Monthly Archives: December 2007

Two reasons to read the comment threads at the Onion AV Club

Posted on 12/29/2007 by Andrew

1) In a dis­cus­sion of morally dubi­ous hol­i­day enter­tain­ments, the idea of keep­ing Christ in Christ­mas was brought up. One person’s response: Like­wise, I believe in the impor­tance of keep­ing Thor in Thurs­days. That’s why once a week I drink … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Unnecessary Quotes “Redux”

Posted on 12/26/2007 by Andrew

A while back, I posted about some regional lin­guis­tic pet peeves of mine, one of which was the “ran­dom” use of quo­ta­tion “mark’s” and “apostrophe’s.” Looks like someone’s taken the Engr­ish approach to the sub­ject, cre­at­ing a blog (http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/) to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The (Mis)education of Little Chef

Posted on 12/11/2007 by Andrew

Last night I watched a cook­ing pod­cast about omelets. I’ve always con­sid­ered them to be a spe­cialty of mine, but the host of the show was mak­ing them a dif­fer­ent way than my usual. His tech­nique included a cool lit­tle … Con­tinue read­ing →

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