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# this challenge is going to piss me off
shouldn't it be 'if magic were real'?

/grammar arse
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:29, archived)
# beware
i could still get rid of the netherlands.
(incredible wrongun, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:31, archived)
# DON'T!
I'm going there next week.
(I helped save b3ta! chobb ,ø¤ºGREATº¤ø,¸¸,ø¤ºRAPISTº¤ø,¸¸,ø¤ºRECOMMENDEDº¤ø, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:32, archived)
# You wouldn't dare.
Who would eat all the excess mayonnaise? We'd be swamped in the stuff.
(I helped save b3ta! Nimble Colin camera-wrangling, globe-trotting whisky enthusiast, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:33, archived)
# That
and salt liquorice
(I helped save b3ta! @man move along, nothing to see here on, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:35, archived)
# I thought you had disappeared
(mmm... drop!)
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:38, archived)
# been up to my eyes in real life stuff
I'm still here, how's you?
(I helped save b3ta! @man move along, nothing to see here on, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:41, archived)
# ticketty boo
nice to see you anyhow!
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:43, archived)
# Good to see you too
catch you soon
(I helped save b3ta! @man move along, nothing to see here on, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:51, archived)
# En stroopwafels!
woo for Limburg aan zee btw.
(I helped save b3ta! DaSchop gippie, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:43, archived)
# can you
do america and make everyone happy?
(willtheyorwon'tthey, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:46, archived)
# is that like
tennis elbow?
(I helped save b3ta! twig Save 6 Music, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:32, archived)
#
haha
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:32, archived)
# pfft!
(I helped save b3ta! Stickman_ben, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:34, archived)
# They magically
changed grammar.
(I helped save b3ta! Stickman_ben, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:33, archived)
# Would it?
Are you sure?

edit: i thought magic was (gramatically at least) seen as a singular, therefore should be "was"

I'm happys to be provered wrongly about my grammaring though.
(I helped save b3ta! Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:33, archived)
# pretty much
www.bartleby.com/64/C001/061.html

"According to traditional rules, you use the subjunctive to describe an occurrence that you have presupposed to be contrary to fact: if I were ten years younger, if America were still a British Colony."
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:34, archived)
# Feh.
can't be arsed reading all that, i'll take your word for it :-D
(I helped save b3ta! Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:35, archived)
# I have indicated the relevant sentence!
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:37, archived)
# Oh yes
so you have...

*runs away looking silly*
(I helped save b3ta! Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Fri 27 Aug 2004, 13:39, archived)