We tried Dragon speech-recognition software with mixed results but overall, I think it is better now than when we tried it a few years ago. If you're going to be writing a lot of papers, you might want to try this.

That fills me with mirth.

Rhymes with "EssayDown" (I think)

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The importance of punctuation is made clear by Lynne Truss,in her book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. The book's title is based on a bad joke:

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.

"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"Well, I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Not bad from what I saw. One disagreement: "Everyone knows that writing assignments, Custom Essays, Research Papers, Thesis and Custom Term Papers require extensive plagiarism proof research." No hyphens for "ly" adverbs: "...our iWon'tFail team of highly-experienced professional writers..." and you might want to refer to people to use your services as "clients" rather than "customers." "Customers" are people who patronize places like McDonald's or Sam's Club, while "clients" are those who purchase professional services: "For our customers, this means we are able to take on last minute rush jobs and answer questions day or night" ("last minute" should be hyphenated in this case: "last-minute rush jobs").

Good luck.

In this context, "traps" refers to mouths.

Second cousin to the ghost of Christmas past.

Hoodwink: "Hood" goes back to old German and Anglo Saxon, in which it referred to head covering, as in hat, hood, helmet, etc.; "wink," in the same languages, meant to close the eyes, "wench," "wince," etc., being similarly derived. A hoodwink was therefore a headdress designed to cover the eyes. The popular use of the word is believed to go back to the old sport of falconry, once so popular, in which the falcon had a hood over its eyes until ready to strike at its prey.

I think we can all agree that our postal service has improved since we adopted ZIP codes, huh? According to Stross (2010): "In Victorian London, though service wasn't 24/7, it was close to 12/6. Home delivery routes would go by every house 12 times a day -- yes, 12. In 1889, for example, the first delivery began about 7:30 a.m. and the last one at about 7:30 p.m. In major cities like Birmingham by the end of the century, home routes were run six times a day."

Who wears shoes?


This applies to many endeavors. In most Western societies, men become men by demonstrating their sexual prowess which frequently translates into professional success, especially in sports (particularly football and boxing) and entertainment (Longmire & Merrill, Untying the Tongue: Gender, Power, and the Word, Westport, CT: Greenword Press, 1998), but also to modern definitions of middle-class masculinity (Peter N. Stearns, Be a Man! Males in Modern Society, New York: Holmes & Meier). I can't box or play football, but I can still make my wife laugh after 27 years so I guess that makes me an entertainer.

Ninety percent of Canadian companies are owned by U.S. interests and 90 percent of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border. We should just go ahead and make this a state (except for Quebec; no one wants Quebec).

The penalty in Oklahoma for bigamy is two wives.

Hey, we gotta draw the line somewhere!

I have a hoodie older than that.

What recourse would forum members recommend?

Cheating around the world:

Asia: globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/thailand/120103 /US-college-application-fraud-asia-elite-economy-china - Elite Asian students cheat like mad on US college applications:

"... roughly 90 percent of recommendation letters to foreign colleges are faked, 70 percent of college essays are ghostwritten and 50 percent of high school transcripts are falsiï-ed."

Sweden: thelocal.se/41554/20120620/ - Ten students were suspended from Lund University in southern Sweden this week after getting caught cheating, as reports of academic dishonesty at the university continue to skyrocket.

United Kingdom: telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8363345/The-cheating-epid emic-at-Britains-universities.html - The cheating epidemic at Britain's universities: "A cheating epidemic is sweeping universities with thousands of students caught plagiarising, trying to bribe lecturers and buying essays from the internet."

I got lazy and just pasted what I found...

In 1905, Albert Einstein published his argument, including his conclusion that E=MC2, in a three-page paper entitled "Does The Inertia Of A Body Depend On It's Energy Content?" The paper had no footnotes and not one single reference to support it.

"Saving the world, one paper at a time."

I've been cranking out that many pages a year (and more) for the past 15 years. I've gone through so much paper in my career, the trees tremble when I walk through the forest.

You don't know until you try. You may be great!

Given the circumstances, they looked okay to me.

I couldn't believe this was a felony anywhere, but you're right. This is only a felony in Indiana: in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title35/ar45/ch1.html, though, and only when the disorderly conduct is committed while armed with a deadly weapon.

Nope, but they are all "serious." According to Black's Law Dictionary (1990), a felony is "A crime of a graver or more serious nature than those designated as misdemeanors. Under many state statutes, any offense punishable by death or imprisonment" (p. 617).

That reminded me of an old Reader's Digest joke: Husband and wife both graduate at the same time with a doctorate and master's, respectively. Husband says, "Now you have to call me 'doctor.'" Wife responds, "Okay, then you have to call me 'master.'"

heh
I was just pokin' fun at "serious felony" -- like there's another kind :)

Lewis Grizzard tells the story where he was sitting with some other sportswriters in a bar in Atlanta when a lady approached one of his friends and said for $100, she would make him the happiest man in the world. Grizzard's friend said, "Fine, here's $100. Go write my Sunday column for me."

I knew him in the Army.

I couldn't agree more. I once wrote a 40-page paper on "oil in Sudan" only to have the client request a rewrite because she meant "vegetable oil."

It helps to buy us a drink first.

Align in the sand.

These are also prerequisites for the job.

There is no shame is getting a part-time job to help you weather the tough times until you make it (I did). Good luck.

I concur.

Here's a good one: "President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho" from "Idiocracy."

A virgin!

I have pretty much ruled out a career in professional football ("You can be anything you want if you try hard enough" my ass.)

After 40 years, it's just routine for me but I've learned some things that might interest you.

1. The wolf at the door is the most powerful motivator.

2. Deadlines are the second most.

3. Apply the one-bite-at-a-time approach ("You can eat an elephant...") -- take frequent breaks on big assignments (I keep Age of Empires running and ALT-Tab between work and play every so often).

4. Go to work as soon as you get up. Work until it hurts and then stop for awhile.

5. Keep pictures of the people you love and who are counting on you on your desk.

I've read where lawyers train themselves to go to the bathroom on schedule to increase their billable hours, but screw that.