That is very cool. Do you have any idea how much of the alcohol burns away, during the performance? (I speak as a man who worries about such things...)
I do that by habit. In fact, though, I attempt to MAKE myself end sentences with prepositions, and to split infinitives, because I believe that both of those grammatical rules are artificial and false. They're artifacts of the Victorian grammarians attempt to retrofit Latin rules on English. Since, in Latin, prepositional phrases and infinitives are single-word verb forms, it's impossible to end a sentence with one and to split the other, thus, the grammarians instituted that rule in English.
So, I attempt to deliberately break those rules, and prepositions are something I attempt to end sentences with. But I'm not very good at it.
As your mother, I am very proud of your attention to grammar - you get that from me, y'know. I created a booklet for dad's "Life is Good: Glad to Be Alive" party for everyone to sign. The title of the page was "for what are you grateful?" I just can't help it!
Now that the joke has already been beaten into the ground. . . alcohol actually burns smokeless. So "no smoking" wouldn't be a problem. Do you have a "no setting on fire" rule?
("There is no smoking on school grounds. Also, no freezing, and no bursting into flame." -- from the movie SKY HIGH, about a high school for superheroes.)
He does have as part of the instructions to remove all obviously flammable materials, such as the baby and the cat, from the area before doing this.
I can offer no solace about the scotch. All I can say is that I don't do that, so there is no need to hunt ME down -- I'm using a seventeen-dollar bottle of overproof rye.
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Date: 2008-01-12 06:19 pm (UTC)Re: totally OT
Date: 2008-01-12 06:07 pm (UTC)So, I attempt to deliberately break those rules, and prepositions are something I attempt to end sentences with. But I'm not very good at it.
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Date: 2008-01-13 11:57 pm (UTC)("There is no smoking on school grounds. Also, no freezing, and no bursting into flame." -- from the movie SKY HIGH, about a high school for superheroes.)
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Date: 2008-01-13 11:55 pm (UTC)Re: two questions after finally watching embedded youtube vid
Date: 2008-01-14 09:21 pm (UTC)I can offer no solace about the scotch. All I can say is that I don't do that, so there is no need to hunt ME down -- I'm using a seventeen-dollar bottle of overproof rye.