White Problems – Typos on Menus
June 19, 2008 by clander
The Article:
“Typos a la Carte” by Jane Black. The Washington Post, June 18th, 2008.
The Problem:
What should you do when you find typos on a restaurant menu?
The Solution:
The presence of an improper apostrophe on a menu can ruin an otherwise delicious meal for a white person. Jane Black recommends asking for an extra copy of the menu, taking out a pen and marking all of the mistakes. When you are finished, you should then leave the restaurant with the hope that the chef will see the mistake and correct it before your next visit. This is considered the best solution since it allows you to use proper grammar while simultaneously avoiding confrontation (#128 in the book).
The other option is to simply recognize that the typos, while egregious, do not prevent actual meaningful communication on these menus. This would allow you to escape the tag of “elitist,” “pretentious,” or “banned from eating here for the rest of your life.”
Final Verdict:
It is the duty of every white person to correct typos. It is worth the risk of banishment to deliver proper grammar to those who need it.
Further reading (as they were mentioned in the article):
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@James
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another typo. http://tweetphoto.com/23670386
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I was once in a restaurant that had Crap Crepes listed on their lunch menu – I think they were only 10!
Good thing I don’t like crap or crab. That would have been confusing.
typographical errors have a beauty. they display the haste that our hands show, togather with the ease efoort. you dot my point, i suppose
I think White Dude above is deeply troubled, clearly not American because the average American white or black has a morbid fear for the letter ‘T’.
Whitey, the world doesn’t depend on you, you rode on the back of the black man to earn the money you think to have today. Remember the Opium war? Or are you too afraid of that history? You may not owe Africa trillions in debt, but you owe, guess who,… can you?
So, smart as you are honkey, you wallow in debt buying music by black people with money that you think you have, but don’t.
The Internet you are so quick to claim is based on the fundamentals of Ifa Philosophies. Ifa? Yeah go to the Internet and see what it can teach you about that.
You are far behind the times and clearly far too unintelligent to make a near decent argument about the worth of the white man.
Study Confucius, Ifa, Voodoo, and learn about Orunmila. Learn about world history and the oldest civilasations in the world. Learn how nations were built on the principles of honour and preservation.
After you have reviewed these, then we can better discuss the value of the whiteman or the lack therof.
You spelled civalisations wrong.
“whiter than white” – you got it wrong too…it’s ‘civilisations’.
Get it right yourself before critising others…
One more thing, Earthy. Rethink your assessment of ancient civilizations. A good many of them practiced human sacrifice, cannibalism, child sacrifice, and the worship of animal and celestial deities. Their cultures were going nowhere. It took the Europeans (yeah, you guessed it, Whitey) to bring real science, industry, and progress to the world. Confucius, Ifa, Voodoo, and Orunmila? I would laugh if I didn’t feel so damn sorry for you.
To the Earth above,
What has your dumb ass been smoking? You believe that the internet is based on African mysticism and scientology? I will not dignify L. Ron Hubbard’s delusions with a capital S. Voodoo? Are you on crack?
And let me ask you a question, Earth. Just open your arrogant mind to the world around you and look at every place that Caucasions don’t dominate. What do you see. Poverty. Squalor. Every form of degenerate practices that there are. Backward ass religion. No science and very little industry. There’s also typically a whole lot of malnourished children because these people would rather bring a child into the world to starve than to practice birth control.
But, Earth, you may rest in this. Most of us Whiteys are asleep at the switch and the non-Whiteys are going to eventually out-breed us in our own countries. Then we will get to see who takes advantage of who. Then we will all be African. In other words, f***ed.
First, let me get this off my chest. Go blow yourself Uncle Hambone! I could hear the rap-style beat in the background as I was reading your little rhyme. Clever aren’t you? So unique! Think fast Sambone! How does a stereotype become a stereotype? And yes, the rest of the world does depend on us whiteys, whether you like it or not. White people are awesome! We invented the Internet so that we wouldn’t have to sit on the porch in the heat of the day and ‘holla’ at each other.
Now for Christian Lander. Before you label me a redneck racist, let me save you the trouble. I want to put together a set of pages called ‘What Black People Like,’ followed by a dictionary (phonetically laid out) so that we can see all of the unique and cool ways of fucking up ordinary English. I’ve noticed that black people don’t like to pronounce r’s and t’s in easy to pronounce words such as ‘rest.’ Yo, brotha, gi me duh res uh dat samwij! After that I want a White History Month, a separate awards show for white performers and other so-called artists, and I want federal funding for a White National Caucus in Congress.
Now for both of you. I guess the real problem here is actually white people. Let me explain. Whitey likes entertainment of all kinds. Especially music and sports. We have more money, on average, than anyone else, so we like to be entertained when we come home from our stressful, successful white careers. What better thing to do than put on a CD of Fitty Cent or turn on a basketball game full of players that don’t look like us. You see, white people are not smart enough to turn off the ball game or prevent their snot-nosed, spoiled whelps from buying the cultural pollution called Rap (and Hip-Hop, whatever). I would wager that most of the ballgame tickets and CD’s of Fitty are purchased by whitey. So, just remember this. As you are rising up as a people and throwing off the shackles of oppression, a good many of you have whitey to thank for it.
Now, was that racist enough for you? It is so easy to make fun of someone else. Easy to get offended isn’t it? Your rag web page is nothing but racist vitriol disguised as humor. Too bad white people aren’t smart enough to not purchase it.
white people sure do like appearing clever. i as a moderately clever white person would know.
the guy who created this site is clever and displaying his cleverness to all. my sending in my $.02 to this makes me feel clever.
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