Days after actor Michael J. Fox appeared in a TV ad urging Missouri voters to support stem cell research, opponents will unveil their own commercial during the World Series Wednesday night.
The Cardinals' starting pitcher for Game 4, Jeff Suppan, is among several celebrities who appear in the minute-long ad. Others include Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner, Kansas City Royals player Mike Sweeney and two actors _ Patricia Heaton of TV's "Everybody Loves Raymond" and Jim Caviezel, who portrayed Jesus in "The Passion of the Christ." - BreitBart.com -------- ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Game 4 of the World Series was postponed Wednesday because of rain and will be made up Thursday night. - Sports Illustrated --------
-------- Hey, if Pat Robertson can say stupid stuff about God sending bad weather to punish some people, I guess I can as well. After all, I am an ordained minister, too. I was ordained by the Church of Spiritual Humanism*, and my proper form of address is "Blessed Swami**."
*If I send them $19.95, I will get a certifice suitable for framing! Unfortunately, I can't spare $19.95.
**Poor Karrow, with her eyesight going after all these long years, always misreads my title. She calls me the "Blasted Swampy". But I am in the forgiveness business, so I forgive her. She knows not what she does. (You can quote me on that, too.)
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**Poor Karrow, with her eyesight going after all these long years, always misreads my title. She calls me the "Blasted Swampy". But I am in the forgiveness business, so I forgive her. She knows not what she does. (You can quote me on that, too.)
I can assure you that:
a) Karrow knows exactly what she's doing, especially when it comes to operating the "Edit/Delete Post" and "Suspend Member" buttons.
b) "The Blasted Swampy" is one of the more polite names that she uses for DG.
c) Unlike some, she knows how to spell haemorrhoids correctly - and she thinks you have sunk to the bottom line piling on the agony of those who suffer from them.
Don't know where you got the ae seeing it was a Latin letter and the root word is Greek. Must have been more of Dr. Johnson's shenanigans.
JR: Surely every schoolboy knows that AE written as a ligature is used in forms derived from Latin so written and Greek ai ?
It first appeared in printed English in the C16. Modern practice is usually to print it as separate letters.The ligature is the Old English letter called 'ash', a simple vowel intermediate between a and e. It was used in an attempt to represent the classical sound of the Latin and Greek.
It's not our fault if Americans are in blissful ignorance of that . If you still used ae it might stop you pronouncing 'paedophile' , which you have as 'pedophile', as 'peddo-file' though it must be said the common word 'haemorrhoids' as 'hemmo-royds' is , sadly, often heard in Britain .
More seriously, the Oxford English Dictionary says that not every such word is written with ae (as a digraph). "Where the word is thoroughly Anglicized and popularized this becomes e.It is retained only in some Greek and Latin proper names, terms of Greek and Roman Antiquities and some scientific and technical terms (where, however, e is usual in the US )"
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. If you still used ae it might stop you pronouncing 'paedophile' , which you have as 'pedophile', as 'peddo-file' though it must be said the common word 'haemorrhoids' as 'hemmo-royds' is , sadly, often heard in Britain 
