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crazychester
Dick in the Abstentia, The
 
Join Date: May 2004
 
2005-06-08, 22:04

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Originally Posted by Kickaha
Why you pickin' on me, crazyc? I thought we wuz down!
But I'm being complimentary! Or is that complementary? Aaaaaah! We'd like you to have this complementary chester, sir, with compliments from the management. Uh you're talking that whatsit, lingo at me. I don't understand.

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It's anal-retentive when modifying a noun, ala perfectionist, otherwise, no hyphen.

Oh Jesus, there's some joke in here but I don't get it. Kickaha my brain is fried. I haven't slept for...for...an extended period of time. Deciphering (oooh
had to think about that one, almost wrote decifering) standard English
^ see odd spaces and line breaks
grammar is a significant challenge, let alone anything more complex.

Where was I. Oh yeah. I know it's not anal-retentive. That's some stupid or stoopid American expression. Or part of the joke I'm not getting. I've checked. It's two Ls. Anally retentive. ANally retentive!

God I got the dictionary out. The real dictionary. I don't remember the last time I used a real dictionary. Hells bells.
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