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2008-08-22 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Historic sign at Grand Canyon defaced in quest to eradicate typos

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Posted by ryuge 2008-08-22 10:13|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Fred,

Had any TEAL visits to Rantburg? This place is a trove-mine for those guys.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-08-22 10:58|| 2008-08-22 10:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Deck's diary account of the Grand Canyon incident was submitted as evidence in court. It says the two men climbed Desert View Watchtower while on holiday from their typo-enforcement duties "and discovered a hand-rendered sign inside that, I regret to report, had a few errors. I know today was supposed to be my day off from typo-hunting, but if I may be permitted to quote that most revered of android law enforcers, Inspector Gadget, 'Always on duty!' I can't shut it off. . . . Will we never be free from the shackles of apostrophic misunderstanding, even in a place surrounded by natural beauty?"

After correcting a misplaced apostrophe and comma, Deck reported, he was aghast to discover what he described as a made-up word: "emense."

"I was reluctant to disfigure the sign any further, so we had to let the other typo stand. Still, I think I shall be haunted by that perversity."

Lighten up, Francis...

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-22 11:05|| 2008-08-22 11:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Had any TEAL visits to Rantburg? This place is a trove-mine for those guys.

Spaek fer yuorselph ...

Posted by Steve White 2008-08-22 11:08|| 2008-08-22 11:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Children who never grow up. The judge should have sentenced them to dress only as Peter Pan for a year...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-08-22 11:10|| 2008-08-22 11:10|| Front Page Top

#5 In some ways, I have mixed feelings about this. As a product of 12 years of parochial education in the fifties and sixties, I had my grammar and punctuation lessons almost literally beaten into me. So, I can sympathize with the angst these morons felt about such egregious errors.
However, I also had respect for other people's property also almost literally beaten into me. You don't go around defacing other people's property. You point it out, laugh at it, and feel superior about it. But you don't mark it up and destroy it.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-08-22 12:16|| 2008-08-22 12:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Grammar Nazis?

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-22 12:51|| 2008-08-22 12:51|| Front Page Top

#7 I speak good with a native language English!

Posted by DarthVader 2008-08-22 15:11|| 2008-08-22 15:11|| Front Page Top

#8 There's more than a little crazy here. But then, I'm willing to bet he's a proofreader or something like that, so that makes sense.

Posted by Jonathan 2008-08-22 15:17|| 2008-08-22 15:17|| Front Page Top

#9 there's a typo in your last name, Deck.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-08-22 19:37|| 2008-08-22 19:37|| Front Page Top

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