More phrases that I find annoying (from an interoffice email):
"...please can you get in touch by return."
Issue #1: "Return" is not a form of communication that I'm familiar with. Perhaps it's akin to the carrier pigeon, and has gone extinct.
Issue #2: "please can you get in touch" is sufficient. Simple. Conveys the request.
To sum up: this phrase is both redundant and nonsense. F.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Under/Loaded statement of the day
From the Wikipedia article on Tropic Thunder, Ben Stiller's new movie:
"Owen Wilson was to have Matthew McConaughey's role in the film, but dropped out after his suicide attempt in August 2007."
It's almost like he dropped out because he remembered he had to take the trash out that day. But, you know, not.
"Owen Wilson was to have Matthew McConaughey's role in the film, but dropped out after his suicide attempt in August 2007."
It's almost like he dropped out because he remembered he had to take the trash out that day. But, you know, not.
Return from the Deep
Sorry for my long absence, oh faithful readers. In fact, I simply forgot I had a blog. You know, as you do.
But this tidbit, and a gentle reminder from Em, propelled me to return. From a story on CNN about how some people have used Spore's* Creature Creator** (if you don't understand all the words in that paragraph, you're not as nerdy as I am) has been used for less than innocent pursuits:
"But scrolling through the database -- past the three-legged sea horse, past the seven-eyed wildebeest and the half-motorcycle-half-pig -- revealed something many users didn't expect. Buried among the more wholesome attempts were two-legged dancing testicles, a "giant breast monster" and a four-legged, "phallic fornication machine," for starters."
What confuses me here is the line "something many users didn't expect." I mean, correct me if I'm being cynical, but I sort of assumed that anything that can be used for porn will be. Are these users Mormons? Or pathologically naive?
* Spore is a soon-to-be-released game in which, basically, you get to create your own life form and evolve it from a bacteria to something with a civilization.
** Creature Creator is a side project of Spore, which has been released and whereby people create their own creatures and can share them with the world.
But this tidbit, and a gentle reminder from Em, propelled me to return. From a story on CNN about how some people have used Spore's* Creature Creator** (if you don't understand all the words in that paragraph, you're not as nerdy as I am) has been used for less than innocent pursuits:
"But scrolling through the database -- past the three-legged sea horse, past the seven-eyed wildebeest and the half-motorcycle-half-pig -- revealed something many users didn't expect. Buried among the more wholesome attempts were two-legged dancing testicles, a "giant breast monster" and a four-legged, "phallic fornication machine," for starters."
What confuses me here is the line "something many users didn't expect." I mean, correct me if I'm being cynical, but I sort of assumed that anything that can be used for porn will be. Are these users Mormons? Or pathologically naive?
* Spore is a soon-to-be-released game in which, basically, you get to create your own life form and evolve it from a bacteria to something with a civilization.
** Creature Creator is a side project of Spore, which has been released and whereby people create their own creatures and can share them with the world.
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