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I wonder if I can get a poster of that picture to hang on my office wall.
I am definitely going to start carrying the Sharpie around. I just saw something that needed correction written on the stall wall in the ladies room at the train terminal the other day.
I swear there is an unwritten rule in the universe stating that grammar and decent spelling must mysteriously become obsolete on the world wide web. I am courageously fighting the urge to go through posts and edit them.
Many years ago, our local newspaper was famous for errors. Most of the errors were simply misspellings, but one that has remained with me all these years always makes me smile. In an article about the arrest of two men engaged in a fight outside of a bar, the reporter informed us,
"The combatants were apprehended while shouting epitaphs at one another".
I swear there is an unwritten rule in the universe stating that grammar and decent spelling must mysteriously become obsolete on the world wide web. I am courageously fighting the urge to go through posts and edit them.
I resist this as well, even though sometimes it is very difficult. I think the next time I see someone asking for "advise", I am going to have to break loose and type, "It's a C!!! For the love of God, it's a damn C!!!!!!"
Many years ago, our local newspaper was famous for errors. Most of the errors were simply misspellings, but one that has remained with me all these years always makes me smile. In an article about the arrest of two men engaged in a fight outside of a bar, the reporter informed us,
"The combatants were apprehended while shouting epitaphs at one another".
Can't rep you again yet, but I laughed out loud at that one!
My favorite was our local paper's announcement that there would be a support group held for homicide victims.
I really wanted to attend just for the gruesome sight of the local dead from shotgun wounds and stabbings and stranglings propped in a circle of chairs with a live facilitator at the helm.
There is a business establishment about a mile from my home, adorned with a big sign which states, "COMERCIAL PRINTING". I'm appalled (and amused) every time I see it.
I used to work with this young woman who complained all the time that the fiftyish man in the next department was a "pettyfiler" because he was an older man who was always checking her out. He never made any remarks, she'd just catch him looking.
Finally someone pointed out to her that since she always wore mini-skirts up to her azz, he was just being a normal man and couldn't be considered a pedophile anyway because she was a grown woman in her 20's. But forever after, "pettyfiler" has been stuck in my head.
Could someone please tell me the best climate in which to grow a Lie-berry? REALLY!!!
Maybe they created some kind of confusion when cities created BRANCHESfor their LIBRARIES.
gracie
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