Re: Campaign pacing

Ed Chauvin IV wrote:
> Mere moments before death, tussock <scrub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> hastily
> scrawled:
> 
>> David Alex Lamb wrote:
>>> tussock wrote:
>>>> as food, water, and shelter needs organised, and the weather has to 
>>> 'needs organised' -- are you from Pittsburgh by change?  That was a
>>> localism: "needs <<past participle>>"
>>     Southern end of New Zealand, mostly. I'm struggling to picture how 
>> else one would phrase that: it all clearly needs organised, unusual 
>> tenses be damned.
>>
>>     You know, that fish needs cooked, someone's ass needs kicked around

>> here, that job needs done before the end of the day.
> 
> You're leaving out the "to be", as in the fish needs to be cooked.

     I s'pose, but technically I don't think the fish needs anything, 
what with it being dead. It's true that there is a need for the fish in 
question to become cooked.

     B'round'ereth'wordsdon'eedthosebits, savestime eh. Needs cooked.

-- 
     tussock

Aspie at work, sorry in advance.