The Ubiquitous Grammar Cop

I heard this question during a commercial for the CBS reality show The Amazing Race : "How do you make champagne? Do you take wine and add club soda?" He posed those questions to a champagne manufacturer (in France).

I wrote a piece about eighteen months ago about a ridiculous request made by PETA . Apparently a chef in New York City decided to push that envelope.

I read the following blurb in Wednesday's edition (03 March, 2010; pg. 3) of the Chicago Tribune in the section titled "60-Second Riff": Socialism Fails to Deliver Once Again by Rex W. Huppke My fellow patriots: It was announced Tuesday that the United States Postal Service wants to scale back mail delivery to five days a week. With that, we can now definitely say that President Barack Hussein Obama's radical socialist agenda is failing. Government-run mail delivery has long been a stain on the capitalist fabric of our society. Only last year the Postal Service - i.e., the propaganda distribution arm of big government - issued a stamp honoring civil rights pioneer Mary White Ovington, noting in a news release that she "grew interested in socialism." What further evidence that this federal entity is a simmering bed of anti-Americanism? News that the post office is unable to fulfill its obligations - bringing us Eddie Bauer catalogs and reminders of upcoming t...

I saw this on a advert at a BP Amoco station (touting their snack pizza's lower price): "We cut the price, not the cheese!" Three things came to mind: 1) I hope they didn't. 2) That's unintentionally amusing ad copy. 3) If it was intentional, it's even more funny.