Giddy (and more than a little bit jealous)

Check out this article about a Scrabble game. I think my high score is stuck at 430-something, at least without switching to SuperScrabble (that's 200 tiles and extra rows and columns with quadruple-word and -letter spaces, for those of you who aren't as obsessed as the rest of us).

http://www.slate.com/id/2152255/?GT1=8702

I can tell this is going to be a good week.

I love this week. It's only Monday and there are already little grammar-laden articles popping up all over the internet. Got room for one more?

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15383124/

I told you you'd need to know this stuff someday.

Using grammar rules alongside test tubes, biologists may have found a promising new way to fight nasty bacteria, including drug-resistant microbes and anthrax.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/10/18/bacteria_hea.html?category=health&guid=20061018161530

See? I told you you'd need to know those grammar rules. Grammar keeps you healthy and even the bacteria know how a sentence should be formed. I can't help but think, however, that an overwhelming number of grade school students could be classified as "nasty bacteria" themselves.

Close but no apostrophe

IT S TIME TO FLY
Originally uploaded by travelinlibrarian.

Maybe the font they're using doesn't include apostrophes...

More Stellar Revelations from our President

In an article on cnn.com regarding the terrible shooting in an Amish schoolhouse this week:

"Our school children should never fear safety when they enter their classroom," Bush said.

Don't worry, Mr. President. There's not much chance of that.

Something's missing

What?
Originally uploaded by travelinlibrarian.

Who or what must remain outside of the vehicle while who or what is fueling (or is it being fueled?)

Approved?

Don't they realize what this means?
Originally uploaded by travelinlibrarian.

This sign means that glas containers are approved for gasoline storage yet is not being allowed. Though I sure that's not what they meant to say.