Hitting the breaks for a dead wringer.

[trof]

As someone who has worked in journalism, it simply amazes me to see the really stupid errors that writers make, and that get by proofreaders and editors.

Too much reliance on spellcheck?

"As for dining at barbecue joints, "Holy Smoke" offers guidance on spotting a good one, should you prefer to let others do the cooking. Billowing smoke and a pile of wood outside a barbecue restaurant is an excellent sign, but avoid places with valet parking and a menu that takes longer to read than the meal does to eat. A full parking lot is also highly desirable, particularly if it displays a healthy mix of pickup trucks and expensive imports. "If the sheriff's car is there, hit your breaks immediately," advises the book."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0318/p17s01-lifo.html

"What's interesting is who earns Brooks's sneers in this climate of timidity: "members of the educated class" who "explore and enjoy the humiliation of capitalist vulgarians"; the "noncommercial administration" whose president displays no passion" for "commercial drive and success." Brooks laments the "abashed"-ness of Finance, while giving props to populist "gospel of success" preachers like the recently maligned CNBC correspondent Jim Cramer - who is by the way clearly a dead wringer for Horatio Alger."
http://www.truthout.org/031909R

:-(

[ddeclue]

1. Perhaps u (sic) shud (sic) ad (sic) "sic" to ur (sic) OP titel (sic)....

:rofl:

[Sal Minella]

2. Just took a peak at this thread and will now check it threw out.

[trof]

4. Your highered.

;-)

[Sal Minella]

5. Here's my prize catch for you --

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However boring, this show was a dramatic encapsulation of how a once-invincible candidate ended up in a dead heat, crippled by poll-tested corporate packaging that markets her as a synthetic product leeched of most human qualities.
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Frank Rich in The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/opinion/10rich.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[trof]

6. I think it needs one or two more comas.

Hell, I'm already in a coma from just trying to understand that.

[Sal Minella]

3. Your post will illicit blank stairs from many, who don't care weather or not

their writing breeches silly roules. You may want to back-peddle a bit. Even The New York Times now is shot threw with errs -- so many incidence now I bearly notice.

Anybody know where I can get a link to the Colbert speech from the Correspondence Dinner?

:(

Edit: "their writing" should have been "there writing." :(

[HarveyDarkey]

7. If I'm pulled over while behind the wheel

I hope they don't charge me with wreckless driving.

I saw those charges were filed against a bicyclist a few years ago.