March 10, 2007
Boy, You People Could Be Editors for the New York Times!
I wrote a piece that I meant to title "Despite Libby's Guilt, Prosecution Was Outrageous;" but I accidentally titled it instead Despite Fitzgerald's Guilt, Prosecution Was Outrageous... and nobody noticed!
At least, nobody who noticed bothered mentioning it in a comment... and it got quite a few comments (nine, which is pretty good for Big Lizards). Yeesh.
I have corrected the title, no thanks to you lot. Next time, be more on the ball. Let's try and stay ahead of the power curve here. You're falling down on the job. You screwed the pooch. It's all your fault for not telling me.
Ho! Heads up there for next time, there's a good fellow.
(The Department of Good Excuses would have put this post up yesterday, but traffic was very heavy on the 405, and there's a war on.)
Hatched by Dafydd on this day, March 10, 2007, at the time of 4:32 PM
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The following hissed in response by: nk
I definitely noticed it, Dafydd. You may take it as a compliment, at least I hope you will, that I attributed it to an attempt on your part at satirical humor. So your mind is not as warped as mine after all? Sniff!~_~
The above hissed in response by: nk at March 10, 2007 4:59 PM
The following hissed in response by: nk
P.S. And as for what gins up comments, if that's what you're after, make your point as elliptically as possible and leave a lot of holes in your argument. I think I have said something along these lines a few times before. Most of the time, it's "Well said, Dafydd".
The above hissed in response by: nk at March 10, 2007 5:08 PM
The following hissed in response by: Stephen Macklin
You mean you didn't do that on purpose?
The above hissed in response by: Stephen Macklin at March 10, 2007 6:16 PM
The following hissed in response by: Fritz
Good heavens Dafydd, I liked it and it made perfect sense to me. Perhaps it wasn't as grammatically correct as you would have liked, but it conveyed the proper idea. Fitzgerald was guilty of bringing an outrageous prosecution no matter how you phrase it. I will admit that you normally use a better grade of English, but as long as the point was clear, who am I to complain. After all, you are the Big Lizard and I am only a little one who is seeking enlightenment from you.
The above hissed in response by: Fritz at March 10, 2007 6:49 PM
The following hissed in response by: PC14
Thought it read right. No miss, no hiss.
The above hissed in response by: PC14 at March 10, 2007 6:51 PM
The following hissed in response by: ben
I caught it; frankly, I have been resisting signing up for TypeKey for over a year now. :)
The above hissed in response by: ben at March 10, 2007 7:35 PM
The following hissed in response by: TBinSTL
Being used, as we are, to your unpredictable fascination with various styles and uses of language, I think we all just chalked it up to another semi-successful wordplay.
You'll need to screw up in a far more egregious way to get us to complain.
The above hissed in response by: TBinSTL at March 11, 2007 4:19 AM
The following hissed in response by: snochasr
Yep, it's all in your perspective, regardless of how warped it may be. We took it as just another quirk in your quizzical quest.
The above hissed in response by: snochasr at March 11, 2007 6:13 AM
The following hissed in response by: snochasr
Yep, it's all in your perspective, regardless of how warped it may be. We took it as just another quirk in your quizzical quest.
The above hissed in response by: snochasr at March 11, 2007 6:13 AM
The following hissed in response by: Rovin
I have correct the title, no thanks to you lot. Next time, be more on the ball. Let's try and stay ahead of the power curve here. You're falling down on the job. You screwed the pooch. It's all your fault for not telling me.
This just doesn't sound right to me Dafydd. I wasn't paying attention-----what were you saying about "editing"?
The above hissed in response by: Rovin at March 11, 2007 6:17 AM
The following hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh
Rovin:
I have corrected the phrase "I have correct the title," which is now correct. See if I care!
Remember the Alamo?
Dafydd
The above hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh at March 11, 2007 7:14 AM
The following hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist
Humble me was blinded by Fitzgerald's obvious Guilt and missed Libby's questionable Guilt...so to speak in my own defense.
The above hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist at March 11, 2007 8:37 AM
The following hissed in response by: charlotte
There’s no such thing as a mistake. That post headline was obviously a Freudian slip and a sign you need years of analysis to understand your relationship with your motherboard.
The above hissed in response by: charlotte at March 11, 2007 3:09 PM
The following hissed in response by: TBinSTL
Have the people responsible for this sacked!
The above hissed in response by: TBinSTL at March 11, 2007 8:07 PM
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