True or False Game

false, I'm more frightened of spiders than ghosts

You will not watch the movie "Snakes on a Plane".

True


You have seen Gone with the Wind more than once

true, I love a sappy romance

You are laughing at my taste in movies.

true, esp since that didn't end happily!


You have read or seen Oliver Twist

true

You prefer to read a book before seeing it as a movie.

False, usually then I don't like the movie.

You generally prefer summer to winter.

Very true.

You prefer a cosmopolitan street cafe to an out-of-the-way smart restaurant.

True


Food is more important than wine

True

You think food is more important than sex.

True, although I do like a nice pear


You can still do everything you were doing a quarter of a centaury ago

False, I was a baby then, I can no longer get away with crying 24/7 and being carried everywhere!
You go mental over a misused apostrophe.

False.!!! Punctuation!!! Who needs it??? Do we really care that the italic typeface was invented by a geezer called Aldus Manutius the Elder (1449-1515)? Is it of interest to anyone that he was also the man who printed the first semicolon? And is the semicolon really 'a compliment from the writer to the reader'? Do you really have to count to two in between two related but independent clauses before you use it? When is it correct to use an_ er_ ellipsis? Will not an ordinary dash - like this one - do just as well?



You have read. Eats, Shoots and Leaves , a title which comes from a joke in which a panda goes into a bar, asks for a ham sandwich, eats it and then takes out a revolver and fires it into the air. When the publican asks him what on earth he is doing, he throws a book on to the bar and growls: 'This is a badly punctuated wildlife manual. Look me up.' The barman flicks through the book and, under the relevant entry, reads: 'PANDA. Large, black-and-white, bear-like mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.'

Yes I have, and what a very good book it was. I suppose if punctuation doesnt matter i should just write this whole thing without stopping its not like anybody needs to breathe so why punctuate the sentence i wont even make it clear that was a question and hope you raised your voice anyway as you may have guessed I am a bit of a punctuation freak and it took a lot of effort not to put in the correct apostrophes there woops went and typed a comma ok Im going to stop now sorry about that everyone.

Have you gone to see a performance of Handel's Messiah or the Nutcracker ballet at christmas?

(The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation)


As this is a True/False thread, I will take the path of enlightenment and assume you are making a statement and not asking a question. :wink:


Why wait until Christmas, whatever city I am in, I always make the effort to see one performance. The Kirov Ballet, St. Petersburg being a particular favorite.



You prefer the classics to pulp fiction

Catholic tastes


You hate political correctness.

true

You are a very serious person.

True


Due to terrorist threats you would think twice before flying

false, I would only plan to leave for the airport earlier.

You believe terrorist attacks will become more prevalent and more difficult to stop soon.

True


The price of gas will only go higher

true

You will rebel against gas prices and begin riding your bike to work.