Hammer's Mysterious Past.

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:40 pm

Finally! It looks like I'm back up and running!

Woohoo!

Lynn Bodoni · Post by **Lynn Bodoni** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 12:01 am

Glad to have you back. I thought that the pastel desertscape was really nice, though your horses need some work if you're going to continue to draw them. Of course, I was one of those horsecrazy girls who constantly drew horses from the time I was about 8 until the time I was about 16 or 17...I never drew a penis, though. I just never wanted to. In fact, I don't believe I've drawn a penis my entire life. I guess I'll have to try it as soon as I get offline tonight.

Happypeepeehead · Post by **Happypeepeehead** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 3:57 am

Penii can be fun to draw.

Anyway, the left handed posse was quite funny and me being back on a computer with a top resolution of 640x480 allowed me to view one frame at a time making your punchlines all the better. But the spaghetti midi wouldn't plaAAAAAaaay! And I clicked on the link and Keenspace said it didn't exist. It called you a liar!

Lynn Bodoni · Post by **Lynn Bodoni** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 9:18 am

It's penises, not penii.

Only Latin nouns that end in -ius form the plural with -ii. There are no really common English plurals in -ii other than radii. That hasn't stopped people from trying out such atrocious forms as virii and penii.

Basically, penises is the correct and often preferred English plural of penis.

Lynn Bodoni
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Fighting ignorance since 1973 (it's taking longer than we thought)

PiePants · Post by **PiePants** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 6:28 pm

I thought it was 'penes'

Lynn Bodoni · Post by **Lynn Bodoni** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 7:50 pm

Penes is not incorrect, but the preferred plural is penises, as bibliophage notes in the second and fourth paragraphs of that staff report I referred to.

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:03 pm

I thought the plural was "cocks".

Goddessmisca · Post by **Goddessmisca** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 11:44 pm

Mmmmmmmmmmmm cock...

Lynn Bodoni · Post by **Lynn Bodoni** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 2:29 pm

Ghastly wrote:I thought the plural was "cocks".

"Cocks" works well, too, unless there could be some confusion as to whether you're talking about body parts or poultry.

Happypeepeehead · Post by **Happypeepeehead** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 4:31 pm

Been a while since I looked it up, but yes, I was incorrect with Penii. Dictionary.com says "n. pl. pe

Slander · Post by **Slander** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:57 pm

HAMMER STORYLINE!!!
ALL HAMMER ALL THE TIME!!!

SHANKYUU!!!

(Wow, that's a ton of exclamations.)