A bacon of salvation
Posted on November 1st, 2008 by Olga Gardner Galvin
The best typo I have ever seen in my line of work was “[a] coyote’s plaintiff whaling.” But the book I’m cleaning up now — without naming any names or titles or major publishers — has some pretty good ones.
[After tipping a cauldron of boiling tar over the enemy,] “he turned away from the sight of the massive pile of writing flaming demons…”
[The Dwarf King] “patted the legendary harmer at his side.”
“With the death of the Queen’s closets advisor since the time of her father…”
On the scale of one to plaintiff whaling, I’d give these 7, 8, and 9, respectively.
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Perhaps the demons are participating in the National Novel Writing Month. The activity is causing me to feel like a “massive pile”.
That Queen should really just save some lives and come out of the closet.
I love “plaintiff whaling”. There is nothing more satisfying that harpooning some litigious bastard.
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p.s. I prey to god three ware no pytos in that commont.