The Daily Cut – 7/1
Posted by RazorsKissJul 1
Cut-Rate Thesaurus:
Team-Swap, (God love em) is the winner of the first award for this post.
A couple samples:
a Afro Africian American
That would be “an Afro-American”, or “African-American” – not both 😀
the roles of Black’s in the Confederacy
The apostrophe is used to denote a possessive – not to denote a plural. In that case, it would be “Blacks”. However, using “Blacks” after using the PC “African-Americans” seems inconsistent, if you ask me!
Civil war
Both words are usually capitalized.
(It happened twice.)
acceptance that the site of the Confederate battle flag
Sight, not site 😀
Several of the sentences would also be borderline (if not actual) run-on sentences, or have commas incorrectly placed. Those are relatively minor, though.
Just so you know – I still love ya 😀 (Don’t get mad at me? lol)
Scornful Skeptics Award:
This week’s award goes to The Evangelical Atheist. Why? (Content Warning) Just check out the title to this post.
Yeah. Plus, he signs all of his posts ~ I AM ~. He wins.
Are You Tongue Tied?
(Mild Content Warning)
Ales Rarus, A Form of Sound Words (I wonder if he’ll be upset to be mentioned in the same post as a “Romanist“?), Joe Missionary, Messy Christian and Jeff the Baptist have all dicussed swear words. Much different from The Evangelical Atheist’s discussion. Which is retarded.
Our friends above, however – are not. The discussion is interesting.
Update: 6:55p
Found this while my girlfriend was flipping through a photoblog.
Slick Willie is wearing a Kabbalah wristband. Guess he’s trying to impress Madonna. Well, it could have been “Kabbalah water“, I suppose.
7 comments
Comment by Frank on July 1, 2005 at 9:57 pm
I was typing more then proof reading on that one….sorry…I will do better in the future, thanks for the help.
Comment by RazorsKiss on July 2, 2005 at 1:30 am
Aww, I feel bad now.
Really, it’s just a humorous encouragement to pay attention to what, and how, we present material on our blogs.
I think I really *should* be nicer, though. I really do feel bad.
Comment by Milton Stanley on July 2, 2005 at 8:34 am
Glad to see Swap Blog, my hometown favorite, getting some attention. Maybe you should cut some slack, though—it is an East Tennessee blog, after all.
Comment by Milton Stanley on July 2, 2005 at 8:37 am
My last post was an effort at humor too, BTW. All jokes about hillbillies and rednecks aside, East Tennessee is intellectually pretty strong — home to a couple of strong universities and a simply outstanding national laboratory. Peace.
Comment by Catez on July 4, 2005 at 4:01 am
You have a great blog Frank. Don’t worry.
Comment by English Teach on July 6, 2005 at 9:47 am
The story behind Clinton’s bracelet–not at all related to Kabbalah–instead, it’s an anti-terrorism thing:
In that interview, with Leaders magazine, Clinton recalls having visited Colombia in June 2002 as a guest of President-elect Alvaro Uribe. The Clinton administration had sponsored a $1-billion-a-year program to fight narcotics traffickers and terrorists there, and the invitation was an acknowledgment of his support.
Clinton says he asked if a group of street musicians known as the Children of Vallenato could meet him. The group had performed twice before for him, once during a visit he had made to Colombia in 2000 and again at a White House Christmas party, when they traveled “under the wing of the then-cultural minister of Colombia, who was known only by her first name, Consuelo,” says Clinton. In the Guardian interview, Clinton describes the minister, Consuelo Araujo, who was in her 60s, as being “magnificently attractive.”
The children, age 5 to 14, “come from a very violent area, and they’ve been a real force for peace,” Clinton says in the interview. “They were crowding the terrorists who didn’t think they could kill the kids . . . so instead they kidnapped and killed the cultural minister. I spoke long distance, via video, at the event they had for her.”
Upon returning to Colombia in 2002, Clinton was given a welcome bracelet by the children, and he has not taken it off since. It is, he says, a daily reminder of “why it’s important to work for peace and stand together against terror.”
Update:
BOGOTA: For five years, BILL CLINTON has worn a bracelet given to him by a group of Colombian children who sang and danced for peace. When the former US president visited Colombia on Wednesday, he finally took it off – only to replace it with a new one. “When I go to Africa, Middle East, all over the world they ask me about this bracelet,” Clinton told a business leadership forum in the capital, Bogota. Clinton said it gives him strength as it reminds him of the courage of the Colombian people in the face of violence and suffering inflicted by the South American nation’s 40-year-old civil war.
Comment by Funky Dung on July 6, 2005 at 7:26 pm
I’m glad you liked the swear words discussion. 🙂