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[Guest Failed Mascot]

Am I the only one that finds the movie Stand by Me to be homoerotic?

 

Also, Jerry O'Connel in this film reminds me of IDRM in physical terms.

[Jingus 0]

It was kinda gay, but most "coming of age" pics are. As corpse-themed movies go, I prefered River's Edge.

[Ted the Poster 0]

The dead kid's eyes freak me out every time for some reason.

 

Keifer Sutherland was great in that movie.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

The videotape I saw of Stand By Me was somewhat messed up, so I saw it in black and white. Looked really good, actually, and I always thought that's how it was until a few years ago.

[Modern Man's Hustle 0]

Sometimes shitty quality improves the movie, I've found. I saw a terrible burn of The Incredibles, and the picture was dark and grainy, like the old Batman cartoon. It made the movie a lot more fun for some reason. We had to watch Stand By Me in Psychology for some reason. All it did was make me sad that River Phoenix died before he could do anything really great.

[Modern Man's Hustle 0]

Another question: why is it that some people on this board are so hardup on grammar? So far I've seen bigolsmitty make a reference to a "comma superstar", complete with a link to a page about the appropriate usage of commas, then in the WWE folder someone quoted an entire post, must have been 15 lines long, just to say "you used 8 semicolons, and none of them are grammatically correct". Are people this petty?

[Jingus 0]

The only time I bother pointing out someone's spelling/grammar mistakes is if they're bitching at someone else for being stupid. If you're gonna call someone else an idoit, at least spell the word right.

[Sideburnious 0]

I only ever saw up to the point where the kid tells the story about the fat kid getting sick on everyone.

 

should I watch the rest?

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

Another question: why is it that some people on this board are so hardup on grammar? So far I've seen bigolsmitty make a reference to a "comma superstar", complete with a link to a page about the appropriate usage of commas, then in the WWE folder someone quoted an entire post, must have been 15 lines long, just to say "you used 8 semicolons, and none of them are grammatically correct". Are people this petty?

Your commas & periods go inside your ending quotation marks. Also, 2 spaces after ending punctuation.

 

[Nighthawk 0]

Also, Jerry O'Connel in this film reminds me of IDRM in physical terms.

I'm more like Keifer Sutherland in this movie. I've been told that before. He was kinda sexy there, but not as much as in the Lost Boys. He reminds me of me a little bit there too. But never in any other role he's played.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Another question: why is it that some people on this board are so hardup on grammar? So far I've seen bigolsmitty make a reference to a "comma superstar", complete with a link to a page about the appropriate usage of commas, then in the WWE folder someone quoted an entire post, must have been 15 lines long, just to say "you used 8 semicolons, and none of them are grammatically correct". Are people this petty?

Your commas & periods go inside your ending quotation marks. Also, 2 spaces after ending punctuation.

 

Most publications insist their writers do away with the two spaces after the period, leaving only one.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Also, any number lower than ten should be spelled out, not written numerically.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Are people this petty?

 

No, just dumb. I could understand pointing out mistakes in extreme cases, but 99.9 percent of the "you're grammar is the suq" references that take place here are just lame...

[Guest Vitamin X]

Inc is such an English major.

 

Although I was going to point out the one space thing as well. My English teachers have been trying to beat into our heads to do the two space thing for works cited pages, and are also trying to cram it in our essays as well. Fuckers.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I do employ two spaces in essays, but in the real world, no one cares. I only do it now because it is expected.

[Ted the Poster 0]

Are people this petty?

 

No, just dumb. I could understand pointing out mistakes in extreme cases, but 99.9 percent of the "you're grammar is the suq" references that take place here are just lame...

It's spelled s-u-c-k, duh...

[Dr. Tom 0]

My English teachers have been trying to beat into our heads to do the two space thing for works cited pages, and are also trying to cram it in our essays as well. Fuckers.

I habitually use the two spaces after ending punctuation in everything I write. I'm pretty sure HTML eliminates "extraneous" spaces and just renders one space, which forces you to use the no-break space code to insert additional ones. This board might do it, too; I've actually never bothered to check.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

I was brought up with two spaces, but whenever I write an actual article or something that's going to be published, I go through and do Find--Replace from two spaces to one. Copy editors appreciate it bigtime, apparently.