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Rita_Poon said:
e) the elmer fudd of an excuse banging on about how they are leaving for pastures new where they'll be appreciated and rewarded justly.
f) bit of a whirlwind one this, planning, pre pregnant, preggers, delivered, post maternity/paternity zone nausea. I said congratulations, what more do you require?
g) the kiss ass
h) the kiss ass's hangers on/enablers
i) the master of the time sheets, he/she officious nightmare, always on your back when they want something, rare as rocking horse dung* when it's time to get you square.
j) the joker, one in a thousand is funny, the rest are detrimental to the passing of time towards clocking off. ouch!
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Early on as an apprentice a wise man put me right...
"This place", he said, "Can be divided into 3 sorts".
"Whores, Clowns and Comics."
 
peteblue said:
Tbh mate, you’ve been letting the side down here with your lack of paragraphs. I’ve no idea how GOT allows you to publish stuff. Perhaps you could use our new proof reader to put it into shape and then I’ll check his spelling. Although I appreciate you would have used the z…….
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Pete, I would like to apologize for my late response here. It isn't my desire to antagonize anyone here with my grammatical usage nor illegitimate any complaints about such usage. I'm not immune to seeing my words scrutinized, but I'd rather not submit my drafts to committee to get them authorized for publication. But I would like to conform and make acceptable and satisfactory posts here at Grand Old Team Forum and I don't want to be characterized as a maverick or noncomformist, at least any more than is normal for a citizen of the United States of America. And we Yanks do believe we are, generally speaking, civilized folks who like a little law and order (not the television show, although many do like Law and Order) so I can respect and sympathize with the desire to keep messages in some sort organized fashion, with sentences not exhaustingly long nor paragraphs continuing without any adherence to what the reader might be accustomed to seeing. If there is some Grand Old Team Forum style book that I can read so I can standardize my writing I would gladly recognize such authority; I remember a certain Grand Old Team Forum user had once written a sort of style book but it seemed centered around the popularization of certain words within the Grand Old Team Forum lexicon and not as much focusing on the structure of these words into sentences and paragraphs... but I digress.

So I am glad to reform my own writing, insomuch as it does not sanitize my voice but instead prioritizes writing that fits within the accepted style of the Grand Old Team Forum.
 

SerenityNigh said:
Pete, I would like to apologize for my late response here. It isn't my desire to antagonize anyone here with my grammatical usage nor illegitimate any complaints about such usage. I'm not immune to seeing my words scrutinized, but I'd rather not submit my drafts to committee to get them authorized for publication. But I would like to conform and make acceptable and satisfactory posts here at Grand Old Team Forum and I don't want to be characterized as a maverick or noncomformist, at least any more than is normal for a citizen of the United States of America. And we Yanks do believe we are, generally speaking, civilized folks who like a little law and order (not the television show, although many do like Law and Order) so I can respect and sympathize with the desire to keep messages in some sort organized fashion, with sentences not exhaustingly long nor paragraphs continuing without any adherence to what the reader might be accustomed to seeing. If there is some Grand Old Team Forum style book that I can read so I can standardize my writing I would gladly recognize such authority; I remember a certain Grand Old Team Forum user had once written a sort of style book but it seemed centered around the popularization of certain words within the Grand Old Team Forum lexicon and not as much focusing on the structure of these words into sentences and paragraphs... but I digress.

So I am glad to reform my own writing, insomuch as it does not sanitize my voice but instead prioritizes writing that fits within the accepted style of the Grand Old Team Forum.
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any chance of a TL;DR summary?
 
SerenityNigh said:
Pete, I would like to apologize for my late response here. It isn't my desire to antagonize anyone here with my grammatical usage nor illegitimate any complaints about such usage. I'm not immune to seeing my words scrutinized, but I'd rather not submit my drafts to committee to get them authorized for publication. But I would like to conform and make acceptable and satisfactory posts here at Grand Old Team Forum and I don't want to be characterized as a maverick or noncomformist, at least any more than is normal for a citizen of the United States of America. And we Yanks do believe we are, generally speaking, civilized folks who like a little law and order (not the television show, although many do like Law and Order) so I can respect and sympathize with the desire to keep messages in some sort organized fashion, with sentences not exhaustingly long nor paragraphs continuing without any adherence to what the reader might be accustomed to seeing. If there is some Grand Old Team Forum style book that I can read so I can standardize my writing I would gladly recognize such authority; I remember a certain Grand Old Team Forum user had once written a sort of style book but it seemed centered around the popularization of certain words within the Grand Old Team Forum lexicon and not as much focusing on the structure of these words into sentences and paragraphs... but I digress.

So I am glad to reform my own writing, insomuch as it does not sanitize my voice but instead prioritizes writing that fits within the accepted style of the Grand Old Team Forum.
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Thank you, I’m sure the poster involved accepts your apology. Just don’t do it again…..,
 

The office can be good fun if you don't take it too seriously.

One of my favourite things to do was to abuse the fact you could anonymously send messages to people via the office printer. All you needed to do was write your message of choice on a blank piece of A4 paper, select the recipient, and press the big green button. It would send the scan to their email address with an attachment.

I had far too much fun with this and ended up grassing myself up as a result. Worth it, though.
 
Baines' left foot said:
The office can be good fun if you don't take it too seriously.

One of my favourite things to do was to abuse the fact you could anonymously send messages to people via the office printer. All you needed to do was write your message of choice on a blank piece of A4 paper, select the recipient, and press the big green button. It would send the scan to their email address with an attachment.

I had far too much fun with this and ended up grassing myself up as a result. Worth it, though.
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Let's have the greatest hits and the confession please.
 

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