Word: curmudgeon
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...Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. The U.K.'s surprise best seller of the holiday season, Lynne Truss's wonderfully pedantic salvo is sure to warm the hearts of would-be copy editors everywhere. Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English. Another unapologetic linguistic curmudgeon, James Cochrane, skewers offenders who say "could of" instead of "could have" and confuse "amount" - to be used with nouns that have no plural - and "number" - to be used with nouns that can be enumerated...
...Halloween, for me, is the gaudiest example of the infantilization of American culture. It's up there with other classics like McDonald's Happy Meals or Hollywood's post--Star Wars decision to concentrate on making kids' films for grownups. These aren't just the mutterings of an old curmudgeon. I like parties as much as the next guy (so would you if you'd grown up in a house where the Messiah was considered light entertainment), though I've never quite seen why you needed a specific date on the calendar as an excuse to let your hair down...
...Halloween, for me, is the gaudiest example of the infantilization of American culture. It's up there with other classics like McDonald's Happy Meals or Hollywood's post - Star Wars decision to concentrate on making kids' films for grownups. These aren't just the mutterings of an old curmudgeon. I like parties as much as the next guy (so would you if you'd grown up in a house where the Messiah was considered light entertainment), though I've never quite seen why you needed a specific date on the calendar as an excuse to let your hair down...
Reno added that the dean during her tenure, Erwin Griswold—whom she called, “a curmudgeon, but a curgmudeon who cared a great deal about all of us”— would “take great joy” in seeing Kagan rise to the position...
...outback but ends up suffering his worst injury at his own hands, when he conks himself on the head with a brick. Bryson has proved more adept at wielding humor as a weapon, and uses it to express his disappointment with the world. "People accuse me of being a curmudgeon, but everybody should be one! Why don't more people get annoyed at, say, ugly supermarkets? It bothers me that they're not bothered." He may have soft-pedaled the satire in Kenya, but Bryson is looking for fresh subjects to skewer. Japan, he says, may be next...