You've got to love the high quality of your hometown rag:
If out goal is bringing the Mideast into the modern world than capital punishment seems a step back.
I don't know if it'll be caught and corrected, but that's how it read as this was posted.
Could it be supposed to be a subliminal message? Like they're going to start randomly inserting "out" in all stories on Iraq in hopes of convincing people?
"Out goal" sounds like a very clunky version of "exit strategy"
That said - if there is EVER EVER EVER a case for capital punishment in this world, I think Saddam is it. And frankly? I think the Iraqis (the non-terrorist, non-Baathist ones at least) need the "ding dong the witch is dead" satisfaction of it.
Posted by: ricki at November 14, 2006 12:21 PMIt really puts the heater to that faith in trained journalists, don't it? Within two days a couple weeks ago, the local paper here welcomed us to Novecber and told us about fuhrter details to come. Lucky for them, they run mostly stories off the wires.
Posted by: marc at November 14, 2006 12:22 PM"out" for "our" and "than" for "then"? Made me wonder who this guy is. So I scrolled down to the byline:
"John M. Crisp, an English instructor at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas"
That them thar's good English for this part of the country, son.
Posted by: Julie at November 14, 2006 12:33 PMTo be fair to the guy, it could have been a mistake entered by some less-than-alert typist.
But still...hello, Mr. Editor? You need to up the caffeine intake if errors this glaring are slipping past you and remaining on line for hours.
Posted by: Emily at November 14, 2006 12:35 PMThis is the kind of pedanticism up with which I am fed.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at November 14, 2006 01:15 PMDang, Ken, you're more eruditer than me.
Posted by: Julie at November 14, 2006 01:25 PMAhem. That's "more eruditer than I."
Posted by: Emily at November 14, 2006 01:30 PMHe's more eruditer than you, too, Emily? Sheeewt. That boy's too smart for his britches if he has Emily skunked.
Posted by: Julie at November 14, 2006 01:41 PMI first read "britches" as "bitches" and, for a moment, took horrible, violent offense at the suggestion that we were, in any way, Ken's "bitches."
Posted by: Emily at November 14, 2006 01:54 PMJulie,
I'm sorry. I should have kept the burden of the nightmare to myself.
Do they have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder support group for this kind of thing? :-/
Posted by: Julie at November 14, 2006 03:44 PMNo, but there is medication for it. It's called "alcohol."
Posted by: Emily at November 14, 2006 03:45 PMI like erudites, but onnly with a glass of sherri.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at November 14, 2006 04:04 PMNot to mention, it's a stupid article.
The USA is in the "modern world", I think most people would agree, and people are executed here from time to time.
Posted by: Laura(southernxyl) at November 14, 2006 04:35 PMI have lots of bitches. Though, realistically, some of them are more peeves than true bitches.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at November 14, 2006 05:48 PM*I'D* be Ken's bitch... though I'd rather be Emily's.
Posted by: Boy Named Sous at November 14, 2006 10:45 PM*I'D* be Ken's bitch... though I'd rather be Emily's.
Not if she still wields that razor you wouldn't.
Not that I have any particular knowledge of that, mind you.
Much.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at November 15, 2006 05:02 AMLook on the bright side, Bingley. Since that razor incident, you don't have to shave as often.
The beard, anyway.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at November 15, 2006 05:36 AMThat's true. Saves me lots of time in the morning, it does.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at November 15, 2006 07:36 AMOh please. Since when has Bingley been able to grow a beard?
Posted by: Emily at November 15, 2006 08:15 AMNot since the razor incident.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at November 15, 2006 08:44 AM