Yipes. my “s” turned into a “d” (probably via autocorrect".
No, like “M and I’s car” and He went to M and I’s house."
Oh, ouch.
Yeah, no. 
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If it had been acknowledged that he misspoke, I’d be fine with it. But I lost faith in the intelligence of the writing after that.
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I’m always baffled to see that one even in corporate advertising in high tech/highly educated circles.
I’m also a bit Yoda-ish on “I’m going to try and do xyz”. Well, if you’re going to try, with a chance of not completing it, then don’t you mean “I’m going to try TO do something”?
To me, “I will try and do” means a 100% chance of success, in which case the “try” is superfluous - you are simply going to “do”.
At one point I had a document gathering a large number of initialisms and acronyms where people commonly pronounce the entire word of the trailing initial. Those don’t really bug me but kind of amuse me.
I went to the ATM Machine, PIN Number handy, so that I can try and buy some more of my favorite DC Comics. I also need to look up the UPC Code on my LCD Display TV because I heard on CNN News that certain ones were subject to problems with one of the USB Bus (okay this one is strained and not so common as it was years ago) being subject to RAS Syndrome.
I also see a lot of VIN Number, SSN Number (but also like USB Bus, the latter is not so common anymore), RSVP Please…
One long description of HIV testing that I had to read off several times a week always referred to it as “the HIV Virus”, and before that for a couple of years referred to “the HTLV-3 Virus”. In both cases, I contacted the author in our command’s main headquarters in D.C., but the Army being the Army, reasoning was optional.
I wasn’t allowed to change the form on my own, but I did omit “virus” in my recitations . It was one of those documents that the person being tested had to sign attesting “I have read and understood”, but still I was required to recite the danged thing each time.
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Love the rant, but I’m going to suggest that
doesn’t belong. “CNN” stands for ‘Cable News NETWORK’, so saying “CNN news” could be recognizing that CNN has news and non-news programs.
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I object to your objection of “DC comics.” The company changed its name to “DC Comics, Inc.” in 1977. While DC was an initialism for Detective Comics, it’s now simply the name of the company, much like AT&T no longer stands for “American Telephone and Telegraph”.
A DC comic is perfectly fine, as it distinguishes it from. Marvel comic or an Image comic or any of the other publishers.
Pedantry at 30 paces!! 
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You’re right.
Well, why wasn’t I notified!?
(Can’t find a clip of this scene in the movie Short Circuit that I can get to load in a reasonable time frame)
Skroeder: …and I’m going to need some Hueys.
Howard (the big boss): Some what?
Skroeder: HELICOPTERS, Howard!
Howard: I thought they were choppers.
Skroeder: Well, now they’re called Hueys.
Howard: Well, why wasn’t I notified?
LoL, thanks. 1977 was several years after I stopped buying comics, so I guess I sort of lost track of things like that.
It me…especially before gigs — bc I have terrible time management skillz, i.e. I’m always planning like an hour’s got 75 minutes vs. 60.
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I’m always terrified when I have to be somewhere at a certain time. Unless I’ve done the trip a million times and I’m certain of all the possibilities that could ensue (with the exception of an asteroid strike) I always factor in supposedly a lot more time than I should - beginning with getting up in the morning. I’ve even gone so far as to lay my clothes out the night before, like a little kid (this was in dress up for work times long ago, right?). Medical procedure appointments are especially tough.
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I was in production for years. Back-timing is in my DNA.
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Is there another approach?
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Not that I know of.
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This is how I learned to cook a holiday meal…to work backwards from when we wanted to sit down to eat.
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That is how I taught myself to get a meal on the table all together at once.
Trying to explain that to the roomate was difficult. After 39 years he’s understanding that the rice can cook while you’re grilling the steak.
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Tell me about it! On one occasion I was instructed to be at the hospital at 6:30 am; It was murder, but I made it. I was prepped and in bed PDQ. At 8:00 I was told I’d be going in soon. At 8:30 they told me they were short of nurses so it had to be postponed. I was starving and it was the middle of summer, so my wife and I went for breakfast on a patio! No point in losing it.
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I just had one of those 6:30 am procedures. Had to arrange transportation. Luckily a friend volunteered to take me. The next time I hired a driver (hospital doesn’t allow Uber for discharge). Had another early morning procedure, but that time I was already in the hospital, so waiting was all I ever did. One time I was actually on the table ready to go and they had to remove me because an emergency case came in through the ER. The nurse offered to go up to my room and get my iPad for me. 
Why do they make it so stressful to comply?
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I was in post. Same.
Just watched an interview with a passenger who was on the flight to Toronto that crashed and flipped over today (miraculously, it appears everyone survived, but there were injuries.) I fly into that airport a lot, and while I know air travel is almost mind-bogglingly safe, it’s been a tough couple weeks for scary airplane news.
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You want pedantic, just check out foodtalkcentral .
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