Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 11, 2018

…followed very swiftly by the first use of blood as a type of paint.

@AWGIEDAWGIE: I was gonna say ‘followed swiftly by the first murder’, but your post is funnier…

Plus his wonderful nasty avatar…

It was actually followed by the invention of the boot.

So that the artist can shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.

The first grammarian or the first… uuuh… spellarian?

I thought Ian was grampar’s name, not grammar’s.

Compulsive Grammarians never are interested in your thoughts, just the grammar of them.

Pedantic old bastards win!

Ahead of his time. Graffiti as art to be misinterpreted for centuries.

And then thousands of years later, they found a human skull with a blunt force trauma injury on it…

I think it’s human after ox, but lion after human.

“Grammar” is the attempt to find the rules in something that developed with no rules.

“i” before “e” except after “c.” Anything else is weird.

When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

The purpose of grammar is to aid communication. It is a set of rules and standards that help the reader or listener understand what is being read or said. We all laugh at the silly mistakes made on signs (“Hunters use caution when hunting pedestrians, use the the walk trails”) but how often do we misinterpret what someone is writing or saying because of the grammar? Unfortunately, grammar, like all sets of rules, is slow to adapt to evolving circumstances; so it is often out of step.

I think I’ll call him Noam.

Now I get the picture.

Boustrophedon:

The prehistoric beast that over time evolved into the pushme-pullyou.

There were grammar Nazis before there were even Nazis.

Grammar saves lives; it is the difference to Granma between “Let’s eat Granma” and “Let’s eat, Granma.” And don’t even get me started on “there,” “their,” and “they’re.” (And for the record, do not trust your Spell Check features unless you are content with your writing to come out as if composed by only a modestly impaired chimpanzee. I exclude, of course, the mythical chimp of an infinite number who randomly pecked out the complete words of Shakespeare.)

I once saw a readerboard outside a restaurant/lounge that said, “Dinner special, $10.99 Bill Coleman’s back!” Much later I met Bill in a music store. He appeared reasonably intact.

Grammarian keeps that up, later someone will find those drawings with a human artifact stuck in the middle

It’s not his fault. Auto correct keeps inserting the hand prints.

just like back then, Grammarians have no friends.

One can be nice about it.

The Grammar Police: To Correct and Serve.

That’s actually orthography, not grammar.

Why does this remind me of one of the opening scenes fro History of the World, Pt.1?

The first art critic.

Hand before ox except after horse…that’s right, isn’t it?

My ultimate ancestor!

hitchhiker’s guide series: oh, you think time flows THAT way……