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[quote]Flop Hat wrote:
imhungry wrote:
MATING ANOLES!!!

Anoles are awesome!

reptile fun facts:

Anoles are diapsids. They have eggs covered with a leathery shell, a three chambered heart, and metanephric kidney. They produce simi-solid urine. They enjoy easy listening music, drinking methanol, and wild anole sex parties.

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Wow, a trick of getting more people in this thread is to post pics of various animals. Someone is a fan.

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[quote]tootles27 wrote:
miroku333 wrote:
Mad_Duck wrote:
I keep reading mini-mak’s posts, thinking how girly he sounds now.
wink.

who?
I thought I was Mak Jr.

page 100!

You, my friend, are Post Whore Jr. (^:[/quote]

I’ll take it!

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ohaiguyzgonnapostkthnxbai

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Hey tootles I figured out a bit of a difference between guys & girls today.
I was moving a television & assembling some stuff for a different one of my wife’s co-workers today. Many women would think this type of treatment was me being used as a big piece of meat. I was thinking: Hey, I’m just being used as a big piece of meat…Right ON!

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[quote]Flop Hat wrote:
imhungry wrote:
MATING ANOLES!!!

Anoles are awesome!

reptile fun facts:

Anoles are diapsids. They have eggs covered with a leathery shell, a three chambered heart, and metanephric kidney. They produce simi-solid urine. They enjoy easy listening music, drinking methanol, and wild anole sex parties.

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They also like being watched while they’re humping. It’s obvious in the pic. Anoles are FREAKS!

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Post-Whore Jr. checking in.

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Original post whore, reporting.

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Knowing when to use affect or effect in a sentence can be a challenge. These words are examples of homonyms. Homonyms are words that similar, but have very different meanings. Other examples of homonyms are two/to/too, accept/except, and there/their/they’re.

Affect

In order to understand the correct situation in which to use the word affect or effect, the first thing one must do is have a clear understanding of what each word means. According to yourDictionary.com, the word
Affect means:

  1. To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
  2. To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
  3. To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.

Effect

The word effect has a different meaning. Here is the meaning according to yourDictionary.com:

  1. Something brought about by a cause or agent; a result.
  2. The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result; influence: The drug had an immediate effect on the pain. The government’s action had no effect on the trade imbalance.
  3. A scientific law, hypothesis, or phenomenon: the photovoltaic effect.
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  4. Advantage; avail: used her words to great effect in influencing the jury.
  5. The condition of being in full force or execution: a new regulation that goes into effect tomorrow.
  7. Something that produces a specific impression or supports a general design or intention: The lighting effects emphasized the harsh atmosphere of the drama.
  8. A particular impression: large windows that gave an effect of spaciousness.
  9. Production of a desired impression: spent lavishly on dinner just for effect.
  10. The basic or general meaning; import: He said he was greatly worried, or words to that effect.

Grammar Rules for Affect and Effect

Now that we have the two definitions, how do we know which word to use? Here are a few suggestions to keep in mind:

  1. If you are talking about a result, then use the word “effect.”
  • Example: What effect did the loss have on the team?
  1. It is appropriate to use the word “effect” if one of these words is used immediately before the word: into, no, take, the, any, an, or and.
  • Example: The prescribed medication had no effect on the patient’s symptoms.
  • Example: In analyzing a situation, it is important to take the concepts of cause and effect into consideration.
  1. If you want to describe something that was caused or brought about, the right word to use is effect.
  • Example: The new manager effected some positive changes in the office. (This means that the new manager caused some positive changes to take place in the office.)
  1. Affect can be used as a noun to describe facial expression.
  • Example: The young man with schizophrenia had a flat affect.
  • Example: The woman took the news of her husband’s sudden death with little affect.
  1. Affect can also be used as a verb. Use it when trying to describe influencing someone or something rather than causing it.
  • Example: How does the crime rate affect hiring levels by local police forces?
  • Example: The weather conditions will affect the number of people who come to the county fair this year.
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Thanks for the info!

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Boo.

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[quote]Makavali wrote:
Thanks for the info![/quote]

No problem!

Being you is fun!

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Hamsters are known as the cock teases of the animal world.

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[quote]imhungry wrote:
Hamsters are known as the cock teases of the animal world.[/quote]

That is adorable.

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[quote]Mad_Duck wrote:
Hey tootles I figured out a bit of a difference between guys & girls today.
I was moving a television & assembling some stuff for a different one of my wife’s co-workers today. Many women would think this type of treatment was me being used as a big piece of meat. I was thinking: Hey, I’m just being used as a big piece of meat…Right ON![/quote]

Wow MD, you are know as the resident mover of stuff/handy man. Make sure your wife is using you like a big piece of meat. Wink.

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We didn’t ever feed hamsters to the snakes in the pet shop. Too much roughage. Had a horrible effect on them. The rats & gerbils didn’t fare too well either.

I’ve got a friend in the linguistics dept @ OSU if you need help providing us with more lingual edumacation ;^}

imhungry: Whales raping each other. a picture that would be worth about 1500 words.

miroku: I checked your profile, thought heh-heh, My deadlift is bigger than your bench! waitaminute- I’ll get bac to you in a couple of months.

mak: mancrush x2

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[quote]imhungry wrote:
Boo.[/quote]

Hey!! You stole my cat.

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[quote]tootles27 wrote:
imhungry wrote:
Boo.

Hey!! You stole my cat. [/quote]

Bullshit.

He used to be mine:(

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[quote]Mad_Duck wrote:

miroku: I checked your profile, thought heh-heh, My deadlift is bigger than your bench! waitaminute- I’ll get bac to you in a couple of months.
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well, I would certainly hope so :wink:

and that hamster pic is so wrong. but ditto on the whale pic.

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[quote]Mad_Duck wrote:
We didn’t ever feed hamsters to the snakes in the pet shop. Too much roughage. Had a horrible effect on them. The rats & gerbils didn’t fare too well either.

I’ve got a friend in the linguistics dept @ OSU if you need help providing us with more lingual edumacation ;^}

imhungry: Whales raping each other. a picture that would be worth about 1500 words.

miroku: I checked your profile, thought heh-heh, My deadlift is bigger than your bench! waitaminute- I’ll get bac to you in a couple of months.

mak: mancrush x2
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Here’s all I got for ya, MD.

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I tried to make a thread in this forum one time. I never even got a smartass comment out of it. :frowning: