WOW. People were OFFENDED by that one-liner? I’m amazed. It’s my new favorite joke personally.

The only ones that offend me are the ones where an animal is in distress or being badly treated and someone thinks it’s funny…
As for the Confucious stuff…well, didn’t laugh but that’s maybe cause I was marveling at the rampant cuteness and wishing I could touch this bodacious otter…

There’s a fortune cookie factory in San Fran that has fortunes like this, but from “Fu Ling Yu”

Also Brian’s use of commas is a bit too sparing in my opinion.

And being a bit of a nit-picker, the section on dangling modifiers inadvertently contains some.

Kris, anner, Theo-
a big Yay! and a bigger AMEN!
I bookmarked the site, thank you!
My Mom was an writer editor-I couldn’t get away from it either.

The students didn’t want to be marked down for English errors because it wasn’t English class? Too good- as someone just said, *snort*.

The passive voice was indeed thrown liberally around by Mr. Brian.
That it was shameful was later opined by Confucius Yoda Teho.

HOWEVER, Mr. Brian does throw around the passive voice quite liberally.

Theo — Thank you for the link. I will accomplish nothing work-related for the rest of the day.

@CG: Thanks for the explosive nasal tea lavage. You peeps are in rare form today, you are! XD

Much cowbell!

Sorry, had to chime (ha!) in on the ‘countable’ grammar lesson.