Here’s a message for the Massachusetts Board of Education: Wouldn’t you be better off spending your time and money fixing your under-performing schools than looking for a kinder word than under-performing? You know what they say about a rose by any other name? Well, it’s true. People can see through the bullshit, so spare them, …
Category Archives: wording and grammar
Posting I Am
I was looking over the coming events listings in theMercwhen I saw this: Addictions Are Us meets in the Hastings Room of the West-End Community Centre, 21 Imperial Rd. S. from 10 to 11:30 a.m. This self-help group discusses coping skills required to get and maintain control of alcohol, drug, gambling and other addictions. Addictions …
You Have the Right To Remain Confused
The other day I was reading some story about a guy who was sneaking people into the U.S. illegally and pretending to be another guy. The story wasn’t really that interesting, but what he was charged with got me thinking. He was charged with criminal impersonation. I know what criminal impersonation means, but the literal …
More Awful Spam Marketing
Who in the name of the lord is going to buy penis enlargement products from somebody named Cecile Smallwood? I don’t plan on buying them from anybody, but if I were considering it, I think I’d want to speak with Brendan Monsterwang or Lance Cucumbercock over Cecile Smallwood. Come on guys, get your shit together …
More Things And More Stuff
Wow. Two random thought posts in one week? That doesn’t happen very often. Off we go. Last night, we were doing the old flip around the music channels thing again, aren’t we predictable? This time, what grabbed our attention was an English kids’ song. It sounded like that song “The Wheels on the Bus Go …
Things And Stuff
I have some random thoughts I’ve been meaning to write down. So here they are, in no particular order. The other day, that old song “Knock Three Times” came on. You know the one, “Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me, twice on the pipe if the answer is no.” this made …
Did They Do This On purpose?
Is it wrong that I think it’s funny that a story about illiteracy has a spelling error? I know it’s just one, but… Update: It appears they listened to me! No, they probably listened to other people who complained to them about the spelling error. Either way, it’s fixed, and I’ve been made to look …
Best Celler?
I don’t know how to feel about cellphone novels. My first gut reaction is ug! Apparently, in Japan, a lot of people are throwing together novels on their cellphones, in text message format, then somehow getting them published, and they’re selling like mad! Some of them are on the best-sellers list! If text message-llike writing …
Tell Me He Did Not Just Say That!
This is just funny. I never knew the closed captions were so inaccurate. Well, during the time of the Southern California fires, they really blew their comic relief load. I read about this in Snopes, but since the silly folk didn’t caption their picture, I couldn’t laugh along. Luckily, Randy Cassingham thought enough of us …
This Beats The Donzer Song Any Day
Oh my. I wish something like that could happen with our national anthem. I’m trying to think of what words someone could fuck up to make something nearly this amusing. Hmmm. Anybody got any ideas? Basically, Tony Henry, an English opera singer who spoke 0 Croatian, was askd to sing the Croatian national anthem at …