Anonymous
12/22/2019 20:57
Subject: Re:Has anyone here met Jimmy Stewart?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don't be mean to OP. She just doesn't know proper English usage. The present perfect tense she used implies ongoing possibility. What she should have asked is "Did anyone ever meet Jimmy Stewart?" which makes it clear that meeting him is no longer possible.
OP’s wording was perfectly fine. DCUM just brings out the cranks.
I didn’t know Stewart supported the House Commie Hunt Committee. Ugh.
It was a litmus test. If you didn't support it, you were a communist.
It was a witch-hunt. Nothing more. No enemy of the state was ever discovered and lives where thrown into horrible upheaval for nothing.
Yes, this makes me admire Jimmy Stewart much, much less. At least he didn’t testify and name people.
Anonymous
12/22/2019 18:10
Subject: Re:Has anyone here met Jimmy Stewart?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don't be mean to OP. She just doesn't know proper English usage. The present perfect tense she used implies ongoing possibility. What she should have asked is "Did anyone ever meet Jimmy Stewart?" which makes it clear that meeting him is no longer possible.
OP’s wording was perfectly fine. DCUM just brings out the cranks.
I didn’t know Stewart supported the House Commie Hunt Committee. Ugh.
It was a litmus test. If you didn't support it, you were a communist.
Anonymous
12/22/2019 17:35
Subject: Has anyone here met Jimmy Stewart?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sorry, OP. The previous replies are simply dumb and useless. Yes, he died in 1997, but some of us were alive as adults before then...
I met him through a mutual acquaintance over dinner in the late 1980s. I found him to be charming, inquisitive, and pleasant to talk with.
He was a supporter the House Un-American Activities, but okay, he was pleasant to you.
That makes me like him even more.
There were commies in the US government and society, and they needed rooting out. They were (and are) as bad as the Nazis.
You are willfully ignorant of our history, PP.