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WW&F Railway Museum Discussion => Whimsical Weirdness and Foolery => Topic started by: Steve Smith on November 20, 2013, 10:01:48 PM

Title: Whethering Heights
Post by: Steve Smith on November 20, 2013, 10:01:48 PM

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...and protect it from the whether

If a sharp fellow like Jason can slip up like that, I feel a bit less bad that I'm forever writing their when I mean there. But I feel only a teensie bit less bad, because I'm not under the pressure he is.  :D

Yours truly,

Oily
Manager of Typos

Title: Re: Whethering Heights
Post by: John McNamara on November 21, 2013, 10:10:49 AM

Plainly he was thinking of Shakespeare's Hamlet. "To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them."

Title: Re: Whethering Heights
Post by: Gordon Cook on November 21, 2013, 01:26:07 PM

Spell checker fail...

Title: Re: Whethering Heights
Post by: Ira Schreiber on November 21, 2013, 05:53:21 PM

It is obvious he never paid his syntax.

Title: Re: Whethering Heights
Post by: Jason M Lamontagne on November 21, 2013, 05:56:03 PM

I can't tell weather or not you guys are just messing with me.  I don't know, this cold whether has been messing with me, that's for sure...

Title: Re: Whethering Heights
Post by: Stephen Piwowarski on November 21, 2013, 06:07:56 PM

John, weather you like it or not, the Shakepseare most at play here is likely The Tempest.  ;)

Title: Re: Whethering Heights
Post by: Keith Taylor on November 21, 2013, 06:11:41 PM

Hopefully this thread will wither....

Title: Re: Whethering Heights
Post by: Wayne Laepple on November 21, 2013, 06:45:07 PM

Uh oh.

We can only hope.

Title: Re: Whethering Heights
Post by: Pete "Cosmo" Barrington on November 21, 2013, 09:34:07 PM

What fools these mortals be! :o