Victor Ganata

I guess I'd heard about that before for eating grass. - Stephen Mack

Oh, yeah. Perfect after a mild winter for clearing out the metric ton of brambles that crop up if you didn't cut them back in the fall. - Jennifer Dittrich

You Know Nothing, John Snow ;-) - Pete's Got To Go

I know, right? For some reason, I always thought that it was just a side effect and not the actual target. - Victor Ganata

=) Can we say that? People put mayonnaise in fruit salads and that sounds worse than tomatoes. - Anika

See, tomato + watermelon + feta + mint is an amazing summer salad. - Jennifer Dittrich

"…in 1965, [Larry Itliong] and 1,000 field laborers — the first wave of Filipinos to the United States, known as manongs — began the grape strike that set the stage for the boycott that would lead Cesar Chavez and thousands of farmworker families to create the nation’s pioneering agricultural labor union, the United Farm Workers." - Victor Ganata

"Mr. Chavez made a momentous decision. 'Cesar said, ‘We can’t scab the strike, we can’t cross it even though it might lose,’' Mr. Bardacke said in an interview. For the first time, Filipino and Mexican workers became 'brothers,' eventually forming one organization — the United Farm Workers — with Mr. Itliong as a vice president, one of several Filipino leaders on the executive board. Mr. Chavez saw an opportunity to use nonviolent tactics to take the struggle beyond the Central Valley." - Victor Ganata

"The seasonal flu vaccine prevented more than 40,000 flu-associated deaths in the United States during a nine year period from 2005-2006 through 2013-2014 according to estimates in a new study published in the journal Vaccine. This estimate represents a little less than a one-quarter (22%) reduction in the deaths that would have occurred in the absence of flu vaccination during that time. CDC has estimated previously that seasonal flu-associated deaths in the United States range between 3,000 and 49,000 people each year." - Victor Ganata

"Estimates from the study showed that the majority of the flu-associated deaths prevented—nearly 89 percent (88.9%)—were in people 65 years of age and older. Next to older people, young children 6 months through 4 years of age benefitted most from flu vaccine in terms of the percentage of deaths averted." - Victor Ganata

I am slightly peeved by autocorrect screwing up my T.S. Eliot references. - Victor Ganata

Spell check is making a hash of my originally good spelling, because I have to choose between the American or British dictionaries, neither of which is entirely correct for Canadian spelling. - DJF

…And bathed every veyne in swich licour / Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth / Inspired hath in every holt and heeth / The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne / Hath in the Ram his half cours yronne, / And smale foweles maken melodye, / That slepen al the nyght with open ye / (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages), / Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, / And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, / To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; / And specially from every shires ende / Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende, / The hooly blisful martir for to seke, / That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke. - Victor Ganata

lol, that's perfect, Pete :D - Victor Ganata

Sorry i deleted it so as not to break up the poem :O - Pete's Got To Go

Indeed, given we're all off to ferne halwes in a bit over a week. - Technodad

RT @pookleblinky Every actual culture has a trickster, a character who flirts with deception. The US *is* deception. There's no room for Coyote anymore. https://twitter.com/pookleb... - Victor Ganata

Um.... - Anika

5. "Ideas Don't Matter -- People Only Care About What 'Works'" - Victor Ganata

Sure, it's a choice, but I think the point the author is trying to make is that it's *always* a choice. There is *no* optimal correct universal setting. No one can hold the entire universe inside their skull, so you always have to cut corners somewhere. - Victor Ganata

"As rhetoric, this sort of attitude works only in sermons to the Choir, and as pedagogy it's just disastrous." - Victor Ganata

As a Spanish and Korean language learner, I can get behind this as I've been dealing with it a lot. As a writer, however, a standard will never be the best way to convey certain emotions or even mark realistic characters. - Anika

"…and that people who insist on them (like the legendary assistant to PM. Margaret Thatcher who refused to read any memo with a split infinitive in it, or the jr.-high teacher I had who automatically graded you down if you started a sentence with Hopefully) are that very most pathetic and dangerous sort of SNOOT, the SNOOT Who Is Wrong." - Victor Ganata

"The injunction against split infinitives, for instance, is a consequence of the weird fact that English grammar is modeled on Latin even though Latin is a synthetic language and English is an analytic language. Latin infinitives consist of one word and are impossible to as it were split, and the earliest English Prescriptivists — so enthralled with Latin that their English usage guides were actually written in Latin — decided that English infinitives shouldn't be split either." - Victor Ganata

"The a.-t.-p. rule is antiquated and stupid and only the most ayatolloid SNOOT takes it seriously. Garner himself calls the rule 'stuffy' and lists all kinds of useful constructions like 'the man you were listening to' that we'd have to discard or distort if we really enforced it." - Victor Ganata

My way is not very sportsmanlike -Fezzik - Not LB (or ellbeecee)

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