IT MITE BE GROWING IN SECRET PLACES.

There are a couple of guys I know at work who refuse to use the generic, black pens we have sitting around. Anytime I ask one of them to sign off on money-related forms as a witness, they refuse the pen I hastily offer and instead shove their hands into a pant pocket, extracting a blue ink pen. Not that this blue ink pen is any more classy or expensive or interesting than the black ink pen, unless you consider the clear-plastic body of the pen to be more spectacular than an opaque one. Is this some weird, manly ritual I don't know about? The two guys I'm referring to are totally different (one is an athletic Indonesian, the other an overweight drama queen) so there doesn't seem to be any common denominators going on between them. Since I can't help noticing blue-inked initials that crop up everywhere, I thought maybe one of you would be able to clear this up for me (assuming there is anything to "clear up").

Tonight I was reading a news article in mangled newspaper I found. I was totally aghast at a sentence I found at the end of a paragraph:

"None of them was available for comment."

What the crap? How do editors miss this stuff when they are PAID to find it? I pointed it out to a few people and Jordan (always the Opposing Opinion in my life) said, "Well, nobody's perfect." Personal issues with Jordan aside, there is no excuse for missing such an error, especially at such a noticeable place in the article. I'm still shaking my head at that one.