tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post116863420989226894..comments2023-10-26T14:01:08.426+03:30Comments on Orange Tangerine: Scattershot approachOrangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1168874171419055302007-01-15T18:46:00.000+03:302007-01-15T18:46:00.000+03:30Mona the Indecisive. (This was after typing 23 di...Mona the Indecisive. <BR/><BR/>(This was after typing 23 different other things I could be called.)Mona Buonanottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01809435868294190789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1168813560470182952007-01-15T01:56:00.000+03:302007-01-15T01:56:00.000+03:30Oh, I wish I could have taken a red pen to a parag...Oh, I wish I could have taken a red pen to a paragraph that appeared in our school district newsletter. It was *awful*. I was ranting to my husband about it, since I assumed it was written by the people who will be teaching my daughter how to write. He pointed out that the offending document was probably written by someone outside the district, hired for the purpose.<BR/><BR/>Um, is that Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15886225476339783827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1168785020056640662007-01-14T18:00:00.000+03:302007-01-14T18:00:00.000+03:30Or a menu to which you couldn't take a red pen . ....Or a menu to which you couldn't take a red pen . . .<BR/><BR/>Yeah, I'd probably be Nenya the Picky. <BR/><BR/>My current favorite mistake was in a glossy fundraising brochure for my old boss's organzation. Leaving aside the concept of subject-verb agreement, with which the writers were apparently unfamiliar, someone thought that "theirs" needed an apostrophe. Because it's a possessive, don't Naryahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05369280617520806983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1168736616395567152007-01-14T04:33:00.000+03:302007-01-14T04:33:00.000+03:30Mignon the Flatulent, by my detractors. And relati...Mignon the Flatulent, by my detractors. And relatives.Mignonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07716330276288396317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1168724277660599412007-01-14T01:07:00.000+03:302007-01-14T01:07:00.000+03:30Orange the Corrector! (Never met a restaurant menu...Orange the Corrector! (Never met a restaurant menu I couldn't take a red pen to.)<BR/><BR/>So, Flea's post that I linked to, about Vlad? She got a Romanian-born commenter who said the whole impalement business was hyped up by the anti-Vlad contingent, sort of a medieval Swift-boating.Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1168652303758613462007-01-13T05:08:00.000+03:302007-01-13T05:08:00.000+03:30But wait, first tell us what YOURS would be.But wait, first tell us what YOURS would be.DoctorMamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05187502628715846144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1168639225676333622007-01-13T01:30:00.000+03:302007-01-13T01:30:00.000+03:30Ugh, I'm really worried about that too! I'm also i...Ugh, I'm really worried about that too! I'm also in Chicago, and we have our hyacinth leaves up, though there are no buds above ground yet so ours should be okay. I hope. <BR/><BR/>My nickname would probably be something less-than-attractive, like Liz the Fidgeter. Not that "the Impaler" is that attractive, but it does have a certain panache.Tropehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11928158609657128952noreply@blogger.com