Grandaddy sound most like The Flaming Lips to me; or at least Sumday sounds kind of like Yoshimi. You should check them out.

Some of the answers are more idiomatic than concrete as rules of grammar go. Laid for example is also a past tense and past participle of lay.

So? How is that idiomatic? We're talking about standard English usage, and that's how it goes, unfortunately. It doesn't change the correct answer.

Using badly after feel is acceptable as well.

If you're trying to say that someone is physically feeling something and doing a bad job of it, then yes, but that's not very common. Using "badly" is still wrong in the context of the test.

~Steve

This comment was edited on Dec 12, 17:25.

Just another bizarre day on Bluesnews...

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22

A few problems with that test. Some of the answers are more idiomatic than concrete as rules of grammar go. Laid for example is also a past tense and past participle of lay. Using badly after feel is acceptable as well.

"Physical reality is consistent with universal laws. Where the laws do not operate, there is no reality."
- Mr. Spock

I have a friend that, when the record store he worked at was still open, he'd play Grandaddy constantly...I have to confess I've not heard of the rest of them. I miss having a good, independent local record store.

What do they sound like? I still need to check out Dantastic's band, Jet...

Moldy Peaches sounds vaguly familiar...

http://www.craigarmstrong.com

Hey nin, just wondering since you seem to dig good music, but anyone else for that matter... have you heard The Shins? Chutes Too Narrow came out in October and it's really amazing, but I like Oh Inverted World a whole lot too. Here's a video where they play a bunch of Chutes Too Narrow songs and get interviewed: http://www.kcrw.org/smil/mb031110The_Shins.ram

They sound quite amazing here, IMO.

I also just got The Meadowlands by The Wrens after hearing a lot about it and it blew me away as well. Really good stuff. The song "She Sends Kisses" kicks my ass every time, along with pretty much the whole album.

Grandaddy's Sumday is currently growing on me as well. Still on my list to check out are Built to Spill and The Moldy Peaches.

~Steve

aww, luke and enahs make nice... i have a tear in my eye. i wish all message board discussions would end like this.

Enahs, I think this would be a good episode for your "Blue's Undersea Kingdom" sitcom...

It would, but damn it I am to busy ricing out my virtual car! Thank god I am not a teenager who has rich parents, as this crap is addicting. Yet I hate it while loving it...AHHHHHHH

It is like, I do a few races and say to my self, STOP DOING THIS STUPID CRAP. But 5 min later I got it loaded back up, because I have to MAX IT OUT!!! WHY!!!!!!!!!!


_____
Enahs s{
This comment was edited on Dec 12, 16:18.

Enahs, I think this would be a good episode for your "Blue's Undersea Kingdom" sitcom...


http://www.craigarmstrong.com

Heh, no, I was just kidding too man, giving you a hard time.

~Steve

Be funnier next time.

Ok, All my kidding set aside.

I am having a hard time discerning if you are just joking back with me, or I really offended you? As I was not trying to, at all!

I was just being silly, and also being like all the webmasters that post negative e-mails, and point out all the grammatical errors, while making just as many (which I could not keep from making them, even if I tired though).


_____
Enahs s{

Damn it man! You take my joke that was supposed to be satire and make me look stupid! THANKS!!!

Be funnier next time.

~Steve

ouch!

http://www.craigarmstrong.com

That is all.

Damn it man! You take my joke that was supposed to be satire and make me look stupid! THANKS!!!

I am crying now, really! sooo sooo sad


AnywayZ, AINT ME JU'ST GREATESTER?!



P.S. The whole "proper" thing was to be like a "brit" as you say, but that was part of the joke! I would never say "suck it down proper". That is my biggest concern, that people might think I would say proper!


_____
Enahs s{
This comment was edited on Dec 12, 15:53.

English major? *cough* loser

Double major in English and music composition. I don't know, I can think of plenty more loserish subjects to study. And... this is a site about computer games.

Please do not respond with all my grammatical errors, as I know I suck.

Too bad, you asked for it.

Only to be a ass, and to “ ‘correct’ an English major”.

An ass, not a ass. That's pretty bad. And I don't know what you're trying to do with all those quotation marks, but it's not pretty.

Should not “suck it down” have been ended with an exclamation point, and not a period? As “suck it down” is a forceful command thus deserving a exclamation point, no?

No.

One should always emphasis “suck it down”

Emphasis is a noun. Emphasize is a verb.

“SUCK IT DOWN, proper!”

Maybe I'd say that if I were some kind of fucking Brit or something.

<get's interrupted>

Gets. What the hell is that apostrophe doing there? Nothing it should be doing.

That is all.

~Steve

This comment was edited on Dec 12, 15:45.

I missed the Lay/Lie question as well. I think a LOT of people missed that though. The fact that lay is the past tense of lie certainly doesn't help things...

10/10 suck it down.

I'm an English major though.

English major? *cough* loser

Only to be a ass, and to “ ‘correct’ an English major”.
Should not “suck it down” have been ended with an exclamation point, and not a period? As “suck it down” is a forceful command thus deserving a exclamation point, no?

Also, let me school a English major on using the phrase “suck it down”.

One should always emphasis “suck it down” -say here on the board with bold or italic- but should always finish the phrase with a gentle but apparent “proper”.

Such as, for typing out all this stupid and pointless stuff that lost anything that resembles ‘normal’ humor 3 words in, you should say to me.

“SUCK IT DOWN, proper!”

And perhaps in this situation where I am taking a “dominant” role, it would be best to end with a sarcastic “sir”. Like so

“SUCK IT DOWN proper, Sir!”

Please do not respond with all my grammatical errors, as I know I suck.

But this started out as a joke, it’s ok but it only works on that one level.

But here is a good one, this one is about a one eyed prostitute and a person of the Polish persuasion.

<get's interrupted>


_____
Enahs s{
This comment was edited on Dec 12, 15:39.

10/10 suck it down.

I'm an English major though.

And in this case I am certain that he/she would have said 'badly'.

And he would've been wrong This is a great resource: http://www.bartleby.com/64/

So is this: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

The page about lay/lie/etc: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/lay.html

~Steve
This comment was edited on Dec 12, 15:24.

9/10 here baby but taht ain't no thing....

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Currently Playing: Armed and Dangerous, Dues Ex 2, U2:XMP, Hotly Anticipating: Soldner, UT2004, Far Cry Pondering: Second Life

irregardless of how little I have written, my mastery of english grammar ensures I will write the greatest human novel. Ever.

I also missed the lay/lie/laid question too. That one was hard!

Ant @ The Ant Farm: http://antfarm.ma.cx