The Acronym Game

And A2Kers know Oslo is in Norway so your last word is unnecessary.

"Nightclub"would have been better.

OSLO

Olive said,"LEAVE off!"

Excel- to surpass esp. in good qualities. To be better than.

Thank you, Spendi. I'm familiar with the definition of "excel," which you can quote from now until Shavuos and the word still won't be a transitive verb.

Anyway FF I didn't say it. It was Susan

How unchivalrous!

and she can take a direct object anytime she wants. She was teasing at the time and Joe wanted action and she was enjoying the teasing. She had no interest in "effecting" action. The teasing was all Joe was going to get.

When a sentence is well-constructed and grammatically correct, no explanation is necessary. But now at least I know why some of your acros are fabulous and some are terrible. It's because you write the good ones, and Susan writes the bad ones!! Yeah?

The first rule of grammar is that it expresses the intended meaning efficiently.

I was, of course, referring to Auntie Mame in a 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis that chronicles his madcap adventures growing up as the ward of his deceased father's eccentric sister.