Comments on: Things we can be done with now: A list by someone who is cranky

By: UH

UH — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:12:23 +0000

Can I add something to the list? When I ask for a Coke at a restaurant and the waitperson says “Is Pepsi OK?”

Because it’s not OK. It’s really, really not.

By: david

david — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:58:52 +0000

Agreed on all counts.

By: Bonny

Bonny — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:21:58 +0000

Jodi, there’s a lot to love about you, and in the long list I could compile is your regard for punctuation. To me, and I’m older than dirt, one of the points of writing is to make your piece understood. Commas, semi’s, ?, !, etc. etc. should serve to make the writing understandable.

I wish you could have seen me throw that first Cormac McCarthy book into the wall.

And why don’t people know the diff between “lose” and “loose”? Or “chose” and “choose”? And that an apostrophe indicates possession? Or lordy.

By: Jodi

Jodi — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:19:35 +0000

Hotrod, I’d also like to submit. . .blogs that look like the one you just linked to. Awful. So awful.

By: hotrod

hotrod — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:13:01 +0000

I’m with you on the Top 45 whatevers. I also submit terrible homemade knockoffs of Despair.com posters. Like these: http://www.marcofolio.net/imagedump/top_40_demotivational_posters.html