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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:48 pm
by Tom Flapwell
for me it would be $300. for individuals, not couples, it's $300. a couple is $600, or something like that.
Last I heard, the upper limit was $1,200.

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:20 am
by Tarukai
for me it would be $300. for individuals, not couples, it's $300. a couple is $600, or something like that.
Last I heard, the upper limit was $1,200.
it's all dependent on income, of course.

the richest people won't even be getting one XD

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:44 pm
by GeorgiaCoyote
the richest people won't even be getting one XD
As it should be. You think the wealthest 10% of America are suffering from this recession...Heck no!!! They're all like...Recession....What Recession? :x :roll:

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 6:14 pm
by ntoonz
Actually, it's 'stimulus checks'. I don't think they're meant to cause more than one.

We thought we were going to have to spend ours on our state taxes, but we caught an error in our favor. Now we can use it to get out of our credit card debt. Whoohoo!

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:47 pm
by Richard K Niner
Try "Stimulus Cheques". You Americans and your (I'm surprised you don't spell it 'yor', which would at least be consistent) weird spelling. Image

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:51 pm
by TyVulpine
At least we spell it "color" and not "colour"...:P (no extra unnecessary letters!)

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:55 pm
by Richard K Niner
At least we spell it "color" and not "colour"...:P (no extra unnecessary letters!)
And you missed my parentheses, I see. Image

(If the 'u' is unnecessary in 'colour', 'savour', 'flavour', 'favour', and other words with an 'our' pronounced 'er', then why is this not the case for 'your'?)

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:13 pm
by TyVulpine
At least we spell it "color" and not "colour"...:P (no extra unnecessary letters!)
And you missed my parentheses, I see. Image

(If the 'u' is unnecessary in 'colour', 'savour', 'flavour', 'favour', and other words with an 'our' pronounced 'er', then why is this not the case for 'your'?)
Because it's the possessive of "you" (which sounds like the letter "u".), so to try to keep it as simple as possible, the u was kept (and to separate ourselves from a certain country that was despised at the time in this country, our forefathers dropped the "u" from many words.)

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:10 am
by Fritz
At least we spell it "color" and not "colour"...:P (no extra unnecessary letters!)
And you missed my parentheses, I see. Image

(If the 'u' is unnecessary in 'colour', 'savour', 'flavour', 'favour', and other words with an 'our' pronounced 'er', then why is this not the case for 'your'?)
More importantly WHY DO YOU CARE SO MUCH

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:15 am
by Tom Flapwell
(If the 'u' is unnecessary in 'colour', 'savour', 'flavour', 'favour', and other words with an 'our' pronounced 'er', then why is this not the case for 'your'?)
Because it's the possessive of "you" (which sounds like the letter "u".), so to try to keep it as simple as possible, the u was kept (and to separate ourselves from a certain country that was despised at the time in this country, our forefathers dropped the "u" from many words.)
Also, all the other "-our" words are trochees. They don't put stress on the "-our" syllable, and the vowel sound is a schwa.

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:42 am
by osprey
Spelling differences. Serious business.

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:54 am
by ntoonz
Try "Stimulus Cheques". You Americans and your (I'm surprised you don't spell it 'yor', which would at least be consistent) weird spelling. Image
Could be stimulus Czechs, but I don't they're gummint issue.

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:08 am
by Richard K Niner
(If the 'u' is unnecessary in 'colour', 'savour', 'flavour', 'favour', and other words with an 'our' pronounced 'er', then why is this not the case for 'your'?)
Because it's the possessive of "you" (which sounds like the letter "u".), so to try to keep it as simple as possible, the u was kept (and to separate ourselves from a certain country that was despised at the time in this country, our forefathers dropped the "u" from many words.)
Also, all the other "-our" words are trochees. They don't put stress on the "-our" syllable, and the vowel sound is a schwa.
Eh, the vowel sound was always the same for me.

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:13 am
by osprey
You're all dipthongs!

LOL, jk.

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 10:23 am
by CodeCat
Neither British nor American spelling is better really, because they're both crap. Colour does not have an o or u in it, neither does color. Food does not have an o in it, need does not have an e in it, house does not have an o or e in it.