Thread regarding Sears layoffs

Ground round

Round & round they go circling the drain.

Yes But they’re small rounds

I heard 4 rounds. Anybody hear 5?

No There’s 3 more rounds unless they’re small

Two more rounds, pinky swear?

2 more rounds and they are all gone

Just a heads–up, SB360 removed the stores from the last round from their closing list (since that round is now done). There are now, only 11 stores listed on there. 8 of which will close on or around May 2, plus the latest 3 which will close soon after.

is the Sears is Orange, CA officially closed,,, Used to shop there all th etime yup

LOL, whatever turns you on, mate. I was never a fan of Shakespeare. Just thought I'd check on Sears from across the pond.
Barman poured me another lager, so signing off. Cheers!

I forgot, another common example of a hyperbaton is "WHAT SAY YOU?", instead of "What do you Say?". That is the effect I was going for when I wrote "that does not, news make". I am an expert on the English language, I have a master's Degree in it, and I am very familiar with the non–standard, yet still grammatically correct formats. I use those purposely, to provide some variety to my written language.

"does not news make" is a "hyperbaton". I thought someone was going to call that out. I did it purposely it is a non–standard, though still valid form of English often used by Shakespeare. Just search the word "hyperbaton", and that will explain it. "That does not, news make", is a hyperbaton of "that does not, make news". It's a non–standard format where the noun and verb are inversed.

Example:

The Lighter Side of Hyperbaton
Mrs. A: Well, let me remind you Mr. X, that one case does not a detective make.
Mr. B: Well, let me remind you Mrs. A, that I hate it when you talk backwards.

Another example I searched online:

The archetypal phrase is "One swallow does not summer make".

This is a quote from Aristotle's Ethics, however I am having trouble finding the relevant translation.

The translation by W. D. Ross at classics.mit.edu goes:

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

At Project Gutenberg, the translation by J A Smith et al, goes:

for as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy.

• and I am unable to find a translation online (and we must be looking for one that's old enough to be in the public domain) that has the exact familiar English wording.

My guess is that the phrase was simplified in the retelling, long enough ago that modern word orders were not fixed in stone. The sentence would not look out of place in the King James Bible, for example, so we could expect that kind of age.

"that does not, news make."

You really should not post while at the bar.

*predicted (typo)

Frees up a lot of liquidators.

We already Knew this. This is more than obvious. Elevator guy posted this silliness on about 10 different websites I saw. Enough.

7 Sears & 1 Kmart Stores are closing by May 2nd, 2021

Thanks Chris Cronin. You always seem to have to put in your two sense worth!