Volume 5–2.pdf - U&lc
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Oops, Sorry! The most costly punctuation error of all time was committed in November, 1962, when<br />
the omission of a hyphen from a set of directions transmitted to a U.S. Venus space probe rocket<br />
resulted in the rocket's destruction.Which should say something or other to critics who tend to poohpooh<br />
grammatical errors!<br />
The Oldest Profession.<br />
The term "hooker': meaning<br />
a prostitute, originated with<br />
the Army general of the<br />
same name,Joseph Hooker,<br />
whose penchant for war<br />
was matched only by his<br />
predilection for paid female<br />
companionship. In New<br />
Orleans, during the Civil War,<br />
Hooker spent so much time<br />
frolicking with ladies of the<br />
night that the women came<br />
to be called "Hooker's<br />
division:' Eventually, these<br />
specialized "troops" became<br />
known simply as "hookers:'<br />
ILLUSTRATIONS BY LIONEL KALISH<br />
Something for Everybody from U&Ic<br />
Q:<br />
What is unusual about the<br />
sentence "Jackdaws love<br />
my big sphinx of quartz"?<br />
A<br />
It is the shortest English<br />
sentence yet devised to<br />
include all the letters of the<br />
alphabet.<br />
viv' Typographically<br />
Yours!<br />
Some typographers are artful in<br />
their own way. Some blunders, for<br />
instance, place gibberish in a<br />
context wherein a certain sense<br />
emerges. Take this movie review<br />
culled exactly from the Washington<br />
(D.C.) Daily News:<br />
Sitting in the middle of the bed, being<br />
wheeled across London by three attentive<br />
young men, Nancy falls in love with<br />
the conveyance. Need I say what the<br />
outcome is? Kfln. Shrd cmfw cmfw cm.<br />
Or take the change in the form of a<br />
word which results in a complete<br />
reversal of the writer's intention, as<br />
witness this sentence extracted<br />
precisely from an FBI Law Enforcement<br />
Bulletin:<br />
We would hope that a record-breaking<br />
summer of lawfulness can thereby<br />
be averted.<br />
And, finally, take this news item<br />
reproduced in its entirety from the<br />
Los Angeles Times — a remarkable<br />
example of "precise dating":<br />
Engineers surveying for a railroad in<br />
Northern Turkestan have uncovered<br />
the skeleton of a massive saurian that<br />
must have passed away 3,000,000<br />
years ago last Friday.<br />
10 Most Boring Classics:<br />
1 The Pilgrim's Progress<br />
by John Bunyan<br />
2 Moby Dick by Herman Melville<br />
3 Paradise Lost by John Milton<br />
4 The Faerie Queene<br />
by Edmund Spenser<br />
5 Pamela by Samuel Richardson<br />
6 Henry Esmond by William<br />
Makepeace Thackeray<br />
7 Silas Marner by George Eliot<br />
8 Das Kapital by Karl Marx<br />
9 The Mill on the Floss<br />
by George Eliot<br />
10 Vanity Fair by William<br />
Makepeace Thackeray<br />
11 (Your Choice)<br />
Attention,Artists! Twenty minutes<br />
before the pain of a migraine headache<br />
begins, many sufferers experience<br />
a phenomenon called the aura.<br />
During this time, the sufferer may<br />
see intense colors. flashing lights<br />
and, even, monsters and apparitions.<br />
Lewis Carroll,a migraine victim all<br />
his life, took many of his characters<br />
for "Alice in Wonderland" from the<br />
apparitions he saw during the onset<br />
of his attacks.<br />
THIS SPREAD WAS SET IN ITC SERIF GOTHIC. ITC ERAS,
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