March 23, 2010, 13:32
BobHaleThose pesky dangling modifiers
Heard on the news tonight, "Doctors missed the problem that could have killed him three times."
March 23, 2010, 14:37
<Proofreader>Are you sure his name wasn't Katz?
March 24, 2010, 02:21
BobHaleContext not relevent. You CAN only kill someone once.
(Actually, a hole in the heart baby who survived because on the fourth go his mum took him to a different hospital.)
And on similar lines, from a story about proposals to ban smoking in cars where there are children...
"How will the law cope with people without children who want to smoke in cars?"
Children who want to smoke? Just tell them no!
March 24, 2010, 05:41
GeoffIt's children whom the nicotine companies wish to subjugate.
March 24, 2010, 07:31
<Proofreader>I am unable to understand why anyone would barbecue a child in a car. Although on second thought, that may be what the auto's grill is for.
March 24, 2010, 07:59
arniequote:
"How will the law cope with people without children who want to smoke in cars?"
Children who want to smoke? Just tell them no!
The question is, though, how will the law cope
without children puffing away. I'd have thought that it needn't concern its pretty little head about non-smoking children.
March 26, 2010, 20:31
Kallehquote:
Context not relevent. You CAN only kill someone once.
Of course you can only kill someone once, but I did think the context would be important. Turns out, at least for me, it was. It seems perfectly clear to me...but then I disagree with "engulfed to" and you don't so apparently we're not on the same linguistic wavelength.

March 27, 2010, 06:16
<Proofreader>quote:
Of course you can only kill someone once,
Obvioulsly you haven't seen
HalloweenI, II, III, IV or any of the other slasher films.