Curiosities in the public record

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by MisterEbola
"Jose Manuel Miguel Xaviar Gonzales, in a few short weeks it will be spring. The snows of winter will flee away. " [remainder of florid prose omitted]

Until I read the last line and the date, I figured the guy was probably a drug mule busted with a couple of kilos stuffed under the spare tire.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Until I read the last line and the date, I figured the guy was probably a drug mule busted with a couple of kilos stuffed under the spare tire.

I think the Sentencing Guidelines no longer permit enhancements for being copper-colored, chili-eating, or sheep-herding.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I think the Sentencing Guidelines no longer permit enhancements for being copper-colored, chili-eating, or sheep-herding.

1 of those 3 is effectively still in play, no?

[MisterEbola]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I think the Sentencing Guidelines no longer permit enhancements for being copper-colored, chili-eating, or sheep-herding.

That was the beauty of the prose - an ever-increasing level of the insult - from copper-colored to chili eating (low brow) to sheep-herding (extremly low brow) to just downright mean - son-of-a-bitch.

[MisterEbola]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
1 of those 3 is effectively still in play, no?

Correct. Chili eating is a capital offense - especially when it is the Cincinnati variety.

[pretermitted_child]

Which item is not like the others: aspirin, kerosene, escalator, dry ice, zipper, trampoline, refrigerator, google.

[pretermitted_child]

As seen on http://www.nytimes.com on JUNE 28, 2003 at 11:32 AM ET at the top of the page next to the totally-random-but-obligatory-photo-of-the-day/hour/minute:

Missing U.S. Soldiers Found Dead North of Baghdad
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS 11:17 AM ET
The two deaths are the latest confirmed in an accelerating series of attacks that have left at least a half-dozen American soldiers dead and many more wounded in just the past week.
• Dispatches:Dispatches: Iraqi Saboteurs' Goal
• Pentagon Delays Releasing 5 Syrians
• Complete Coverage: After the War

(Left uncorrected for at least 30 minutes.)

[pretermitted_child]

leagleaze's status line announces:

Justice Kennedy RULES!

Further significance can be added, I think, thusly:

Justice Kennedy (OVER)RULES!

. . . which, unfortunately, serves no useful purpose except as a warning to all junior corporate associates:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da...it4_050803.txt

(hint: Check out the very last page -- one cannot proofread enough.)

[pretermitted_child]

It's Commencement 2003 at my alma mater and the geeks* are showing the world that they can spell!

p(Aww . . . it's even properly punctuated!)c

*A bunch of Aeronautics/Astronautics majors. Frankly, the lay populace has it all wrong -- "rocket science" is NOT that hard.** It's just mind-numbingly BORING. And, upon graduation, your job prospects suck. This is why we have so few "rocket scientists."

** The most conceptually difficult disciplines are those physics subfields with the weird names (e.g., The physics of heavy flavors) -- there is a positive correlation between the weirdness of the name and the level of conceptual difficulty involved.

[pretermitted_child]

For the month of July, the ASPCA is torn between Peter and Tom, apparently. (Check out the title of the webpage as shown in the window border.)

p(shelter cats, bunnies . . . same difference)c

[tmdiva]

In the June issue of the Oregon State Bar Bulletin, in a "Brief" about a scoring error on the MBE:

"The affected parties were notified in May, and the supreme court is yet to announce a final decision."

"Unaffected are the essay portions on the bar exams; which are scored by state bar examiners."

Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy!

tm

[robustpuppy]

From a McPaper article about the Bachelorette:

"Rehn, a physical therapist, received $15,000 for the cost of living expenses and personal trainer fees during her stint on The Bachelorette, which ended in February when she chose Sutter, a poetry-writing firefighter from Vail, Colo., from among 25 suiters. "

Arrgh. Maybe the writer and copy editor were thrown by Ryan's last name of Sutter.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by tmdiva
In the June issue of the Oregon State Bar Bulletin, in a "Brief" about a scoring error on the MBE:

"The affected parties were notified in May, and the supreme court is yet to announce a final decision."

"Unaffected are the essay portions on the bar exams; which are scored by state bar examiners."

Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy!

tm

How do you know those people weren't affected? You know how wannabe lawyers are!

[pretermitted_child]

I think this forum needs a new motto because "Timmyism to the extreme!" is too much of an exaggeration.

I propose the following motto: Bored Timmies' board.


p(Notice the apostrophic expression and the homophonous pair -- these are, perhaps, two of the most notorious sources of grammatical errors (and Timmyism) in the English language.)c