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Monthly Archives: January 2007

Office of Public Humiliation: Division of the (Kinder and Gentler) Grammar Police

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

“English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment, and education — Sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.”
- E. B. White
“The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.”
- Michel de Montaigne
from ETNI’s “Grammar Quotes“
How do we control grammar? We have to have some rules, right? Otherwise, no [...]

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Ladys and Gentleman, the Butthole Surfers

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Via: VideoSift
We used to go see these guys in Austin, TX, in the 80s. They were a lot stranger then, but this is a pretty cool song. This seems like an appropriate phrase on the day our president decides to outline his plan for a so-called ’surge’ into Iraq. That’s what I call surfing on [...]

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Wal-Mart’s Local Harvest

Monday, January 8, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. unveiled a national TV advertising campaign on Sunday aimed at burnishing the image of the world’s largest retailer.
The 30-second and 60-second spots, which initially broadcast in Omaha, Neb. and Tucson Ariz., in the summer, feature Wal-Mart employees describing cost savings for shoppers, charitable donations and the company’s recent [...]

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Words and Metaphors, Overused and Dead : I PWN You

Friday, January 5, 2007

GITMO — The US military’s shorthand for a base in Cuba drives a wedge wider than a split infinitive.
COMBINED CELEBRITY NAMES — Celebrity duos of yore — BogCall (Bogart and Bacall), Lardy (Laurel and Hardy), and CheeChong (Cheech and Chong) — just got lucky.
AWESOME — Given a one-year moratorium in 1984, when the Unicorn Hunters [...]

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