Fighting the War on Error

"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."
- Political & Social Activist Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989)

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Fire the proofreaders

Two very public signs, two very public spelling mistakes, although I'd cut the person responsible at NASA just a little tiny bit of slack, since the space administration, when Endeavour was built, chose the traditional English spelling "endeavour," instead of the American version "endeavor."

The orbiter is named after HM Bark Endeavour, the ship commanded by 18th century explorer James Cook. The orbiter also honors Endeavour, the Command Module of Apollo 15. This is why the name is spelled in the British English manner, rather than the American English spelling of "Endeavor."

I wonder if the same person who chose a Celine Dion song for Clinton's presidential campaign spelled out the sign above. Whoever the responsible people are, they should be fired, especially for the Dion decision. (Just kidding, sort of.)

Ah, stupid Yanks don't know how to spell their own language!

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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Worst song parody EVER


Take a look at this disaster. I'm almost sorry that I'm even posting it. Almost. But, it's too freakin' awful not to share.

It's Celine Dion and Anastacia singing AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long.

I've never been a Dion fan, but the depths of depravity this "effort" sinks to left me breathless with laughter. This qualifies as sound pollution and hate speech, all rolled into one.

I haven't heard a song cover this bad since Sheryl Crow's awful attempt at singing Led Zepplin's D'yer Mak'er. I remember Crow trying to explain that noise as her salute to the band because she was a fan. Note to Crow and Dion - just because you're a fan doesn't mean you have to push this garbage on anyone else. I'm an avid Dave Matthews fan, but that doesn't mean I'm doing song covers of #41 and Ants Marching.

Yikes.

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