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6.26.06 @ 12:01AM

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GRAMMAR CHECK
Re: Mark Gauvreau Judge's Doubting Coulter -- At First:

How can a writer make such basic grammatical errors? I was reading the article "Doubting Coulter -- At First" and couldn't help be distracted by blatant writing errors:

1. "Me and a group of buddies" should read "a group of buddies and I."

2. "That is a silent place of pain between us and God"; should read "that is a silent place of pain between God and us."

Come on! Please set an educated precedent for your readers.
-- K. Donahue
P.S. Should I bother to mention that the double dash in the title should be an em dash?

SPOTS, SPOTS
Re: "Spot On" letters in Reader Mail's The Ditsy Clucks, Liver Spots, and The New Terminators:

"Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know."
Young Bertram's dialog would vacantly show
The depth of his conceptual puzzling ability,
Though he shone at the Drone's with the lesser nobility.

Count me as one with Diane, Mike and Ken
In search of the mot most bon where and when
It seems only right to come up with a good word
That would satisfy even Jims Bono and Woodward.

Fellow lovers of old fashioned literature,
Though our outlooks may be a little mature,
The modern glitterati we should take on,
As our literary instincts seem to be spot on!
--Mimi Evans Winship

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