John Quiggin

I am just trying to imagine this particular horde rampaging over the steps of Mongolia.

one more dies in police custody.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/man-dies-in-police-custody/2007/06/26/1182623872795.html

Does anyone think that United Nations should step in ?

the un only steps in to brown nations.

would that be the ‘steppes’ of mongolia?

JQ, if you start picking on the grammatical and spelling errors in our media, you’ll be on a never-ending treadmill. 20 or 30 years ago I used to correct that kind of thing in student assignments. About 15 years ago I did it to a trainee school teacher who appealed her mark on the grounds that spelling and grammar were totally unimportant (according to her lecturers in education). Now I’m more interested in saving my time!

al loomis, Andrew Reynolds was actually referring to hoards rampaging over steps.

Maybe I should leave puns to Homer.

AR, I got the joke, even if Al didn’t.

i saw the possibility of a joke, but had a reasonable concern about it’s reality.

al, al, al

its, mate, its. You must have a hoard of rampaging apostrophe’s.

I’s that what you call tho’se up’side down comma’s? (Are we allowed to be pedant’s on a thread about pedantry?)

i could claim to be too s’ophisticated for you lot, but in the interest of fair play will raise both hands and beg for mercy.

One might ponder whether this article defines itself in such a way as to potentially violate point 2 of the sites discussion policy;

Comments that seek to score debating points at the expense of others (snarks) are discouraged;

Terje,
I think it unlikely that PrQ would ban himself from his own blog.