How about a little comment meme? Tell me the first thing that leaps to your mind when you read each of these things?
- Excellent source of calcium
- New and improved
- 75% off
- New York Times Bestseller
- Get ‘Em While They’re Hot
- Y2K Compatible
With the corrected spelling on this post, you may comment at will. No, please comment. I will add this post to my list of good reasons for flushing myself. I can hear the drain coming now.
1. Spinach
2. Clorox (maybe I thought this b/c I was just shopping for cleaners at the Walmart Supercenter, where everything’s in the store–just keep looking)
3. clothing
4. The Time Traveler’s Wife (my wife just gave up on this one due to excessive sexual material)
5. Doughnuts
6. IBM Desktops
1. Milk, of course. Preferably in some form involving sugar and chocolate.
2. Laundry detergent. Heaven knows why.
3. My novels.
4. Anything by Dan Brown.
5. Norwegian potato cakes (I just had one fresh off the grill at the Scandinavian Festival this morning. Yum!).
6. A manual typewriter.
1. Milk (Leafy greens came in a close second)
2. As opposed to “Old and Inferior?”
3. New York Times stock
4. But will it sell in flyover country?
5. Their Hot what? Oh, do you mean “They’re Hot”?
6. On New Years Day, 2000, my daughter made this observation: “Y2K was a lot like dodgeball. You never get hit by the ball you see.”
their – they’re ARGH!!
That’s cold, Roy–criticizing Phil’s spelling.
Me, I’m not going to even say a word about how “calcium” is misspelled.
With the corrected spelling on this post, you may comment at will. No, please comment. I will add this post to my list of good reasons for flushing myself. I can hear the drain coming now.
Stop it.
Not criticizing, if by “criticizing” you mean “to find fault with.” I make my own share of spelling and usage errors, and I’m grateful when someone points them out in a good-natured way (which was the effect I was hoping for).
It’s okay, Roy, but I do wish I had used the right “they’re.” I even thought about it. I guess I thought about it long enough to throw a dart at it and hope for the best.
There are times, I think, for all of us, when “thinking about it” just makes it worse. Like looking at an optical illusion.