Laurie

OK it loks lice I am the only on with bauls a rund hear

All hail Laurie

Why no apostrophe??
"it's" is a contraction of "it is" "its" isn't a word.

Looks like nobody went (or didn't went) to english class.
Back to school for you I fink. Ignorance is bliss.

No, but heaps of hot air

DARTS = BEER.

Yes there was lot's of beer consumed

what we nee is a spell check when posting.
(i'm always posting this)

spell checker poem

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

Where's LizB when you need her!

Back a million years ago, (or was it 50? Yes. That was it. 50 years ago. It just feels like a million years. Now what was I saying? Dang! I forgot! No Wait! I remember now! )
Back 50 years ago you had to use an apostrophe for contractions AND possession because in old english it was said that "Willy's windsurfer" was a contraction of "Willy, his windsurfer".

It has recently been agreed by the official custodians of the english language that nobody speaks like that anymore, and in fact hasn't in the living memory of anybody alive today. And so the apostrophe use in the possessive has been made redundant.

So, Willy, and all you other elderly and infirm, be advised that apostrophes are ONLY used in the case of contractions, NOT POSSESSIVES!

Examples:
"Willy's wet" meaning Willy is wet.
"Willy's wet the bed" meaning Willy has wet the bed.
"Willys windsurfer" meaning the windsurfer belonging to Willy. No apostrophe!
"It's cold" meaning it is cold.
"Its mother" meaning the mother of it. No apostrophe!
'It's becoming cold" meaning it is becoming cold.

Brush up! There will be a written examination in 1 hour!

{edit} "Nobody" has already recorded a FAIL so he can have the rest of the day off.
{double edit} Geez! Having said all that, on looking this up on the net I can't find any reference to the ruling to remove the apostrophe from possessives.
In fact all the references I looked up said it was still in use. ??
Oh well. I might just go back to sleep.
The written examination has been cancelled!

I don't know about 'back in the day', but as far as I know you are allowed to use an apostrophe in a posessive statement only if the possessors are a plural..

So, you could use an apostrophe if the windsurfer belonged to multiple "Willy"...

Like in "Boys' High School".
The high school is considered a posession of many boys, so instead of writing boys's high school, we are allowed to drop the last "s", and leave the apostrophe to indicate the dropped letter, same as usual..

(although it's been a while since my last English class! And yeah, I know.. there were some capitals missing from some proper nouns there..)

apostrophe

I'm here! hehe.... "Like God, just hovering in the background, not saying a word"... as one of my tutors say

I quiet like just watching you all debating the correct punctuation and supporting it with your own examples! [}:)] I don't like jumping in like a 'teacher' and correcting everything lol

i like the croat method - spellit as yood sayit

hangon, the fon is ringing

errr, isn't that "quite", I quite like just watching

haha too right grumple and bondalucci...

I'm seeing who is watching the spelling and not just the apostrophe's! [}:)]

Well done... 'Gold Star' for you!