Football pool
 

Suck it up. It feels like the 14th month over here, primarily because wearing the same damned clothes has grown tiresome.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

That someone is wrong. An adverb doesn't need a hyphen. It's abundantly clear what it's modifying.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

They are wrong. There is no need to hyphenate when an adverb is modifying an adjective.

ETA: Merde. Post, then scroll.

Open mouth, insert silver spoon
 

I know you're not from Texas, but Texas wants you anyway.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

I don't think you hyphenate adverb/adjective combos.

Open mouth, insert silver spoon
 

Aw, thanks pregnant-lady person! That made me smile.

Open mouth, insert silver spoon
 

I love anyone who loves Lyle Lovett. Except for Julia Roberts. I never loved her.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

The Supreme Court ruling was highly publicized. The highly-publicized Supreme Court ruling requires that suspects who are in custody receive information regarding their rights.

It depends on whether it is modifying a noun or not. I'm sure dtb will provide greater detail and clarity, but that is the short of it.



ETA: I have read the other advice on this subject, and I am standing by my statement. It is not clear to me whether sunny's usage of the phrase required hyphenation or not.

EFTA: I was not aware of the adverb usage exception. I'll take hte grammar nerds' word for it though. Luckily I write only in simple sentences, so the issue never arises.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

That is the rule when the first word is not an adverb.

This is how I remember the rule you stated above:

She lived during the eighteenth century.
Eighteenth-century life was smelly.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

Translation: Sunny is my box bitch, and as the partner she must endure my errors.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

Who is the partner in your scenario? I think you've got a dangling bitch in your sentence.

'Cause what they really need is a pep talk
 

Curt Schilling count?

BOSTON - Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and wife Shonda paid to fly a New Orleans family of nine to Boston and pledged to provide them with housing for a year.

“When we realized how many people had nowhere to go, we didn’t just want to make a donation,” Shonda Schilling told The Boston Globe. “We decided we wanted to bring an entire family here and put them up.”

The families connected through a Web site, openyourhome.com, which matches displaced families with people willing to house them. The Schillings registered Friday and on Saturday anonymously arranged for the family to fly to Boston.

“He said, ‘I would like to help you,”’ Efrem Fields, 31, told The Globe in a phone interview from his hotel. “He didn’t say who he was.”

Fields and his wife, Shelita, 28, and their kids met the Schillings at the hotel. Fields said his new friend looked familiar.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

Oh the irony.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

Does it change if there are double hyphens?

• The co-sign of the loan was ill advised. The ill-advised co-sign will cost her.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

NO HYPHENS ON COMPOUND ADJECTIVES WHERE THE FIRST PART OF THE COMPOUND IS AN ADVERB ENDING IN "LY"

Now, is that so hard?

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

That was just mean-spirited.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

Oooh. So close. That is the rule for other compound adjectives (if it comes at the end of a sentence, no need for hyphen); however, the "ly" rule is true no matter where the compound appears in the sentence.

Really, people; how much is it to ask that you read the Chicago Manual of Stlye chapters on punctuation from cover to cover and memorize them?


(I feel like Hermione Granger.)

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

Ok, Owen.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

WhoTF is Owen?

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

Meany, IIRC.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

Ah. OK. All I could think of was "Wilson" and it did not compute.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

What is it about Owen Wilson. i saw the wedding crashers last week and i just adore Owen Wilson and I can't figure out why.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

2.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

It wouldn't compute. I can't see Owen Wilson getting worked up about anything, let alone a hyphen.

Broken Flowers
 

I saw Broken Flowers last night and it was really quite excellent. For a slow-moving Bill Murray movie, it is way better than Lost in Translation.

Broken Flowers
 

Really? I enjoyed LiT much more than Broken Flowers. I thought Broken Flowers was rather slow.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

I bought a bunch of Ryan Adams discs over the weekend and happened upon that tune they play throughout Old School - the one where he sings “When you’re young you get sad...” I shouldn’t listen to that on the train. I really shouldn’t listen to it five times on repeat. It was all I could do not to turn around and take the train right back home...

“Hi, Honey... Yeh. You’re going to be working a little bit harder from now on... You can hack the next few mortgage payments, right?”

Broken Flowers
 

Yes, it was slow, but it didn't bug me.

I think it's entirely possible that I want to have one thousand of Bill Murray's babies and I viewed Scarlett Johanssen as competition - so that could have been why LiT did not do much for me.* I liked the hug at the end though.


*This doesn't make much sense because Broken Flowers is chock-full of women - potential competition. But none of them are (is? - damn) Scarlett. haha.

Broken Flowers
 

Anyone who hasn't seen "The Aristocrats" should do so at once. If only for the Christopher Walken impression, which is not to imply that the rest of the movie is not funny as hell, which it is. Funny. As hell. The rest of the movie.

I forget who here invented liking the Christopher Walken impression from "The Aristocrats" but to them I say mad props, big up, love the sistahs, etc.

Broken Flowers
 

Translation: I don't consider myself a cougar -- yet.

Broken Flowers
 

My boyfriend is living with me rent-free for a month. I am more sugar mama than cougar at present.

Broken Flowers
 

Nice.

Do you think my husband would mind if my boyfriend stayed with me rent-free for a month?

No, right?

Broken Flowers
 

We can always meet in Prague.

Football pool
 

That bitch painted my mic white.

Broken Flowers
 

I always considered you a thinking outside the box, not on the bandwagon kind of guy. Yet you’re shilling for the trendiest movie in years. I would probably like the Aristocrats, and actually want to see it... but too many smart, funny, people, including many close friends, have recommended it to me, making it impossible for me to see it...

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

LT's version of BB's 'nerd herd' is in fine form today.

Poor Janelle and Howie. Boo hoo.

Football pool
 

That's why I thought it was so great. Oprah complaining about Barbra to a nobody like Kathy Griffin.

I don't think she actually said bitch, though. I thought it was "do you know she painted my mic white?" Bitch was implied.

Broken Flowers
 

How the hell is it only showing two times (1:30 and 4:30) in all of LA? Or is Yahoo movies letting me down? I am not going to Sherman Oaks.

Broken Flowers
 

Penn worked outside the industry on that one, so Eisner blackballed the film to no screens.

I don't want to want to watch it
 

But I might not be able to resist "Breaking Bonaduce." Apparently he has a complete personal meltdown on the show - moreso than you might expect.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/ar...on/04aurt.html

Also, did anybody catch the Sex Inspectors on HBO? It's essentially "What Not to Wear" for couple's sex lives. Let's just say that TV's obsession with making people over might have gone a bit too far, although considering the concept, the show was actually tastefully done and not as excruciatingly embarrassing as you might think.