tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873360408860205514.post7244653726146447454..comments2024-02-28T20:24:28.822-05:00Comments on Greylock Snow Day: Storm 2.2 Could Be "Boffo"GSD Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14223698922538264261noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873360408860205514.post-68939087866307955792011-01-30T20:38:47.209-05:002011-01-30T20:38:47.209-05:0010th graders, please cool it with the grammar
Save...10th graders, please cool it with the grammar<br />Save it for your research paper<br /><br />Yay snow day!! Boffo?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873360408860205514.post-51225263866240350012011-01-30T19:25:16.327-05:002011-01-30T19:25:16.327-05:00i think this storm is defiantly going to hit us. w...i think this storm is defiantly going to hit us. we have a good chance that it might. & ive been following weather.com and it looks promising. but i could also be wrong. we'll have to see what happens.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873360408860205514.post-32887389034121936192011-01-30T18:46:21.072-05:002011-01-30T18:46:21.072-05:00This morning the NWS in Albany so waxed,
"O...This morning the NWS in Albany so waxed, <br /><br />"Our potent significant winter weather event wave was coming ashore <br />across northern California this early Sunday morning."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873360408860205514.post-19391658943841744692011-01-30T18:14:09.426-05:002011-01-30T18:14:09.426-05:00Wednesday again? What's with the snow on Wedn...Wednesday again? What's with the snow on Wednesdays?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873360408860205514.post-76565575960616179412011-01-30T16:37:46.766-05:002011-01-30T16:37:46.766-05:00AH-hem...
Updated version of our own previously i...AH-hem...<br /><br />Updated version of our own previously imperfect citation...<br /><br />*******<br /><br />memo from: Grammar Police, Division of Parallelisms :<br /><br />Dear Sir and/or Madame,<br /><br />We very much enjoy your Boffo Blog. We would, however, like to call to your attention one missing possessive apostrophe. viz., "There's some light snow out here, and the snow cover looks eerily similar to the Berkshires." (Sorry, would like to italicize preceding quote, but technology to do so is beyond us.) "The Berkshires." should be changed to "The Berkshires'. " Thereby, the snow cover OF New York is similar to the snow cover OF The Berkshires. As presented, your sentence draws a comparison between two unlike qualities/items -- that is, "snow cover" (a meteorological byproduct and/or compelling artistic subject) is being compared to "The Berkshires" (a geographic region notable for its current need of a/an MSE).<br /><br />We are aware of our own foibles and fallibilities, and submit notice of this infraction with the chagrin that derives from knowledge of certain (if inadvertent) hypocrisy.<br /><br />We remain, as ever, Yr. Humble Servants, &c., &c., &c.,<br /><br />G.P., D.P.<br /><br />P.S. Gotta love ANY blog that references the good Mr. Eliot!<br /><br />__________________<br /><br /><br />nota bene : "Shockingly, we've discovered its snowy and cold out here." -- "its" = "it's" <br /><br />(Also, not in love with the use of a disjunct adverb, but accept it as commonplace, as in the to-us-appalling mis- and over-use of "hopefully" in both speech and writing.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873360408860205514.post-22440483428210451352011-01-30T14:43:34.741-05:002011-01-30T14:43:34.741-05:00MUST agree with 'Boffo'.....the next '...MUST agree with 'Boffo'.....the next 'awesome'?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873360408860205514.post-46827982352704645362011-01-30T13:23:24.215-05:002011-01-30T13:23:24.215-05:00Any chance of a two snow days in a row?Any chance of a two snow days in a row?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873360408860205514.post-12032828366787856392011-01-30T10:38:00.276-05:002011-01-30T10:38:00.276-05:00memo from: Grammar Police, Division of Parallelis...memo from: Grammar Police, Division of Parallelisms :<br /><br />Dear Sir and/or Madame,<br /><br />We very much enjoy your Boffo Blog. We would, however, like to call to your attention one missing possessive apostrophe. viz., "There's some light snow out here, and the snow cover looks eerily similar to the Berkshires." (Sorry, would like to italicize preceding quote, but technology to do so is beyond us.) "The Berkshires" should be changed to "The Berkshires' " Thereby, the snow cover OF New York is similar to the snow cover OF The Berkshires. As presented, your sentence draws a comparison between two unlike qualities/items -- that is, "snow cover" (a meterological byproduct and/or compelling artistic subject) is being compared to "The Berkshires" (a geographic region notable for its current need of a/an MSE).<br /><br />We are aware of our own foibles and fallibilities, and submit notice of this infraction with the chagrin that derives from knowledge of certain (if inadvertent) hypocrisy.<br /><br />We remain, as ever, Yr. Humble Servants, &c., &c., &c.,<br /><br />G.P., D.D.P.<br /><br />P.S. Gotta love ANY blog that references the good Mr. Eliot!<br /><br />__________________<br /><br /><br />nota bene : "Shockingly, we've discovered its snowy and cold out here." -- "its" = "it's" <br /><br />(Also, not in love with the use of a disjunct adverb, but accept it as commonplace, as in the to-us-appalling mis- and over-use of "hopefully" in both speech and writing.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com