{"id":1654,"date":"2007-09-26T04:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2007-09-26T04:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T04:49:00","slug":"more-fun-with-pop-culture-punctuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/movies\/more-fun-with-pop-culture-punctuation\/","title":{"rendered":"More fun with pop-culture punctuation!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not too long ago I petitioned Fergie<\/a>, the Duchess of Skank, to reconsider her careless usage of pronouns in “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” the official radio song of Summer 2007. Sadly, she has not responded to my letter, so I am forced to move on to even more trivial matters: Good Luck Chuck<\/i><\/a>. <\/p>\n

While I have tried my best to ignore Dane Cook for the past two years so as to not sully my irrational sentimental attachment to him<\/a>, it has become damn near impossible to do so what with his newfound movie-stardom and his latest flick, in which he gets to ogle a klutzy Jessica Alba for an hour and a half. <\/p>\n

See, this whole time, thanks to the ubiquitous previews, I thought the movie was about a normal dude who falls for an impossibly beautiful yet accident-prone hottie. You know, like, Good luck with that, Chuck.<\/i> So the lack of a comma irked me. But then I find out that the movie is actually about a guy who’s a good-luck charm for women: Sleep with him and the next dude you’re with turns out to be your true love. So not Good Luck, Chuck<\/i> but Good-Luck Chuck<\/i>. <\/p>\n

Either way, I will chuck something through the goddamn window if Hollywood copy writers don’t get on the em-effing ball.<\/p>\n

Instant update:<\/b> So, not long after I hit “publish,” I started doubting myself. (Lately, the more sure I’ve been about something, the less likely it has been to actually be.) Grammar wonks, am I right on this? Or am I misapplying the compound modifier hyphen rule?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not too long ago I petitioned Fergie, the Duchess of Skank, to reconsider her careless usage of pronouns in “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” the official radio song of Summer 2007. Sadly, she has not responded to my letter, so I am forced to move on to even more trivial matters: Good Luck Chuck. While I have tried my best to ignore Dane Cook for the past two years so as to not sully my irrational… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-needy-mccomplainsalot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-qG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}