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Shaun Ryder's teeth 

Posted Friday 7th September 2007 17:55 GMT

In fact you don't have to select large images. If you do an ordinary Google image search for "Shaun Ryder" the first two pictures are of this blog post:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/2uwfxv

The first shot is his teeth, before he had them done. The second shot is his face, post-treatment. He has a big scabby scab on his forehead. And yet he has sold more records than you or I.

The Teeth of Ryder 

Posted Friday 7th September 2007 19:10 GMT

Those two pictures could be used to explain the difference between "horror" and "terror" to film students.

The before pic is horrific, but the after is truly terrifying.

He looks like he's about to bite your face off.

Pedantry 

Posted Friday 7th September 2007 22:52 GMT

@Ashley

Sorry - it's "You or me", not "You or I"

I will now go off and pedantically kill myself... which may be more painful than normal suicide.

Nil Hedonism and Excess? 

Posted Friday 7th September 2007 23:54 GMT

They could try the journalists from the Mormon newsletters and magazines they're always trying to give people after knocking on the door, as a second control group, arent the Jehovas witnesses supposed to be sober and well behaved too? :P

"Pedantically kill" is a split infinitive 

Posted Saturday 8th September 2007 08:07 GMT

Grammarian, check thyself.

@At Alan Potter 

Posted Saturday 8th September 2007 14:11 GMT

"You or I" is correct, as is easily seen by restoring the elided completion:

"He has sold more records than you or I have."

Re: "Nil Hedonism and excess?" 

Posted Sunday 9th September 2007 14:03 GMT

Jehovas witnesses??? as a life-period control group!

I'm not sure thats one of your most ingenius ideas, I mean how many doors do you think they can knock on before someone opens it and blows their heads off, for being persistently annoying??

Even more pedantically... 

Posted Monday 10th September 2007 11:15 GMT

"pedantically kill" is not a split infinitive. The infinitive is "to kill" whereas Alan Potter said "I will go off and (I will) pedantically kill myself". "Pedantically" here is an adverb and is no more wrong than saying "...lethally injure myself". "...kill myself pedantically" might be preferred by pedantic grammarians as adverbs normally follow the verb, but it is not a "rule".

Even most pedantically 

Posted Wednesday 12th September 2007 12:59 GMT

There is no 'rule' in English against splitting infinitives. This is something that was adopted from Latin. It was invented circa mid c18 and is one of the earliest known wikipedia entries.

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