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Thursday, June 25, 2009

This is for all you lovers out there...

So I've been experimenting with facial hair. After shaving the Western Conference Finals Beard I tried it again for the NBA finals. Turns out it works, by the way. Lakers won the whole thing. But I digress. So as I shaved my Finals beard this week, I decided to see what I would look like at various stages of hairiness. I wasn't a fan of the Mutton Chops and Fu-man-chu stage so I kept shaving. 90210 burns and Fu-man-chu didn't do it for me either. Finally I got to... wait for it... the handlebar 'stache with soul patch.... OH SNAP! I never thought I could ever look this good.

Sorry, ladies, he's married.

Unfortunately, Sarah wouldn't let me keep it. :-(

5 comments:

John Sperry said...: Bow chicca bow-wow! That's right, he's mine! ;); June 26, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Jeannetta said...: Sarah is a smart woman!; June 26, 2009 at 12:40 AM
vdhfamtng said...: You look like a goon from a weird movie. You need to do a long handlebar mustache that you can curl into points on the end.; June 26, 2009 at 7:51 AM
Libby said...: Love it. :); June 26, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Pals said...: Good for you Sarah! I've never been a fan of facial hair, and especially not on my boys. LOL! But who am I? I'm just the mom.; June 29, 2009 at 8:16 AM

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John and Sarah's Grammar Tips

Lesson 4: Should have looked up what "of" means! Welcome back bloggers to the Sperry Grammar Hospital. Here we like to heal the grammatically sick and afflicted. Today's treatment deals with a very important and often misused verb conjugation: the past participle. This one is, as we thought, pretty easy to understand, but many seem to think that the word "of" (which is a preposition) is a verb. If you go back far enough you will remember hearing something in elementary school about the "helping verb". Well this is what we're talking about. The helping verb in case is "to have". How many times have you written or seen written a sentence like this one: "I should of bought that car". See anything wrong with that sentence. If you don't, then you are our audience. The word "of" in that sentence is incorrect. That should be "have", because in this case we are dealing with the "Past Participle" or a subjunctive tense; something that should have happened, but didn't. You can't use "of" here because "of" is a preposition (a word that tells the relationship of two objects to each other). In this tense, the verb requires the help of the verb "have". Written correctly, the sentence would look like this: "I should have bought that car." Many times people also use the wrong verb conjugation in the past participle as well, but that's another lesson all together. So remember, if you say "should" or "could", make sure it's "have" not "of".

Thursday, June 25, 2009

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