I was going to make a post today about how Toys R Us is promising “thousands of Wii’s” before Christmas next week, but how the hell can I justify that when Infendo tipster Georg is making purses out of NES consoles? The Nintendophile in me weeps when I see an NES mangled in such a way, but in this day and age a girl’s got to accessorize, right?
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I would instantly bang any girl carrying one of those. No questions asked.
I like the lighter department, very thoughtful!
How does ‘an’ NES make sense?
who says that!?,, ‘an’ is used only before a word that begins with a vowel, ‘an animal’, ‘an arse’,, not ‘an NES’/ this isnt all that relevant to the blog but then the relevance of a handbag to nintendo fans – however tastefully styled – is debatable. ‘A NES’ get that? hehe..
Mr. Rebus,
Learn English. Spelling is irrelevant when deciding which article is appropriate. It’s based on pronunciation. Hence, “an hour”, not “a hour”. If the word starts with a vowel SOUND you use an. It’s been an honor posting here.
[...] In a perfect world these parts would grow on digital 8-bit trees; would be picked by blocky Donkey Kong monkey sprites; and would then be installed by magical Nintendo engineers that never slept or tired of their monotonous tasks… but this is not the case. Instead, we must now trudge onward with what we have left (a doorless, fully-working NES from 1986, in my case), knowledgeable of the fact that when our NES goes kaput — as all hardware must do eventually — we will have to tinker with it ourselves or cast into the circular “game over” file forever. Or make it into a purse. [...]