Nice way to talk about your daughter, buddy

Evan, a blogger at Popgadget, describes his daughter the way most fathers hope their daughters are never described:

"Cheap and easy to apply, my daughter and I decided to do her DS Lite next, in Peach Dots."

Who you callin' thick?

"Thick and creamy, you’d never guess it has only 10% fat."

This is one of my favorite categories: food descriptions. This particular one comes from the web site for FAGE yogurt.

Also -- only 10% fat?

Wrong, yet very, very true!

Just now, on the NBC news, there was a report about Yonkers' first female firefighter. The reporter said,

All male and mostly white, the federal government ordered Yonkers to diversify its fire department.

Ha! It's completely accurate, though not what the reporter meant.

A Thousand Words and One Grammatical Error

Kodak's corporate blog, A Thousand Words, features posts from various Kodak employees about their photography-related exploits. While I realize that not all of them are writers, I expect better than this dangler:

"My in-laws, from Mumbai, India, visited us earlier this summer. Being their third trip, they'd already seen the usual suspects (Niagara Falls, Finger Lakes, etc) and we were on the lookout for something different."

They are not being their third trip.

The entire Internet is an adult publication

Our first entry comes from an entry on xtimeline, a nifty new timeline creation service. Someone took the time to create the history of pornography, and in the entry for Nov. 1, 1968, describes the launch of Screw Magazine:

Al Goldstein starts Screw Magazine. Screw set out to be the most outrageous magazine of its type. Printed weekly in New York City, in tabloid form, it quickly succeeded, reaching a circulation of 500,000, and making armies of enemies among conservatives and the “moral hypocrites” in government that Screw had vowed to fight. Like many adult publications, the Internet has eroded Screw’s readership. It continues today with a bi-weekly circulation of 20,000.

I know there's a lot of porn on the Internet, but I didn't realize that the Internet itself was an adult publication. I feel so dirty.

Dangle that Modifier!

Everyone has a grammatical pet peeve. Mine is dangling modifiers. Of course, they're often hilarious.