April 07, 2010

Legs are Great


I am glad I have legs, too. Although...mine are real :)

April 06, 2010

If you need a laugh...

I was going over paper guidelines I have to follow for a class, when I came across these instructions:


A former colleague of mine, David Allen Black, offered these reminders for papers:
    • Always avoid alliteration.
    • Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
    • Avoid clichés like the plague.
    • Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
    • It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
    • Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
    • Foreign words and phrases are hardly apropos.
    • Never generalize.
    • Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
    • Don't be redundant or use more words than necessary: it's highly superfluous.
    • Be more or less specific.
    • One-word sentences? Eliminate.
    • The passive voice is to be avoided.
    • Even if a metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
    • Who needs rhetorical questions?
    • Employ the vernacular.
    • Analogies are like feathers on a snake.
    • Contractions aren't proper.
    • Eliminate quotations: as Emerson once said, "I have quotations."
    • Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.