( Engrish + Hentai = Bad )

But darksylvia had a great snark at the stupid messages one receives on OkCupid if one is female and has a photo up. I thought I'd share my own bouts of being the recipient of stupidity.

( And now, stupid people )

"If you do not pass on this message from Buddha, you will not be able to escape unnatural death. If, on the other hand, you copy this once and give it to another man, your family will be safe. If you copy it ten times and hand the copies to others, your whole village will be safe." (Victor Purcell, The Boxer Uprising: A Background Study p. 225 ( Read more... )

The good news is, the student health clinic on campus says it's not strep. Nor is it bronchitis. It is supposed to be pharyngitis, according to what the woman who examined me wrote on the diagnosis sheet. So they gave me Robitussin of some kind, which isn't suppressing the cough at all like they said it would and I've got gallons of green goo ( Read more... )

Americans have a history of bad spelling. From a colonial letter by Thomas Waters, "from the prison in boston may 27 1687" to his wife Anne in Providence, I give you an excerpt:

my tender and lvfin wif derlo thou hast pay for mee with wipin jes and sarofvl harts wich god abof do know wee thare war fosrt to part at that dolsvm plas abof riton bvt ( Read more... )

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