Are you wondering about all "/" and "'" marks in ezines you receive? Those are separating trigger words to "hide" them from sp'am blockers. Just one more job for ezine publisher!

What about spelling and grammar? Well, I'm not as worried about grammar as I am about spelling. Having been an Office Manager for over 20 years, those spelling mistakes are just plain irritating. I do take into account fact that author/ad writer may not use English as his/her first language. But sometimes people get in a hurry and just "don't bother" with spelling.

Another irritant? Long URL addresses. Some of those babies are really long! So, when I have gone through and formatted length of lines of my ezine, there's one that always goes way out past that line length. I think it looks unprofessional. Use one of many text formatting utilities out there. Two of them are: http://tinyurl.Com and http://snipurl.Com. I suppose i could "snip" them myself, but with all ads I get, that could take a long time too! There's also probability that someone will "steal" your commission by entering his own affiliate ID.

So, please take a few minutes to format your ads and spell check your articles. It's to your benefit as well as to benefit of newsletter publisher. You are writing article to be read - and published...Right?

Anyway, I picked up this picturesque postcard of blessed ballyhooing buglugs. They look perfectly happy but don’t be deceived. In reality, they’re just a gang of glad-handing grasshoppers. They don’t play golf, eat burgers, or drink beer -- and none can frost a rock! Come to think of it, apart from company of bugs and elusive flop fairy, this pathetic planet has precious little going for IT!!

To put "IT" bluntly, life on “IT” is just shy of a tittynope*. The jolly green grasshoppers and carefully manicured green fairways with sand traps as far as eye can see certainly make for an utterly harmless world. Regrettably, without a pair of golf clubs, a dimpled white ball, and notion that 19th hole even exists on this planet -- ”IT” is about as fun as bag of toads!

Life Lesson 42: Remember to talk to your travel agent before ever embarking on a flight of fancy to a planet called “IT” in a galaxy named “Have-a-Nice-Day”!!

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*"Tittynope" for you whiffling word-peckers means "a small quantity of anything left over".

If you want to know what those green, glad-handing grasshoppers from "IT" look like -- ask any four-year old, or failing that request some help from a Flying Saucer Club member.

Theolonius McTavish is a somewhat spaced-out time-traveller (of minor relevance and importance in the great scheme of things). When not probing odd things happening somewhere in the depths of the universe, he enjoys chinwagging with all manner of merry folk at www.quippingqueen.blogspot.com