My Favorite Onion Headline Ever
A little inside baseball -- of the batting around words kind, but I hope you are also amused.
Via @sentientist, this news brief:
4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence
Article's funny, too.
And in case you were wondering, you can tear my Oxford comma out of...
AFter leaving school in 1961 to get married, my Mom finally finished her BA in English Literature in 1979. As a result, I couldn't scratch out a single paragraph in high school without her catching me at it, and commenting. I'm not complaining, as her critical eye reinforced what my teachers were saying.
Regarding your serial comma: I find its users to be accurate, cautious, conscientious, conscionable, crossing the t's, dotting the i's, exact, fastidious, fussy, heedful, microscopic, nitpicking, painstaking, particular, persnickety, picky, precise, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous, stickling, strict, and thorough.
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Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at January 7, 2013 1:25 PM
Speaking of the Onion, this article seems to fit nicely into the Advice Goddess Hall of Peeves.
It's late, and I'm so not getting any work done...
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at January 7, 2013 1:39 PM
- HOLY SHIT! Man walks on the fucking moon. -
- Jesus Returns to the NBA -
Still probably the funniest thing I have ever seen, except for this:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/christopher-reeve-placed-atop-washington-monument,1097/
Eric at January 7, 2013 1:53 PM
http://i.imgur.com/5LdZT.jpg
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at January 9, 2013 12:08 AM
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