Guest StuCotts Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 No claim of originality here. These will be old stuff to readers of the Guardian and listeners of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! A woman visiting Boston for the first time is eager to sample its best-known fish dish. She jumps into a cab and asks, "Where can I get scrod?" He: "Gee, I never heard it put in the pluperfect subjective before". Dubya is writing his autobiography. He's been told of the imortance of a strong first sentence. After lots of agonizing, he's come up with: "It were a dark and stormy night". Quote
Members TampaYankee Posted November 16, 2008 Members Posted November 16, 2008 Dubya is writing his autobiography. He's been told of the imortance of a strong first sentence. After lots of agonizing, he's come up with: "It were a dark and stormy night". Sad because it is so, so plausible. Dubya: The Sarah Palin of his time. Quote
AdamSmith Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 Illuminative disquisition on the pluperfect subjective (subjunctive): http://www.jstor.org/pss/3083451 Quote
