OT: Speaking of the Grammar Police....

Die hard gamers are not shoppers! lol

We are talking mostly about men who want to sit in front of their TVs fighting zombies, not battling mall crowds. Coming to mall is gonna make some of them nuts, and they'll pass that onto others.

Caryn

I hate to diagree with you but I know some diehard gamers who dearly love to shop in the electronic department of stores in the mall.. I think you're thinking of the kind of store you work in that mostly deals with youngsters, but a lot of seniors are gamers too. There are plenty of "older" folk who would be delighted to accompany their families if they know there's a treat available and the xbox definitely counts as a treat. I suspect that a lot of kids will ask their mom to buy it, and you know a lot of the women will adore having an excuse to go to the mall.

Lucille

And of course you're going to be stuck working that day.... it's retail, and you're the new gal on the totem pole. I sure don't miss those days!

I was thinking of the other stores in the mall, actually. The folks coming to get their new toys will come to my store, buy their Xbox, buy whatever game we actually have for it and head home.

Youngsters aren't able to fork over the $400 this thing costs, it's mostly men in their 40's and 50's doing the pre-orders.

Micro$oft wasn't thinking about broader marketing, other than getting their next-gen machine out before Xmas. Sony on the other hand, won't manage to get the PS3 out until next spring sometime, and Nintendo's Revolution's release date is still a complete mystery. They beat their competition, which is their main goal. They don't care if other stores in the mall get any benefit.

It's more likely that the reason the release date was pushed back a week to be the week of Thanksgiving was a matter of logistics in shipping/manufacturing.

It will make that weekend even crazier at any store that sells them tho!

Caryn

Because we're old-fashioned and have retained the 16th century pronunciation? 'Erb is culinary; herbacious is botanical.

Bertha, I'm not sure about archaic pronunciations of "history"; it's also possible that it's simply one of those high-culture/pretention things people sometimes use to make themselves feel superior to the hoi-polloi.

It`s probably a throw back to the poor immigrants `oo arrived over there a few `undred years ago an`, bein` workin` class, dropped their haitches! LOL! It`s definitely the sign of a pheasant to drop you haitches in some words and hadd `em hon where they ain`t s`posed ter be!

(An` doncha mean Oy Perloy?)

Pat P

A pheasant? You mean they spent all that energy bringing poor immigrant birds over?

Lucille>

LOL - you spotted my deliberate mistake. I wondered who would be the first! :-D Come to think of it, do you have pheasants and fartridges over there???

Pat P

By the way, I think I forgot to tell you, you have one adorable dog.

Lucille

Lots of pheasants. One thing I learned: If you see a very large number of pheasants forming a tight circle and facing inward, get the heck off the road and be prepared--blizzard coming!

Nah speed up and have a wonderful supper ;p;

That`s interesting - never seen that phenomenon here! Must watch out for it!

Pat P

LOL! I like your thinking!

Here it is illegal to pick up a pheasant you`ve run over yourself and take it home - but the person in the car/cars behind you can do so! Best arrange a friend to follow you!!! Clever piece of legal logic, anyway!

Pat P

I didn't really want to drive into the ditch to hit them! I was stuck off the road in white-out conditions less than 20 minutes later, however. I've heard other animals will do the same thing before a blizzard since bunching together conserves body heat. Pheasants are large enough to be easily spotted from the road after harvest.

Which reminds me...is a pheasant the same bird on both sides of the pond? I believe what Pat calls a partridge is the bird we call quail.

Yes! the pheasant were introduced to the States by the Brits and or the Chinese. (depends on where you are)

Not so sure about the quail.

Cheryl

Just for the heck of it I looked it up on google and this is what I came up with: There is no difference between a partridge and a quail! In northern regions it is called a quail while in southern regions the same bird is known as a partridge (in a pear tree). Lucille

Pheasants are the same and certainly in Canada we have partridges. Quail are raised in farming situations I think, unless they are wild out west. Partridges are not quail though.

I expect google hasn't tasted them, they taste quite different to me. The quail is a less gamey taste than the partridge.

I wouldn't dream of telling you you're wrong. Mostly because as far as I'm concerned they're both much too gamey for my taste and I think of them as pigeons. I don't have the slightest desire to ever eat one again.

Lucille