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Old 7th June 2007 | 07:22
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Whirlygig

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From: Propping up bars in the Lands of D H Lawrence and Bishop Bonner
Whirls hasn't flown an Agusta
Actually, I have but I couldn't log it

This thread has gone along the classic route (as do all these threads)

1. Someone posts a reasonable and polite question but it contains a (usually humourous) spelling mistake or typo.

2. Someone ese picks up on this and has a laugh at their expense or otherwise resorts to name-calling.

3. Someone else will answer the original question ignoring the diatribe that precedes their post.

4. Several "voices of reason" chip in accusing the original pedant of being unfair.

5. Opposing "voices of reason" chime in to give their viewpoint that both spelling and grammar are important and look how perfect their posts are and point out all the errors in everyone else's posts!!

6. Further pedants join in to point out that previous pedants are have used a flying apostrophe where they shouldn't or Oxford commas are SO out of fashion now'

7. The "voices of reason" pick on the original pedant pointing out that everyone is fallible.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Cheers

Whirls
Founding Member of the East Dereham Pedants' Society

Last edited by Whirlygig; 7th June 2007 at 18:35. Reason: Ha ha! No-one picked me up for my missing apostrophe!!
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