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29-Jun-2007
Well... I know what I mean when I say it...
Someone has posted a review for Stargate SG1: Roswell on Amazon which contains the following backhanded compliment:
First of all, I have to say I really enjoyed this book. The plot was good, the writing, the characterizations... it all easily kept my interest. It's one of my favorite Stargate books so far... But next time, please, have an editor run over it once or twice? The typos were starting to grate by the time I finished it. ... All that aside, it was a good story and a good book. The authors did a great job connecting SG-1 to the events of Roswell (and a few other things I won't spoil here). The book was good... just not as good as it might have been or could have been. So... despite our best efforts, the typos sneak in. But at least you have to read the book to find them. Right now, I'm wondering what the editors of news.com.au are doing. Having their morning coffee? In a staff meeting discussing quality control? You see, I was doing my daily glance through the headlines when I logged onto their site and noticed the following:  Look closely at the headline about Kerry Packer.  Ooops... I'm assuming they meant Packer Snr wanted to ban son. UPDATE!!! The following appeared on the news.com.au site about 15 minutes after I loaded the above entry...  Guess the staff meeting's over... LOL
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so now you know what they were doing, Jen, they were having coffee and reading your blog.
Hahahaha... Never thought of that possibility!
'Bone' is an expression the charming and urbane Eddie McGuire used while he was 9 CEO, instead of the more common term 'retrench'' or 'make redundant'. In much the same way people could use the word 'Eddie' instead of 'd**khead'.
You see, now that's fascinating, because the meaning I was referring to was much more...ahem... biblical.
And I asked a couple of other people what they thought "bone" meant and they thought the same as me. And so must the bosses at news.com.au, I suspect, seeing as how they changed it so quickly:) Like "Eddie" as a euphemism for DH, though. My favourite euphemism is "Onanist". Onan was biblical character who got into strife for - how shall I put this politely? - being able to entertain himself. Alone. Lots. Don't know if he went blind, though. hahaha
Oh dear *wipes tears of laughter off keyboard*
Btw Jen, I've noticed the last two or three posts have been losing bits of words off the right hand side of the parchment and I haven't made any changes to my pc.
Good eye. Looks like they react quick enough.
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