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Ahn-yungs
Note to radio ad about pizza offering unlimited toppings:
“Onions” is not pronounced “ahn-yungs”
The To-do Liz
Autocorrect just tried to change my to-do list to a to-do Liz, which would be nice if I could hand my notes of things that need to be done to someone and have them go do them.
They wouldn’t even have to be named Liz. That was just Autocorrect’s suggestion.
Waiting for a train at the airport
The problem with autocorrect is that it makes such strange substitutions sometimes that it completely throws me off my train of thought by the time I notice it.
I’m on my train of thought, but autocorrect has changed it to an airport.
The breakfast of…
Typing in Wheaties for a search on athletes on their cereal boxes, I typed in Whaties instead, and now I want to write a story about Whaties, the cereal made from who knows what.
National Grammar Day is March 4
National Grammar Day comes in two days. Have you sent your National Grammar Day cards? Bought your National Grammar Day decorations? Planned your National Grammar Day banquet? Don’t leave these things to the last minute and wind up in line with all the other desperate National Grammar Day shoppers.
Refined (Or Not)
A movie trailer has a character described as “pure evil.”
Now I want to write a character of impure evil. She’ll kill you, but you can fool around a little first.
Over and over
OK, this is just a little one, but as a writer, I pay attention to these things.
Radio news at noon: “There’s talk about getting rid of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson again.”
Uh… no. They’re not talking about getting rid of him again. They haven’t gotten rid of him the first time. They’re talking again about getting rid of him.
My next million dollar idea
My next idea to make a fortune: you’ve seen the ads for shirts designed to be worn untucked, right? How about a really LONG shirt so it doesn’t matter if you’re even actually wearing pants to tuck them into (or not)?
Instead of a nightshirt, I’ll call it a dayshirt.
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Beat the clock!
Just saw a plot description about a kidnapped scientist and a rescue team trying to beat the clock, and I thought, just rescue the scientist and leave the poor clock alone!