Nigel, this is actually starting to get to me.

[Cainad (dec.)]

I've found that with a king sized mattress the dimension is close enough to a square, that the fitted sheet fits well enough that it doesn't matter the orientation.
i don't know why they didn't just decide on an actual square when they were establishing bed sizes...

MANHOLE COVERS ARE ROUND.

WHY?

So they don't turn sideways and fall down the hole, crushing the guy who'll actually go down there and fix shit to death.

What is this called, this grammatical structure? I've seen it twice today... I always find myself starting to do this and then going back and fixing it. I KNOW it has a name.

Dangling participle?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I've found that with a king sized mattress the dimension is close enough to a square, that the fitted sheet fits well enough that it doesn't matter the orientation.
i don't know why they didn't just decide on an actual square when they were establishing bed sizes...

MANHOLE COVERS ARE ROUND.

WHY?

So they don't turn sideways and fall down the hole, crushing the guy who'll actually go down there and fix shit to death.

What is this called, this grammatical structure? I've seen it twice today... I always find myself starting to do this and then going back and fixing it. I KNOW it has a name.

Dangling participle?

I think it is a dangling preposition.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I've found that with a king sized mattress the dimension is close enough to a square, that the fitted sheet fits well enough that it doesn't matter the orientation.
i don't know why they didn't just decide on an actual square when they were establishing bed sizes...

MANHOLE COVERS ARE ROUND.

WHY?

So they don't turn sideways and fall down the hole, crushing the guy who'll actually go down there and fix shit to death.

What is this called, this grammatical structure? I've seen it twice today... I always find myself starting to do this and then going back and fixing it. I KNOW it has a name.

Dangling participle?

Now I want to say "dangling particple " to the first person I run into and see if they check their zipper.

[Triple Zero]

I have a friend who was celibate and not at all looking or interested for about ten years while she raised her daughters. Then she met her current boyfriend, and they are blissfully happy and ridiculously in love. It's really great.

YAY!!! Maybe I can still have hope!!! 

heyyyyy there you go! glad you found hope might actually exist!

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

No "maybe" to it.