Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 14:19:35 -0500 Message-ID: <5744A97D.2AC2@ix.netcom.com> Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 12:20:29 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,alt.astronomy Subject: Re: What Killed The Martians? References: <573E0BDA.62FF@ix.netcom.com> <574351CF.C6A@ix.netcom.com> <5743D90C.5DF1@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 33 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-AMj91ZQvP5qJW21JqCUUvwZqNQ4qS/kvZhYwBC8jIeGWeKdhutOEcNrS/eowkV8ZlHgFfbsvSTe1as2!ZtV0CMrL8j7KX3rvbPjaeztct3dxddABvszib7MIjQEj1VFgzNle8mqqezlogyDlOdDHUiDWF9ir!BkdPVNCrkmQ= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1974 X-Received-Bytes: 2086 X-Received-Body-CRC: 4150358228 Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:440570 sci.physics:580168 sci.physics.relativity:384103 alt.astronomy:284889 Dan Tilque wrote: > > The Starmaker wrote: > > Dan Tilque wrote: > >> The Starmaker wrote: > >>> Dan Tilque wrote: > >>>> The Starmaker wrote: > >>>>> What Killed The Martians on Mars? > >>>> "I" said me > >>>> "With my bow and arrow, I killed the Martians." > >>>> > >>> Isn't the correct...usage, ""Me" said I"? > >> Literary references are always lost on you. Always. > >> > > > > I was refering to physics, not science fiction which has it's literary > > references inaccurate to the real world. > > The reference wasn't exactly science fiction: > > http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/robin/CockRobinRhyme.html > > -- > Dan Tilque For example... "I think, therefore I am." should be "Me think, therefore I am."