Day: March 5, 2009

XKCD #386 Quoting and referencing The Simpsons – a lot – is part and parcel of being a Simpsons fan.  Since I’m an asshole, I love excellent or appropriate usage and loathe poor or inappropriate usage.  (Though I’ll admit that I’m frequently guilty of the latter.)  Today during my daily perusing of the internet I came across this from The United Church Observer: Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forty percent of all people know that.” This is a citation that frequently gets screwed up.  Can you spot the error?  Let’s try another example; this one is…