4 Dec
2005
4 Dec
'05
3:24 p.m.
Jim Leonard wrote:
Jim Battle wrote:
If that's what you wanted to write, you should have written that instead
of attempting to pass it off as a grammar correction.
That was supposed to be humor, to soften any criticism it implied of the
underlying statement.
There is
nothing wrong with the statement "When you're broke, you
pirate."
There is nothing wrong with it except that it is a blanket statement
and isn't true. Most people, when broke, do without. I don't disagree with you; most people go without.
But I was (and still
am, to a degree) somewhat obsessive, so sitting idle drove crazy.