Fun with headlines

Mad Priest should enjoy this one:
Church Announces Different Kind of ‘Comeback’But it’s not the headline so much as the deck:The Roman Catholic Church announced that it will exhume the body of Padre Pio, an Italian priest made a saint in 2002, to better conserve his remains.

Spam!

Perusing my spam inbox on gmail, I was amused to find the sponsored
link for the page:
“French Fry Spam Recipe: Bake 30-40 minutes….”

No, really, that made me laugh out loud

Thank heavens he's not a contributor. I nearly spit out my drink when I got to the second sentence, and the third just to reinforce how funny it is:
Please allow me to introduce myself. Like most people my age, I'm 51 years old. I have been a Mensa member for over a quarter [...]

House full of teenagers

At the birthday party, part one, and my aunt went to get pizza…
“Will there still be adult supervision in the house?”
“Yeah! Helen will be here….”

I'll take my Nigerian spam-scam stir-fried, thanks

Emphasis mine…

I have asked God for forgiveness and I know that God have forgiven me. But I
have to do what is lawful and right in the sight of God by giving out the
fund to the chosen ministry for the purpose of God's wok as instructed by
the owner before his death. After my fasting and prayers, [...]

This just came back into my head.

Something I forgot to mention about a weird conversation I had at world fantasy:
Me: “I'm a professional writer and editor, just not of fiction.”
Person beside me: “Oh, please say you're not a technical writer.”
Head go scratchy.

Good thing I didn't wait to get home…

friends?skip=380
you people are insane.
I skimmed. Bigtime. But I am caught up. Mostly.
Thank heaven for an empty business center that doesn't charge me for friends?skip=380 stuffs. And no one waiting.
Okay. I should be at parties, but I got worn out with walking back and forth among three rooms. Did have a really neat intersection with [...]

All you journalists show your faces

As chance would have it, my AP style guide fell open to “religious movements.”
liberal In general, avoid this word as a descriptive
classification in religion. It has objectionable implications to many
believers.
I object!!!
Acceptable alternate descriptions include activist, more flexible,
and broadview.
No wonder we don't get any press coverage. The AP has no idea what to
do with us.
That said, [...]

Fun with TLA/netspeak homographs.

Had a moment just now with cya. You know, like cya l8r.
Cover your ass later.
Right.

Faith and the….

I'm starting to accrue categories. I really should mirror this at a formal blog.
I've been doing my “faith and science fiction” posts at my secure
deviathan journal, and probably should move them here.
But now, we have “faith and copyediting.” Today's entry is from John
Shelby Spong:
Bishop Spong Q&A on Chartiable Contributions
What spellchecker let that get through?

Stuffs

15. “So far as I'm aware, no other language has anything equivalent
to the Icelandic 'setja upp gestaspjot', a verbal phrase denoting the
action taken by a cat when cleaning itself, with its body curled
tightly in a circle and one back leg sticking directly up in the air.
Literally it means 'put up a guest-spear' and [...]

what's klingon for meme?

That quote shakespeare thing, with apologies to
From Khamlet:
taH pagh taHbe'. DaH mu'tlheghvam vIqelnIS.
quv'a', yabDaq San vaQ cha, pu' je SIQDI'?
pagh, Seng bIQ'a'Hey SuvmeH nuHmey SuqDI',
'ej, Suvmo', rInmoHDI'? Hegh. Qong — Qong neH —
'ej QongDI', tIq 'oy', wa'SanID Daw''e' je
cho'nISbogh porghDaj rInmoHlaH net Har. *
(*To be or not to be, etc. Link here:
http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/shakespeare/star.trek.html )

Straight from Verizon

My last bill came in from Verizon.
I get them as ebills.
It says this at the top of the bill.
“This is a your final bill is upon receipt.”