I think Dale is just being bitterer.

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From: Marie
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 12:53 PM
Subject: RE: Couldn't have a more perfect job...

Grammatical, spelling, and religious errors in Dale's message:

1) Dale wrote, "So far I have worked on 4 programs." In this situation, the number 4 should be spelled out, as in "So far I have worked on four programs."

2a) Dale wrote, "...the wife wants a Kinkade, and the husband wants a painting of George Washington." The artist known as the "painter of light" is Thomas... uh, never mind. After looking it up on the internet (and verifying by looking at one of our paintings), it turns out that his last name really is spelled K-I-N-K-A-D-E, Kinkade. Who knew?

2b) Dale wrote, "Please let Marie and I know if you have a place available for us to stay." Proper English grammar involves the replacement of the word "I" with the word "me" here, as in "Please let Marie and me know if you have a place available for us to stay."

3) Hell is a LAKE of fire, not an ocean. For the record, while I am drawn to the warmth associated with any body of fire (lake, ocean, river, sea, even pond), the promise of said warmth hasn't actually converted me to the "Hell is a lake of fire" Baptist Church. I just don't know how to decline when our neighbors ask me to do things.

4) Dale wrote, "The people working the program are bitterer than Grant." While that is quite descriptive and everyone on the list immediately understood the image Dale was trying to portray, "bitterer" isn't really a word. Dale should have written, "The people working the program are more bitter than Grant." For the record, Merriam-Webster lists three words that can be formed from the root "bitter": bitterish, bitterly, and bitterness.

You know your puppies really love you when they drop a dead baby gopher--freshly killed, not like the rabbits that have been deceased for at least a year before they are dug up and chewed on--at your feet. There are good points and bad points to this. Good points: a) your puppies are capable of killing live animals; b) your puppies love you enough to drop the very tasty dead gopher and give it to you; and c) the gopher population in our yard might be diminishing. Bad points: a) your puppies are capable of killing live animals; b) you do have a dead gopher at your feet; and c) the puppies fight over who has the right to give you the dead gopher, resulting in both of them clamping their little puppies jaws over said dead gopher so that you have to wrangle it out of their mouths. Yuck.

See you all next week!

--marie