Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for May 29, 2022

He takes his duties cirrusly.

Editor about to be alone on vacation.

She can’t marry him, it was only a preposition.

Would he be arrested if he showed her his colon?

I had several gigs as a technical writer to fill in the gaps during periods of unemployment. During one of them, I encountered these creatures called editors.

I thought them to be a particularly anal-retentive bunch at least when it came to their work.

In my primary profession, I laugh at the way we engineers can argue over a concept that is either arbitrary or can be solved with two minutes of research or a ten minute experiment.

I’ve watched arguments go on for days among the editors on the placement of a comma or worse, whether it was needed at all.

I was a good writer, they made me better.

“No. No. No. It’s all wrong.

… The message isn’t clear. It’s way too cloudy as it is."

I used to write as a ‘side’ job. When I first came on the ’ net, I was a horrible Grammar Nazi. Now, rather than correct, I’ve learned to ignore. Life is so much better now, lol.

used to write as a ‘side’ job. When I first came on the ’ net, I was a horrible Grammar Nazi. Now, rather than correct, I’ve learned to ignore. Life is so much better now, lol.

The only exception is if I can make a joke about it. Then, all bets are off!

New meaning to Lucy in the Sky….oh my!

Does anyone proofread anymore? It seems that newspaper journalists type their article on a computer & rely on spell check. But there foolish to do so cause their often wrong on they’re spelling. (Sea watt I did their?)

Sponsored by the Professional Association Of English Majors.

“Why does that one say ‘STET’?”

You can take a comma out of Oxford, but you can’t…

How did this get past the Editor, oh he’s on vacation.

Some of us are born editors and some of us just aren’t.

I expected something like: "Editor’s on Vacation. “See that one thats shaped like a comma? It should be over their.”