Comments on: Where are the Editors? http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=918 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 21 May 2013 19:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 By: Linda Woods http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=918&cpage=1#comment-345780 Linda Woods Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:20:35 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=918#comment-345780 Saying "Jim and me" and not "me and Jim" has been a crusade of mine. It is a losing battle. I wish I had saved the article so I could prove it, but I gave up harping on this grammatical point when the opening sentence in an essay in a national newsmagazine began, "Me and the staff were sitting around the cooler recently...blah blah" Saying “Jim and me” and not “me and Jim” has been a crusade of mine. It is a losing battle. I wish I had saved the article so I could prove it, but I gave up harping on this grammatical point when the opening sentence in an essay in a national newsmagazine began, “Me and the staff were sitting around the cooler recently…blah blah”

]]> By: b johnson http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=918&cpage=1#comment-317300 b johnson Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:27:49 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=918#comment-317300 Actually she was sort of right; just not in the way she intended: According to the editors of the New York Times, John Wayne Gacy, the killer clown who raped and murdered 33 teenage boys in the 1970s lived in Waterloo. Ms Bachmann's inspiration? If same-sex marriage had been legal in Iowa at the time, maybe it would have turned out differently. Actually she was sort of right; just not in the way she intended: According to the editors of the New York Times, John Wayne Gacy, the killer clown who raped and murdered 33 teenage boys in the 1970s lived in Waterloo.

Ms Bachmann’s inspiration? If same-sex marriage had been legal in Iowa at the time, maybe it would have turned out differently.

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