'I' before 'E'' except after 'C' is such BULLSHIT!

[Political Heretic]

Neither.

Anyone remember the word neither? Where was neither at when this rule was being made up? Out getting drunk in a sleezy bar and humping a prostitute?

Why does neither hate America?

Oh but wait? What's this? More fucking riff-raff!

Deity enters the room.

Science waves.

neighbor flips you off.

foreign pisses on your lawn.

'I' before 'E' my ass!!! It's all a sick, vicious trick to fuck up children trying to learn and put them in years of therapy!

FUCK ENGLISH!!!


















:)

[Kutjara]

1. English is the language of the damned.

There isn't a single rule that doesn't have more exceptions than examples. I honestly don't know how people learn English as a second language: it seems impossible to me.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. The full quote is: "I before E except after C or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh"

[Political Heretic]

5. OMG when did they add that?

Fuck my school teachers from twenty years ago then!! :D

Still though... doesn't help with most of the asshole words I mentioned.

[Hand]

24. More than twenty years ago.

I learned it that way... well, probably fifty years ago (yeah, yeah, I'll be dead soon). My parents knew it that way, too. Before them neither of their families spoke English. :hi:

[Political Heretic]

35. Holy hell... my teachers really DID suck! And here I was just kidding around....

..SCREW YOU MRS. BRUBAKER!!!!! :P

[pokerfan]

27. It was featured in A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)

[riverdale]

3. I am here to take a strong stand against the letter C

What good is C? Either it's ripping off K, or pretending to be S. It has no sound of its own! Down with C!!

[Political Heretic]

6. Seriously! The revolution will not be televised, my friend!

C, your days are numbered.....

[CC]

19. uh oh

[CC]

10. ...

:cry::cry:

[Political Heretic]

11. LOL!!! Okay that made me really laugh at work.

Thank you!!

[CC]

14. You're welcome.

Can we keep C then?

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Oh, *now* you've done it!

"Anyway, you're interested in one of our adventure holidays?"

"Yes; I saw your advert in the bolour supplement."

"The what?"

"The bolour supplement"

"The colour supplement?"

"Yes; I'm sorry, I can't say the letter 'B'."

"'C'?"

"Yes, that's right. It's all due to a trauma I suffered when I was a spoolboy. I was attacked by a bat."

"A cat?"

"No, a bat."

"Can you say the letter 'K'?"

"Oh, yes — khaki, king, kettle, Kuwait, Keble Bollege Oxford..."

"Why don't you say the letter 'K' instead of the letter 'C'?"

"What, you mean... spell 'bolour' with a 'K'?"

"Yes."

"'Kolour.' Oh, that's very good! I never thought of that! What a silly bunt!"



:)

[FloridaJudy]

28. And don't forget "X" and "Q"

Neither has a unique sound. They can be replaced with "ks" (or "z" at the beginning of a word) and "kw".

But seks just doesn't look right, somehow...

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. Do NOT go dissin' Q!

I'd find that very disq...










Shit. x(

[krispos42]

42. But then how will civil engineers....

build qanats?

Oh, the humanity!!!!

[eppur_se_muova]

30. And for ch ... ?

Without c we couldn't spell Czesko .. Czcheo .. oh, Hell, they split the country in two anyway.

(Seriously, I advocate using 'c' for the 'ch' sound! Brilliant, huh?)

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Vwls sck

Fck vwls.

:thumbsdown:

[Political Heretic]

7. Yh!!!

[Political Heretic]

8. Oh wait.... in the New World Order, "Y" is now called a vowel right?

It got waved in or something by future generations.....

You lazy bastards!!! Back in MY DAY we had to make sentences without considering Y as a vowel!!

[ZombieNixon]

9. You're weird.

:eyes: :P

[Political Heretic]

13. Ah HA! LOOK!! ANOTHER ONE!! *WEIRD*

:yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks:

[ZombieNixon]

15. Good, you got it.

I was afraid you wouldn't. Or at least feign ignorance. ;)

[Political Heretic]

16. omg stop it!!

LOL :hi: :toast:

[Doc_Technical]

17. " I before E, except after C, what a weird society."

The letter C should be only used with the letter H.

For the S sound, use an S,
for the K sound, use a K.

Success would now be spelled Suksess.

[Reverend_Smitty]

18. This reminds me of a Brian Regan bit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ihM43S6QDQ&feature=related

It starts about a minute into the video

:rofl:

[ZombieNixon]

21. I bought two boxen of doughnuts!

:D :rofl:

[Reverend_Smitty]

25. Many much moosen!

i before e except after c and when sounding like a as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!

Good stuff and so true!

[ZombieNixon]

26. I love Brian Regan.

He's funny without being obscene, which is honestly pretty rare these days.

[Reverend_Smitty]

32. I started listening to his stuff in college

my roommate at the time forced me to listen to that entire CD with her one night and I'm glad I did because I was instantly hooked

[Oeditpus Rex]

36. Goosen!

:D

[Reverend_Smitty]

38. look at that, it's a legit word!

:P

[Oeditpus Rex]

41. And y'know who he came up with?

:rofl:

[Reverend_Smitty]

43. of course a career .240 hitter, what other team would he have come up with?

especially in the mid 60's lol

[Oeditpus Rex]

45. Stengel made him famous

When he came up at the end of '65, or maybe in camp in '66, Stengel said, "We got a kid here named Goosen, 20 years old, and in 10 years he's got a chance to be 30."

Trouble for Goose was he came up at the same time as J.C. Martin.

Two years later he's at Tidewater, and Jim Bouton's at Newark, I guess, or Jersey City — whichever was the Jankees' Triple-A club in the International League — and there's a bunt back to the pitcher with runners on and Goose jumps out from behind the plate yelling "FIRST BASE! FIRST BASE!" Pitcher goes to second and everybody's safe. Goose stomps back behind the plate and Bouton yells from the dugout, "Goose, he had to consider the source!"

:rofl:

But, check it out — he's been Gene Hackman's stunt double for like 20 years.

[Reverend_Smitty]

47. wow that's interesting, I didn't know that thing about him being a stunt double

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. I didn't either

until I went fishin' for his photo.

I sent the bit from "Ball Four" to baseball-almanac.com, since there was no quote on Goosen's page. If you go there and look up Jeff Nelson, that's my quote too. :D

[Reverend_Smitty]

49. cool I'll check it out

[LynzM]

40. Omg, I'm dying over here....

How have I never seen this guy before? OMG, my stomach hurts from laughing now.... :rofl:

[Reverend_Smitty]

44. he has a bunch of clips on youtube...

he's a really funny dude

[Oeditpus Rex]

46. Check out his Little League bit

"SNO-CONE!"

"How many outs, Brian?"

"GRAPE!"

:rofl:

[Richardo]

20. I see you've studied this in your leisure time, but don't have a seizure about it...

...it's weird, huh?

[Political Heretic]

33. EVIL! E-VIL!!!

You are a bad person.


:P

[Inchworm]

22. fuckin A!

all those tricks don't help me spell a lick!

:hi:

[Redstone]

23. Excellent rant. I like.

Redstone

[eppur_se_muova]

29. Dude ... pick a fight you can win.

You know not what gods you may be provoking.

[leeroysphitz]

31. Preach it reverend! Tell it! n/t

[LynzM]

37. Weird.

:rofl: Yes, English sucks for following rules, for sure!

[Yavin4]

39. What About "Sometimes Y"?

What is that all about? It's like "Y" is a booty call vowel. You know like when a word feels in the mood for something a little different.

[Political Heretic]

50. LOL, I know right?!

Booty call vowel :rofl: