Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for February 25, 2011
Transcript:
hamhock: so, your wife was here, huh? tyr: yeah... hamhock: Why's it so easy for her to get over here? hamhock: I thought you had to find a magic rainbow to cross between worlds! Tyr: That's kinda the problem.... tyr: You just choke a care bear and there's magic rainbows everywhere! there's no standards....
zero over 13 years ago
Or choke Harvey Fierstein. Please.
Colt9033 over 13 years ago
“Care Bear Stare! ”
Oh wait, Choke? Well, imagine there alot people who’d choke those little guys.
Kamino Neko over 13 years ago
Who knew the Care Bears were kinky…?
Coyoty Premium Member over 13 years ago
It got real easy once they put in the Skittles vending machines.
Spyderred over 13 years ago
Properly, it’s Care Bear Stairs.
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
The operative word there is “say”, Eldo. “There’re no standards” would be grammatically correct, but most people would probably say “There’s no standards” (at least, it sounds more natural to me). Dialogue, even when written out, should conform to spoken custom, rather than rules for writing. I tend not to fault a writer for a mistake that can be reasonably ascribed to a character.
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
On the other hand, maybe it’s simply true that there’s no standards anymore…
Tamac over 13 years ago
too much mythology for me…
ellisaana Premium Member over 13 years ago
In class the other day, we discussed the myth that people once spoke in grammatically correct sentences.
cwreenactor over 13 years ago
All those Care Bears. Now that’s scary.