Grammar Boy strikes again

[Garibaldi]

Because I am a grammar Nazi, and I am sick of seeing bad grammar and ill-used tenses, I want people to choose between "then" and "than" to fill the blank in the following sentence:

"I would rather be hugged ________ eaten."

Go. Your response is indicative of not only your mental state, but your ability to perceive a spatial relationship between two events.

[Capt Thompson]

I would rather be hugged than eaten. Then implies I want to be eaten after being hugged.

[Eclipse]

"I would rather be hugged, not eaten."

[Capt Thompson]

+1 lol

[PHall]

I would rather be hugged then eaten.     

[Nuke52]

I would rather be hugged then eaten.     

[Austin Powers Voice]
Oh, behave!
[/Austin Powers Voice]

You are a crew_dog_, aren't you!?!

[MacGruff]

I go with "than"

[a2capt]

"I like cooking my family and my pets"

.. some ingredient is missing ..

D'oh!

Use comma's, don't make people think your a psycho.

[arajca]

"I like cooking my family and my pets"

.. some ingredient is missing ..

D'oh!

Use comma's, don't make people think your a psycho.

They may be right. 

[SarDragon]

"I like cooking my family and my pets"

.. some ingredient is missing ..

D'oh!

Use comma's, don't make people think your a psycho.

And ditch the extra apostrophe in comma's. Nothing here belongs to the comma. 

[Cliff_Chambliss]

Because I am a grammar Nazi, and I am sick of seeing bad grammar and ill-used tenses, I want people to choose between "then" and "than" to fill the blank in the following sentence:

"I would rather be hugged ________ eaten."

Go. Your response is indicative of not only your mental state, but your ability to perceive a spatial relationship between two events.

OK, someone loan me a ladder so I can get my mind out of the gutter.

[a2capt]

And ditch the extra apostrophe in comma's. Nothing here belongs to the comma. 

No, but ..
                                 

[Luis R. Ramos]

OK, someone loan lend [FTFY] me a ladder so I can get my mind out of the gutter.

[AirDX]

"I like cooking my family and my pets"

.. some ingredient is missing ..

D'oh!

Use comma's, don't make people think your a psycho.

Definitions: your; you're.  And for extra credit, yor.  Go.

[Luis R. Ramos]

Where do you leave yer?

[go4spaatz]

While we are on oft-confused words, I'll add:

their, there, they're
to, too, two
of, have (this one is so weird, I see people 'of you seen that?', and it drives me nuts)

and a spelling-nazi entry: definitely, definately

[N Harmon]

[Private Investigator]

"I would rather be hugged ________ eaten."

Mashed potatoes and gravy does not fit on that line.   

[LSThiker]

Wildly inappropriate comment not for a family-friendly board.

[a2capt]

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Bzzt! Wrong Answer ;-)
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