2: Hm. I should have clicked trhough. Or maybe I did click through, but just desperately wanted to believe it was true anyway, and that I got to play grammarian.
Indeed. I, too, feel that the entire purpose of a liberal arts education is to enable one to laugh at one's inferiors. Also, wasn't there some euphemistic phrase for gayness that described it in terms of some kind of "higher" aesthetic/intellectual something-or-other?
They're sending out fortune cookie emails now?
Posted by Ugh | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 12:48 PM
Labs, this is some please-correct-me sexual game you're playing, isn't it?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 12:48 PM
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 12:52 PM
2: Hm. I should have clicked trhough. Or maybe I did click through, but just desperately wanted to believe it was true anyway, and that I got to play grammarian.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 12:53 PM
2: Have you followed the link, Little Miss Thing?
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 12:53 PM
Oy. Wankeriffic assholes and the twee gits who write them.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 12:56 PM
Play grammarian, but wear the maid outfit.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 12:56 PM
That exhibits both lameness and also yet another sign of the closeted homosexuality of Powerline: it's gayghey
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:03 PM
Am I the only one wondering if the email's author is about to bring up snails and oysters?
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:04 PM
Re: 2, 7
Be very, very strict in correcting mistakes. And use the special red pen.
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:06 PM
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Posted by [redacted] | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:06 PM
"John I recognize by his humor and a certain lightness of touch."
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:12 PM
Indeed. I, too, feel that the entire purpose of a liberal arts education is to enable one to laugh at one's inferiors. Also, wasn't there some euphemistic phrase for gayness that described it in terms of some kind of "higher" aesthetic/intellectual something-or-other?
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:17 PM
Surely they know it isn't the 18th century.
Here are some words to avoid:
Compleat
myriad
mischief-makers
prospect
magisterial
Posted by Joe O | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:20 PM
No, they think it's the 18th century, as is made clear by their insistence that condescension is a good thing.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:25 PM
And that Gandhi was "rabble" to be put down forcefully.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:32 PM
John, Paul.... and who? Ringo? George?
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:54 PM
Pius, Urban, Anacletus, and Sextus.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 1:56 PM
And the little-know Pope Guilty.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 2:46 PM
Unfortunately, the little know Pope Guilty a bit too well.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 02-21-06 10:21 PM