Friday, February 27, 2009

News I Can Use



I went looking for Michelle's arms but I believe they have been smuggled over the Syrian border.

13 comments:

  1. how to get Michelle Obama's toned arms

    with a chainsaw?

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  2. I believe Acme has some kind of arm-removal device which I will send away for promptly. Also, I will not read the fine print.

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  3. you mean a chainsaw ISN'T an arm removal device?

    Tell it to Bruce Campbell.

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  4. Video loopy Burt seems WAY too interested in this topic. AND WHERE ARE HIS HANDS? Busy off-camera or chain-sawed off? OR BOTH?!!!

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  5. you mean a chainsaw ISN'T an arm removal device?

    Lawnmowers, man, lawnmowers. Not that the chainsaw isn't noble, but there are a vast array of tools available for the job.

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  6. He's getting more interested one topic up.

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  7. Only once he gets home from church.

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  8. just think, RB, there would be crew on that scene who's job description was 'arm-chucker'

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  9. "Is a vast array". I blame the arms that I haven't removed yet.

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  10. Naw, I'd go with the array being a singular item no matter what comprised it.

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  11. Now I'm more of a spelling zombee than a grammar zombee but it seems to me that the plural mode agrees between are and tools, not the array part.

    i.e. You could also have put it 'there are a vast number of tools available for the job'.

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  12. Still sounds clangy and I figure the object is still the array; "number" seems correct to me but it's a word with a lot of flexibility. I suspect it's just that English is screwy.

    Compare with "There are a herd of zombies coming to eat my brain." The herd's a singular item and "are" should be "is".

    I am a grammar failure incidentally, so I note that Google frequency errs on my side.

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