OMG Grumpy

[cupidsbow]

I'm migrainy and so damn grumpy right now. Everything is annoying me.

F'rinstance. The phrase "Time Tot" being used in a story without irony. Also, the use of the word "bullocks" instead of "bollocks."

Thank goodness for

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[tesserae_]

Oh, holy crap, gamma-phone... thank you, I needed that laugh!

[cupidsbow]

I tell people that I've never known a fandom like Torchwood for badfic and hilarious errors, but they seem to think I'm exaggerating for humour value, often going on to tell me that their fandom is just as bad. I defy it to be true! I have read in many of those fandoms, too, and it was not so.

As you can see, there are *pages and pages* of examples I have posted to DanglyP, and they are carefully winnowed from the many, many omg so many that I come across every day. It frankly boggles me. It's just as well that kind of thing makes me laugh.

Did you go back as far as the anvil? That's a favourite, as are the rouge weevils.

There's an older comm on LJ too (same name) if you want to trawl back into the mists of time; it has Lotrips and stuff.

[tesserae_]

My favorite-of-all-time discussion of "dangly partsiples" was an essay posted a number of years ago called The Zombie Finger of Rob Lowe, or something similar. In it, the writer took apart a smashingly bad bit of Sentinel fic that was just replete with disembodied parts ("the hand moved", that sort of construction) and sentences begging for commas...I do not think I still have the link but I can try to round it up, if you'd like.

Oh and: my dad's favorite phrase, from some aunt, is "You've buttered your bread, now lie in it."

[cupidsbow]

What a great title! Yes, if you ever find it again I'd love to have a read.

"You've buttered your bread, now lie in it."

LOL. That's fantastic. I feel that I should be able to come up with a witty bon mot to go with it, but all I can think about is bread and butter pudding.

[retsuko]

Is a time tot like a tater tot?? :D

[cupidsbow]

Bwahahaha! I shall always think of that from now on, when I see that trope. "Oh, hey!" I'll think, "It's my old friend, Spud!"

[grouchiegrrl]

I don't know if this fits, but when I worked for the council in Bris, we used to get messages from the public forwarded on by the call centre. occasionally typos were awfully funny. my favorite was the one about (noxious) 'Obnoxious weeds' - what were they being rude to passers-by? saying 'you in the black pants, you have a big arse?' *grin*

[emma_in_oz]

Rouge instead of rogue. You old rouge.