A child of the Southwest and of the 50s -- a woman who knew me well once said, 'Yeah, the 1850s.' Generally culturally conservative and distrustful of new and improved innovative change. Very seldom overtly serious, but many a truth is spoke in jest and all of my truths are. Worked my way through UT when I was up in my 30s. If I'd, by some horrible miscalculation ended up in Bryan, I would've worked my way through that school over there. Have worked all over in printing and publishing. I've held a bunch of jobs and quit all of them but one. I am a journeyman printer and followed the trade and heard its dying gasps as it was throttled by technological change. I had a sponsored blog on a newspaper but quit the job.
The pore ol Vicad had one of my favorite dumb-butt goofs today. Some lame-o [or is the feminine form lame-a] wrote that a 'wench' truck was sent to the scene of a small catastrophe. Paper's so pathetic now.
Hooo boy.....Sad to say, Mr. Loon, that's par for the course for the Vicad these days. They have a really bad habit of late of printing any and everything someone submits, either online or in the print edition. I don't know how often you peruse the rag, but have you seen some of those horrid letters to the editor lately? Unbelievable. I wish they would aspire to be better. It just makes me sad.
Well, it's me again. Just found a bone-headed mistake I couldn't pass up an opportunity to share with you - check this out from a wedding announcement in the 12/16/07 Vicad:
The bride is a 2003 graduate of Texas Statue University with a degree in health education and sports.... Look, I can't make this stuff up! So now seeing as how Texas has a brand new university, I wonder what those Longhorns and Aggies will have to say about it. Do you suppose it's a school for sculptors? Or perhaps mimes who are paralyzed from the neck down (ouch, that was slightly politically incorrect). Hope it gave you a chuckle. I couldn't even muster so much as a smile. If I had the energy, I could be brought to tears....good thing I am feeling especially lazy tonight.
Ah, Shug, we could spend all our time finding solecisms and howlers in the Advocate, but that's a gem. Someone writing in there this morning had 'who's' as the possessive of 'who.' My principal annoyance is the eighth-grade tone of so much of the writing. I'll expand on this sometime.
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Hooo boy.....Sad to say, Mr. Loon, that's par for the course for the Vicad these days. They have a really bad habit of late of printing any and everything someone submits, either online or in the print edition. I don't know how often you peruse the rag, but have you seen some of those horrid letters to the editor lately? Unbelievable. I wish they would aspire to be better. It just makes me sad.
Well, it's me again. Just found a bone-headed mistake I couldn't pass up an opportunity to share with you - check this out from a wedding announcement in the 12/16/07 Vicad:
The bride is a 2003 graduate of Texas Statue University with a degree in health education and sports....
Look, I can't make this stuff up! So now seeing as how Texas has a brand new university, I wonder what those Longhorns and Aggies will have to say about it. Do you suppose it's a school for sculptors? Or perhaps mimes who are paralyzed from the neck down (ouch, that was slightly politically incorrect). Hope it gave you a chuckle. I couldn't even muster so much as a smile. If I had the energy, I could be brought to tears....good thing I am feeling especially lazy tonight.
Ah, Shug, we could spend all our time finding solecisms and howlers in the Advocate, but that's a gem. Someone writing in there this morning had 'who's' as the possessive of 'who.' My principal annoyance is the eighth-grade tone of so much of the writing. I'll expand on this sometime.
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