Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for November 05, 2009

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    pouncingtiger  about 15 years ago

    OUCH!! What a burn!

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    Yukoner  about 15 years ago

    Ah, but which half?

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    sjoujke  about 15 years ago

    Now that’s a low blow!

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    ben_david  about 15 years ago

    Wow! Even the birds don’t use proper English. You wouldn’t say “I see I,” so why say “I see you and I?”

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    Allison Nunn Premium Member about 15 years ago

    it is an unfortunate sign of the way English is now being taught to children. They honestly don’t know any better (and they certainly don’t have good roll models in the media!)

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    Ray_C  about 15 years ago

    I agree with you both. Kids also need better role models for spelling.

    ;-)

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    pbarnrob  about 15 years ago

    And Shoe works where again? Sheesh!

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    CogentModality  about 15 years ago

    So what would be proper? Us? We two? You certainly couldn’t say “I see me being happy together.” LOL

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    Allan CB Premium Member about 15 years ago

    According to Microsoft Word (they can’t be wrong! haha)

    “I see you and me being happy together” “I see you and I being happy together.”

    are both ‘correct’. I’m sure if we search Google, we’ll find someone to say neither is correct.

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    l-empress  about 15 years ago

    I see YOU. You see ME. That’s how it works. Do you know how to diagram a sentence? If you did, there wouldn’t even be a question.

    The only reason you wouldn’t say “I see me…” is that it becomes reflexive. Thus you would say, “I see myself…”

    I don’t know why I bother. I’m used to people who don’t know and care less.

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    jrbj  about 15 years ago

    How about “I see us being happy together”?

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    KelleyCooper  about 15 years ago

    I’m still laughing about ‘roll model’…I guess you find those in a bakery shop window…or maybe, a Tonka truck is a roll model…omg….

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    treBsdrawkcaB  about 15 years ago

    It doesn’t make any sense! How could Shoe be 1/2 right? If he sees only one of them happy “together”?!? Together with what / whom? If it’s only one of them, he/she can’t be “together” alone.

    Maybe it’s a Paul Aldrich kinda thing…

    (Solo comedian/musician who published an album where’s he’s playing four instruments titled, “Paul Aldrich: Together Again”.

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    rshive  about 15 years ago

    Yukoner beat me to the punch–which half?

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    yyyguy  about 15 years ago

    imagine me and you, and you and me…

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    Ray_C  about 15 years ago

    I-empress: I am with you on that. However, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I am willing to put.

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    Boopsie200  about 15 years ago

    Hmmm. Maybe it should be, “I can see our being happy together.”

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    1deano  about 15 years ago

    Isn’t 1/2 of 1/2 equal to a quarter? that’s all she’s worth?

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    artisanx  about 15 years ago

    I can see that all of you are unhappy altogether! IT’S A COMIC STRIP, PEOPLE! NOT AN ENGLISH LESSON! Can’t you just get a laugh and move on or do you have to dissect every little thing to satisfy some deep seated urge to prove that you’re right?!! Geez, GET A FUNNYBONE! (Thank you, doctor. I feel so much better now…)

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    Ushindi  about 15 years ago

    How about just “I’ll give you $50.” Forget the English problem.

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