# Rayh and Lady in Red, your 'joke' wasn't funny.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rayh-and-lady-in-red-your-joke-wasnt-funny/467666>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 13, 2008, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rayh-and-lady-in-red-your-joke-wasnt-funny/467666 "2008-10-13T02:56:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rayh-and-lady-in-red-your-joke-wasnt-funny/467666/61 "2008-10-16T18:39:52Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> I mean, really, who channels Faulkner in a message board post?

You are comparing that to Faulkner? You gonna dig him up, set him on fire, piss on the ashes and rebury the bones upside down on ancient Indian burial ground next?

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rayh-and-lady-in-red-your-joke-wasnt-funny/467666/62 "2008-10-16T19:16:29Z")

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> [@Anaamika](#):
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> Rigs especially, but everyone: Regarding grammar, I shall proceed to horrify all of you. Here is an e-mail, quoted verbatim, from somebody who’s fairly high up in our organization:
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> And another (regarding credit cards):
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> And one more:
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> All of these are the full e-mails, and this is how this person writes all the time. This person also brings down more than four times my salary.

As an administrative professional, I was trained to be the final authority on grammar/spelling/writing in the office (which is fine by me, since I can do it better than almost anyone in any office). Theoretically someone this high up the food chain has an admin to do his correspondence, reports, etc. for him, so this kind of crap is only internal, not external (at least, I hope it is). Unfortunately, that kind of arrangement might lead to some higher-ups looking like they are functionally illiterate.

As for the OP, I didn’t find much about that whole thread funny; I found it kind of sad, actually.

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**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rayh-and-lady-in-red-your-joke-wasnt-funny/467666/63 "2008-10-19T00:59:15Z")

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I was actually just wondering, this morning, what the mods eventually decided on that one.

I guess they couldn’t work it out any better than we could. 🙂

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