SPAGridden and Ever So Evil household objects

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> 
wrote:
> Things are definitely getting worse.  I've been a spelling pendant 
since my teens 

"Tabouli, darling, you're a spelling PEDANT, not pendant," says Anne 
U, who obviously *is* a spelling pedant (as in pedantic, and those of 
us who are pedantic are said to engage in pedantry). And pendants are 
actually much nicer than pedants, IMO :-)


>and I'm sure I didn't see nearly as many cuppachinos

Perhaps that's the slang spelling for a cup of cappuccino -- a 
cuppachino ...

 >Intelagence.  Compashon.  "When your in a safe country, you're 
prioraty's are diferent."
> 
> The memory still makes me shudder.

AAAARRRRGGGGHHH !! And now you're making ME shudder :-( I do see 
spelling about that bad from some children I know, but they're mostly 
9-12 years old.... however it seriously annoys (not aggravates) me 
that these are words that I knew and could spell perfectly when I was 
8 (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth), but today many 12 year olds 
cannot ... but again, I'm truly a compulsive speller (used to win the 
spelling bees in my class quite regularly).


> Decades later, she still has that pincushion, stashed away in her 
sewing box as before.  And I, of course, am *totally* over such 
childish nonsense.  Totally.
> 
> I just happen not to like sewing, that's all.
>

Perhaps you should find a good un-cursing charm so you can face up to 
all those pincushions??

Anne U
(who gave up on sewing years ago...even a good pincushion couldn't 
help me)