Oh, fuck! This spoils everything!

[Guest]

So, Catch-22 is a master-piece, is it? A peach of a novel, timeless and forever eternal?

My arse.

"Well,I'll [sic] be damned," mused General Peckem with astonishment, swearing aloud for perhaps the first time in his life.
- from Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

This is an utter incompetance. Heller can't even type right! Oh, Christ! I'm binning the fucking book! There is a reason why the Bible is the all-time best seller. No fucking type-o!

 

[NoJo]

Maybe you have a rare edition.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I recently read it too, and also found a typo. Didn't take a note of it, though, and can't be arsed to read it again now...

 

[NoJo]

I recently read it too, and also found a typo. Didn't take a note of it, though, and can't be arsed to read it again now...

I have a rare "Major Major Major Major Major" 1st edition.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I'm devasstated.

I just cunt go on.

 

[NoJo]

Come on, Doc. Aries soon.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

This is an utter incompetance. Heller can't even type right! Oh, Christ! I'm binning the fucking book! There is a reason why the Bible is the all-time best seller. No fucking type-o!

The Bible has no typos?

"Thou shalt not..."

Double negatives... Seven out of ten commandments (or was it six?) are double negatives... Pretty big typos if you ask me.



Q_C

 

[BlackShanglan]

I have a rare "Major Major Major Major Major" 1st edition.

I love you, Joe.

 

[BlackShanglan]

"Thou shalt not..."

Double negatives...

Ahhh ... "shalt" is not a negative?

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Ahhh ... "shalt" is not a negative?

Yep. Shalt is a negative, and "shalt not" is a double negative...

That what you were asking?

Q_C

 

[NoJo]

How about "shallot"? I get confused with that one too.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Yep. Shalt is a negative, and "shalt not" is a double negative...

That what you were asking?

Q_C

Actually, I was phrasing a statement as a question, which is not helpful of me. Apologies. I just hate contradicting people and was trying (badly) to be tactful.

Let me try again.

"Shalt" is not a negative. It means "shall" or "will." As in "thou shalt honor thy father and mother"; no one's being told not to.

Shanglan

 

[BlackShanglan]

How about "shallot"? I get confused with that one too.

It's something like a marshmallow and good as a suppository. Try one today.

 

[neonlyte]

It's something like a marshmallow and good as a suppository. Try one today.

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[BlackShanglan]

A small one else your eyes water

Shhh. I was just about to tell Joe that bigger is better.

 

[neonlyte]

Shhh. I was just about to tell Joe that bigger is better.

OK. I'll delete it.

 

[Guest]

I'm anal. If I find a typo in a book, I email the publisher. They all thank me and assure me that the mistake will be corrected before the next edition is printed. If there's going to be a next edition. They all love me really.

 

[neonlyte]

I'm anal. .

You did that on purpose. Have a shallot

 

[Guest]

You did that on purpose. Have a shallot

I didn't realise how fitting that opening sentence was, until I went back and read the couple of posts before mine. How lovely of you, thank you.

 

[NoJo]

I didn't realise how fitting that opening sentence was, until I went back and read the couple of posts before mine. How lovely of you, thank you.

Fitting. Opening. Shallot... Okay, I make that about 3 cm. Cool.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I'm anal. If I find a typo in a book, I email the publisher. They all thank me and assure me that the mistake will be corrected before the next edition is printed. If there's going to be a next edition. They all love me really.

Say it ain't so, Lou! So you're one of those people who circles typos in library books in bright green ink and adds all these exclanation points in the margin?

Or those cryptic comments, like "Hitler didn't know until 1944, you moron!!!"

A future as a bag lady awaits you.

 

[NoJo]

Say it ain't so, Lou! So you're one of those people who circles typos in library books in bright green ink and adds all these exclanation points in the margin?

Or those cryptic comments, like "Hitler didn't know until 1944, you moron!!!"

A future as a bag lady awaits you.

My local bag lady is also my editor.

 

[TxRad]

My local bag lady is also my editor.

So's mine!!!! but mine also moonlights as a hooker......

Wait... Editor/hooker...Nevermind, they're the same thing....

 

[Guest]

Say it ain't so, Lou! So you're one of those people who circles typos in library books in bright green ink and adds all these exclanation points in the margin?

Or those cryptic comments, like "Hitler didn't know until 1944, you moron!!!"

A future as a bag lady awaits you.

I'm doomed.

But, no, I'm not quite that bad. I'd never deface a book. Especially not one that was public property. I'm anal like that, too.

 

[elsol]

They all love me really.

Doesn't everybody?

Sincerely,
ElSol