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The Definite Article Strikes Back
Every time I’ve gone out this week I’ve encountered this poster advertising The Final Destination, the fourth and latest installment in the popular teen horror movie franchise. Now, I haven’t really paid much attention to any installments of popular teen horror movie franchises since I was about – well – twelve, but this poster really [...]
The Magnificent Seven
George Carlin was part of a very fine and very respectable American tradition – that of the painfully funny and dangerously smart freethinking foul-mouth. Many of my heroes belonged to this tradition, and it seems like most of them are now dead. Comics like Carlin and Bill Hicks – and writers like Robert Anton Wilson [...]
Insane in the Membrane
All that talk in my previous post about meaningless corporate jargon reminded me of an incident that happened some years ago, whilst I was working for that aforementioned company that was so prone to wholesale crimes against language. At one point in the early 2000s, a phrase that was doing the rounds in the business [...]
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