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Friday, July 15, 2011

Criminal Sentence 576: Now That's Dumb!

A reader's comment about an article on results of a standardized writing test:

"We always knew the west side was dumber then dirt..."

Who's the dumb one here, dear commenter?

("Then" should be "than.")

1 comment:

Chelle said...

There are times I wish I had a red pen and could "go to town" on Facebook with it. Today, a friend's status message was: No softball games are cancelled :(

Either she's sad that there are softball games, or she's missing a comma after "softball."