In Cold BLOOD

Dick: One of these days soon, I'm changing all that.
Dick: Damn soon.
Dad: You drive careful now.

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Bode Miller - real SMOOTH

ESPN recently reported that on the bottom half of the course, Bode Miller "skis real smooth"

Several adverbs died on the top half of the course too. I'm a huge Bode fan.


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Not even CLOSE

Christopher says:

"We don’t speak english even remotely close to how we spoke it 100 years ago."

And of course, he's right!

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It's Official - They're WEAK

Not only that, it's BAD WRITING for fiction writers. Now waiting on non-fiction writers to pipe up.

http://www.users.qwest.net/~yarnspnr/writing/adverbs/adverbs.htm

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It works GREAT

Quaker Oats reportedly said (to kids) earlier today:

"Use a fork for stirring your oatmeal, it works great"

http://www.quakeroatmeal.com/Products/KIDS/KIDS-DinoEggs-Appear.cfm

Note - I tried this at breakfast, and it does work great. Who knew?