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The Cookie Mom and the Author
Feb 20th
A dozen or so years ago I got my first home computer. After figuring out AOL was for wussies and Yahoo was a meat market I went on to search for one of my favorite authors. Back then she had a huge website with her own forums (Kitchen Table) and chat room (KT Live). I didn’t know crap about forums so I tended to hang out in the chat room more. There were people who spent a lot of time in there with me that I still consider my closest friends. Anyway, one morning she came in. Anne McCaffrey! Seriously! I never gushed over anyone and I didn’t start then, but wow. Turns out, she’d show up around the same time every day and spend about an hour chatting with her people.
Shameful Bobbsy
Oct 14th
In that forum, good “SPAG” (Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation) is not just a suggestion; it’s actually required in the rules.
bobbsy baby, that acronym would be SGAP. C’mon dude, get your acronym explanations in order! I expect better from you!
I’ll admit right here in front of my bestest friends, I have a mental brick wall when it comes to its/it’s. Yes, I worked for a dozen years in the technical publishing business and some of them dedicated to pleasing the tech writer from Hell, Harold. I always use your or you’re and their and there in the correct way and have seldom let a misspelling pass my enter button. I do remember receiving a lesson from cavaticat regarding her personal issue with alot, but then again that wasn’t a word (phrase?) used in technical writing a lot. It with an s always always always stops me cold. Can’t help it. I often rewrite the sentence rather than get it wrong or look it up. Maybe I should make myself a sticky note?
I may be a spellwight, but I can’t consider myself a Grammar Nazi anymore. And gee thanks el_mcgruffle for forcing me to go back to that awful place and read more of that stupid woman’s self-gloriousness and losing my lunch. I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog too.
I came back from my weekend to start posting with this:
Jul 2nd
Dude, if you had any idea how many of us bitch/moan/complain and generally dislike Leah, you’d totally understand. Why shouldn’t anyone who has a complaint about anyone else be able to go to ANOTHER board and air it? Having said that, I wonder why it never occurred to OUR team that if that many people don’t like Leah, maybe SHE should be asked to resign.
