OT: Something for our BY grammar police and those cited by them

[UConnChapette]

Oh Alfred Matthew....you crack me up.

 

[AndyCT]

Oh Alfred Matthew....you crack me up.

Way 2 complic-8-ed.

For children of the 70s, this is about as much as we can handle:

 

[CL82]

Way 2 complic-8-ed.

For children of the 70s, this is about as much as we can handle:

How many of you started singing the song as soon as you saw the picture?

 

[arty155]

Oh Alfred Matthew....you crack me up.

-Thanks for educating us, Chapette! Glad you’re doing good! Hope you’re doing well!

Way 2 complic-8-ed....

- Look, I’m don’t pretend to understand how she knows this works at the molecular level, but I’m pretty sure Chapette’s subliminal message was: A fire engine constructed of titanium, aluminum, and chrome will become ironic, if melted by a fire.

 

[AndyCT]

-Thanks for educating us, Chapette! Glad you’re doing good! Hope you’re doing well!


- Look, I’m don’t pretend to understand how she knows this works at the molecular level, but I’m pretty sure Chapette’s subliminal message was: A fire engine constructed of titanium, aluminum, and chrome will become ironic, if melted by a fire.

Just trying to work in one of Weird Al's complaints about using numbers in words - "You should never WR1T3 WORD5 U51N6 NUMB3RS"

But while we're talking about complicated things like fire engines, there was a saying in the Navy that "you have to be smarter than the equipment you operate." On a personal level, my equipment limitation was a doorknob. I could operate that. Definitely not taking a shot at Chapette's posting.

Got to get back to Youtube - now I'm learning about bills.


P.S. There are other government workers who are even more technically challenged...in my current profession there's a saying that if you want to keep the FAA out of the hangar, all you need to do is just switch the "Push" and "Pull" signs on the door...

 

[jcoton56]

Oh Alfred Matthew....you crack me up.

instructive

 

[meyers7]

How many of you started singing the song as soon as you saw the picture?

That and 'Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here.'