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Ric wrote:Why, in the title of this thread, does the plural of cliche have an "apostrophe s," while quotes is spelled correctly (no apostrophe)? (Just one of my pet peeves.) When did this insidious spelling become rampant? I see it all over the place these days--particularly since the past five years or so. Is this what they are teaching in school these days? I doubt it. Or are today's teachers just as lazy and guilty and not correcting their students because the teachers too don't know any better? Folks!!! The plural of things is not spelled with an apostrophe s! Stop it, please!!!

I saw it & feel it, mate. Just burned out on corrections (for now), frankly. It's so pervasive on here.

I still occasionally get chills listening to some of the things Teddy Atlas said to Michael Moorer during his first fight with Evander Holyfield. That was inspiration non-pareil.

"Listen to me, there comes a time in a man's life, when he makes a decision, to just live, survive, or he wants to win. You're doing just enough to keep him off you, & hope he leaves you alone."

"You're satisfied to do enough just to keep him off you, but you can't do that right now. In this world, we can't do that all the time."

"You're lying to yourself, because you're going to cry tomorrow. You're lying to yourself, & I'd lie to you before I let you get away with that!!!"

Ric wrote:Why, in the title of this thread, does the plural of cliche have an "apostrophe s," while quotes is spelled correctly (no apostrophe)? (Just one of my pet peeves.) When did this insidious spelling become rampant? I see it all over the place these days--particularly since the past five years or so. Is this what they are teaching in school these days? I doubt it. Or are today's teachers just as lazy and guilty and not correcting their students because the teachers too don't know any better? Folks!!! The plural of things is not spelled with an apostrophe s! Stop it, please!!!

Stop being so bloody childish man. Jesus, I wrote Cliche's with a ' because I thought people would be clever enough to work out that I was using Cliche' instead of Cliché. Silly me thinking this was a boxing forum, not a spelling one. You really have got too much spare time. Go out and get yourself a shag mate and none of this sh1t will matter.

keithmoonhangover wrote:

Ric wrote:Why, in the title of this thread, does the plural of cliche have an "apostrophe s," while quotes is spelled correctly (no apostrophe)? (Just one of my pet peeves.) When did this insidious spelling become rampant? I see it all over the place these days--particularly since the past five years or so. Is this what they are teaching in school these days? I doubt it. Or are today's teachers just as lazy and guilty and not correcting their students because the teachers too don't know any better? Folks!!! The plural of things is not spelled with an apostrophe s! Stop it, please!!!

Stop being so bloody childish man. Jesus, I wrote Cliche's with a ' because I thought people would be clever enough to work out that I was using Cliche' instead of Cliché. Silly me thinking this was a boxing forum, not a spelling one. You really have got too much spare time. Go out and get yourself a shag mate and none of this sh1t will matter.

I wasn't pointing a finger at you in particular, so please relax. I was just highlighting an example that is rampant. I am doing my little part in this world of trying to stem the flow of this, instead of sitting back. Move on if you don't care.

Ric wrote:

keithmoonhangover wrote:

Ric wrote:Why, in the title of this thread, does the plural of cliche have an "apostrophe s," while quotes is spelled correctly (no apostrophe)? (Just one of my pet peeves.) When did this insidious spelling become rampant? I see it all over the place these days--particularly since the past five years or so. Is this what they are teaching in school these days? I doubt it. Or are today's teachers just as lazy and guilty and not correcting their students because the teachers too don't know any better? Folks!!! The plural of things is not spelled with an apostrophe s! Stop it, please!!!

Stop being so bloody childish man. Jesus, I wrote Cliche's with a ' because I thought people would be clever enough to work out that I was using Cliche' instead of Cliché. Silly me thinking this was a boxing forum, not a spelling one. You really have got too much spare time. Go out and get yourself a shag mate and none of this sh1t will matter.

I wasn't pointing a finger at you in particular, so please relax. I was just highlighting an example that is rampant. I am doing my little part in this world of trying to stem the flow of this, instead of sitting back. Move on if you don't care.

I wrote Cliche' instead of Cliché, can you not see that?

Yes. I do. It is clear from your first post that you do write plurals correctly (promoters, managers, etc.) Again, I was not pointing at you specifically, and I am sorry if you took it that way and if it appears that way. I was making a general point. Sorry.

Ric wrote:Yes. I do. It is clear from your first post that you do write plurals correctly (promoters, managers, etc.) Again, I was not pointing at you specifically, and I am sorry if you took it that way and if it appears that way. I was making a general point. Sorry.

Someone who apologises online.



I salute you sir. If you're ever in Darlo, I will buy you a pint.

keithmoonhangover wrote:

Ric wrote:Yes. I do. It is clear from your first post that you do write plurals correctly (promoters, managers, etc.) Again, I was not pointing at you specifically, and I am sorry if you took it that way and if it appears that way. I was making a general point. Sorry.

Someone who apologises online.



I salute you sir. If you're ever in Darlo, I will buy you a pint.

Now he's gonna call you on misspelling Apologizes.

gilgamesh wrote:

keithmoonhangover wrote:

Ric wrote:Yes. I do. It is clear from your first post that you do write plurals correctly (promoters, managers, etc.) Again, I was not pointing at you specifically, and I am sorry if you took it that way and if it appears that way. I was making a general point. Sorry.

Someone who apologises online.



I salute you sir. If you're ever in Darlo, I will buy you a pint.

Now he's gonna call you on misspelling Apologizes.

It can be spelled both ways.

apologize verb (UK usually apologise) /əˈpɒl.ə.dʒaɪz//-ˈpɑː.lə-/ v to tell someone that you are sorry for having done something that has caused them problems or unhappiness
I must apologize to Isobel for my lateness.
Trains may be subject to delay on the northern line - we apologize for any inconvenience caused.
She apologized profusely for having to leave at 3.30 p.m.

"You got any excuses tonight Roy?" - Antonio Tarver

"Live or die!" - Written by Duk Koo Kim in caligraphy on the lampshade in his hotel room before he fought Ray Mancini

gilgamesh wrote:

keithmoonhangover wrote:

Ric wrote:Yes. I do. It is clear from your first post that you do write plurals correctly (promoters, managers, etc.) Again, I was not pointing at you specifically, and I am sorry if you took it that way and if it appears that way. I was making a general point. Sorry.

Someone who apologises online.



I salute you sir. If you're ever in Darlo, I will buy you a pint.

Now he's gonna call you on misspelling Apologizes.

How ignorant --- & ironic.

'His legs are gone' - Jim Watt
'He's hit him with his best shots and nothing has happened' - An excitable Reg Gutteidge during the Leonard v Hagler fight, Rnd 9 to be precise.
'Get in there, Frank' - 'Arry Carpenter in that 1st Rnd Tyson v Bruno I

Personally, Harry Carpenter, Reg Gutteridge and Jim Rosenthal were, for me, the best ever commentators. They called it spot on and saw stuff others missed.

keithmoonhangover wrote:

Ric wrote:Yes. I do. It is clear from your first post that you do write plurals correctly (promoters, managers, etc.) Again, I was not pointing at you specifically, and I am sorry if you took it that way and if it appears that way. I was making a general point. Sorry.

Someone who apologises online.



I salute you sir. If you're ever in Darlo, I will buy you a pint.

Thank you, Moonie. I am a Ringo fan myself.

1 - "Only when I started to get a few hairs on my cock around 15 and began to hit a bit harder did things start to happen for me." (Michael Hunter - Boxing Monthly, 2005)

"He thinks defense goes around da house" (go on, have a field day on the spelling G,I, you small pedant)

dberry wrote:"He thinks defense goes around da house" (go on, have a field day on the spelling G,I, you small pedant)

The spelling is sh!t, but that's okay, because so are you

- "We wuz robbed"

Any fighter or associate of a fighter who lost be decision. Hopefully someone here will know the first person to ever utter said phrase.

A great one, not yet mentioned (this one's for you, Yance )...

"This is the day man, you understand? You not fightin' Quarry, you not fightin' Oscar Bonavena, you not fightin' Sonny Liston --- you fightin' Joe Frazier!" - Joe Frazier, in response to some Muhammad Ali trash-talking in the lead-up the their first meeting.

Goodnight, Irene wrote:A great one, not yet mentioned (this one's for you, Yance )...

"This is the day man, you understand? You not fightin' Quarry, you not fightin' Oscar Bonavena, you not fightin' Sonny Liston --- you fightin' Joe Frazier!" - Joe Frazier, in response to some Muhammad Ali trash-talking in the lead-up the their first meeting.

Hardly a cliche' now is it, it was said by one boxer, once, and has his name embedded in it to make it unusable by anyone else, therefore eliminating it from being eligible as a cliche'.
And you have the gall to say I'm shit? Any time, any place midget man.

dberry wrote:

Goodnight, Irene wrote:A great one, not yet mentioned (this one's for you, Yance )...

"This is the day man, you understand? You not fightin' Quarry, you not fightin' Oscar Bonavena, you not fightin' Sonny Liston --- you fightin' Joe Frazier!" - Joe Frazier, in response to some Muhammad Ali trash-talking in the lead-up the their first meeting.

Hardly a cliche' now is it, it was said by one boxer, once, and has his name embedded in it to make it unusable by anyone else, therefore eliminating it from being eligible as a cliche'.
And you have the gall to say I'm shit? Any time, any place midget man.

You absolute, utter fvcking imbecile. Do you ever tire of proving everything I've ever said of you?

The topic is, "100 Boxing Cliches AND QUOTES."

Anytime, anywhere...I'm going to waste time meeting someone who can't even comprehend his sentences? You are a flea

Goodnight, Irene wrote:

dberry wrote:

Goodnight, Irene wrote:A great one, not yet mentioned (this one's for you, Yance )...

"This is the day man, you understand? You not fightin' Quarry, you not fightin' Oscar Bonavena, you not fightin' Sonny Liston --- you fightin' Joe Frazier!" - Joe Frazier, in response to some Muhammad Ali trash-talking in the lead-up the their first meeting.

Hardly a cliche' now is it, it was said by one boxer, once, and has his name embedded in it to make it unusable by anyone else, therefore eliminating it from being eligible as a cliche'.
And you have the gall to say I'm shit? Any time, any place midget man.

You absolute, utter fvcking imbecile. Do you ever tire of proving everything I've ever said of you?

The topic is, "100 Boxing Cliches AND QUOTES."

Anytime, anywhere...I'm going to waste time meeting someone who can't even comprehend his sentences? You are a flea

Irene, you are a complete tit. You act like a little kid, who's not man enough to admit when you're wrong. The forum would be better off without you.

...& here's another know-nothing ignoring what an ass Dberry has made of himself (again) to join his crowd.

Hardly surprising, from a fella who shows about as much ability to interpret Boxing as my 6-year-old nephew.

The words 'Gutless' and 'Turd' come to mind big man.

Why don't you meet me (I've offered to come to you.) and say this to me personally? If you're not willing to say it to me personally then perhaps you should keep from typing your shit.

Way to deflect from the stupidity which was your last post. You are a clown, & every post reveals you as such. It would be funny if you didn't take it so deadly serious.

That's why I think you're such a moron, you idiot. You take what goes on on a FRIGGIN' INTERNET MESSAGEBOARD so seriously, so gravely, you want to chase someone down. Why? Because you've been out-witted? You think you'd win a confrontation, anyway? LOL. Four years working the doors taught me precisely how to deal with the likes of you, sh!thead.

It's to your great benefit that the extent of our confrontations is me capitalising on your stupidity to merely make you feel like an idiot, as opposed to looking like one, face-to-face. Keep grumbling, dispsh!t --- you & Collie, with scarcely a braincell between you --- are my entertainment.

In the interim, try not to take it all so seriously. I know I'm laughing