Pluggers by Rick McKee for July 22, 2010

My hearing aids’s a miracle, My dentures fit just fine, My bifocals clear things right up, but Lord, how I miss my mind!

Someone once asked me if I’d ever had amnesia. I said, “Not that I recall.”

“Barnes and Borders”……. (heeheeheehee).

you’re a plugger if you forget where you buried the bodies

Pluggers are the people responsible for keeping the self-help industry stay afloat. And that’s terrible.

Chief, when the box says, “A classic thanks to..” that is code for re-run, ie: Gary’s on vacation.

I’ve done that a time or two with CDs and DVDs.

Good one BaldTom. I bought books I’ve read or already have from garage sales.

I made a mental note, but then lost my mind….

I have a photographic memory. Too bad I ran out of film.

Obviously … the book didn’t work the first time around regarding the improving of her memory! Maybe it’ll work the second time???

Am I the only devout Pluggers reader in the U.S. who caught the grammatical error in today’s (7-22-10) Pluggers???

The error was the word “entitled”. The word should have been “titled”. Yikes, all the English teachers in the country were most likely cringing today when they read it.

Don’t believe me, look it up.

Guess this makes me a Plugger of sorts. Maybe I should write Gary and suggest that a Plugger is a person who catches a grammatical error in a Pluggers comic. : )

Anyone else see the mistake? Please say yes.

I am a published Plugger, so I take Gary Brookins very seriously. Even if this Dion Coles suggested the wording, Gary should have caught it, right?

Hmmm, I just googled “book entitled” and came up with a ton of references. So it turns out to be proper usage, if a bit antiquated.

I found this at dictionary.com.

While “titled” probably would have been a better word … if I’ve understood the definition correctly, I believe the word “entitled” was used correctly here.

See: Definition #2 under “verb” (at the top) and the first sentence under “Word Origin & History” (towards the bottom).

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/entitled