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Feb
17
2006
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by Ben Veaner
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Friday, 17 February 2006 |
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Feb
10
2006
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by Wen
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Friday, 10 February 2006 |
ITHACA, NY: The Kitchen Theatre Company is pleased to announce the winners of its KITCHEN SINK series event Teen Extreme Playwriting Contest. After careful review of submitted three-page original writing samples by a panel of professional playwrights, writers, actors and directors, four young playwrights have been selected to participate in an exciting four-day Playwriting Marathon. This "pressure-cooker" rehearsal to performance process will culminate in four public performances on February 26 and 27 at 6:00pm and 8:00pm.
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Feb
10
2006
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by Jim Evans
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Friday, 10 February 2006 |
 SMART TALK
By Dr. Clark Chousie
GLAZED OVER: Sometimes, I go down the road to Los Bebedors and sample lectures at Bedspring Tech. By listening for bad speech habits in the faculty, I can prepare my colleagues to treat future outbreaks of language disorders.
Driving west from Underbelly to Los Bebedors can be risky in the wintertime, as roads through the Montaña Mountains can become glazed with ice.
Even worse, when Professor Lawrence Blithermore drones on about major breakthroughs, my eyes become glazed. The last time this happened, I realized that Prof. Blithermore would have said glazed over.
At the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, Nurse Clara Dix calls the use of glazed over a symptom of Incontinent Preposition Syndrome.
Other examples are open up, patch over, swoop down, hide out, and up in here.
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Feb
09
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by Ben Veaner
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Thursday, 09 February 2006 |
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Feb
03
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by Jim Evans
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Friday, 03 February 2006 |
SMART TALK
By Nurse Sotto Voce
GUIDANCE COUNSELOR: At the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, we’re proud to have made a change for the better in the schools here in Underbelly, Texas. Both Horace Smith Middle School and D.B. Wesson High now have counselors.
Doesn’t that seem reasonable? It wasn’t always so at Smith and Wesson, and the change took some time. First, we tried polite letters, which were apparently ignored. The change to counselors occurred after we packed a series of school board meetings and laughed whenever they said guidance counselors, which is as redundant as prerequisite.
It worked. No one likes to be laughed at, especially in public.
After all, the Guidance Department counsels, and the counselors guide, so why use both words for the staff? If a school insists upon calling these overworked people guidance counselors, it should officially have a Guidance Counseling Department.
Efficient language is better language.
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