Your editor should fire you.

No, wait. He or she should be fired for missing this one:

...Kate's father, Sarmoti (his name is an anagram for "Siegfried and Roy, Masters of the Impossible,"...

An anagram? That's an acronym, doofus.



(Also joyously found in the TV Week of today's The Indianapolis Star.)

(Crossposted to dot_pedantic.)

Marathon Silliness

Annoying NBC Commentator (sorry, that's redundant, I know): "...he ran over 500 miles through the desert..."

Me: Uphill. Both ways.

(no subject)

soaring_phoenix: I have Kool-Aid and Splenda.

mac_arthur_park: And she's not afraid to use it!

(If you're tired of these silly posts, specifically the duplication thereof, please apply for The Looney Bin stenographer job. Serious inquiries only. Equal Opportunity Employer.)

More Marathon Silliness

mac_arthur_park: Seeing all these houses along the course, I can just see signs that would read, "Stand in my yard. 50 drachma."

Would it look like this?

Στάση στο ναυπηγείο μου. δραχμή 50.

(Babelfish translation, so I'm not completely confident.)