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If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought – George Orwell
I sure get a kick out of the Tucson Weekly Police Dispatch column. This one is from the July 2, 2009 issue: A WHORIBLE SPELLER A woman freshly out of a messy divorce found alleged proof that her ex-husband is both mean and a lousy speller, a PCSD report stated. The victim said that about […]
So I thought I’d take a little hike up the Appalachian Trail. You know, just to see how far the Old Log Inn is. But when I get back I find a note from my wife: “Gone to Reno.” Shoot, now it’s just me & Rosie . . . and her five sisters. Well, gotta […]
Tips for Writers “Get it write, you slob’s!” Most of us are happy to pitch in when work needs to be done, but when the boss wants someone to write an article for the company newsletter, it’s all “Hey, where’d everybody go?” That’s because most of us are self-conscious about our writing. We worry that […]
Is it part of the conservative ethic to come across as an uneducated dummy? Must be. Here’s a motorcycle forum response I got in response to my recent jab at smokers: I still smoke and it’s very hard to quite. I was a very heavy drinker, Maybe months away from drinking myself to death. And […]
Watching the Oscars the other night, I started wondering why we still differentiate between actors and actresses. To be sure, the industry needs to spread those awards around, and it would seem odd if male and female actors were lumped together and only one of them, a man or a woman, got Best Actor … […]
I wrote about eggcorns a few days ago, and in one of those coincidences that make you think “huh?”, spotted one in the wild this morning. From a customer review of a true crime movie on Amazon: “If you think the film is gut retching, I dare you to actually review the case.” Gut retching! […]
Recently posted to a Hash House Harrier board: Do to popular request, this Fridays hashy hour will be at the Old Chicago Unremarkable, save for the fact that the guy who wrote this earned post-graduate degrees in marine biology and optical engineering. I judge people by the way they speak and write. C’mon, you do […]
Driving home today I fell in behind a pickup truck with an odd homemade bumper sticker. Composed of individual stick-on letters, it read: drafting is not an act its an art winston salem cars are not apart Was he trying to say something about tailgating? Probably, but what? Never mind the missing apostrophe, the words didn’t […]