Hello all,

DO NOT READ THIS.  I AM LETTING OFF STEAM.  

















OK, you were warned.  










OK, I know that I haven't been on the list long enough to be spamming
and ranting.  Guess what? I'm going to anyway.

This rant is a case of a pot calling a kettle black.  I am not perfect.
So far, my biggest problem has been with dailogue ending with a period.

I have created paragraphs like this:

"Mike, you are a complete and utter cretin."  He said.

After being correctly chastised by the grammar patrol, I promise to
write it this way in the future:

 "Mike, you are a complete and utter cretin," he said.

Are you ready for the Rant/Challenge part?  

Write something without using "headed" more than once.  It is
distracting to see the same word used over and over.  

As in:

They headed to school.  Once they got in the gates, they fought.  They
laughed.  They cried.  They then headed for class.  Class was boring.
They skipped calss and headed for the soccer field.  At lunchtime, they
headed for the cafeteria.   

headed, headed, headed Below, I added some definitions of headed.

Hypertext Webster Gateway: "headed"

>From WordNet (r) 1.6 (wn)

headed adj 1: having a heading or course in a certain direction;
"westward headed wagons" 2: having a heading or caption; "a headed
column"; "headed notepaper" [ant: {unheaded}] 3: having a head or
anything that serves as a head; often used in combination; "headed
bolts"; "three-headed Cerberus"; "a cool-headed fighter pilot" [ant:
{headless}] 4: of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head; "headed
cabbages" 

Mirriam Webster WWWebster Dictionary

Main Entry: head�ed
Pronunciation: 'he-d&d
Function: adjective
Date: 13th century
1 : having a head or a heading
2 : having a head or heads of a specified kind or number -- used in
combination <became light-headed from the fever> <a roundheaded screw> 

The Newbury House Online Dictionary

-v. 1 to lead, be in charge of: My father heads a large corporation. 2
to move in a certain direction: Let's head for home (Canada, port,
etc.).||Our ship is headed west. 3 to move toward a condition or result:
That fellow is headed for trouble.||She is a great swimmer and is headed
for victory. 4 phrasal v. insep. to head for s.t.: to go in the
direction of: Instead of going to the beach, we headed for the
mountains. 5 phrasal v. sep. to head s.o. or s.t. off: to leave: I have
to head off now and will see you tomorrow. to prevent: He headed off
financial trouble by selling his stocks before the crash.||He headed it
off.