raincoaster

18 Comments

1. 

   Mecca Global

   Posted September 18, 2008 at 1:28 pm | Permalink

   Hey do you know why my page looks as if it got hacked? i copied and pasted my interview that i did and i think i picked up invisible codes. I saw your answer to somebody regarding copying from word, howevere, i tried what you said regarding going in edit the click the button on the far right to clean it up to no avail….=( HELP PLEASE if you dont mind?

   My email is sbakermediagroup@gmail.com

   Thanx
   Mecca
2. 

   archiearchive FCD

   Posted September 18, 2008 at 1:57 pm | Permalink

   So – at last HeRR g eagLe** gets his just desserts.*

   *Rock Cake!

   ** The HARRUMPHING Magister Aquila non Candida
3. 

   Metro

   Posted September 18, 2008 at 3:17 pm | Permalink

   @Archie:

   I believe that should be an m-dash between “So” and “at last,” rather than an n-dash with spaces.

   Also, I’m sure the word “At” should be capitalized.

   And you might also have to grant exceptions to people who have to type with talons, and who communicate in their own lignua latina.
4. 

   max

   Posted September 18, 2008 at 6:37 pm | Permalink

   That is hilarious.
5. 

   Frontier Former Editor

   Posted September 19, 2008 at 3:20 am | Permalink

   He who is without sin cast the first Strunk and White, ‘cos that Harbrace Handbook hurts like a muthaf**cker!
6. 

   alejna

   Posted September 19, 2008 at 3:24 am | Permalink

   I hope they don’t come after me.¹

   ¹ I use footnotes with abandon, and without using a reference manual.
7. 

   silverstar98121

   Posted September 19, 2008 at 4:50 am | Permalink

   Ah, footnotes. The bane of my former existence. I bend down and kiss the ground computers walk on. Also style manuals. For without them, we wouldn’t know how to structure a footnote.
8. 

   The Necromancer

   Posted September 19, 2008 at 6:53 am | Permalink

   One of the guys doing the stoning is grabbing his crotch. What’s up with that?
9. 

   raincoaster

   Posted September 19, 2008 at 7:13 am | Permalink

   That’s for later, when they punish him for what he did with the Citations.
10. 

    G Eagle Esq

    Posted September 19, 2008 at 7:26 am | Permalink

    Magister Necromancer – ScHocking – EggsCruciating

    Some mutters should NOT be discussed in the presence of so many erudite Young Ladies !!!

    and the Guy on the Right – in Polite Society, one simply does not throw APPLES at these Political Meetings

    HarrumPHus, HaRRRimpha, HarrumphISSIMUM

    —- shuffles from left talon … to right talon and back

    !!! What do they teach in these Canuckistani Schools :

    Latina LigNA
11. 

    raincoaster

    Posted September 19, 2008 at 7:38 am | Permalink

    It’s okay: it’s actually a pomegranate!
12. 

    Stonehead

    Posted September 19, 2008 at 9:42 am | Permalink

    Stoning seems an entirely appropriate punishment for the deadly sin of ignoring the style manual, but then I used to write style guides/manuals. Divine wrath is nothing beside the fury of a chief sub-editor whose tablets of stone have been cast aside by feckless, gormless, misbegotten hacks.
13. 

    raincoaster

    Posted September 19, 2008 at 9:52 am | Permalink

    But what else can you expect? Have you ever MET a gormful hack?
14. 

    tissuetendons

    Posted September 19, 2008 at 6:18 pm | Permalink

    endnotes. violence averted.
15. 

    G Eagle Esq

    Posted September 20, 2008 at 1:39 pm | Permalink

    vorrei troare anzi avere 1 di quelle fate mi piacerebbe

    I would really like to find – indeed it would gratify me to make one of these

    — it’s really not my fault her Grace has not yet had 2 million hits
16. 

    dissfunktional

    Posted September 20, 2008 at 8:27 pm | Permalink

    This image captured the moment just prior to his possibly being stoned to death. He has six stones at his own disposal and he sits there on his knees begging to the single crotch-holder. He’s the only one wearing a dress (no belt) and the only one with long hair. He and the ‘leaders’ are the only ones with long sleeves and their legs covered.

    This being the case my submission is this. His defense is he used endnotes, not footnotes, and the publisher simply omitted this text; all a simple misunderstnding.
17. 

    G Eagle Esq

    Posted September 21, 2008 at 9:08 am | Permalink

    Yes, a tragic and potentially fatal misUnderstanding
18. 

    Steve Rebooted

    Posted September 22, 2008 at 1:03 am | Permalink

    He looks like he’s enjoying it :P