Wednesday, July 21, 2010

You Look Like You Could Use Some Help

I am minding my own business, stressing about writing out a brief for my dreaded two week deadline. Suddenly, that stupid squiggly green line popped up on a very convoluted sentence I just typed up. I decide to right-click it and see what was wrong, oh - it's that silly 'fragment (consider revising)' thing which comes up all the time when I click 'grammar'. As I'm about to click 'ignore' for the nth time, I decide to take a risk and click 'explain...'.

I heard a swooshing sound and a paperclip in the form of a motorbike careened up the small pad of refill.

Oh my god, it is clippy.

Well, clippy to me, is like...time management. I hear about it all the time, I read about it...but I never see it. So, I was just staring at my laptop...kind of, gaping at this smirking little paperclip. He tells me about fragments and how I have to add a subject or a verb if I want my sentence to be complete. I think to myself that my sentence is complete anyway because it has a verb - but I decide to trust the wisdom of this piece of office paraphernalia at the corner of my screen.

Yes Mr Clippit, I still have Microsoft Word 2003 - ergo, you will always be there to scare me when I least expect it.

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