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July 27, 2006
TT: Exterminate all the brutes
Via Household Opera, a pet-peeves meme:- Grammatical pet peeve. Misplaced apostrophes. My father, God rest his soul, once commissioned a huge sign that read Season's Greetings From The Teachout's. I secretly attempted to paint out that damned apostrophe, but to no avail. It caused me years of annual adolescent embarrassment, though I'm pleased to say that I wasn't enough of a smartass to tell my father about it.
Orthographic runner-up for jazz musicians only: if you can't spell Thelonious Monk's first name correctly, write about somebody else.
(I was irked by the increasingly indiscriminate use of the singular "their" until I ran across this Web page. Enough already--I give up!)
- Household pet peeve. Guests who don't close lids completely. May they be forced to walk barefoot over kitchen floors littered with shards of broken Mason jars.
- Arts and entertainment pet peeve. Over to you, Mr. Superfluities.
- Liturgical pet peeve. Two words: crappy music.
- Wild card. Logorrheic quarterwits who jabber on their cellphones while walking down the street--especially those who use handless headsets. The garrote is too good for them, but it's a start.
Posted July 27, 2006 12:43 PM
