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Thorrulz wrote in post #15511059
Yes and while she went on to imaginary heaven, everyone else in the USA who turns on either the tv, radio or gets on the internet has to go through real hell to avoid hearing about the story 24/7.

yes. I come to this site to read about photography, not athletes with problems.

Clemson656 wrote in post #15510917
.... let alone college football....

That is right, not all of us live in the South!

blogs wrote in post #15510607
Must be a U.S thing cos I have NFI?

joeseph wrote in post #15510830
raises hand...

So far the only ones who haven't heard are outside the USA. I keep forgetting that there's a healthy international population on this site

Clemson656 wrote in post #15510917
I have a bunch of friends who are and are not on this site who don't care much about football, let alone college football. As much as he's well known to us those follow, he doesn't make that much impact enough to be widely well known. And then, international level.

BTW, he's still denying that he's never been part of those who created the hoax, isn't he?

I've never watched a college football game in my life. Don't follow it, don't care about it. Yet even I had heard about this Te'o thing--the story is so preposterous, and the media as latched on like a dog with a bone.

Pepe Guitarra wrote in post #15511294
That is right, not all of us live in the South!

Hmmm.... Ta'o was a star at Notre Dame... Indiana... who's biggest raval is USC... Los Angeles...

In the South, football scandals involve criminal records and payola, not imaginary girlfriends.

Pepe Guitarra wrote in post #15509566
Thank you for using proper English (the subjunctive form has been neglected by a lot of people).

Close, but no banana. That is conditional case. If this condition, then that.
If I were Dell, I would....

Present tense subjunctive uses the infinitive form of the verb. That is not in current use and will make you sound like a pirate.

If I BE Dell, I would... is present subjuntive.

Can this thread get any further off topic?

TSchrief wrote in post #15513069
Close, but no banana. That is conditional case. If this condition, then that.
If I were Dell, I would....

Present tense subjunctive uses the infinitive form of the verb. That is not in current use and will make you sound like a pirate.

If I BE Dell, I would... is present subjuntive.

Can this thread get any further off topic?

I was hoping somebody would correct him.

Great, a grammar lesson. I just love a grammar lesson in a photography forum or a fb post, or a anything. Grammar people are a big pet peeve of mine.

Chet wrote in post #15513160
Great, a grammar lesson. I just love a grammar lesson in a photography forum or a fb post, or a anything. Grammar people are a big pet peeve of mine.

That should be "or an anything."

Sorry, couldn't resist, LOL!

ozziepuppy wrote in post #15513173
That should be "or an anything."

Sorry, couldn't resist, LOL!

Doesn't bug me. I learned what I learned, I'm 45 and I'm not going to change. Oh, and I passed English in parochial school, can't blame this train wreck on the public school system.

I must lead quite the sheltered life. Never heard the name until now, and I thought Te'o was some new abbreviation of Tebow when I ran across it. As for the OP, he's either an honest victim who still wants a camera, a lying idiot who wants attention and cooked up a story, or a lying criminal who ordered a camera, took it out to substitute wood, complained and did it again. Since I hate liars and criminals, and have never met him, I hope the OP falls under the honest victim category.

MOkoFOko wrote in post #15511740
So far the only ones who haven't heard are outside the USA. I keep forgetting that there's a healthy international population on this site

I've never watched a college football game in my life. Don't follow it, don't care about it. Yet even I had heard about this Te'o thing--the story is so preposterous, and the media as latched on like a dog with a bone.

So, getting back on topic, OP are you getting another camera? If so, when?

srg

TSchrief wrote in post #15513069
Close, but no banana. That is conditional case. If this condition, then that.
If I were Dell, I would....

Present tense subjunctive uses the infinitive form of the verb. That is not in current use and will make you sound like a pirate.

If I BE Dell, I would... is present subjuntive.

Can this thread get any further off topic?

I knew it!! That guy who taught me was a Peace Corps guy who apparently was a major in Art History in College, but I am sure he was a fraud too. I remember Rodney Dangerfield who said the famous words: "I don't get no respect, if I WAS a politician, I would be honest". Since then, I heard the same WAS in EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND, and even a high executive of CEO of CocaCola in a presentation said the same.

Pepe Guitarra wrote in post #15513376
I knew it!! That guy who taught me was a Peace Corps guy who apparently was a major in Art History in College, but I am sure he was a fraud too. I remember Rodney Dangerfield who said the famous words: "I don't get no respect, if I WAS a politician, I would be honest". Since then, I heard the same WAS in EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND, and even a high executive of CEO of CocaCola in a presentation said the same.

The use of the word "were" is correct. You just cited the wrong rule of grammar.

NASS Photo wrote in post #15511099
yes. I come to this site to read about photography, not athletes with problems.

TSchrief wrote in post #15513069
Can this thread get any further off topic?

If you came here to talk photography, I'm afraid you might be in the wrong thread. Not much photography talk going on in here these days.