Officer Mangano, Michigan State Correctional Facility
MTV Networks, New York
Texas Tech, via Agent Wertz of the Grammatical Enforcement Agency
Brian Sack
I started Banterist in 2003 after this conversation with my cat. It led to all sorts of good things.
The last one would almost be appropriate if it was outside of the Witch’s Gingerbread House and “sweet” was plural…
It is Texas so maybe it refers to sweet tea.
I hate to be a stickler (yeah, right, I really hate that), but you filed the post under “grammar cop.” The mistakes you pointed out weren’t grammar errors. They were spelling errors.
Oh, by the way, the middle one can be corrected by simply adding the word “dead” to the end, i.e., “Shooting in progress. Please be quite dead!” (Now that I look at it, that one does have a grammar error. It’s two sentences, not one. I corrected it in my recommended revision.)