October 2008
ParenT’s
apostrophecity, originally uploaded by the.kingfish. We've hit the mother lode! Inappropriate capitalisation, misplaced apostrophes (of course) and ...
Palin goes New-clear
I don't know which is funnier: the fact that the Republicans were so worried about Sarah Palin's ability to pronounce the word 'nuclear' that they resorted to phonetic spelling on the Autocue, or that they then left that spelling in ...
The Way I Are - a parody
As you can probably imagine, I'm not a fan of the Timbaland song, "The Way I Are".I'm not usually so much of a stickler that bad grammar in song lyrics bothers me but there are limits. The Way I Are? Come on, that's egregious.I ...
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