Its a crying shame what liberal's will due to our country.
3: Yeah, how can we judge whether a crime took place without knowing the exact nature of the misplaced comma and apostrophe ?
Again, I am put in mind of the Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts.
Inspector Gadget is his hero. Hm.
So, they're paying $3000 to repair the sign. Are they going to correct the typos? Also, the typo they didn't correct, "emense," seems like it should be a verb describing getting your period.
"emense," seems like it should be a verb describing getting your period on someone else.
12: And that someone else is Adam Kotsko.
5: So that's the "corrected" sign, with dollops of white-out apostrophizing "women's" and commaing "wands, carved wood"? Why did they stop there? The whole thing seems like a grammatical nightmare (what's with the semicolon after "germination"?).
not just because of that.
Only Sifu really understands me!
Why did they stop there?
Seriously. They forgot to add a serial comma in the sentence they edited, for one thing.
Serial commas are considered harmful.
Real badass grammar vigilantes would have made it look like an original part of the sign, and not have gotten caught. But like true little bitches, they couldn't bear to correct it in a way that didn't draw attention to the correctors.
Serial commas are considered harmful.
Cereal commas, on the other hand, would be a great addition to Alpha-Bits™. I have long lobbied Post Cereals for such an upgrade, the better with which to create grammatically sound breakfast constructions.
i think i've read some 8's comment and it's now disappeared
was it the 'blankface'commenter's comment?
at least he signed his esoteric comment
i thought his like babysteps should be like a little bit encouraged, no?
his like babysteps should be like a little bit encouraged, no?
No. e-mail apo, off blog if you want an explanation.
i thought his like babysteps should be like a little bit encouraged, no?
No. Also, we do not discuss him.
wow, what an unusual harsh treatment, he is like hitler or what? well, ok, i trust your judgement unfogged
Cereal commas, on the other hand, would be a great addition to Alpha-Bits™.
You're supposed to gnaw your own punctuation, Stanley.
Banned! Exciting!
max
['Gee, I bet this dies too.']
You're supposed to gnaw your own punctuation, Stanley.
Ooh! And the re-insertion into the cereal can be called a "colon blow"!
That's a rather surprisingly melodramatic end to the TEAL saga. I remember thinking what a cute idea that was... but I hadn't imagined them trying to correct signage in national parks, which is an order of magnitude beyond your local cornership with its "Great" Deal's!!
A lot of the National Park Signs in Puerto Rico were in this weird language with normal American words beneath it, so I scratched out the weird stuff, because I'm a feminist colonist.
Correcting typos on standard government-issue highway signs is ok. Doing anything to the pictured sign, which is obviously old and has been kept for reasons other than the information it contains is obviously dickish.
P.S. The original signmaker had damn good paint-writing skillz.
33: she was quite the talented architect, too; she designed the building the sign is in.
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Springbok? Them's good eatin'.
Kudu? Um num num num num.
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Actually, if you're a proponent of the Chicago Manual of Style (as all right-thinking writers are), the serial comma is preferred.
Ah, C's channel-hopping has landed on Ghostrider - funniest Nic Cage film ever. Am in flaming skeleton heaven.
the serial comma is preferred
Of course it is. Ben's on crack and would like to thank his parents, God and Ayn Rand.
Quick Question:
When will Michelle O be speaking tonight? Stupid Schedule page at the DNC website is broken (nice job, Dems! I'm voting for Nader!), the closest I can get is "prime time."
I don't want to miss it, but I'll be damned if I'll spend 2 hours watching prelim. nonsense.
I'm looking forward to the part in the Convention when Obama catches a springbok, breaks its neck with his bare hands, and eats it.
Some people say it will reinforce him as 'other,' but I think America's sportsmen will support him.
I don't like the serial comma, but I do like the Oxford comma—yet how is this possible?
I'm looking forward to the part in the Convention when Obama catches a springbok, breaks its neck with his bare hands, and eats it.
Don't be ridiculous. He can't be a leader if he eats the whole thing. He'll take the best cuts for himself and distribute the rest to his followers.
39: Late, ish. I think. 10 pm or later, EST.
I don't like the serial comma, but I do like the Oxford comma--yet how is this possible?
Ben doesn't like cattle, but he does like oxen.
Ben doesn't like parties, but he does like mixers.
Ben doesn't like smoked salmon, but he does like lox.
Ben doesn't like a postulate, but he does like an axiom.
How can this be?
35 - Indeed. The best of all is warthog - absolutely no meat quite as good. It's like venison with just a hint of bacon.
One time my folks took the family on vacation in Malawi (which isn't as odd as it seems, since we were living next door in Zambia), we came upon a village that had just killed a hippo. The hippo had killed a villager, so they had organized a hunting party and gone out to take care of business. Anyway, a hippo is *really* big, so the whole village (probably about 150-200 people) had participated in butchering and curing the meat. When we arrived the meat was curing on racks set up throughout the village - strips of hippo meat about an inch wide and twelve inches long were draped over wooden frames to dry. On the way back we bought some of the dried hippo meat - good stuff.
Incidentally - Hippos area really, really dangerous. They kill more people than crocodiles, lions, cheetah, and hyenas combined. Avoid.
I don't like pornography, but I do like x-rated films.
Ben doesn't like redcoyoteshrubtail, but he likes redfoxshrubtail.
Obama will probably have to provide some Tofudebeest if he wants to lock up the arugula vote.
I don't like femmes fatales, but I do like vixens.
He doesn't like Shell or Mobil, but he does like Exxon and Texaco.
I saw a red fox on my last bicycle trip. They're not rare around here, but you don't see live ones much.
I have now bicycled to 5 of the 6 taverns on the 500 block of Sinclair Lewis Avenue.
39: Late, ish. I think. 10 pm or later, EST.
That sounds right.
Hmm. We want Iris to see it, but that's a bit late. And you know, VCR, hassle. Hmm.
He'll take the best cuts for himself
My friends, that's not change we can believe in.
I don't like Satan, but I do like Xenu.
Is there a reason why the upcoming speech by Michelle Obama is making people post about bushmeat? Racists, all of you.
Oh hey, the stinkin' NYT gives the specific time in the caption to the photo for their blog post on MObama. 10:30. Say 'goodnight,' Iris.
Dangerous but relaxed hippo being groomed by some kind of fish
Is there a reason why the upcoming speech by Michelle Obama is making people post about bushmeat? Racists, all of you.
I blame Knecht.
Also, I believe we're talking about Barack eating the springbok. While Michelle doing it would impress Hillary supporters, it would scare off a lot of undecideds.
The serial comma is such a waste of ink and labor that spending on serial commas over the last five years matches spending on the Iraq War. True fact.
The narration on that video is disgusting.
58: a rich buffet of dead skin, algae, and parasites
Ben, I have an idea for your sister's restaurant.
I took a great deal of pleasure in defining house style for my company and insisting on the serial comma. AP style is for newspapers, people.
Ben doesn't like wrestling, but he adores boxing.
He hated the Pyramids, but was impressed by the Sphinx.
He despises bobcats, but has a pet lynx.
45 is the only useful comment this blog has ever produced.
Bets on whether Tweety plans to embark on a campaign of acquiring warthog meat, or merely to avoid hippos.
For those of you not on Sifu's Twitter feed, his last entry is as follows:
aborting hippo house mission
I've eaten barbel. I had no idea they ate hippo shit. I feel faintly queasy.
The local zoo here in Boston once had a barbecue festival to coincide with their new warthog exhibit. I was, needless to say, thrilled, but it turns out they'd invited all the local barbecue joints to bring their regular old pork and beef to barbecue, rather than letting them select the weak and infirm from the exhibited pack. What a ripoff. A delicious ripoff, but still.
72: No one ever says that to Apo.
Shrimp eat all kinds of nasty stuff. So do pigs and chickens. Rest easy.
"pack" in 71 should have been "sounder". Select the weak and infirm from the exhibited sounder. Sorry!
I've heard that strong, healthy warthogs are the tastiest.
64: You left off "mental health."
Mental health is like relationships. If I had a yellow dog that did no more good than mental health, I'd shoot it.
78: John, what's your position on relationships among non-human animals? Should dogs be monogamous? Polyamorous? Celibate? And what about hippos?
I'm not willing to get between a hippo and its desires, whatever those desires may be.
Knecht is succumbing to the influence of the veldt after all. What will the consequences be?
STRUCK DUMB, EH? GOOD, THAT'S HOW I LIKE 'EM.
WOO! HYEAH! HYEAH! CALL ME A RHINO CUZ I'LL STOMP YOUR FIRE, HOT STUFF!
WHICH IS TO SAY:
the reason they stomp out fire has to do with there sence of smell nerves, when they come across the sent of ashes/ fires it is like putting a rubber band around and bulls testicals it angers them so there for to stop they have to put out the fire.
The rubber band on the testicles initially angers critters, but after three days they drop off and the critter becomes peaceful, happy, and relationship-neutral.
after three days they drop off and the critter becomes peaceful, happy, and relationship-neutral
One of the handful of off-color jokes that my father ever told me was when he confided that the reason for castrating bull calves was because it "gets their minds off of ass and onto grass" (i.e. they eat more and gain weight faster without the distractions of breeding).
I just noticed somethng annoying about the article. Making fun of the guys by calling them "self-anointed 'grammar vigilantes'". There's no need for the "self-anointed" part -- they are grammar vigilantes, just by virtue of their behavior. it's not like "vigilante" is a word that you have to go through certain specific requirements in order to be deemed an official vigilante.
I think they probably just wanted to make clear that they weren't calling them vigilantes, just reporting what they called themselves.
Alternately, there's a grammar vigilante certification process run by the MLA and we just haven't heard about it.
I thought "self-proclaimed" meant the proclamation that there could be such a thing as a "grammar vigilante", and applying it to themselves. That is, the only kind of vigilante is a self-proclaimed vigilante, but one could proclaim oneself a vigilante without proclaiming oneself to be a "grammar vigilante".