Add Your Blog | | Signup
145 followers
Smart humor for smart-asses...and funny stuff to make your inner nerd smile. :)
Invite Friends to Follow Syndication
Written by 1 Author
Nikki Hess
Followed by 145 People (invite friends)
View All

Red Pen, Inc.

English - Humor, Grammar
http://grammarphile.com
Red Pen, Inc. · 1M ago

Red Pen, Inc.--Jailbird Edition

Oh, relax, you sillies!  I'm not in jail.  But tonight I'll be posting about snafus associated with a couple of guys who are in jail.  Like this one: Ahhh, Charles Manson.  Looked creepy way back when, and got creepier-looking with age.  But I found Helter Skelter, the (very long and very detailed)
0 Vote Up · Share
Red Pen, Inc. · 2M ago

A Hunger Games homonym horror

Oh, those Yahoos!  They're at it again, and this time they're messin' with Hunger Games headlines.  (Readers, have you read The Hunger Games trilogy?  I just read it a week ago and I highly recommend it.) Katniss is indeed a heroine, but she's not a heroin.  The author's dystopian world may have kid
0 Vote Up · Share
Red Pen, Inc. · 2M ago

HUMP DAY GRAMMAR for March 21, 2012

Dear Yahoos: Do you actually read the shit you write (and notice when a sentence is being cut off), or do you just hit "publish" without giving it a second look? Never mind.  I think I've answered my own question.  But kudos to you for at least making this FAIL Hump Day-related.  That takes true tal
0 Vote Up · Share
Red Pen, Inc. · 3M ago

Red Pen, Inc. wishes you a sweet Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day, dear readers!  I hope you and your loved ones have a super-sweet day.  And speaking of sweet...my very own sweetheart was the one who took this picture (seriously, who the hell doesn't know how to properly spell "sugar"? *sigh*). To my awesome boyfriend John, you're the perfe
0 Vote Up · Share
Red Pen, Inc. · 3M ago

HUMP DAY GRAMMAR for February 8, 2012

You know what's even worse than screwing up a homonym?  Buying condoms whose brand name is "Billy Boy."  Their name kinda brings to mind banjo music, mullets, backwater towns, and certainly nothing that would put me in a "hump day" sort of mood...
0 Vote Up · Share
Red Pen, Inc. · 4M ago

An Alcatraz apostrophe catastrophe

I know that Jorge Garcia is really, really awesome.  He does stand-up comedy in his spare time, seems super-cool in interviews, and even sends autographed pictures to fans.  However, all that awesomeness is in ONE person, not two.  There is only one Jorge Garcia--well, at least only one on the new
0 Vote Up · Share
Red Pen, Inc. · 4M ago

A glutenous goof-up

I am a gluten-free girl, but luckily I loathe beer, so this hasn't been an issue for me.  (My issue is having to drive past a Philly Pretzel Factory every day on the way home from work and not stopping to get a yummy soft pretzel.  *sigh*  I know if I gave in and ate one, I'd bloat up like I was 8
0 Vote Up · Share
Red Pen, Inc. · 6M ago

Happy Thanksgiving--and Happy Birthday, Mama Grammarphile!

Let's start this Thanksgiving post off with questions from two turkeys: So let me get this straight... * You're having sex with your SISTER. * You somehow manage to have cranberry sauce come up as a topic during sex.   * How the hell did you manage to do either one of those things, let alone BOTH? 
0 Vote Up · Share
Red Pen, Inc. · 6M ago

TO/TOO/TWO Tuesday, 9/13/11

If you're smart enough to formulate a game plan to deal with your child's horrible teacher, you should probably also be smart enough to understand principle vs. principal.  The principal may not take seriously the parent who thinks the principal is really a principle...
0 Vote Up · Share
Red Pen, Inc. · 6M ago

MISSPELLING MONDAY for November 21, 2011

Just to clarify, this came from a query written by a "writer" (I'm using the term loosely here) who wants to interview doctors about prostrate cancer.  I really hope this writer has a smart editor who understands that there's no such thing as prostrate cancer (it's prostate, sillies!).  And I hope
0 Vote Up · Share
More Stories
More