Grammar, and a couple of other bits

[Goddlefrood]

> Carol:
> << wondering why Goddlefrood and others would classify his 
sentence as a run-on when nothing is run together >>

"Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at ...> wrote:
> I expect they're thinking of the phrase 'run on at the mouth', 
which means not pausing to allow other people a turn to speak.

Goddlefrood:

For myself I can say, absolutely not. I wasn't thinking of 
anything else but what I had already written to Carol off-
list. It wasn't a particularly great joke that I had made 
at main as there was no reference for those not in the know.

I never run on at the mouth, as my modest 10s of thousands 
of words posts of the distant past would clearly attest.