And I thought I was a tough grader

Usually, I'm the one calling out my friends and family for using the wrong form of "your" or "their" or not following the very serious and important pronoun-antecedent agreement laws that "each" person should use while "he" is writing. But since starting this fundraiser, MAN, have some of you made me feel like I got an "F" on my project.

Let's take a minute to explain and defend my blog and project title.

The House Your Dollar Built

You're right. We are not planning on building a house. That would be super fun, but not likely to happen here in Milwaukee. You're right, I should have called it "The House Your Dollar Bought". But, ya know, there's no nursery rhyme out there called "The House That Jack Bought"

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So, I went with "built".

I also went with "built" because you will be helping us build a home. Money "buys" things... and you simply cannot buy a home. A home is a place where you watch your babies grow up into door-slamming teenagers, where you fall more in love with the balding man who snores next to you every night, and where you can actually lock a bathroom door to pee in private. Your dollar isn't just "buying" a house, it's building a home. And I'm sticking to it.

That and the Internet tells me I can't edit the name.

And to further my defense, I'm going to rewrite the well-known (is it?) Mother Goose rhyme to fit our story.

This is the house your dollar built,
This is the malt
That lay in the house that your dollar built
This is the guy
that brewed the malt
that lay in the house that your dollar built
This is the donor
that joined the guy
that brewed the malt
that lay in the house that your dollar built
This is... the longest rhyme ever,
so come drink a homebrew,
or eat a piece of bread,
that was made in the house that your dollar built!!!

The end.