I know she doesn’t write her own music, I know she’s a creation of the record industry, I know she’s a poison on our society as a whole, and I know she’s partly silicone. I hate everything she stands for. Yet I kinda like Britany.
The above lyric screams for a colon (even if the printed versions do not include one). People who use colons and semicolons are automatically a step above others; they are inherently superior. This is an illogical, irrational, irresponsible way of thinking, but I can’t help it. I’m a grammar freak who grew up on old English novels. I try to hate Britany, but then I sing, “I think my problem is this:” and I melt. How many songs do you know with implied colons in them?
I also have a lingering fondness for Daryl Strawberry because his last name is one of my favorite foods. Would you believe that I went to college?
Ummm as a fellow grammar freak I feel duty bound to point out that you really meant “Stupid things which endear stupid people to me” or “Stupid things which make stupid people endearing to me”.
'Cause I really don’t think that Britney is endeared by you
Great. The phrase “Britney Spear’s colon” has appeared on this board. Now we’ll get visited by every perv doing a Googol search for celebrity porn sites.
I don’t think this error is bad. I once spelled Geena Davis as Gina Davis in an English paper and my professor corrected the error. I always harbored a deep suspicion of him afterwards.
As for why I was writing English papers with references to Geena Davis . . . well that’s another story.
Do you remember that moment in Godfather II when Michael and Fredo are at a Cuban nightclub, and Fredo idiotically lets slip some very important information? At that moment, the camera zooms in on Michael’s face as he realizes that his own brother tried to kill him. Michael’s look is the look of one who has been utterly and terribly betrayed.
That was the look on my face when I read over my paper. From an editing standpoint, I absolutely agree that how to spell Geena matters. My suspicion stemmed not from the edit but from the fact that a very learned 40-year-old professor with leather elbow patches on his jacket seemed to know a little too much about an actress best known for her breasts and not her considerable IQ. I respected this man, and he’s telling me how to spell Geena Davis? What was he doing in his spare time? Watching the Earth Girls Are Easy marathon? I couldn’t get over it.
