Comments on: A small winter intermission…

By: Geodaddi

Geodaddi — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:06:47 +0000

Sorry Tom, it really is the Pedants’ club. It is wooden and very large. The primary purpose is to stun, before applying the beak and shears…

By: The Veritable Tom Mathias

The Veritable Tom Mathias — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:18:37 +0000

I do like them, but the tester in me wonders what happens if I do this.

By: The Veritable Tom Mathias

The Veritable Tom Mathias — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:17:30 +0000

Actually, it’s the Pedants’ Society, but we’ll let that one go.

By: Richard Dadd

Richard Dadd — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:51:43 +0000

touché!

Welcome to the Pedants’ Club, Alaric.

We trust you will enjoy your membership. But please be warned, we are stricter than the Masons.

We have a very severe policy. One misused apostrophe and you’ll be ostracized.

. . . and yes, that does involve a large flightless bird and a pair of garden-shears.

By: Alaric King

Alaric King — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:26:16 +0000

Ahem. That’s “Lynne Truss”, with an ‘e’.

By: Richard Dadd

Richard Dadd — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:21:56 +0000

What’s literary about the colour wheel . . ?

. . .Oh, and I assume you meant “from your pedestal” rather than “from a your pedestal.”

. . . Oh, and presumably you intended to capitalise your first person pronoun?

Me and my father (Geodaddi) made our above comments simultaneously as it happens. So I guess there’s three of us up here on this pedestal.

And we’ll be watching over you, proof-reading your every utterance for the rest of your life. Laughing at your tax returns, sniggering at your medical forms, mocking you every time you put fingertip to keyboard, or wax-crayon to paper. You will never be free of us!

Lynn Truss is coming round later to poke you with a stick.

Tut-tut. That boy never learns.

By: Alaric

Alaric — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:38:01 +0000

HAHAHA! I hope i live the rest of my days making obvious literary bugger ups, just so you can watch from a your pedestal shaking your head and saying “that boy never learns”. The view from up there is good, or so my father frequently informs me!

By: Richard Dadd

Richard Dadd — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:41:30 +0000

Alaric King I let a lot of your spelling errors go without comment, but how have you managed to spell “Roygbiv” wrong you massive prune!?

It’s a word that TELLS you how to spell it! It’s the colours of the spectrum! (Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet)

Sigh. This is what proof-reading for a living does to you. I used to be a pedant. Now I’m an arse.

By: Geodaddi

Geodaddi — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:40:25 +0000

The legal department of Geodaddi plc and the British Oxygen Company would like to disassociate themselves from the underhand attempt to infiltrate the primary colour “Aubergine” between green and blue in the spectrum. Apart from anything else, it will bugger up the re-issues of “Dark Side of the Moon”

By: Alaric

Alaric — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:49:31 +0000

Oh yes! “Julie and Candy” on Geogaddi is a superb track. And the other 2 albums are just the finest musical love making you’ve ever heard. Look out for the tracks Olsen, Peacock Tail and Roygabiv.

Also, only me and you will appreciate this Tom – BUT CHECK OUT THESE NESTED COMMENTS!!! Fuck yea.