U.S. consumers are depleting their financial resources, say the folks at the Yahoo! front page:
That’s just a preposterous claim, isn’t it? In fact, it’s something the writer made up, because the accompanying article says nothing about anyone “exhausting their finances.” I think the only thing that’s exhausted is the writer, who probably has no idea what exhausting means.
Pharrell Williams would not be happy to see that the brain trust that writes for yahoo.com can’t get his name right:
Tooting a TV show doesn’t sound like fun. In fact, it sounds downright painful. But that’s what the Kardashians did, according to the Yahoo! Style editors:
Toot is slang for snorting coke. And for farting, a word I was not allowed to use as a child. So, I adopted the word toot, over my mother’s objection. She preferred the euphemistic “passing wind” or even better, not mentioning that bodily function at all. But I thought tooting was hilarious when I was about seven, when I learned this poem:
Beans, beans the musical fruit.
The more you eat, the more you toot.
The more you toot, the better you feel.
So eat your beans at every meal!
The Kardashians are now tooting their show while it might be more productive to tout it.
Ya’ just gotta wonder what the Yahoo! Makers writer thinks in tact means:
The writer should have kept that word intact.
Terribly Write 