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The Correct Use of Buy/By/Bye

by R. Richard on Sep 1, 2017
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Buy may be used as a transitive verb. Bought, buying, buys Buy may mean to acquire in exchange for money or its equivalent, to purchase. "They were able to Buy supplies at a good price." Buy may mean to be capable of purchasing. "Money will not Buy some of the better things in life." Buy may mean to acquire by exchange, trade or sacrifice. "The Israelis w...

Spring Fling

by astuffedshirt_perv on Sep 23, 2019
Erotic Couplings

Finally spring break was here. All the cool kids were, of course, going away to someplace hot to party. I, on the other hand, didn't have parents who were made of money and would pay for such frivolity. Not that I would ever be invited anyway. Instead I was on my way up to St. Clair, to spend a week and an half earning two college credits in biology as part...

Boxercise Mom Knocks Out the Gym

by Raljo on Apr 22, 2025

Puncher's Chance; The puncher's chance is a boxing idiom that indicates the improbable. In boxing, it specifically refers to a boxer who is outmatched still having the capacity to win, if they can land one or two clean heavy punches. She was only at the gym to keep up appearances. A hot, curvy woman who was more used to a life in the broad-thighed lap of lu...

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Abduction of Stanley Sprocket

by Boxlicker101 on Sep 11, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Stanley Sprocket woke up wondering where he was, what happened and how he got there. The last thing he remembered was being in his workshop early in the morning, when suddenly everything started to spin around, and he blacked out. When he woke up, he was lying on a couch or bed or gurney of some kind in a dimly lit room. His reflexive attempts to move or get...

The Correct Use of Its/It's

by R. Richard on Sep 17, 2017
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Its is an adjective and the possessive form of the pronoun it. It's is a contraction (for it is or it has), that must always have an apostrophe. Its is used as adjective. "The cat chased Its tail." [The cat chased the tail belonging to the cat.] "The bank closed Its doors." [The bank closed the doors belonging to the bank.] The adjective Its never means 'i...

The Correct Use of To/Into/Too/Two

by R. Richard on Sep 1, 2017
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To/Into/Too/Two To/Too/Two are homophones, that is one of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling or a character or group of characters pronounced the same as another character or group To may be used as a preposition, a word or phrase placed typically before a substantive and indicating the relation of that su...

The Correct Use of Your/You're

by R. Richard on Sep 17, 2017
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Your is an adjective. Your is the possessive form of the pronoun you. Your may be used as a modifier before a noun: "Put on Your jacket." "You may list Your accomplishments." Your may be used to indicate something that belongs to a person/one/thing. "Your best chance here is to punt." "The best view is on Your right." "All right, Rover, this is Your doghou...

Decontamination

by charledbarkley on Jul 4, 2018
Celebrities & Fan Fiction

Ensign Andrew Jamison's first away mission had been equal parts boring and torture. In the three months since Enterprise had left dock to explore strange new worlds, he has been left... unrelieved. An awkward new officer whose charm worked better in large groups than in solo encounters, he struggled to engage in the comradery that other crewmembers partook i...

Words of the Week 07

by velvetpie on Sep 13, 2017
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Whenever I read, I keep a pencil handy and I underline words that I don’t know and dog ear the page so that I can go back and look them up in the dictionary. I have always been interested in etymology and even took Latin for three years. I hope that these words can help all of us in our writings. Be sure to check out your dictionary for additional usages of...

The Correct Use of Affect/Effect

by R. Richard on Sep 1, 2017
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Affect, used as a verb means to have an influence on or to make a change in. Affect, used as a noun, describes a feeling or emotion. Effect means to bring about, to initiate. Usage: Affect and effect seem to be close in meaning, but there are significant differences. Affect means to influence. Thus, "Storage in a high temperature and high humidity environ...