Alas, Mr. Pegg is also an error-prone writer, and every once in a while he gets nailed by his faithful followers for his grammatical, mechanical, and diction-related sins. This obviously irritates him to no end, even though the equally obvious solution would be for Mr. Pegg simply to write better. I don't see this happening anytime soon, though; Mr. Pegg prefers to rail against his readership, who are only trying to help. Below, we see his reaction to readerly attempts to correct his omission of a vocative comma:
Just use the goddamn comma, Mr. Pegg.
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The first day of doing what with school boys? Sometimes only a comma stands between you and a police investigation...
ReplyDeleteIndeed.
ReplyDeleteReally? You identification of Simon Pegg is as Scotty and not as Shawn of the Dead!?
ReplyDeleteScotty's more recent in my memory.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on winning that essay contest, by the way.