Monday, May 10, 2004
 
Are You Appositive?

Pardon me while I mock the editing of the ABCNews.com piece entitled Aisles of Fraud? Faked Slip-and-Fall Accidents Cost Customers, wherein we find this gem:
    Debbie Williams, a fortune teller, was caught faking a fall in aisle nine of a New York City grocery store. Williams — who is also a fortune teller — knew she was going to fall before she walked into the store.
I must be psychic, too, because I knew before the second sentence that Debbie Williams was a fortune teller!

 
To say Noggle, one first must be able to say the "Nah."