[Boomer]

I think it was the warden in Cool Hand Luke who said, "What we got here is a failure to communicate."

Well, here on TOTV, we ain't got no failure to communicate.

While it is one thing to do a little run at those grammar and spelling and usage mistakes, in general, that we may individually find a little irritating or whatever, I hope we never disintegrate into taking a red pen to somebody personally. That just ain't right.

True story. . .

One of my good friends is (was?) an English teacher, now retired. When she was young and single and would meet guys at parties or in meet markets or wherever and the subject of, "And what do you do?" came up, she would lie. Yep, she would lie. She would always tell those guys that she worked for the phone company. (I never understood why she picked the phone company, but it was her lie of choice, for some reason.)

You see, if my friend told those guys that she was an English teacher, they would just move down another barstool or whatever because they would not want to talk to her anymore.

Or maybe even a few of those guys might hang around just to try to catch her in a mistake, thus resolving some old issue with some English teacher from the past. Either way, my friend knew, that for some, if they knew she was an English teacher, there could be "a failure to communicate." So she lied. True story.

Now granted, some of those guys, my friend the English teacher did not want to talk to anyway. But she was a wise woman who knew better than to slam the door on communication.

So while it is fine to have a little fun with those errors in grammar and spelling and usage, I hope those red pens never show up here for individual correction.

So anyway, I will say again what I said last night. This place sure looks good to me.

ButwhatdoIknow?

Boomer