Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Erik Aronesty wrote:
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> Bill Putney <bputney@kinez.net> wrote in message news:<3FAB8527.5FDF3CE2@kinez.net>...
> > Well he just offended 95% of the "average guy" in the last couple of
> > days with his spastic tap dancing. Al Sharpton still hasn't decided if
>
> Were you offended? I wasn't. Speak for youself, lest you become a
> "Sharpton" of your own.
No - I'm part of the other 5%. I can do that since I take nothing he
says seriously. Sharpton of my own? What the heck does that mean?
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Erik Aronesty wrote:
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> Bill Putney <bputney@kinez.net> wrote in message news:<3FAB8527.5FDF3CE2@kinez.net>...
> > Well he just offended 95% of the "average guy" in the last couple of
> > days with his spastic tap dancing. Al Sharpton still hasn't decided if
>
> Were you offended? I wasn't. Speak for youself, lest you become a
> "Sharpton" of your own.
No - I'm part of the other 5%. I can do that since I take nothing he
says seriously. Sharpton of my own? What the heck does that mean?
Bill Putney
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Erik Aronesty wrote:
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> Bill Putney <bputney@kinez.net> wrote in message news:<3FAB8527.5FDF3CE2@kinez.net>...
> > Well he just offended 95% of the "average guy" in the last couple of
> > days with his spastic tap dancing. Al Sharpton still hasn't decided if
>
> Were you offended? I wasn't. Speak for youself, lest you become a
> "Sharpton" of your own.
No - I'm part of the other 5%. I can do that since I take nothing he
says seriously. Sharpton of my own? What the heck does that mean?
Bill Putney
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Daniel J Stern wrote:
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> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Bill Putney wrote:
>
> > I always am skeptical of people who pretentiously refer to the Earth as
> > if it were a person saying "Earth" instead of "the Earth" as any normal
> > person (at least in the U.S.) would do
>
> Have you looked through a telescope lately and seen the Mars, the Saturn,
> the Venus, the Jupiter, the Neptune, the Pluto...?
>
> Looks like you're talking out of (the) Uranus.
>
> DS
I thought about that before I posted. (BTW, you left out [the] Sun,
[the] Moon.)
The fact is, normal people (in the U.S. anyway), while they refer to the
other planets as [name of planet] *without* the "the" refer to the earth
as "the Earth". You want to argue with that, go right ahead. I'm not
saying it's logical that we use "the" when referring to the Earth but
not with the other planets - but it happens to be a fact of common
usage.
Ask a normal kid or adult who knows the answer to the question "How far
are we away from the sun?" and he/she will answer "The Earth is 93
million miles from the sun". It would sound weird and affectatious for
them to say "Earth is 93 million miles from the sun".
Bill Putney
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Daniel J Stern wrote:
>
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Bill Putney wrote:
>
> > I always am skeptical of people who pretentiously refer to the Earth as
> > if it were a person saying "Earth" instead of "the Earth" as any normal
> > person (at least in the U.S.) would do
>
> Have you looked through a telescope lately and seen the Mars, the Saturn,
> the Venus, the Jupiter, the Neptune, the Pluto...?
>
> Looks like you're talking out of (the) Uranus.
>
> DS
I thought about that before I posted. (BTW, you left out [the] Sun,
[the] Moon.)
The fact is, normal people (in the U.S. anyway), while they refer to the
other planets as [name of planet] *without* the "the" refer to the earth
as "the Earth". You want to argue with that, go right ahead. I'm not
saying it's logical that we use "the" when referring to the Earth but
not with the other planets - but it happens to be a fact of common
usage.
Ask a normal kid or adult who knows the answer to the question "How far
are we away from the sun?" and he/she will answer "The Earth is 93
million miles from the sun". It would sound weird and affectatious for
them to say "Earth is 93 million miles from the sun".
Bill Putney
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address with "x")
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Daniel J Stern wrote:
>
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Bill Putney wrote:
>
> > I always am skeptical of people who pretentiously refer to the Earth as
> > if it were a person saying "Earth" instead of "the Earth" as any normal
> > person (at least in the U.S.) would do
>
> Have you looked through a telescope lately and seen the Mars, the Saturn,
> the Venus, the Jupiter, the Neptune, the Pluto...?
>
> Looks like you're talking out of (the) Uranus.
>
> DS
I thought about that before I posted. (BTW, you left out [the] Sun,
[the] Moon.)
The fact is, normal people (in the U.S. anyway), while they refer to the
other planets as [name of planet] *without* the "the" refer to the earth
as "the Earth". You want to argue with that, go right ahead. I'm not
saying it's logical that we use "the" when referring to the Earth but
not with the other planets - but it happens to be a fact of common
usage.
Ask a normal kid or adult who knows the answer to the question "How far
are we away from the sun?" and he/she will answer "The Earth is 93
million miles from the sun". It would sound weird and affectatious for
them to say "Earth is 93 million miles from the sun".
Bill Putney
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Bill Putney wrote:
>
> Daniel J Stern wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Bill Putney wrote:
> >
> > > I always am skeptical of people who pretentiously refer to the Earth as
> > > if it were a person saying "Earth" instead of "the Earth" as any normal
> > > person (at least in the U.S.) would do
> >
> > Have you looked through a telescope lately and seen the Mars, the Saturn,
> > the Venus, the Jupiter, the Neptune, the Pluto...?
> >
> > Looks like you're talking out of (the) Uranus.
>
> I thought about that before I posted. (BTW, you left out [the] Sun,
> [the] Moon.)
>
> The fact is, normal people (in the U.S. anyway), while they refer to the
> other planets as [name of planet] *without* the "the" refer to the earth
> as "the Earth". You want to argue with that, go right ahead. I'm not
> saying it's logical that we use "the" when referring to the Earth but
> not with the other planets - but it happens to be a fact of common
> usage.
>
> Ask a normal kid or adult who knows the answer to the question "How far
> are we away from the sun?" and he/she will answer "The Earth is 93
> million miles from the sun". It would sound weird and affectatious for
> them to say "Earth is 93 million miles from the sun".
Oops - hit send too soon.
With very few exceptions (such as the common expression "What on earth
are you doing"), the only time you see or hear "earth" without the "the"
is in national media. You almost never hear it in local media (unless
someone is clearly aligning themselves with liberal politics and are
attempting to separate themselves out from the local unwashed masses),
maybe 1/2 the time in national media (probably due to the other half not
having been "properly" trained yet, or feeling it too awkward to pull
off using it and making it sound natural - because it never does for an
"American English" speaking person), except on NPR, where it's used
without the "the" probably about 95% of the time undoubtedly due to
special training or self-re-training to fit in with the "correct"
politics of NPR (and maybe partly due to a seemingly abnormally high
proportion of regular personalities with "non-American" accents, meaning
British, Australian, or whatever, in which it is normal to say "earth"
without the "the". Like I said earlier about it sounding weird and
affected when a native American (generically speaking) says someone is
"in hospital" rather than the nautural (for the U.S.) "in the hospital".
Ask any person on the street, ask your relatives (when they are in
casual conversation) a question in which they have to use the word
"Earth", and I bet you 99 times out of a hundred, they'll say "the
earth", not "earth" sans "the".
BTW - I liked your "Uranus" joke - one of my favorites too, and it
naturally fit right in with the discussion (which all jokes should to be
the funniest). My kids hate it when I use it - which makes it even more
fun. 8^)
Bill Putney
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address with "x")
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Bill Putney wrote:
>
> Daniel J Stern wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Bill Putney wrote:
> >
> > > I always am skeptical of people who pretentiously refer to the Earth as
> > > if it were a person saying "Earth" instead of "the Earth" as any normal
> > > person (at least in the U.S.) would do
> >
> > Have you looked through a telescope lately and seen the Mars, the Saturn,
> > the Venus, the Jupiter, the Neptune, the Pluto...?
> >
> > Looks like you're talking out of (the) Uranus.
>
> I thought about that before I posted. (BTW, you left out [the] Sun,
> [the] Moon.)
>
> The fact is, normal people (in the U.S. anyway), while they refer to the
> other planets as [name of planet] *without* the "the" refer to the earth
> as "the Earth". You want to argue with that, go right ahead. I'm not
> saying it's logical that we use "the" when referring to the Earth but
> not with the other planets - but it happens to be a fact of common
> usage.
>
> Ask a normal kid or adult who knows the answer to the question "How far
> are we away from the sun?" and he/she will answer "The Earth is 93
> million miles from the sun". It would sound weird and affectatious for
> them to say "Earth is 93 million miles from the sun".
Oops - hit send too soon.
With very few exceptions (such as the common expression "What on earth
are you doing"), the only time you see or hear "earth" without the "the"
is in national media. You almost never hear it in local media (unless
someone is clearly aligning themselves with liberal politics and are
attempting to separate themselves out from the local unwashed masses),
maybe 1/2 the time in national media (probably due to the other half not
having been "properly" trained yet, or feeling it too awkward to pull
off using it and making it sound natural - because it never does for an
"American English" speaking person), except on NPR, where it's used
without the "the" probably about 95% of the time undoubtedly due to
special training or self-re-training to fit in with the "correct"
politics of NPR (and maybe partly due to a seemingly abnormally high
proportion of regular personalities with "non-American" accents, meaning
British, Australian, or whatever, in which it is normal to say "earth"
without the "the". Like I said earlier about it sounding weird and
affected when a native American (generically speaking) says someone is
"in hospital" rather than the nautural (for the U.S.) "in the hospital".
Ask any person on the street, ask your relatives (when they are in
casual conversation) a question in which they have to use the word
"Earth", and I bet you 99 times out of a hundred, they'll say "the
earth", not "earth" sans "the".
BTW - I liked your "Uranus" joke - one of my favorites too, and it
naturally fit right in with the discussion (which all jokes should to be
the funniest). My kids hate it when I use it - which makes it even more
fun. 8^)
Bill Putney
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address with "x")
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Bill Putney wrote:
>
> Daniel J Stern wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Bill Putney wrote:
> >
> > > I always am skeptical of people who pretentiously refer to the Earth as
> > > if it were a person saying "Earth" instead of "the Earth" as any normal
> > > person (at least in the U.S.) would do
> >
> > Have you looked through a telescope lately and seen the Mars, the Saturn,
> > the Venus, the Jupiter, the Neptune, the Pluto...?
> >
> > Looks like you're talking out of (the) Uranus.
>
> I thought about that before I posted. (BTW, you left out [the] Sun,
> [the] Moon.)
>
> The fact is, normal people (in the U.S. anyway), while they refer to the
> other planets as [name of planet] *without* the "the" refer to the earth
> as "the Earth". You want to argue with that, go right ahead. I'm not
> saying it's logical that we use "the" when referring to the Earth but
> not with the other planets - but it happens to be a fact of common
> usage.
>
> Ask a normal kid or adult who knows the answer to the question "How far
> are we away from the sun?" and he/she will answer "The Earth is 93
> million miles from the sun". It would sound weird and affectatious for
> them to say "Earth is 93 million miles from the sun".
Oops - hit send too soon.
With very few exceptions (such as the common expression "What on earth
are you doing"), the only time you see or hear "earth" without the "the"
is in national media. You almost never hear it in local media (unless
someone is clearly aligning themselves with liberal politics and are
attempting to separate themselves out from the local unwashed masses),
maybe 1/2 the time in national media (probably due to the other half not
having been "properly" trained yet, or feeling it too awkward to pull
off using it and making it sound natural - because it never does for an
"American English" speaking person), except on NPR, where it's used
without the "the" probably about 95% of the time undoubtedly due to
special training or self-re-training to fit in with the "correct"
politics of NPR (and maybe partly due to a seemingly abnormally high
proportion of regular personalities with "non-American" accents, meaning
British, Australian, or whatever, in which it is normal to say "earth"
without the "the". Like I said earlier about it sounding weird and
affected when a native American (generically speaking) says someone is
"in hospital" rather than the nautural (for the U.S.) "in the hospital".
Ask any person on the street, ask your relatives (when they are in
casual conversation) a question in which they have to use the word
"Earth", and I bet you 99 times out of a hundred, they'll say "the
earth", not "earth" sans "the".
BTW - I liked your "Uranus" joke - one of my favorites too, and it
naturally fit right in with the discussion (which all jokes should to be
the funniest). My kids hate it when I use it - which makes it even more
fun. 8^)
Bill Putney
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address with "x")
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Re: Global Warming - a Liberal Scam?, (was Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers)
In article <3FAAAB43.B4072C31@mindspring.com>,
"C. E. White" <cewhite3@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> To sum it up - even if global warming is true, I believe the cure is worse
> than the disease. And furthermore, I think that even if it is true, the
> case is being dramatically overstated.
If I want my car's carb fixed, I will go to the best mechanic I can find
to do the job.
If I want my heart fixed, I will go to the best cardiologist I can find
to do the job.
If I want information about a problem with the environment that has the
potential to wipe out life on this planet, I will go to scientists who
spend their lives investigating the environment. I will certainly not go
to rec.driving.autos for such information.
"C. E. White" <cewhite3@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> To sum it up - even if global warming is true, I believe the cure is worse
> than the disease. And furthermore, I think that even if it is true, the
> case is being dramatically overstated.
If I want my car's carb fixed, I will go to the best mechanic I can find
to do the job.
If I want my heart fixed, I will go to the best cardiologist I can find
to do the job.
If I want information about a problem with the environment that has the
potential to wipe out life on this planet, I will go to scientists who
spend their lives investigating the environment. I will certainly not go
to rec.driving.autos for such information.