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- jads, on 10/26/2009, -3/+21I've been reading Redmeat for a few years - it's an amazing and very underrated comic strip that is just as funny, if not funnier, than other wider known and read comics.
- MWeather, on 10/27/2009, -3/+15Yes.
- splosion, on 10/27/2009, -0/+12'bout time Red Meat hit the front page...
- shenerd, on 10/26/2009, -1/+7I've been a fan since college and it never gets old.
- YagLana, on 10/27/2009, -1/+7Most tasteless and twisted comic in the world? I think not:
http://misc.classpc.nl/morningglory/comics.html - cheerfulcynic, on 10/27/2009, -0/+6in college, someone tacked this one on their dorm room door
http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/2002-04-02/index.ht ...
and i fell in love instantly - KingGorilla, on 10/27/2009, -0/+5I've been eating red meat for a few years - it's an amazing and very underrated strip of meat that is just as delicious, if not tastier than other more cooked and eaten meats
- toadshortage, on 10/27/2009, -0/+4Build your own Red Meat...
http://monkeydyne.com/rmcs/ - marblewonder, on 10/27/2009, -0/+4Same picture 3 times? Talk about efficiency!
- hellengineer, on 10/27/2009, -1/+5I just found it now, great strips.
- toadshortage, on 10/27/2009, -0/+4My free weekly alternative paper recently stopped publishing Red Meat... I now only use said publication to start fires.
Earl would approve. - Kitakaze, on 10/27/2009, -0/+3Sorry, I didn't make myself clear.
I have a strong English accent. In British English, the "h" is silent in more words than in US English. Hilarious is pronounced 'illarious. Herb is pronounced 'erb. So "a" and "an" are both correct — depending on your pronunciation of the word, depending on your accent. (And this isn't the case for all of England — it also depend on your social and educational background.) - toadshortage, on 10/27/2009, -2/+5@ newchap ... Milkman Dan is a character.... this isn't a ***** milkman joke, its a Milkman Dan joke.
- boxoctosis, on 10/27/2009, -0/+3wow there's finally a good comic on the front page!
- Kitakaze, on 10/27/2009, -0/+3No, not really — and I'm a non-native English speaker, hell-bent on improving myself, so I honestly like grammar nazis, because it offers me a chance to learn. I'm not sure if you're as interested in this as me, but I'll offer you the same opportunity...
It's based on pronunciation, not spelling. "A unix box," not "an unix box;" "an hour," not "a hour." So it depends on how you pronounce the word — I learned English in England, and I still have the accent...
Don't worry, it's an honest mistake :) - askantik, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2That one is way better than this one.
- falconear, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2Wow, I didn't even know Redmeat was still around. I used to clip it out and put it on my dorm room door all the time. Too bad the alternative press is dying with the rest of the newspapers.
- bjornski, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2I believe in the power of the mods banning your ass.
- loper, on 10/27/2009, -3/+4aww, *****. I did'nt read it every week but it's a funny strip..
http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/2009-09-15/index.ht ... - mediaphile, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1Right. Which is why "an" would not be used in front of a word with a pronounced "h" sound.
"A hilarious strip" is correct because the word "hilarious" starts with a consonant sound, the pronounced "h." The only time "an" comes before a word starting with the letter "h" is if the "h" is silent, which is why I threw in the line "an honest mistake" as a tongue-in-cheek joke.
Your other examples are correct, though.
Some references:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/591/1
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/a-versus-an.a ... - , on 10/27/2009, -0/+1I lol'd
- AManWithNoName, on 10/27/2009, -4/+5I am the milkman. My milk is delicious. It's fortified with what the world wants...what the world DESERVES.
- wizawuza, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1When I first read the title I thought this was going to be about psychonauts
- mbelrose, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1I hate you, Milkman Dan.
- Kitakaze, on 10/27/2009, -3/+3I've been reading Red Meat in a free weekly alternative paper for years. It's an hilarious strip.
- malandrew, on 10/29/2009, -0/+0been reading readmeat since 97 or so... it's amazing that this comic hasn't made the front page before.
The Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles is another that I've never seen on Digg.
Also, has the Perry Bible Fellowship made it on digg? - mediaphile, on 10/27/2009, -1/+1*a hilarious strip.
Don't worry, it's an honest mistake.
/grammar nazi - inourspace, on 10/27/2009, -2/+1mirror please? :)
- Puppytwo, on 10/27/2009, -3/+2I liked it
- askantik, on 10/27/2009, -3/+1No.
- inactive, on 10/27/2009, -6/+3I guess this is a bad example then.
- VinceIP, on 10/27/2009, -16/+9Am I the only one who doesn't find this funny?
- inactive, on 10/27/2009, -10/+0The Milkman? Is this Hill Valley 1955?
- inactive, on 10/27/2009, -11/+0I guess it never gets old if they are making jokes about MILKMEN!
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