Don't let this happen to you!
04/09/2010
Stifle your inner pedant. I find that very difficult to do with "literally," though. Just a day or two ago I saw a particularly bad example in a news story: I don't remember it now but it was on the order of "he was literally on fire with ambition."
Moreover, I thought this as a modern lapse, but I ran across it in something fairly old not long ago. May have been a line of dialog in David Copperfield.
xkcd has been a little off lately, so I was glad to find it funny today. Wednesday's was pretty good, too, though, not being a Tetris player, I didn't get it at first, even though it should be obvious. My wife did--she was a bit of a Tetris addict for a while.
Becca emailed me a link to the Wednesday comic. I took me a minute, too, for the same reason. But my reason for not having played is probably different from yours. I know that once I sit down to play Tetris, I may never get up again.
AMDG
Posted by: Janet Cupo | 04/09/2010 at 10:28 AM
At first I thought this said, "Stifle your inner pendant." Sounded kind of new-agey.
AMDG
Posted by: Janet Cupo | 04/09/2010 at 10:30 AM
I knew it said pedant but I still thought of pendant.
Posted by: antiaphrodite | 04/09/2010 at 12:33 PM
Don't be de pendant on de pedant.
Posted by: Mac | 04/09/2010 at 12:36 PM
I have some dependancy issues, obviously.
Posted by: antiaphrodite | 04/09/2010 at 01:02 PM
Better than de pedancy issues, I guess. At least for everybody else.
Posted by: Mac | 04/09/2010 at 01:23 PM
Man, I hate that comic. A comic with stick figures is like a concerto for two rocks. People who can't draw should not try to make comics...
Personally, I have been looking for years for an excuse to use "Department of Superfluous' Apostrophe's"...
Posted by: Daniel Nichols | 04/09/2010 at 03:22 PM
Now that you found your excuse, you can open a couple of beer's.
I love xkcd. Well, at least when it's not being extremely crude. The stick figures are part of the humor, and I think the guy can actually draw better than he lets on, as the figures are oddly expressive sometimes. But still, it's a pretty...what's the word?...abstract kind of humor, in that the joke is more in the idea than in the execution.
I think this one succeeds in both aspects. Although it's not exactly a joke...I think it's rather touching.
Posted by: Mac | 04/09/2010 at 04:47 PM
re: tetris -
LOL!
Posted by: Louise | 04/09/2010 at 08:34 PM