with it the whole time (and before).
1 AnswerSoftware1 decade agoWhy was my question about greeting card software removed from YA?
This is what I asked:
Which of the major greeting card software programs have templates for quarter-fold (3.5"x4.5") cards?
Maybe I'm missing something, but it doesn't seem to violate anything.
3 AnswersSoftware1 decade agoWhy does YA consider avatar games in violation of their rules?
I have read their guidelines and these harmless diversions do not seem to be in violation! What am I missing??
8 AnswersYahoo Answers1 decade agoRobert Heinlein fans, Who is your favorite character? Jubal Harshaw? Lazarus Long? Friday? Another? Why?
Just curious. I would love to be like Valentine Michael Smith. (Stranger in a Strange Land.) His innocent intelligence and commonsense transparency moves me and especially his view of religion simultaneously resonates with me, blows me away and cracks me up.
BTW, if you said Lazarus Long, meaning our R&S friend LazarusLong, he is alive and well and said to say hello to all.
He was tired of constant Yahoo violations appeals, only to have his Qs & As reinstated long after they no longer mattered. He is alive and well, and elsewhere.
7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoJust for fun: are you secretly looking forward to the 2008 season of American Idol?
Or maybe not so secretly? Tell me more.
8 AnswersPolls & Surveys1 decade agoThou shalt not kill . . . what?
A mosquito?
A cow?
An Iraqi?
Your mother-in-law?
A flea?
A chicken?
A virus?
An annoying co-worker?
A bacterium?
A mass murderer?
Your thoughts, please.
Namaste,
-Z
28 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoWhen did you stop loving your job?
11 AnswersPolls & Surveys1 decade agoDid you ever get an email out of the blue from someone who is not in your YA network. . . .?
. . . with a message like, "I need advice, please contact me." It seems like if someone has something to ask you, they would just come right out and say it in the initial contact, wouldn't they? Just curious.
There are probably other reasons I'm not thinking about. What are your experiences?
6 AnswersYahoo Answers1 decade agoWho else has to go back to work today . . .?
. . . and how do you feel about it?
17 AnswersPolls & Surveys1 decade agoWhat do you do with a bad case of the blues?
6 AnswersPolls & Surveys1 decade agoAnybody who does NOTget all warm and fuzzy over Christmas? How 'bout a a cynic's point of view?
Here is one person's perspective (mine) in a series of haiku:
"How much does it cost?"
Meaures how much I love you.
Happy holidays!
No Electronics?
As a parent I must suck!
Such is the season.
Christmastime creates
Toxic consumerism.
Jesus surely weeps.
How about some cynical or tongue-in-cheek poetry or prose from y'all to counteract some of the sweetness and light.
C'mon, let it out. It will make the next few days easier to cope with.
2 AnswersChristmas1 decade agoSolstice! Are you as happy as I am?? Do you celebrate?
My Solstice greeting to you is this photo I took in my back yard a couple years ago.
http://picasaweb.google.com/LaughingDucksPhoto/Sol...
Solstice Joy! -Z (LaughingDuck)
7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoDo you think he'll keep his word and come back? If so, what will he say?
"An African medicine man dived into a river in Tanzania after promising his fellow villagers that he would bring back revelations from ancestral spirits lurking underwater. He drowned."
7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoIs threatening or asking how to commit suicide a violation of Yahoo! Answers Guidelines?
I run across such questions in the most unexpected categories. I refer them to the Boys Town National Hotline: 1-800-448-3000; www.boystown.org/hotline, but I fear that some smartass answer on here could push someone over the edge. Just curious how others handle such posts.
10 AnswersMental Health1 decade agoWhat are you wearing to the Yahoo! Answers Formal 2007?
Once you have decided who you're asking...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200712...
...what will you wear?
12 AnswersPolls & Surveys1 decade agoPerfect hard cooked eggs and what have you forgotten while doing Y!A?
To make perfect hard-cooked eggs on an electric stove:
Cover eggs with water
Cook uncovered on high to rolling boil
Turn off heat, cover pan, leave pan on burner for 20 minutes
Rinse in cold water
To explode eggs on an electric stove:
Cover with water
Cook on high while you run upstairs to check Y!A
Get involved in Y!A and lose track of time
Smell something burning,
Don't worry because the wood stove is also going
Smell something burning again
Decide to investigate
Halfway down the stairs, hear a loud POP
Find:
Favorite small pan dry, black and blistered
Exploded egg literally all over the kitchen!
Spend an hour cleaning bits of egg from inside burners, floor, ceiling, walls, cat dish ...
It happened to me this morning! It was a freakin' mess!
Have you ever been so involved Y!A that you forgot something important?
5 AnswersPolls & Surveys1 decade ago