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25 Comments on I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. It must be true because it was in the paper.
Point taken. The funniest thing I read about something Dave Barry said while in Arkansas: He heard a kid order a Coke at a football game concession stand. When the seller asked "what kind"...kid said "Diet Pepsi"........
I am convinced that most of what is written in newspapers today is written then sent in for publication....the writer's don't even take the time to read what they have written, and as has been said earlier,there are very few editors at small newspapers anymore. (maybe not even big ones, what would I know?) Obviously very few or NONE at our beloved Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
Yes, it seems to me the seller will pay up to $3000 of buyer's closing costs, including prepaids.
I always try to read my articles over at least once before submission, and usually catch a few errors there. But all of the commentors are correct: When you have no devoted copy editors, it's much easier to have a paper full of errors.
That's probably how I mispelled Scott Akridge's name in today's paper.
On an unrelated note, Barbara, Scott Akridge recently showed me some very interesting structural oddities in Kensett: http://timefishing.blogspot.com/2010/10/artifacts-anonymous.html
See what happens when you misplace a comma!
Godmother,
Very amusing. I am back. I was doing five home inspections a day, six days a week, while the boss was away so I was spent. He is back and I am now in better fettle.
Godson
Luke, let's see if we can put the link to your blog right here. It's a good blog but your comments part is difficult. I'd never seen those things in Kensett and found the whole thing interesting.
Elizabeth, you are a writer supreme so I'm sure you understand!
Godson Nutsy, what a fine guy you were to do all the boss's work while he played around in another country. Make sure he gives you a raise. You need to change the name on that shirt, too!
Sounds like the Bible for the Citizen and Gazette staff might be "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves"....
Godmother,
Thank you for the support. I wear that shirt on occasion just to remind Mr Charles that he would be nothing without having me as his financial adviser. I also remember my past issues with him, news file photo below.
godson
Anita, ???????
Nutsy, you are a very forgiving person.....just as lovable as a little squirlt can be.....and that's why you are in my will.
I have forgotten too much from the punctuation portions of my English classes. Is it correct that there should have been a comma after tie? At any rate, I am sorry that I missed seeing Dave Berry with no slacks.
Barbara, your link to Luke Jones' Blog didn't seem to work for me but go here.
It was an interesting article.
Dana, a better way to say it would have been "I walked in and there he stood, sports coat, blue shirt, slacks and no tie." My old English-teaching background sometimes comes out. LOL
Don, I didn't check mine so thanks for putting it up properly. It's a good blog.
and slacks.
A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation: " panda. Large black and white bear-like animal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
Our Daily Citizen writer should keep a copy of this book "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss by her computer.
Hope I don't get in trouble for copying this. It's a great, fun read by the way....and needed in our schools it would seem.
Ah Ms potential Godmother,
Any chance of good old Wheat getting in the will too. Nutsy is not the only good boy in town.
Wheat
Nutsy, please pass on to Wheat that he does not have a chance in _ _ _ _ of getting in my will. He's a bad squirlt.
Anita, I got it!! I'm slow but eventually I get it!! HA HA ha
Barbara, you may be the only blogger on Active Rain who can claim to have scooped the famous Dave Barry! I am impressed!
Barbara, now that is way to funny! Or scary, Dave Barry minus a tie and his pants... I just don't know what this world is coming to.
How nice of you to think of Nutsy and put him in your will. You are such a great person!
Patricia, I'm still thinking my hubby's banana shorts would look nice under his sports coat. (Now that's an ambiguous sentence. Under whose sports' coat? Hubby's or Barry's?) Thanks for commenting on my blog.
Andrea, my understanding is that Nutsy has charmed you too. Is he in your will also? That Wheatgerm, however, is hard to swallow.....
Godmother,
I am offensived that you would refer to me as Wheatgerm. That is what Mr Charles calls me, but not youse I hopes.
Wheat
Good one Barbara!! The gross errors in the paper bum me out but I try to console myself by remembering that I'm grateful there still is a paper. Maybe not very many editors - but the paper still shows up in the morning.
Liz
Wheatloaf, if you are on bad terms with Mr. C, that may be a good sign. I might even end up liking you. We'll have to change your name, though, to something that isn't quite so hellish.
Liz, I too love my papers every morning.