Point of Order

[flyguy06]

Iwanted to make a point of order on a post in the "CAWG CC fired" Thread, but it was locked. I make this correction to my cadwets all the time. Its not that big of a deal. Certainly not worht starting a new thread over but I didnt have achoice.

Thee is no such word as "Sirs" When addressing more than one senior officer, the correct phrase is "Gentlemen" or "Ladies" or "Laies and Gentlemen" Again, not worth a thread or discussion. Just pointingit out

[Eclipse]

Whin kerecting gramer, it wood bee ay gud ida to yous spel check....   

[Psicorp]

Iwanted to make a point of order on a post in the "CAWG CC fired" Thread, but it was locked. I make this correction to my cadwets all the time. Its not that big of a deal. Certainly not worht starting a new thread over but I didnt have achoice.

Thee is no such word as "Sirs" When addressing more than one senior officer, the correct phrase is "Gentlemen" or "Ladies" or "Laies and Gentlemen" Again, not worth a thread or discussion. Just pointingit out

I use "sirs" quite often.  Its from having lived in Alabama...many years ago, former Governor Seagleman decided to introduce a piece of legislation to the State Congress and it passed.  It became law that students must refer to their teachers as "Sir" and "Ma'am".   It was further stretched to include all adults.   

Granted Alabama was a bit wierd to begin with and the law really didn't have any teeth (each scholastic institution was allowed to decide what the violation would entail).   But to keep within the letter of the law, how else is one supposed to address two or more male adults?   At least "Sirs" sounds better than "Ma'ams". 

[Al Sayre]

Whin kerecting gramer, it wood bee ay gud ida to yous spel check....   

'tain't polite to correct yer Grammer, yer s'posed to respect yer elders!

[LtCol White]

Iwanted to make a point of order on a post in the "CAWG CC fired" Thread, but it was locked. I make this correction to my cadwets all the time. Its not that big of a deal. Certainly not worht starting a new thread over but I didnt have achoice.

Thee is no such word as "Sirs" When addressing more than one senior officer, the correct phrase is "Gentlemen" or "Ladies" or "Laies and Gentlemen" Again, not worth a thread or discussion. Just pointingit out

I use "sirs" quite often.  Its from having lived in Alabama...many years ago, former Governor Seagleman decided to introduce a piece of legislation to the State Congress and it passed.  It became law that students must refer to their teachers as "Sir" and "Ma'am".   It was further stretched to include all adults.   

Granted Alabama was a bit wierd to begin with and the law really didn't have any teeth (each scholastic institution was allowed to decide what the violation would entail).   But to keep within the letter of the law, how else is one supposed to address two or more male adults?   At least "Sirs" sounds better than "Ma'ams". 

Have the people of Alabama never heard the words "Ladies and Gentlemen"

[Psicorp]

Iwanted to make a point of order on a post in the "CAWG CC fired" Thread, but it was locked. I make this correction to my cadwets all the time. Its not that big of a deal. Certainly not worht starting a new thread over but I didnt have achoice.

Thee is no such word as "Sirs" When addressing more than one senior officer, the correct phrase is "Gentlemen" or "Ladies" or "Laies and Gentlemen" Again, not worth a thread or discussion. Just pointingit out

I use "sirs" quite often.  Its from having lived in Alabama...many years ago, former Governor Seagleman decided to introduce a piece of legislation to the State Congress and it passed.  It became law that students must refer to their teachers as "Sir" and "Ma'am".   It was further stretched to include all adults.   

Granted Alabama was a bit wierd to begin with and the law really didn't have any teeth (each scholastic institution was allowed to decide what the violation would entail).   But to keep within the letter of the law, how else is one supposed to address two or more male adults?   At least "Sirs" sounds better than "Ma'ams". 

Have the people of Alabama never heard the words "Ladies and Gentlemen"

Yes they have, but only if they are before the words, "Start your engines". 

[LtCol White]

Iwanted to make a point of order on a post in the "CAWG CC fired" Thread, but it was locked. I make this correction to my cadwets all the time. Its not that big of a deal. Certainly not worht starting a new thread over but I didnt have achoice.

Thee is no such word as "Sirs" When addressing more than one senior officer, the correct phrase is "Gentlemen" or "Ladies" or "Laies and Gentlemen" Again, not worth a thread or discussion. Just pointingit out

I use "sirs" quite often.  Its from having lived in Alabama...many years ago, former Governor Seagleman decided to introduce a piece of legislation to the State Congress and it passed.  It became law that students must refer to their teachers as "Sir" and "Ma'am".   It was further stretched to include all adults.   

Granted Alabama was a bit wierd to begin with and the law really didn't have any teeth (each scholastic institution was allowed to decide what the violation would entail).   But to keep within the letter of the law, how else is one supposed to address two or more male adults?   At least "Sirs" sounds better than "Ma'ams". 

Have the people of Alabama never heard the words "Ladies and Gentlemen"

Yes they have, but only if they are before the words, "Start your engines". 

Hahaha...touche mon ami

[Major Carrales]

Whin kerecting gramer, it wood bee ay gud ida to yous spel check....   

'tain't polite to correct yer Grammer, yer s'posed to respect yer elders!

I'd cy'fer somethin' fearce like dat ifin' I'd git 'way wid it. 

Anyway, I suppose they locked that thread for a reason.  Hence, we descend into this butchering of the English language instead of continue the topic.  Now that's a point of order 

[Monty]

Have the people of Alabama never heard the words "Ladies and Gentlemen"

That's your second warning about crackin' on Alabama, bub!   



-Monty

[Monty]

Whin kerecting gramer, it wood bee ay gud ida to yous spel check....   

'tain't polite to correct yer Grammer, yer s'posed to respect yer elders!

Aw Al, he can't help himself....he's a Yankee.  You know how *they* are.   

(Ease up, folks....some of my best friends are Yanks...just havin' fun.)

[Al Sayre]

Whin kerecting gramer, it wood bee ay gud ida to yous spel check....   

'tain't polite to correct yer Grammer, yer s'posed to respect yer elders!

Aw Al, he can't help himself....he's a Yankee.  You know how *they* are.   

(Ease up, folks....some of my best friends are Yanks...just havin' fun.)

Yankee!  Yankee!  I'll have you know that I was born in Florida.  About as far south of the Mason Dixon line as you can get and still stay in the country. Oh and BTW,  our state capitol was never captured.   

[Psicorp]

Whin kerecting gramer, it wood bee ay gud ida to yous spel check....   

'tain't polite to correct yer Grammer, yer s'posed to respect yer elders!

Aw Al, he can't help himself....he's a Yankee.  You know how *they* are.   

(Ease up, folks....some of my best friends are Yanks...just havin' fun.)

Love your Portal Person, sir.  It needs a caption though, perhaps "Come on over to the Dark Side, boy...it'll be a hoot!"   

[Pylon]

Yankee!  Yankee!  I'll have you know that I was born in Florida.  About as far south of the Mason Dixon line as you can get and still stay in the country. Oh and BTW,  our state capitol was never captured.   

Florida... if we had half a brain, we would give it back to Spain...     :angel:


(I keed, I keed...)

[Major Carrales]

Yankee!  Yankee!  I'll have you know that I was born in Florida.  About as far south of the Mason Dixon line as you can get and still stay in the country. Oh and BTW,  our state capitol was never captured.   

Florida... if we had half a brain, we would give it back to Spain...     :angel:


(I keed, I keed...)

The REPUBLIC of TEXAS...n'uff said!!!

Unless you have one of these...



And been thrown out of, rebelled against (and one particular one twice!!!)  or accepted into all of these (And, again, one particular one twice)...



as I said...  N'uff said...

Just kidding...Every State has its own rich history.

[Monty]

Whin kerecting gramer, it wood bee ay gud ida to yous spel check....   

'tain't polite to correct yer Grammer, yer s'posed to respect yer elders!

Aw Al, he can't help himself....he's a Yankee.  You know how *they* are.   

(Ease up, folks....some of my best friends are Yanks...just havin' fun.)

Yankee!  Yankee!  I'll have you know that I was born in Florida.  About as far south of the Mason Dixon line as you can get and still stay in the country. Oh and BTW,  our state capitol was never captured.   

Can't take you Mississippi types anywhere!  I was talking about Bob.....he's in the "Land of Lincoln," thinks ketchup is spicy....so you gotta just look at him and say, "aw....bless his heart."

Brother, thanks again for making us Alabama types look good!  (Y'all keep us #49 of 50 in the education stats!)  (J/K, you know I luv ya like a bro!)



PS - My birth certificate says "FLORIDA" also.  I was born in that part of FL that Alabama wouldn't buy.....Escambia County.  "Oh, that place won't amount to anything."

Stupid Alabamians...  Oh, wait a minute..........

[flyerthom]

Granted Alabama was a bit wierd to begin with and the law really didn't have any teeth (each scholastic institution was allowed to decide what the violation would entail).   But to keep within the letter of the law, how else is one supposed to address two or more male adults?   

"Hey! youse guys!"

[LTC_Gadget]

I will admit to having used "Sirs" many times.

As far as the 'Yous guys," you sound so coarse..   Don't you know is "y'all"  Y'all is sometimes singular, sometimes plural, and occasionally, like when there's a whole room full of ya, like at National Board general assembly, it's "all y'all." Hey, Alabama, weigh in on this one, wontcha??

[Al Sayre]

Whin kerecting gramer, it wood bee ay gud ida to yous spel check....   

'tain't polite to correct yer Grammer, yer s'posed to respect yer elders!

Aw Al, he can't help himself....he's a Yankee.  You know how *they* are.   

(Ease up, folks....some of my best friends are Yanks...just havin' fun.)

Yankee!  Yankee!  I'll have you know that I was born in Florida.  About as far south of the Mason Dixon line as you can get and still stay in the country. Oh and BTW,  our state capitol was never captured.   

Can't take you Mississippi types anywhere!  I was talking about Bob.....he's in the "Land of Lincoln," thinks ketchup is spicy....so you gotta just look at him and say, "aw....bless his heart."

Brother, thanks again for making us Alabama types look good!  (Y'all keep us #49 of 50 in the education stats!)  (J/K, you know I luv ya like a bro!)



PS - My birth certificate says "FLORIDA" also.  I was born in that part of FL that Alabama wouldn't buy.....Escambia County.  "Oh, that place won't amount to anything."

Stupid Alabamians...  Oh, wait a minute..........

D'oh! My bad, I apologize, I was reading fast between meetings and thought you called me a yankee (Bless all their hearts)! This night shift stuff is starting to get to me, hopefully less than a week to go until we get back to normal.

[Al Sayre]

In the indicative, it is:

me                we (or us'uns),
ya'll               all ya'll
him/her/it     them all (them'uns and those'uns are also acceptable)  ...

[SarDragon]

In the indicative, it is:

me                we (or us'uns),
ya'll               all ya'll
him/her/it     them all (them'uns and those'uns are also acceptable)  ...

Cain't you Dixiecrats get it right? It's y'all, with the apostrophe replacing the missing letters (ou). Even the CT spell checker got it right (surprisingly!).

[Al Sayre]

Are you suprised with our school systems at the bottom of the list?  We're lucky that they let us wear shoes...

[SAR-EMT1]

NASCAR is southern for NICE CAR
Ive always compared adults watching Nascar to a puppy or kitten watching clothes spin in a dryer what has a glass door. 
*ducks*

[PhotogPilot]

Yankee!  Yankee!  I'll have you know that I was born in Florida.  About as far south of the Mason Dixon line as you can get and still stay in the country. Oh and BTW,  our state capitol was never captured.   

Florida... if we had half a brain, we would give it back to Spain...     :angel:


(I keed, I keed...)

What would we do without heaven's waiting room?

[BillB]

Florida ends at I-4. Anything south of I-4 is called North Cuba. So in a sense we have given part of Florida back to Spain.

[davedove]

I will admit to having used "Sirs" many times.

As far as the 'Yous guys," you sound so coarse..   Don't you know is "y'all"  Y'all is sometimes singular, sometimes plural, and occasionally, like when there's a whole room full of ya, like at National Board general assembly, it's "all y'all." Hey, Alabama, weigh in on this one, wontcha??

That's right, Y'all is appropriate.  Yous guys sounds like more of a Jersey thing.

[Monty]

In the indicative, it is:

me                we (or us'uns),
ya'll               all ya'll
him/her/it     them all (them'uns and those'uns are also acceptable)  ...

Cain't you Dixiecrats get it right? It's y'all, with the apostrophe replacing the missing letters (ou). Even the CT spell checker got it right (surprisingly!).

Now I gotta give 'ole boy some credit, on account that Mississippi dialect is slightly different than Alabama's, on East.

I seem to hear them put a slight pause in between "ya" for "you" and of course, the "all" part.....so for a Mississippian, I'd buy "ya'll."  However, on our side of the tracks, we put no pause in there 'tall, so it becomes "y'all" for us.

Hell, both are officially wrong, but colloquially, "ya'all" and "y'all" is a sign of who's from where.

Dang, ain't all *this* a thread drift!   

But Al's dead-consistent on the 'thee' is to 'y'all' as 'thou' is to 'all y'all' bit.....unless one is a native of Appalachia, in which case 'your' is to 'yerrin' as to 'mine'  is to 'myin.'  'All y'all' changes to 'you'uns,' too.

And you thought those of us from God's Country didn't have anything remotely technical about us.....

Never get a linguist started on language matters....   

Sigh.......now back to California where even the guys with education use the word 'like' about every two words in a sentence.

(And yes, there IS a distinctive CA accent....if one knows what to look for.)

[arajca]

Dang, ain't all *this* a thread drift!   

Drift. Drift! This ain't no drift. It's a hard turn to the obscure! 

Sigh.......now back to California where even the guys with education use the word 'like' about every two words in a sentence.

(And yes, there IS a distinctive CA accent....if one knows what to look for.)

Dang left coasters. Can't even mutilate the English language properly.

[Monty]

Dang, ain't all *this* a thread drift!   

Drift. Drift! This ain't no drift. It's a hard turn to the obscure! 

Sigh.......now back to California where even the guys with education use the word 'like' about every two words in a sentence.

(And yes, there IS a distinctive CA accent....if one knows what to look for.)

Dang left coasters. Can't even mutilate the English language properly.

But doesn't it beat all that negative stuff over in *another* thread?  (hint, hint.)

The tone over here in this thread - drift or no drift - is much kinder and gentler....or so I think.   

[LtCol White]

NASCAR is southern for NICE CAR
Ive always compared adults watching Nascar to a puppy or kitten watching clothes spin in a dryer what has a glass door. 
*ducks*

HAHAHAHA.....good one!!!!

[Monty]

NASCAR is southern for NICE CAR
Ive always compared adults watching Nascar to a puppy or kitten watching clothes spin in a dryer what has a glass door. 
*ducks*

Silly Yankees....  Everybody from where I'm from knows that NASCAR ain't about the race......it's about a few of the "sorts" that sit in the stands.

(And because this thread can be read by cadets, I won't clarify any further.)

[LtCol White]

NASCAR is southern for NICE CAR
Ive always compared adults watching Nascar to a puppy or kitten watching clothes spin in a dryer what has a glass door. 
*ducks*

Silly Yankees....  Everybody from where I'm from knows that NASCAR ain't about the race......it's about a few of the "sorts" that sit in the stands.

(And because this thread can be read by cadets, I won't clarify any further.)

Hey, I'm no yankee !!

[Monty]

NASCAR is southern for NICE CAR
Ive always compared adults watching Nascar to a puppy or kitten watching clothes spin in a dryer what has a glass door. 
*ducks*

Silly Yankees....  Everybody from where I'm from knows that NASCAR ain't about the race......it's about a few of the "sorts" that sit in the stands.

(And because this thread can be read by cadets, I won't clarify any further.)

Hey, I'm no yankee !!

Dude, you're the second guy to make that mistake!  I even quoted "SAR-EMT1" (see my post?), not you. 

That's it....MS and now, LA have bumped AL up to #48 of 50 on the education scale!

Y'all are makin' my day!    LOL  (The further West we go, the worse its getting.)

Alright TX, you're up!   

-Monty

[LtCol White]

NASCAR is southern for NICE CAR
Ive always compared adults watching Nascar to a puppy or kitten watching clothes spin in a dryer what has a glass door. 
*ducks*

Silly Yankees....  Everybody from where I'm from knows that NASCAR ain't about the race......it's about a few of the "sorts" that sit in the stands.

(And because this thread can be read by cadets, I won't clarify any further.)

Hey, I'm no yankee !!

Dude, you're the second guy to make that mistake!  I even quoted "SAR-EMT1" (see my post?), not you. 

That's it....MS and now, LA have bumped AL up to #48 of 50 on the education scale!

Y'all are makin' my day!    LOL  (The further West we go, the worse its getting.)

Alright TX, you're up!   

-Monty

Know why all the trees in MS lean to the east??? ..........Alabama sux

[Monty]

Know why all the trees in MS lean to the east??? ..........Alabama sux

Lean to the East?  "Hey, I'm no Yankee!"

[RogueLeader]

I resent your implication of getting worse in the west. You're just mad cuz eye have know regenal akkscent.
hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

[Psicorp]

I will admit to having used "Sirs" many times.

As far as the 'Yous guys," you sound so coarse..   Don't you know is "y'all"  Y'all is sometimes singular, sometimes plural, and occasionally, like when there's a whole room full of ya, like at National Board general assembly, it's "all y'all." Hey, Alabama, weigh in on this one, wontcha??

Lessons in Southern Grammar:

"Y'all" is singular
"All Y'all" is plural

"Y'all's" is singular possessive
"All Y'all's" is plural possessive

I heard a joke in a bar one night while in Augusta, GA:  "There's only one good thing about Alabama...it makes a nice big boundry between Mississippi and Georgia."

[ZigZag911]

That's right, Y'all is appropriate.  Yous guys sounds like more of a Jersey thing.

Wha'cha tawkin' aboud?  Youse (please note silent 'e') gott uh prblum wid us herein Joisey?

Ah, fuggedaboudid, I'm gonna have a cupuv cawfee now!

[LTC_Gadget]

NASCAR is southern for NICE CAR
Ive always compared adults watching Nascar to a puppy or kitten watching clothes spin in a dryer what has a glass door. 
*ducks*

Additional thread drift flag "ON" -
Which brings me to question, why  does anyone listen to a full NASCAR race on the radio??
'Splain that one, if you care to, but we probably ought to move that to a separate thread, too..

-Thread drift flag "OFF" <ducking for opposite side of same foxhole as SAR-EMT1>

V/R,

[arajca]

Dude, it's the engines.

[Monty]

Additional thread drift flag "ON" -
Which brings me to question, why  does anyone listen to a full NASCAR race on the radio??
'Splain that one, if you care to, but we probably ought to move that to a separate thread, too..

-Thread drift flag "OFF" <ducking for opposite side of same foxhole as SAR-EMT1>

V/R,

Because it's a far better than the unmentionable alternative y'all do in Oklahoma! 

(Of course this is all in fun.....beautiful country to be seen in OK....)

[arajca]

Additional thread drift flag "ON" -
Which brings me to question, why  does anyone listen to a full NASCAR race on the radio??
'Splain that one, if you care to, but we probably ought to move that to a separate thread, too..

-Thread drift flag "OFF" <ducking for opposite side of same foxhole as SAR-EMT1>

V/R,

Because it's a far better than the unmentionable alternative y'all do in Oklahoma! 

(Of course this is all in fun.....beautiful country to be seen in OK....)

But it's all flat!

Of course, compared to where I live, everywhere is flat

[LTC_Gadget]

OK, try as I might, I can't figure out what the unmentionable is, so it's evidently not on my 'list of things to do before I die.' 

E-mail/PM me with the rest of the story at your convenience, please.

V/R,

[LtCol White]

Additional thread drift flag "ON" -
Which brings me to question, why  does anyone listen to a full NASCAR race on the radio??
'Splain that one, if you care to, but we probably ought to move that to a separate thread, too..

-Thread drift flag "OFF" <ducking for opposite side of same foxhole as SAR-EMT1>

V/R,

Because it's a far better than the unmentionable alternative y'all do in Oklahoma! 

(Of course this is all in fun.....beautiful country to be seen in OK....)

But in Alabama, at weddings, everyone sits on the same side of the church.....

[Monty]

But in Alabama, at weddings, everyone sits on the same side of the church.....

Yeah...so?

[LtCol White]

Well I guess it makes the reception cheaper. HAHA :angel:

[FARRIER]

"But in Alabama, at weddings, everyone sits on the same side of the church....."

That works for southern Iowa too...

[LtCol White]

"But in Alabama, at weddings, everyone sits on the same side of the church....."

That works for southern Iowa too...

"this is my mom...i mean aunt..no wait...both"

[Monty]

"But in Alabama, at weddings, everyone sits on the same side of the church....."

That works for southern Iowa too...

"this is my mom...i mean aunt..no wait...both"

Makes one think of the Ray Stevens song, doesn't it? 

http://www.ziplo.com/grandpa.htm

[Pumbaa]

"But in Alabama, at weddings, everyone sits on the same side of the church....."

Cause everyone is related to the Bride and her father.. ooops I mean husband...

[flyerthom]

I will admit to having used "Sirs" many times.

As far as the 'Yous guys," you sound so coarse..   Don't you know is "y'all"  Y'all is sometimes singular, sometimes plural, and occasionally, like when there's a whole room full of ya, like at National Board general assembly, it's "all y'all." Hey, Alabama, weigh in on this one, wontcha??

That's right, Y'all is appropriate.  Yous guys sounds like more of a Jersey thing.

My spelling error it should be "youze guys"

from http://www.coalregion.com - " youze, yuz, yooz, AND yiz :   plural of you; equivalent to "y'all" in the Southern U.S. The Pittsburgh form of this term is "you-ins" or "yunz"; y'all or yunz are never used in the Coal Region.   "Hey, whad'r youze doin' over dere??" "Do yooz wanna go for some kortz?" "How're yiz doin, yo?" "What're youz guys up to?"


Jersey? I'm hurt...

[LtCol White]

"But in Alabama, at weddings, everyone sits on the same side of the church....."

That works for southern Iowa too...

"this is my mom...i mean aunt..no wait...both"

Makes one think of the Ray Stevens song, doesn't it? 

http://www.ziplo.com/grandpa.htm

Is anyone else hearing banjo music???

[SAR-EMT1]

Least its not as bad as the Northeast.. I hear they marry their pets during blizzards.

[ZigZag911]

Least its not as bad as the Northeast.. I hear they marry their pets during blizzards.

Nah, we just live together!