July 31st, 2002

headwound

Found 'im.

There's a guy on MSNBC right now, his overlay says "Teamsters President," and his name is James Hoffa.

Isn't he . . . missing?
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headwound

CNN lead:

"LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Dogs are probably much cleverer than most people think."

Am I nuts, or does this just "sound" wrong?

Don't they have journalists and editors working over there? How did this one get past the "sensors?" Try this one, wretches: Dogs may be more clever than people think.

Better, no?

George Carlin says something about "Let's try to use the language we've all agreed on." Let me take this moment to echo his sentiment. Let's stop trying to reinvent the language, especially with stupid words that sound like they're being pushed over the tongue of a Down's Syndrome patient.

Fuck, most of the American populace can't even fucking read in the first place, and now you want to make their uphill climb all the more difficult with grammatical constructions like "much cleverer?"

hrmph . . . now I'm all the more annoyed that I found this aberration -- "cleverer" -- in my CD-ROM dictionary.

Stop it, please, it hurts.
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