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[chuntankhamen]

ya know, sometimes, working in my office is pretty cool.  right now, i'm having my third beer of the day.  they pay me shit, but there is an ice cold case of Yuengling Lager in our kitchen fridge (from whence my three beers came).  the afternoon looks promising.

now, i know what you're thinking.  "chris, it's 12:15.  either you drank those first two

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[king_kai]

beer is good, and Yuengling is even better.

when it comes to drinking, the early bird catches the buzz, i always say. more power to you. however, i do take some umbrage with your usage of whence. you display a modern, colloquial, albeit technically incorrect, usage. the word whence means "from where," thus the phrase "from whence it came," though an idiom that dates back to Shakespeare, is technically redundantundant. of course, at this point, it's one of those lovely little beauties that are so entrenched in English that the wrong has become right. or at least acceptable as the coin of the realm. so, a meaningless distinction to most, perhaps, but shit like that, as teege would say, makes my feet ticklish. like when people talk about their living room drapes. "drape" is a verb, it means to cover or hang with cloth, as in to drape fabric over a window. once you have draped something, it becomes a "drapery," which is what is in your living room. but "drape" as a noun has made it into the dictionary through constant misuse. why does it