I don’t have anything negative to say about Phlip, seeing as how he left and all, and my momma told me never to talk behind somebody’s back. But a little hijack: Sure, everything I quoted is out of context, but, I mean, is anybody else, you know, a little bit turned on by Phlip’s posts? It seems kind of counter-intuitive, but I mean, look at what he’s saying! I haven’t seen so much gay erotica since I started a “Haven’t… since…” sentence I couldn’t think up a clever ending to!
I kind of hate to join in a pile-on, especially after the troll has already said uncle, but is it okay if I call Phlip a “gaywad?”
Only if you smile when you say that.
Look, everyone, it’s really simple:
“It’s” gets the apostrophe because apostrophes signify that a letter has been left out (in this case, the “i” from “is”).
The possessive form then gets to be “its” with no apostrophe by default. Them’s the breaks.
You didn’t do anything banworthy - you just made an ass of yourself. If you prefer not to post anymore, then that’s your prerogative, of course.
A word of advice, Phlip. This may actually have been a legitimate rant. All you wanted to get across was that you think Esprix focuses on gay threads too much, right? You could have worded that a hell of a lot better than you did, though. Sure, you’ll always have people who disagree with you - but you wouldn’t have had your ass handed to you had you chosen the words in your OP more carefully.
It’s simple. You may not find the use of the word “gay” indicating “lame” offensive. Hell, maybe your gay brother doesn’t even mind, what do I know. But if the majority of the responses here are suggesting it IS offensive, doesn’t that make you think at least a bit?
A simple acknowledgement of that would have been sufficient. Something along the lines of, “Yeah, I see what you guys mean - I probably shouldn’t use the word gay like that. But I still think Esprix is a One Trick Pony!”. It would have saved you a lot of grief.
<ahem> Pardon me for picking this nit, but…
Despite common usage, “gay” still retains its other meanings of “lighthearted and carefree; mirthful”, “characterized by cheerfulness or pleasure”, and “brightly coloured; showy, brilliant” (as per my Concise Oxford Dictionary). Just because it’s virtually impossible to use it in any of those contexts without getting sniggered at don’t mean it don’t mean that no more.
So you could legitimately say someone is wearing a “gay shirt”, meaning a brightly-colored one rather than either a “homosexual shirt” or a “stupid shirt”. But you might still get punched.
I still think the best username I’ve ever seen anywhere is I’m Leaving This Board Forever at SurvivorSucks.
KKBattousai
Can’t cover that as I didn’t notice until just now and it’s only an hour or two before the seven hours is up.
But if you want 24 hours, I can give you 3:1 odds.
Fenris
Although according to that “The Word Detective” link I posted, it’s the reverse. Used to be that “it’s” was possessive and the correct contraction of “it is” was " 'tis ", but that all changed around the 1900s.
Which is a cool example of language evolution in action, if you think about it.
Fenris
He’ll correct me if I’m wrong (with a baseball bat if necessary), but I’m fairly certain that it’s e-spree (not ess-prix)
Fenris (Fehn-rhis)
Reprise has found the perfect way to end this thread:
We go out singing…SHOW TUNES!
The amazing Reprise Rogers and Hammerstein (or Hart) Thread Finale!
With my eyelashes all in curls (?! Women curl their eyelashes??? Aah. The mysteries of the female gender!)
I float as the clouds on air do
I enjoy being a…
…girl back home
I’d almost forgot
That blue-eyed kid
I liked her a lot
We got engaged
Both families were glad
And I was told by my uncle and dad
That if I were clever and able
They’d make me a part of a partnership
Cable, Cable…and Cable
How far away?
Philidelphia, PA
Princeton, NJ
How far are…
…they called me a cockeyed optimist
Immature and incurably green.
I have heard people rant and rave and bellow
That we’re done and we…
…might as well be Spring.
I haven’t seen a crocus or a rosebud, or a robin on the wing
But I feel so gay in a melancholy way, that it might as well be spring
It might as well be
…Spring is here
Why doesn’t the breeze delight me?
Stars appear
Why doesn’t the night invite me?
Maybe it’s because nobody…
…love your lover let
Blue skies be your coverlet
When it rains we’ll laugh at the weather
And if you’re good
I’ll search for wood
So you can cook
While I stand looking
Beans could get no keener reception
In a beanery
Bless our mountain greenery home!
Fenris
I’m not cruel enough to throw you a line from The Mikado Fenris (if only because you can out G&S any living being I know), so I will now put out there the challenge of you finishing what I started :-
When I get a brand new hair-do
And don’t think you can out-showtune me, I still have heaps of obscure showtunes left. I know ALL of the verses to “You can’t get a man with a gun”. And I know the entire score for “Call me Madam” and “Mame”. 
Oh yeah?
I after years of searching, I’ve just gotten my hands on the albums of “Aaron Slick of Pun’kin Crick” (really, REALLY bad, btw), “His Monkey Wife” (surprisngly good), and “Divorce Me Darling!” (charming) I am the KING of obscure musicals.
And I can’t finish the whole thing, since the Mods’ll slap us around if we start posting more than a “fair use” amount of a song (I usually assume one verse and the chorus is the absoute maximum) and we’ve already done a chunk of “I Enjoy Being a Girl”.
But you say you know musicals?
Fine.
Here’s one back atcha (and it’s an easy one to start with)
…A ceremony by a bishop
Who will tie the knot and say
“Do you agree to love and honor?”
Love and honor, yes, but not obey!
Fenris (and let’s all remember “fair use” and not make the Mods bitch-slap us people!)
I’m gonna wash that man right outta my hair,
I’m gonna wash that man right outta my hair,
I’m gonna wash that man right outta my hair
And send him on his way…
I apologise for the diversion, but it somehow seemed appropriate in respect of the OP.
Name that tune Fenris, and I won’t even give you an opening line because that would make it too easy :
yes I know that it’s hard…
Oddly, the only reason I even know the “punkin’ crick” song is because when I was I kid they used to show “Disneyland” every Sunday night at 6:30. Then it became “The Wonderful World of Disney”.
I still choose to live in “the happiest kingdom of them all”. 
Some day my prince will come…
I’m SOOO gonna go and make my sig “tall tails and true from alegendary past…”
I’m gonna wash that man right outta my hair,
I’m gonna wash that man right outta my hair,
I’m gonna wash that man right outta my hair
And send him on his way…
I apologise for the diversion, but it somehow seemed appropriate in respect of the OP.
Name that tune Fenris, and I won’t even give you an opening line because that would make it too easy :
yes I know that it’s hard…
Oddly, the only reason I even know the “punkin’ crick” song is because when I was I kid they used to show “Disneyland” every Sunday night at 6:30. Then it became “The Wonderful World of Disney”.
I still choose to live in “the happiest kingdom of them all”.
Some day my prince will come…
I’m SOOO gonna go and make my sig “tall tails and true from alegendary past…”
But wouldn’t you rather live…
“…in a land where the river runs free,
In a land through a green country,
In a land to a shining sea,
And you and me are free to be
You and meeee…”
You will pay for that, you :wally:
Reprise, I’m willing to talk show-tunes, but now that I got that stupid song stuck in my head again, “Name that Tune” is right out for the time being.
And JR8. You’ll pay.
OOOHhhhhh, how you’ll pay.
Fenris
Since when does a person have to be bitter about something to make an observation about it?
Sorry if anyone else said this. I have only just begun to read this thread.
I think an appropriate showtune with which to end this thread would be a snippet from “La Vie Bohème” from RENT (Jonathan Larson):
*To faggots, lezzies, dykes, cross-dressers too
To me! To me! To me! To you and you and you, you, and you
To people living with living with living with
Not dying from disease
Let he among us without sin be the first to condemn
La Vie Bohème, La Vie Bohème
Is anyone out of the mainstream? Is anyone in the mainstream?
Is anyone alive with a sex drive
Tear down the wall
Aren’t we all
The opposite of war isn’t peace – it’s creation
La Vie Bohème…
Viva La Vie Bohème!*
- s.e.
Hee hee hee!