LAND OF THE LOST: “It’s a doug…
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009LAND OF THE LOST: “It’s a doughnut stuffed with M&Ms.; That way, when you’re done with the doughnut, you don’t have to eat any M&Ms.;”
Archive for June 2nd, 2009
My Fat Brother Jeff is so fat!…
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009My Fat Brother Jeff is so fat! *How fat is he?* He’s so fat, today’s his birthday! (Still working on the punch line, but happy bday.)
“My Life in Ruins”: screening …
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009“My Life in Ruins”: screening in some cities, but not Portland. What, only the top 20 markets are sophisticated enough to appreciate it?
@1inAmelia See, I find that pi…
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009@1inAmelia See, I find that picturing Michael Hutchence dangling from a doorknob *enhances* my enjoyment of “Original Sin.”
Update on Wayansgate 2009
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Last week I posted an item that I thought would be entirely uncontroversial. It was simply a list of mistakes made by major North American newspapers in their reviews of the movie “Dance Flick.” The movie was made by several members of the Wayans family, which led to errors along these lines:
“The Wayans (should be Wayanses) keep making the same movie.”
“Like the Wayans’ (Wayanses’) last movie, this one is no good.”
“I hope this is the Wayans’s (Wayanses’) last movie.
“All those Wayans’ (Wayanses) should know better.”
As I said, I didn’t expect any controversy here. Plurals of last names are formed the same way as plurals of other nouns: by adding “s” or “es.” The only common exception is that last names ending in “y” don’t change to “ies” (e.g., baby/babies, but Murphy/Murphys). And once it’s pluralized, you show possession the same way: by adding an apostrophe. My boss, my many bosses, my many bosses’ offices. One Wayans, several Wayanses, the Wayanses’ latest movie.
Yet as soon as I posted it, there was dissent. Like so many Internet conversations, a lot of people who didn’t know anything about the subject wanted to talk about it anyway, presumably because they enjoy the clickety-clack sound their keyboards make when they type on them. But there were others who knew about things like “style manuals” who nonetheless insisted these newspapers’ mistakes were not mistakes at all.
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@culturepulp That is cool. Wou…
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009@culturepulp That is cool. Wouldn’t it be cooler, though, if it belonged to a cartoonist who was funny, rather than Mell Lazarus?
Thanks to “The Hangover,” I sh…
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Thanks to “The Hangover,” I shall now refer to retards as “re-TARDS.” You have shown us the way, Zach Galifianiaikaiiis.
