At the risk of injecting logic and facts into this thread insurance premiums should only go up if red cars disproportionately get into more accidents. Who’s insurance pays for speeding tickets?
Eddie Haskell ended up in pr0n.
“A” or “an” before a noun is based on whether the first letter of the word is a consonant or vowel.
You can imagine that there might be a causal relationship between accidents and people driving at excessive speed.
He didn’t but the real story is even more interesting. Ken Osmond became an Los Angeles Police Officer in real life. His career wasn’t very notable except when he busted down a door at reports of screams just in time to save Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady) who was a porn star and had just gotten tricked into taking part in a real-life snuff film. Bill Clinton hosted him at the White House many years for his heroic action.
I don’t think this should count as false as generally it’s true. There are a couple of exceptions, but the rule is pretty consistent for the most part.
Chip Davis conducted the musical group at my sister’s wedding last weekend in Omaha. It was truly amazing. He did a really nice job and we were sad there wasn’t more of it and less pontificating by the priest who told us that life is hard and sucks a lot.
The stunt double for Aunt Bee on the Andy Griffith’s Show was actually my Aunt Gladys.
So, the episode where Aunt Bee scaled the chain link fence, that was my Aunt Gladys. Or the time Aunt Bee was fixing the shingles and fell off the roof…
Nope, the actual rule is that “a/an” is decided by the initial sound, not the initial letter, and there are no exceptions. But, maybe 9 out of 10 English grammar books I have seen will state the wrong rule.
Right, but the initial sound more often than not matches the initial letter. So it’s a good guideline to use.
Well, now you’ve gone too far. From Merriam-Webster:
But, maybe 9 out of 10 English grammar books I have seen will state the wrong rule.
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That’s hard to believe, considering the majority of online sources seem to have it right. Perhaps there is some confusion of the use of the words vowel and consonant (which most dictionaries define as referring to sounds, but readers may take as meaning letters).
He didn’t, but Flick from A Christmas Story did, although I’m sure that’s fairly well-known by now. Eddie Haskell take three slugs to the chest while working as a cop, though. That’s still a helluva story.
Alcoholism is a disease.
Abortion doesn’t kill human beings.
People are born homosexual.
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
African Americans all have big penises.
Chinese people are short and smart.
That dress doesn’t look fat on you.
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Bob Denver died when a radio fell into the tub where he was taking a bath. (Circa 1973)
Bob Denver also died while fighting in Vietnam. (Circa 1971)
My favorite is this
It has been picked up by a college thesis… a board game… and a TV Urban Legends show (all stating it as true)
I can tell you it with good authority that it was made up in an hour or two by a guy in the midwest responding to a challenge by David (Snopes) to come up with something similar to the Ring Around the Rosey myth.
I’m still glad my boss doesn’t know how I really spent that hour or two.
Eating before swimming gives you cramps.
Ed Mc Bain was a real life L.E.O. in New York before he became an author.
You should drink eight glasses of water everyday.
Fresh produce/Organic always has more nutritional value/ tastes better then canned food.
The treatment for frostbite is to rub the affected limb with snow.
When a person is shot the force of the round throws them backwards.
Dogs can smell fear so it makes them aggressive.
The glass in old windows is thicker at the bottom because glass is a liquid.
The slang for a dollar (“buck,”) can ultimately traced back to the New Testament:
Daily Bread --> “Bread” as slang for “cash,” --> “Dough” as further modification --> “Buck” as play on “Doe.” Obviously!