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Here's a couple of obligatory Bob The Angry Flower Comics:

Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots
Destroy the Apostrophe!

But you just can't beat The Grammar Nazi

Only posting AC because I modded (didn't mod any of this thread, as it didn't, in my opinion, need any. I like to mod+, and there was a lot of good stuff elsewhere in the comments).

After I read this, and got my giggling under control, *TEE-HEEE-HEEE* -oops, I figgered that this deserved a bit of an answer.

The answer is:

I'm here all week, folks. Tell your friends.

or:

Better killfile me, bucko. This ain't gonny stop.

I actually have a fairly good grasp of vocabulary (not perfect, but I'm also not a professional wordsmith), and usually deliberately veer from pedantic snore-generation in order to make reading a bit more, well, FUN.

A lot of folks think that writing should work this way.

I'm not one of them.

The "un-cheap" crack was deliberate. I do that kind of thing fairly often. The original inspiration was, indeed, Orwell's twisted book, but that was a long time ago, and I never really think "Doublespeak" when I do that. It's just a habit (Sadly for you folks, an annoying habit, but there are certainly worse habits).

The reason I thought the story was interesting, was because of the UX/HIG angle. I grew up overseas, and saw more horror by the time I was 11 than a lot of folks see in their entire lives. <shrug /> I survived (although a lot of my playmates didn't). I'm fortunate as hell, and never take life for granted.

For example, I like to play with words. I often deliberately descend into vernacular, use profanities and mispel on porpoise. I often spel wurdz using phoenician tense.

Think of me as Tik Tok, with a haircut and a dental plan.

You can always dedicate yourself to being my mod stalker, enacting your fiendish revenge at every chance. Making my life on /. a living hell.

Or, you could just shrug, shake your head and go on with a life that HAS to have more important things that being a comment-section grammar nazi.

You are hereby encouraged to experience a diurnal period, free from unpleasant experiences and unencumbered by misanthropy.

In udder woids, have a nice day.

Dear Sir,

      Please learn the difference between "loosing" and "losing". I'll help. "Loosing" is not a word.

A Public Service Dismemberment

We can only hope, both for good and evil (but vastly entertaining) purposes.

or from Queen of Wands

http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20050909.html

That's right, his Chainsaw of Natural Selection is a real killer :)

the purple and red text with tiled gif butterflies blinking in the background made me take an olive fork and start stabbing.

Ah! another satisfied user of the Grammar Spork(tm).

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned User Friendly. Also on my list are Queen of Wands (which finished its several-year run, and is now doing a rapid-fire rerun with commentary), Something Positive, Applegeeks (which just finished an uncharacteristic Batman parody and is now resuming its normal staples of inappropriate behavior and Ramadan jokes), and Mac Hall (unrelated, at least in name, to Apple Macs). For the grad students among us, may I recommend Piled Higher and Deeper; more so for those who are considering grad school.

Less traditionally, we also have Lore Brand Comics, which is pretty much standup in webcomic form. Alas, it hasn't been updated in months, but the archive is certainly worth looking through. Paradox Lost appears to be a comic book being written in webcomic form.

Other people mentioned them, but I have to say some of my favorites are Real Life and MegaTokyo.

Bad example: actually, it would. If I recall, doing so would be a violation of Vatican policy; the ceremony is normally open to all, building size permitting and the rare private family service aside. It's only the sacrament of the Eucharist (getting the cookies and cool-aid) that is restricted to practicing Catholics... which is probably what you were thinking of.

Of course, more liberal Catholic priests sometimes elect to quietly ignore the issue. When my older sister was in high school, one of her freinds was killed in a car crash — back in pre-MADD days when this was still utterly shocking. The victim had been Catholic, and so the funeral was held at a Catholic mass, and since she had been fairly popular as well, there were a lot of students from the high school who elected to go. I recall my sister later mentioning the incident when closed communion came up in my religious education with a snicker. Probably a dozen Jewish kids (and parents) got their First Communion that day, and probably less than half of those in attendance were Catholic. The church pastor was an eminiently sensible man, however, and elected not to raise an annoying issue of church doctrine to those in mourning.

Something Positive is done by R K Milholland, who made a offhand comment in response to some complaints about late updates to the effect of 'if you lot donate equal to my salary i'll quit and work on Something Positive solidly for a year'... and was shortly surprised to see that it happened.

Queen of Wands was done by Aeire, and is currently going through annotated reruns before she starts a new project.

I find that this helps too :)

Personally, I find it a bit disturbing when you get the people who spend hours getting the sim to look just like the other person, then have them burn to death. ^_^ It does lead to the occasional amusing incident, like the time a girl I knew in high school rang me up, and accused me of knocking her up. Seems she built Sims resembling various people in her life. For some reason, the sims representing me and her kept hooking up and suddenly there's spawnage.

Paper is better for long sessions, but computer screens are fine for checking the daily strips. That said, I've at various times sat and read the entire archives to Sluggy Freelance, User Friendly (when it was still funny), Queen of Wands, and Something Positive. Of course, none of them was more than a year old at the time I read through them -- I can't imagine trying to read eight(?) years of Sluggy online. Hooray for the books!

One comic that's got an interesting hybrid model is Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio. It started out as a regular comic book, but the realities of the small-press world forced it to be (a) quarterly and (b) often months late. They'd been collecting issues as hardcovers and trade paperbacks already (I think 4 comics per book), and in June they shifted their publishing scheme around. They've dropped the individual issues entirely, focusing on the books instead... but they publish a new page online for free, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So you can read it a page every few days, or buy the next book every few months. I was skeptical when they first announced the change, but it seems to be working great so far.

There are big differences here. The print format has the giant advantage that you tend to see comics other than your "favorites," because you can't help but read those nearby; you may get exposed to lots of artists including a great one or two. I would never have known a damn thing about newspaper comics if I had started reading them online.

Those are advantages, but I think the benefits of online overcome them. For example many websites have links to other comics that the author enjoys. Some having free banner rotations on their pages. Which I think is a much better recommendation then it happens to just be there. Also if today's comic isn't exactly funny You can read whole archives which people are more inclined to do if it's for free.

IMO though, the distinction between online and newspaper comics will begin to fade, as more and more "webcomics" become syndicated by newspapers

No, this is a grammar nazi.

http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20040204.html

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02242005.shtml

http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/d/20050224.ht ml

http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/fanart/queenofwan ds.html

Of course, this being Slashdot, five people have probably already posted this by now...

If that fails there's always the Chainsaw of Natural Selection.

No. By the way: http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20020925.html, just thought you could relate.

Nope, Vagina dentata are real, although exremely rare...

Vagina dentata
What a wonderful phrase
Vagina dentata
Ain't no passing craze

It means no weiner
for the rest of your days
It's a penis-free
girl cavity
Vagina dentata

(Originally found here.

*snap* ;)

When you hear someone talk about loosing, don't you sometimes want to go berserk?