As I've said before, I've been on a big cleaning kick lately -- not just cleaning, but organizing, selling old junk on eBay, throwing out worthless crap, and so on. The project continued this evening, and it brought me to a pile of gradu that had been sitting in the spare bedroom. Apart from finding all the paperwork for my IT certifications and two spare keys to the apartment that I thought had been lost forever, I also found a whole bunch of old papers and stuff from Summer 2001, when I went to the Mensa Annual Gathering in Dallas. Couldn't help but notice this, right at the beginning of my welcoming registration materials:
"YES, you are registered for the AG!
We're really glad your coming!"
I suppose little "error" may be partially excused by the fact that we are, after all, dealing with Texans, but even so, one typically expects better from Mensa members.
At least in the following sentence, they did write "a lot" as two separate words, not as one word, "alot", which so many people do these days... I hate that. I mean, use your heads, people -- if "alot" were an actual word, what would the opposite be, "alittle"?
Posted by Zathras at August 11, 2003 08:04 PMA few weeks ago I picked up a "Berkshire Eagle" while I was in Lee, Mass. that had the headline:
"Selectmen Positive Budget'll Pass"
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Posted by: Shaw at August 11, 2003 10:44 PM