Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for December 01, 2019

On that last one, it depends. If you’re on the ground floor of a building, and you’re going to an Irish dancing class on the top floor, then the jig is up. But if you’re with the musicians who have been hired to play for that class, then your gig is up.

Oh, boy! Pendants!

… or say “going forward,” as if there were a choice.

Never knew it wasn’t risk adverse.

OR…“supposably” instead of “supposedly”… I HATE that

Just for the record, Clyde is referring to page 109 of Gene’s Book, One Day (available at bookstores and libraries), that he his holding in the last panel. Blatant self-promotion !

The worst…the WORST…is when people write out the phrase “could of” (or “should of”) instead of “could have”…it’s hard to tell when it’s spoken, I grant you, but no way could you write that out thinking it’s correct. Ugh

Nobody caught Barney’s faux pas in the last panel?

I wouldn’t have such faux pas on my conscious.

Or “compliment” instead of “complement”, as in “complementary to”, and “vice” instead of “vise”, as in the bench tool.

In case you don’t have your magnifying glass handy, the book cover reads: “One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America Hardcover by Gene Weingarten”

I was totally with you, Clyde, until you said “could care less” was wrong. EITHER is OK. They mean the same thing, with only a slightly nuanced difference.

In transcription, I noticed the common error of “The thing is, is that…”

Oh, the petty little things that irritate me. “Too” and “to” misuse. “Due”, “do” and “dew” misuse – you would amazed at the errors using these words I have seen – especially from senior management. “Lose” and “loose” (as already stated). Now my problem is with words that are close in spelling – like complement and compliment. For me these are spelling errors, not misusage – I know what each means, but am almost always getting mixed up as to which has “i” and which has the “e”. Others that get me confused more for spelling, is principle and principal.

I make some of those same errors in haste. Not happy with them when I miss correcting them.

“obligate” for “oblige”…

Gopher gofer Your name is a good example of what we’ve been talking about.

Wow. I was actually unaware of the first one. Makes sense now that I think about it.