November 16, 200817 yr 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".
November 16, 200817 yr Active Members 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.
November 16, 200817 yr Illuminative disquisition on the pluperfect subjective (subjunctive): http://www.jstor.org/pss/3083451
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