Raise the Hammer

I found this article quite humourous. Beyond the base, teenaged level of humour associated with the misuse of the word "pubic" on the city web site, there was the subtle tongue-in-cheek application of irony, given the typographical errors present in Mr. Butani's most recent RTH blog entry. From that entry:

"How does he intends to reverse the flow of thousands of highly educated and experienced immigrants that this city is already loosing on account of the direct acts of omission by the local printing press and the suits on the Bay?"

Typos can be embarrasingly funny. Now, how does that old adage about stones and glass houses go again?

hahaha, I believe the one you're thinking of is:

In Soviet Russia, glass houses throw stones at you!

This is awesome.

**Now come hahaha**!! cut me some slack here will you. So there-s always an extra "s" on my part now and then, or more... That should be no cause for a major [peditum][1] out here!

Did you check out my '[Thank you note to Andrew][2]'... now that contained an entire paragraph worth of petard's that I will never be able to [diffuse][3] :-)

On the brighter side, now the city gets to fix the typo fast - and we get the Public Works functioning like it should :-))


[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3MewcxDdd0
[2]: http://www.raisethehammer.org/article/1073/thank_you_andrew
[3]: http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/

There are way more typos on the Spectator website than this one, for what it's worth.

The secret of excellent proofreading is caring intensely about getting things right and loathing error with an intensity that perhaps only fascism or an alimony-collecting ex-wife deserves. Such people appear to have departed the earth, and don’t figure soon to return. Might as well relax, sit back, and enjoy the typos one finds while having a peanut better and jolly sandwick and a cold glass of mulk.

Link: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/w...

"Sandwedge" and "malk" would also have been acceptable as Simpsonian allusions. "Jolly" already reminds me of Bart's mangled cursive reading in the Up Program (from Y"ou Only Move Twice", a.k.a. the awesome Hank Scorpio episode).

Re: Public Works

Could vajazzling and scrotazzling be the secret to the "shine" component of "Reach, dream, rise, shine"?

LOL. Speaking of mangled:

"Sandwedge" and "malk" would also have been acceptable as Simpsonian allusions. "Jolly" already reminds me of Bart's mangled cursive reading in the Leg Up Program (from "You Only Move Twice", a.k.a. the awesome Hank Scorpio episode).

Coffee before keyboard. Coffee before keyboard.

AND I evidently was so thrown off by the "shine" that I fumbled "Pubic Works"!

I moved here from Canada, and they think I'm slow, eh?