Monday, June 15, 2009

Nitpicks

@ Dan Patrick, SI:

Charles Barkley cannot be a "perennial source" of your quote of the week, unless you mean to say that he provides one quote per year.

@every company on Careerbuilder.com:

Most of you, if not all of you, would instantly disqualify me from the position I am applying for if my resume or cover letter had even one of the typographical errors that are in nearly every one of your listings.

@Steven Soderbergh

At the end of "Ocean's Eleven," There's no way that the crew could pack all that money into the black bags in the few seconds between Brad Pitt telling them to cut the power and the explosion. Also, I'm not clear where the hooker flyers came from that were in the back of the van that blew up at the airport.


@most sportscasters

A team cannot have scored 10 "unanswered" points (or runs or goals) in the middle of the game. They may have scored 10 "as yet unanswered" runs/points/goals, or 10 "consecutive" runs/points/goals, but the runs/points/goals cannot be "unanswered" until the end of the game (match, whatever).

while we're at it, sportscasters...

a player who is not performing well does not need to get "untracked," he/she needs to get "on track." The problem is not the player's being tracked, the problem is the player's being off track.

More as they become available...