Comments on: Revenge of the Canadian Brown Finch: News Reporting Gone Horribly Wrong

By: Flu-Bird

Flu-Bird — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:41:30 +0000

HYUK,HYUK,HYUK look what happens when someone walks under a tree with some birds in it the birdies decide to have fun with him ASOLUTLY FUNNY SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK

By: sarahenity

sarahenity — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:37:05 +0000

hahahaha alex you smartass.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:15:36 +0000

Hark! Lydia speaketh the truthe… Thee fhould listend to tis fæmne.

By: ted

ted — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:04:25 +0000

Lydia, I don’t think most people care if you judge them by their blog grammar.

By: mia

mia — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:41:07 +0000

I didn’t see this coming http://www.superdeluxe.com/

By: artbot

artbot — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:21:23 +0000

That bird expressed perfectly my feeling toward all idio-tainment reporters. Actually, toward most everyone on tv.

///Holed-up in sympathetic neighbor’s attic to avoid capture by grammar Nazis….

By: Lydia

Lydia — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:22:31 +0000

I’m with Jason. You can try to justify the fluidity of language, but at the end of the day I judge you when you misuse words. Mistakes like this aren’t deliberate forays into the new frontier of language, they’re just stupid slip-ups.

By: c-dub

c-dub — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:19:39 +0000

Jason E.’s got a long road ahead of him if he’s going to start correcting vocabulary in blog comments.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:44:11 +0000

“should have seen that one coming,” [look up, mouth open] priceless.

Oh, and Jason, when you say “not trying to sound pretentious,” does that really mean, “I know this is really pretentious, but if I add a disclaimer, I am not being such a huge dick.”

By: Lemons

Lemons — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:09:08 +0000

Not a spelling fight, Ali?

By: Lady Cooper

Lady Cooper — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:38:02 +0000

Two Birds, One Reporter?

By: nick

nick — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:22:21 +0000

that video stinks. looks like he had a real crappy day.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:29:30 +0000

Grammer fight!

By: billiondollardan

billiondollardan — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:09:56 +0000

you’re all wrong. it’s a video promoting the exceptionally improved dental hygiene of those who regularly eat/drink bird poo.

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:01:38 +0000

Jason, language is driven by popular usage, not grammar teachers. You need a little revolution in your life.

And you’re wrong. The video is a promotion for a new brand of bottled water that does an exceptional job of removing that lingering sense of bird poop in your mouth.

By: Lotta

Lotta — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:35:36 +0000

Oh man.

By: stacyj

stacyj — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:07:07 +0000

@Jason E. – it’s cool that you’re interested in word usage; to expand upon that, if you haven’t done so already you might find it interesting to browse the OED for its etymology, or look into linguistic commentary on ‘prescriptivism vs. descriptivism,’ or heck, read the preface Samuel Johnson wrote for his Dictionary of the English Language (lord help me, I LOVE Samuel Johnson). Sure, there’s a lot to be said for standardization but it’s also exciting to realize how very -fluid- language is and has always been, and how illusory the idea of “absolute, fixed, immutable” word usage actually is. I say this as someone with strong prescriptivist yearnings myself (because it IS so much fun, darn it) … but do look into it if you haven’t before, it truly is a neat viewpoint to consider …

By: Jason E.

Jason E. — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:34:12 +0000

I also have a strong feeling that this video is fake. It could also be a viral promotion for a new bird horror flick.

By: Jason E.

Jason E. — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:33:11 +0000

There is no such thing as a cacophony of birds. There could be a group of birds who burst into a cacophonous song. There could also be a group of birds that burst into a song of pure cacophony.

Please, no flaming. I’m not trying to sound pretentious. I’m just trying to point out the incorrect use of a word.

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:19:47 +0000

Would have been funnier if…
1. Man finishes cleaning mouth.
2. Man looks up and curses the bird.
3. A cacophony of birds begin chirping.
4. A bucket worth of fake bird poop dumps on him.

By: ted

ted — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:55:38 +0000

Would have been funnier if he got bombed by about 100 birds at once, after the first one.

“shoulda seen that coming” – looks up – pelt, pelt, pelt…