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The next day

posted 9 years ago by snelling
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Those twerps would have taken such a beating. No bully would just forget what had happened in the woods.

"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley

[–] Willus_A 9 years ago

That's what happened in the book (not the next day though, but it did happen).

"Hogs have futures, I don't."
Dr. Johnny Fever

[–] snelling 9 years ago

I read those four short stories many years ago but I don't remember that. I will have to find that book again. Nice signature. I am a big WKRP fan.

"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley

[–] LadyDi4476 9 years ago

It happened quite a while after. Ace's gang wanted the four boys to think it wasn't going to happen and catch them off guard. I don't remember for sure, but I think it maybe have been a month or even longer. But one by one they each got beat up with Gordie & Chris getting it the worst.

-Di

[–] McGannahanSkjellyfetti 9 years ago

Don't forget in all fairness, the whole movie is a story being told by the narrator writing a book about his childhood adventures, during the end of the film he is sitting at his computer typing out the story while his son and his son's friend were waiting for him. Chances are he might of embellished some details here and there just to enhanced the story more. A lot of writers often do that...

[–] snelling 9 years ago

Chances are he might of embellished some details here and there just to enhanced the story more. A lot of writers often do that...

Might of? The word you are looking for is the contraction "might've" as in, might have. You're welcome.

"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley

[–] McGannahanSkjellyfetti 9 years ago

Uh...thanks...

[–] snelling 8 years ago

It's okay since English is not your first language.

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[–] avortac4 (3459) 3 years ago

"It's okay since English is not your first language."

Why do you think so?

Don't give anyone a free pass to butcher english language, first language or not.

English is not my first language, either, and I don't get any excuse to mutilate it.

Stop making excuses and teach people. How is anyone going ot learn how to write english correctly, if people like you always give them free pass to write verbal turds instead?

Also, whether something is 'first language' or not, doesn't even matter. Native speakers are -horrible- english writers, because they learn the pronunciation before writing, so anything that 'seems to produce the right sound' is seen as correct by their lazy brain.

I learned written english first, so I am always interested in how something is supposed to be written. English pronunciation makes no sense, so written english is the backbone of the whole linguistic system. You can't often hear these 'american typos' in spoken english, but let a native speaker write and you'll be vomiting before you can say 'don't hurl on the Persian carpet!'

[–] avortac4 (3459) 3 years ago

"The word you are looking for is the contraction "might've" as in, might have. You're welcome."

Contraction is not 'a word'. It's a contraction of TWO words, and as you mentioned, you can also use two words in its place anyway, so what they're looking for is not 'the word'.

"Might've" is very rare and also clunky, so just replacing the erroneous 'of' with the correct 'have' would have been enough.

[–] Miracle1985 7 years ago

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[–] DracTarashV2 (4475) 7 years ago

Those "twerps" were trying to save their own asses and had every right to retaliate against those thugs, ya English connoisseur.

[–] Washingtonnative (2613) 7 years ago

It was worth it the price!