Thursday, May 01, 2003 People who suck This list will doubtless grow as I think of more of them. At the moment, my list of people who suck includes:
Whoever decided to reduce yogurt container sizes from 8 oz. to 6 oz., and, in some cases, 4 oz. I'd rather they had raised the price and kept the same amount of yogurt. Maybe it's a fiendish plot to make people have to buy two containers of yogurt to get as much as they actually want.
Whoever first started using capital letters in the middle of names. I'm copyediting a book about software, and I'm constantly checking company Web sites to find out things like "Is it PrintQuest, Print Quest, or Printquest?" I think that person should be beaten with a BigStick.
Whoever decided the official, formal spelling of a site on the Web should be "Web site," and whoever at the University of Chicago press decided to recommend it in the CMS. C'mon, hurry up and change it to "website"! (This is probably not annoying to people who don't copyedit.)
Whoever bred the first small dog. "Hm...what we really need are yappier, more annoying animals that can easily bite our ankles."
People who buy small dogs. Especially my neighbors.
