Comments on: Badged Apples http://blog.cyberquill.com/badged-apples/ Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cyberquill http://blog.cyberquill.com/badged-apples/comment-page-1/#comment-1224 Cyberquill Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:24:59 +0000 http://blog.cyberquill.com/?p=934#comment-1224 Congratulations are in perfect order, at least to the best of my knowledge. Thank you. I've heard the Churchill story before, but other people who work their way through all my blog posts---presumably because their TVs are on the blink, all their books were stolen, and they've already watched every YouTube clip and read every website in existence except my blog---may not have, so thanks for relating it. There's also G.B. Shaw's famous letter to a magazine or something in which he urged the firing of an editor who had complained about Shaw's repeated use of split infinitives. Wrote Shaw: "I don't care if he is made to go quickly, or quickly to go, or to quickly go--but go he must!" Congratulations are in perfect order, at least to the best of my knowledge. Thank you.

I’ve heard the Churchill story before, but other people who work their way through all my blog posts—presumably because their TVs are on the blink, all their books were stolen, and they’ve already watched every YouTube clip and read every website in existence except my blog—may not have, so thanks for relating it.

There’s also G.B. Shaw’s famous letter to a magazine or something in which he urged the firing of an editor who had complained about Shaw’s repeated use of split infinitives. Wrote Shaw: “I don’t care if he is made to go quickly, or quickly to go, or to quickly go–but go he must!”

]]> By: jenny http://blog.cyberquill.com/badged-apples/comment-page-1/#comment-1223 jenny Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:51:46 +0000 http://blog.cyberquill.com/?p=934#comment-1223 There is a terrific story (hope I'm the first to relate it!) about Churchill that works as a companion piece to the Thurber remark about split infinitives: One of Churchill's aides returns a draft of a written speech to him with the rebuke in the margins that it is improper to end a sentence with a preposition. Churchill circles the note and writes next to it: "This is the sort of nonsense up with I will not put!" I am working my way through all of your blog entries (not in any organized fashion, of course) down to the parsley sprig. Pretty sure, though, that at the end, I'm gonna have to say, "I didn't like it." Oh! And also, are congratulations in order today on not being a father? There is a terrific story (hope I’m the first to relate it!) about Churchill that works as a companion piece to the Thurber remark about split infinitives:

One of Churchill’s aides returns a draft of a written speech to him with the rebuke in the margins that it is improper to end a sentence with a preposition. Churchill circles the note and writes next to it:

“This is the sort of nonsense up with I will not put!”

I am working my way through all of your blog entries (not in any organized fashion, of course) down to the parsley sprig. Pretty sure, though, that at the end, I’m gonna have to say, “I didn’t like it.”

Oh! And also, are congratulations in order today on not being a father?

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