Saturday, 20 September 2008
It's a round-up, round-up, round-up
We frequently receive questions and comments from you, our wonderful readers, so I thought I'd start a regular round-up.
Jill Jicha writes:
"My husband is a minister and many in his church conference insist on verbizing the word resource. They say they want to resource someone. Or someone or something resources someone else. I hate this. What do you think?"
I hate it too, Jill. I hate it despite the fact I don't know what it means. I also hate it because it's reminded me that the word 'resource' is routinely creeping into my day-job vernacular.
Sue McGee sends us this excerpt from a Barack Obama propaganda email, (purportedly from his wife Michelle):
It's hard to believe there are less than 50 days before Election Day.
It's hard to believe that you didn't pick up the difference between less and fewer during your time at Princeton and Harvard, you mad-eyed, pious arse.
Nerdy reader Tiffany Duening points out a vile error within the bowels of new Macs:
In the "Sites" folder, there is an index.html file telling the user how tostart a web page. Following the simple instructions? "Your done." YOUR DONE.
Blech.
I suspect that Steve Jobs, Apple Dictator and Keynote C*nt, is a stickler for grammar. If he sees this (and I'm convinced he's a GB subscriber), you can expect the guilty developer to be strung up at the next MacWorld.
Labels: Obama, politics, Steve Jobs, US english
posted by Tom at 12:53 pm
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Student's for McCain
And then there's this other guy, McBain, who was in 'Nam but he doesn't like to talk about it (YOU WEREN'T THERE, MAN!). He's 94 years old and needs helping out of the bath by his gun-toting, rabidly right-wing nurse, Sarah Palin. Her MySpace page lists her likes as "Killing, judging, lipstick, drilling for oil, Keeping America SafeTM and Jesus" and her dislikes as "Science, logic, kindness, the environment, homosexuals and that scrote who pregged-up my daughter".
I hope Derek Obama wins; allow me to explain why.
Firstly, on a selfish level, I don't live in the USA and my chances of being bombed to death would be greatly reduced if Obama was in charge.
Secondly, the Daily Kos reported on this example of punctuation butchery in McCain's campaign store.
Pass me the bamboo skewers, that wrinkly bastard is about to have a very realistic flashback.
Labels: apostrophe, apostrophe abuse, McCain, Obama, politics
posted by Gez at 12:01 pm
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