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The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a birthday cake with the child’s full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is asking for a little tolerance.
Deborah Campbell, 25, said she phoned in her order last week to the ShopRite. When she told the bakery department she wanted her son’s name spelled out, she was told to talk to a supervisor, who denied the request. Spokeswoman Karen Meleta told The Easton Express-Times for Sunday’s editions that the store considered Campbell’s request inappropriate.
The Campbells ultimately got their cake decorated at a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania, Deborah Campbell said.
Heath Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because “no one else in the world would have that name.” He sounded surprised by all the controversy the dispute had generated.
What do you think this holds for the kid – growing up?
ZORKOR!!!!! Glad to see you again. Must be an important thread for you to blame the jews twice. I thought they were into banking, not bakery?
Correcting #59 which I only do when my many errors are not evident by context:
“Mustard, so silly. If I said engineers deal with the structural characteristics of steel, would I be calling myself an ENGINEER?
Actually I went to school with a Genghis Khan Williams, who was a wonderful chap and a first rate cricketer.
#59 – Bobo
>>In THAT context, I would have to agree with
>>the parents, it was more a dash rather than a
>>hyphen.
Why? What sort of dash? An n-dash, as her name is a numerical range? an m-dash, because there’s hidden text (and a hidden closing m-dash) to separate out? Or are you just making believe you know what a dash is?
You’re brabbling, Bobo. I’ve read Joyce’s poetry, and his punctuation is spot-on. Yours is like an alien from another solar system poking randomly at the keyboard.
>>Poets, not authors, are known for playing
>>with punctuation
Read much? HAW!!!
Mustard, my understanding is that a dash is used to show an interruption in the thought process whereas a hyphen is used in the spelling of conjunctions. Actually, a dash is supposed to be a bit longer than a hyphen but modern keyboards don’t accommodate that—-resulting often in the use of multiple hyphen to represent a dash.
Its all definitional.
#65 – Bobo
>>Its all definitional.
Yes, its, isnt it? Desafortunadamente, you’re using the wrong definitions.
A hyphen is used to connect two words brought together as a compound. I already gave you the definitions of the dashes (m- and n-).
“I’m using the wrong definitions?”
HAW!!!!
Mustardo, not everything you think of is an issue of religious dogma. As in most things, there are more options in the real world than you deal with in yours.
Nothing wrong with n- or m- they just are not operative here. Silly Mr Mustard, throwing a tantrum just like a Mister Period Mustard would do.
I grew up in the town where this occurred and this does not surprise me. There is an unusually high level of white supremacism in the area. Most people just put up with it and ignore the problem, so I applaud the store for refusing to be part of it.
#67 – Bobo
>>Mustardo, not everything you think of is an
>>issue of religious dogma.
Nope. There’s correct punctuation, there’s creative use of punctuation by people who know what correct punctuation is, and there are people who don’t know what the fuck they’re doing and poke in any non-alphabetic symbol wherever they take a hankering to.
Sadly, you fall into the last category.
#69. Mustard, why is my poking a sad thing?
#69–Mustard==why is my poking a sad thing????
Ok, when I set it forth as above, I can see what upsets you.
#70 – Bobo
You’re just rambling on nonsensically, in your usual strategy to talk me to death. Why don’t you just admit it — you didn’t know the fucking difference between a hyphen, an n dash, and an m dash. Is it so hard to admit that you’re wrong?
Seems like this asshole is succeeding in getting the attention he wants. Shoprite refused to print offensive message on cake. End of story.
Yes the extra sylable does come from the “-“.
Mustard, I “still” don’t know what n- or m- means other than your explanation which does make sense. But n- and m- are irrelevant to what the parents of La-Sha are interested in.
Further, how can you say I don’t understand the difference between a dash and a hyphen when I expressly told you what I recalled the difference to be?
Are you saying that ONLY YOUR definition is correct and mine is wrong???
How singularly self centered, inflexible, and resistant to learning, you again prove yourself to be.
#8
Your book reference is a not fit for toilet paper. It is the worst type of revisionist history. Did you forget Chamberlain? Did you forget Poland? Did you forget the invasion of France through neutral Belgium?
Let’s briefly look at what was listed in the review as “blunders”
> The secret decision of a tiny
> cabal in the inner Cabinet in
> 1906 to take Britain straight
> to war against Germany, should
> she invade France
Riiight. It’s not like German had ever invaded France before 1906 right? Who remembers that Franco-Prussian war anyway.
> The vengeful Treaty of Versailles
> that muti- lated Germany, leaving
> her bitter, betrayed, and receptive
> to the appeal of Adolf Hitler
Seeing that Germany had invaded France twice in previous 50 years, their hatred wasn’t unjustified. Oh, and let’s not forget the German use of mustard gas. WWI was a bitter war and the Versailles treaty, thought to prevent Germany from going to war yet again.
> Britain’s capitulation, at
> Churchill’s urging, to American
> pressure to sever the Anglo- Japanese
> alliance, insulting and isolating
> Japan, pushing her onto the path of
> militarism and conquest
Check. Those mean Americans. Of course the Japanese were happy-shiny folks before the mean old Americans and British came along.
> The 1935 sanctions that drove Italy
> straight into the Axis with Hitler
Of course, it could not have possibly been because Italy was run by a fascist dictator with ideals inline with Hitler?
> The greatest blunder in British
> history: the unsolicited war
> guarantee to Poland of March 1939
> that guaranteed the Second World War
Check. It had nothing to do with Hitler coveting Poland and wanting to use it as a launching point against Russia. Because of the mean British and Americans again, Hitler was “forced” to invade Poland. I mean seriously, what else could he have done but take over another country?
> Churchill’s astonishing blindness
> to Stalin’s true ambitions.
Who made that Iron Curtain speech anyway? Churchill was well aware of Stalin’s evil. He simply need to get Hitler out of the way first in order to save his own country. Oh, and let’s not forget the general sympathy much of the world had for the communist revolution. Truman’s initial thoughts on Stalin at Potsdam was that he was a reserved but genuinely nice guy.
What a serious waste of paper.
That you aren’t forced to speak German right now is entirely due to Roosevelt and Churchill.
#74 – Bobo
>>Are you saying that ONLY YOUR definition is
>>correct and mine is wrong???
It’s not “my” definition. It’s merely the one I use, because that’s the distinction made by the rules of English punctuation. A hyphen hyphenates things (like compound adjectives), and n dash separates a range of numbers, and an m dash (among other things) sets off an appositive phrase that might ordinarily use commas, but it already has commas in it.
>>Further, how can you say I don’t understand
>>the difference between a dash and a hyphen
>>when I expressly told you what I recalled the
>>difference to be?
That’s the difference between your definitional world and everyone else’s, Bobo. You define things (even things with perfectly good definitions already) any old way you want to, and expect others to follow suit. Normal people don’t us “//” or “==” as punctuation, and they use hyphens and dashes in the way I have outlined.
But then again, not everyone is a poet, are they?
#75 – Thomas
>>Oh, and let’s not forget the German use of
>>mustard gas.
Leave me out of this, Thom. I’m on your side.
#75–Thomas==nice review. I thought Bucannan was pimping for history when he was promoting this book. Who knew there were people that would buy it and into it? Well done.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyphen: : a punctuation mark – used especially to divide or to compound words, word elements, or numbers
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dash%5B2%5D : b: a punctuation mark — that is used especially to indicate a break in the thought or structure of a sentence
Gee–just EXACTLY what I said.
You know Mr Mustard, its only ignorant to have less than a full understanding of a given subject, but when informed of the greater ambit, to refuse that additional information is- – – is – – – is – – – really kinda stupid.
Stop being so dogmatic, inflexible, and self centered.
#79 – Bobo
Merriam-Webster is known for being a promiscuously descriptive (rather than prescriptive) dictionary. If anyone says it, they will print it (although they DO hew to the traditional definition of hyphen, which is how the mark was used in the kid’s name.. gee, just EXACTLY what I said).
At least they haven’t adopted “nucular”, like Wiki-whatever (along with Febb-you-ary and “Lie-berry”), but that’s probably next. Followed shortly by a blurring of the distinction between their, they’re, and there, or it’s and its. And the pesky subjunctive.
You may choose to go down that slippery slope; I prefer not to.
Fo’ shizzle, ma nizzle.
Well Mizzle Mizzle:
The PARENTS called it a DASH. What does your prescriptive source define “dash” as?
I’ll sizzle it agizzle: most keyboards don’t have a seperate key for the longer dash (often with spaces on both sides but not an absou te) as oppossed to the shorter hyphen with no spaces.
No Mustard. Be a nizzle and own up to the truth. Oops. Forgot. Most nizzles won’t do that, hence the term.
Probably no less bright a future as the children of Rosie O’Donnell. Both teach hate to their children – just different victims of that hate. No difference.
This is sheer abuse on the side of the parents.
They’ve got to be the dumbest couple ever.
I hate it when adults do things like that to their kids.
Idiots!
They refused his brothers Osama Bin Laden Campbell and Saddam Hussein Campbell and his sister Tokyo Rose Campbell too. Go figure.
Hey Zorkor!
The price of oil is falling to 40$ per barrel…
You know what it means do ya?!
HA HA, soon my scum bag friend you will return to your natural place:
A tent in the desert!
It makes me so HAPPY! 😀
You two are so adorable.
#81 Mr Mustard is right. It is a hyphen in La-Sha.
The Chicago Manual of Style is the Authoritative Word that has been passed down from Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments. It points out the difference between a hyphen, an en-dash, and an em-dash, and a minus sign. Please read this book. It is big and red and can be found in bookstores, libraries, and on the desks of professional writers who know grammar.
The Merriam Webster Dictionary is a liberal source and can not be trusted.
It is only permissible to use a en-dash to hyphenate a word when you are hyphenating a hyphenated word. Example: the post–MS-Dos era.
(The en-dash is the one between the post and the MS.)
Naming a kid Adolf Hitler shows such a lack of judgement. I could see a couple of scenarios: this mom will probably be caught nekkid in the back of a car with some 13 year old, and when young Adolf gets older, maybe the parents can get the taste of an Uzi.
Strange. I have no trouble getting a cake for my kid named “Osama bin Pol Pot GW Stalin”.
#81 – Bobo
>>I’ll sizzle it agizzle: most keyboards don’t
>>have a seperate key for the longer dash
No, they don’t. They also don’t have separate keys for œ, ¶, ‰, ¢, ®, ±, ¡, ª, «, é, ñ or µ, along with no separate keys for –, —, and -.
The stout-hearted among us find ways to produce those symbols, though, even on our 19th-century keyboards.
Of course, only those who know the correct usage would bother to figure such things out.
Btw, do you speak “//” and “==” aloud when you talk, or are those just mute punctuation marks?
>>The PARENTS called it a DASH.
Somehow, I have trouble believing that someone who would name their child “La-Sha” would take in upon themselves to call the kid “La Dash Sha”. Unless they were truly inspired by the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, and were looking for a similar name, but one that could be vocalized. Otherwise, I’ll bet it’s pronounced “LAHsha”. And I’ll even bet it’s spelled “La’Sha, like
http://tinyurl.com/5yxcrz
And you KNOW she doesn’t pronounce her name “La Apostrophe Sha”.
In any case, your worship is noted.