ANtics 2007: The Board Game

As a person who has dealt with muscle pulls and strains, just when the small ones feel better and you forget about it, bamm you get a serious one. Usually going all out for an important play. You only need a coin toss, to figure out the possiblities of reagrevating a muscle pull, it seems to be about 50/50.

this.  This is phenomenal.  I will be playing a strip-drinking version of this very soon.  Yes, like solitaire, until I can find someone to join me.

I swear, I see 10 times more erroneous uses of "whom" and "whomever" on AN than anywhere else.

In most of the world, people who use "whom" naturally use it correctly, and everyone else never uses it at all, which is just fine.

But here, for some weird reason I don't understand, a whole lot of people for whom "whom" is not a natural speech pattern feel compelled to use it anyway, with the result that they use it wrong. Frequently.

What is it about AN?

Once again:

(1) "Whom" is objective case, same as "him". So if it wouldn't make sense to say "him goes first" then it's just as wrong to say "whomever goes first".

(2) It's always acceptable to use "who" instead of "whom". If all this grammar stuff means nothing to you, just don't ever use "whom" and you'll be just fine. Where people go wrong (here on AN, anyway) is putting "whom" in where it doesn't belong.

You betray what a geek you are when you say "six-sided die".  For most people, all dice are six-sided.  It's only nerdy game freaks like us who know about all the funny-shaped ones.

this is just awesome!

great job, louismg!