This cracked me up to two too much!
Screenshot from Jonny Geller’s Twitter page.
Thursday was National Tell A Joke Day, and I missed it, dang it. But this tweet (and its best response) convinced me I should extend it to today … with the caveat that it be an editing joke.
Yeah, I’m an editor and a word nerd … what of it?
Maybe that’s why my blood pressure tried to bottom out the other day …
Image found on someecards.
Yes, he is. I put him up to it. (Insert evil laugh here.)
Cartoon by Mark Anderson.
I don’t think you’re getting the job. Limited news holes mean tight writing, not writing like you’re paid by the word.
Speed Bump by Dave Coverly.
Ooooh … I need to pop some popcorn!
Wrong Hands by John Atkinson.
At least he didn’t reveal his dangling participle …
Bizarro by Dan Piraro.
There’s a business I drive by every day that I would love to sic this guy on.
Cartoon by Judy Horacek.
Semicolons are occasionally needed; but, no, not in place of a colon. If you do that, I smack you.
Savage Chickens comic by Doug Savage.
But FBOI doesn’t quite trip off the tongue.
Off the Mark by Mark Parisi.
Copy editors aren’t always appreciated. Especially the grammar snob ones (but that’s for good reason).
Cyanide and Happiness found on me.me.
I refer to the whomers as grammar snobs. Sometimes you have to relax a little bit and not sound so much like a prig.
Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis.
Yeah, I’m just as confused as the pilot … and more than a little worried that he needs to read the manual at this stage.
Image found on pixshark.
Editors have always been with us, and have always annoyed writers who believe their prose is perfect (it’s not, believe me).
Cartoon by Wiley Miller.
Serenity is a fuzzy belly 