LOL I really think you should dust off that old idea you once kicked around about writing some comedy. You really catch me off guard sometimes. I love it! :)

now, blar, you can enjoy the luxury of illiteracy
after having achieved the elegant level of literacy
associated with publication and readership among
the good folks -- kinda like enjoying intentional
mis-pronunciations after having achieved a perfect
radio voice! . like my "mentor", Arthur Godfrey......
just didn't want to sound like east tennessee. -- j

p.s. https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/pla...

This post is highlighting the need for the 'sarcastic font' lock in the Gulch. Comic Sans comes to mind since it is also the most annoying font by far.

There's no need to get nasty about it. I thought we were all friends here in the Gulch. Nightly news casts! I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I believe that a federal court has ruled that putting a newscast on the TV in a federal prison recreation room is cruel and unusual punishment.

Easier said than done, fella. However, I'm joining a literacy support group, to talk to other failed illiterates.

As anyone who can read your posting can see you sir are an abject failure. You have a long way to go to achieve your illiterate goal and I fear that, short of some massive head trauma, you may never be able to achieve the end you desire. So, my advice would be for you to accept reality and learn to live with the failure that you are.

A number of years ago, one of the finalists for Miss America was asked what her "cause" was.

"Illiteracy", she replied.

The host asked: "So, what would you do if you met a person who was illiterate?"

"Oh, first I would give them a copy of my book...."

Lucy, you've got some 'splaining to do.

Lol. 😂

Hi Jan. Hope work is going well.

Good morning! I love you guys. I did not watch the video (at work - try to keep video watching down) but I love the discussion.

Jan

Longer than to esplain it, no doubt.

Jan

I was e-mailing back and forth with a rep once trying to solve an issue we had. I straightened it out on my own and e-mailed him to explain that everything was all right. He responded by just sending back the letter "k". Not sure why but that bothered me. Texting is even worse.

I agree with this guy. I have been fighting a war against personal hygiene for years. This soap and water and perfume business has been dominating our bodies for far too long. It all started when a few cultish persons put forth that the normal odors of the human body were repulsive. A fallacy. This constant cleansing reduces the production of pheromones which as you know, is the aroma that attracts mammals to perform sexually. It is an attempt to decrease the human population and by so doing, turn the earth back to the dominance of the strongest and biggest creatures. If you want to smell perfume, pick a flower. Which by the way, is our rallying cry. Pick A Flower!

Good for your wife.
A clipboard man asking for my phone number would be the same as spraying me with bye-bye dino repellant.

It started to really get bad with text messaging. Very shortly after text messaging became popular, the texting shortcuts and abbreviations began showing up in emails...even work emails.

A real shot to the heart for professionalism.

that number will be in the hundreds of millions.

My wife would ask so many questions they would just walk away from her. I think these folks actually put their phone numbers on the petition too.

I hadn't thought it thru like that but it is the logical progression of events. The educational system is designed more for control than education so I would expect this trend to accelerate.

So eager to help.
So inept at paying attention.
Beware the clipboard man who asks you to sign anything.
It may cost you more than just being laughed at.
Reading instead of just listening may help.

The frightening thing is that illiteracy is becoming functionally credible, thanks to technology. Voice recognition apps make it possible to create text messages to send to others, who listen to the voice translations, and then respond by using their own voice to text apps. Reading text is quickly becoming a lost art, and I have no doubt that literacy will not be required to advance in our public education system. Pictographs were a shorthand method of communicating actual events, and script text became a more efficient way of condensing pictographs. However, text may be too specific in transmitting actual concepts for those who would control the masses, when imagery (which can now be falsified and photoshopped) and hysteric propaganda slogans serve the purpose much better. Once it becomes impossible for the people to actually read and absorb intellectual concepts, control is much easier. Fahrenheit 451 may be much closer than we think.