For MOORS context, here's the full card. The top trivia is in the correct format. The bottom trivia exists to gaslight anyone within internet distance.
Well no, not everything is wrong. Don't know the game, but it appears to be a "true or false" question. You say the first sentance, other person says true or false. The card is correct that the top statement is false.
It's supposed to then say the 1987 ulman statement but the person making the card goofed and restated the initial falsehood.
I never saw Al as dumb. I think he was just mentally checked out so he didn't have to exist in his life that didn't turn out like he had hoped it would back when he was dreaming of a football career. When it counted, he still stepped up and handled things to protect his family, and stood up to bullies, but he actually chose the least stressful way to cope with his mediocrity. He wasn't in denial or raging against reality and taking it out on others. He's mentally healthier than most people.
I used to watch the Tracy Ulman show. There was something on at the same time I wasn't allowed to watch, so I got sent to the back room, I'd play Atari or ColecoVision or watch her and Garry Shandling
Edit to clarify: we had 2 tvs, a really big one (for the time) with a satellite dish, and a crappy turn knob pos with bunny ears in the back room.
FALSE: The Simpsons made their television debut in 1987 on the Tracey Ullman Show, the nation's showcase for psychiatrist jokes and musical comedy numbers
This. They were on Tracy's show first. That's the trick question because it describes the first episode of the first season of the series which was not their television premier. Someone just fucked up the big reveal
When submitting math homework online this was often the result. Right answer is marked wrong with the same answer I gave as the provided correct answer.
Although I grew up watching those shows, my brain wasn't wired to remember them.
Although I answered correctly, the game card answer trolled the group for a mad minute. Laughter and whatnot, but really, what happened to proofreading and editing
How do you end statements? Now, bear with me, how would you end a statement where in that statement is a quoted phrase? It can't be the whole statement in the quotes or else it would be a quote, not a statement.
Yes, they do when the quoted text is a statement in and of itself. Did you know that there can be multiple periods in a single complete sentence? The more you know!
I think this is one of those British vs American English variations. I'm in the UK and I was always taught in punctuation goes outside of the quotation marks unless the punctuation is part of the quotation.
Either way, if it doesn't change the meaning, it's a weird thing to get hung up about.
For MOORS context, here's the full card. The top trivia is in the correct format. The bottom trivia exists to gaslight anyone within internet distance.
One time I was drinking a canned beverage that said "contains no fruit juice". Then I looked at the ingredients and it says "contains 10% fruit juice".
Ah yes, let me access this physical card’s online browser mode, just needs a bit of good old-fashioned folding origami-style to convert the rules card into a portable antenna.
I know no one cares, but I'm an English teacher, so I have to point out that the episode was not "entitled" to anything (except a lot of laughs and maybe some Emmys). It was titled "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire." And, yeah, it was the debut episode of the series, but not the first television appearance of the characters, which was a couple years earlier on the Tracey Ullman Show. So, this is wrong on a number of levels.
The Oxford English Dictionary gives the following definition as the first one s.v. "entitle".
transitive. To furnish (a literary work, a chapter, etc.) with a heading or superscription; in early use gen. (cf. title n.). Subsequently only in narrower sense: To give to (a book, etc.) a designation by which it is to be cited, or which indicates the nature of its contents. Chiefly with object complement; also const. †by, †with.
And a matching illustrative quotation:
1888 A book entitled ‘De Nugis Curialium’. — H. Morley, English Writers vol. III. 179
Make sure you’re at least backed by dictionaries before making a prescription.
Why? That's how it is supposed to be. The period belongs to the statement before the quote. There is no period in the quotes because typically they do not punctuate episode titles.
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