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Maybe you've been here before. You've just come off the plane, picked up your baggage and gone to the rental car counter. You're tired from the flight, about to begin an ambitious vacation or a challenging business project. And, this is the point at which you're asked, "Do you want insurance with that?"
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In the event something does happen to the rental car, you may be looking at loss of use and diminished value fees, and your regular auto insurance policy may not cover them. Loss of use is the income that the rental agency loses due to the vehicle being in the shop for repairs, and diminished value is the calculated reduction in a vehicle's resale value as the result of an accident. Credit cards sometimes cover these, but be aware that they may require documentation that rental agencies can be reluctant to provide.
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"I'm just thankful that I'm in the UFC and I'm fighting and I'm winning.
I was wondering if I was good enough, and now I go 'maybe I am.'" - Costa Philippou
In the world of Costa Philippou, there's no room for bravado or bold statements delivered for the sake of a headline. The way he sees it, your mouth isn't going to help you when the Octagon door closes and it's time to fight. So pardon him if he's not going to engage in any pre-fight antics as his UFC 155 bout with Tim Boetsch approaches. It's just his way.
"I'm just real with everything," said the Cyprus native who now makes his home in Long Island, New York. "Everybody's talking about 'I can't wait to get a title shot, I want to fight the champion.' Come on, that's all talk to impress everybody. I don't want to fight the champion (Anderson Silva) and to be honest, I don't think I will ever want to fight that guy. (Laughs) I'll be happy to keep winning, and we'll see in two, three years if he's still around."
It's a complete 180 from what you usually hear from most fighters, and it's hard not to love it simply for being a refreshing change of pace. But that's how Philippou is built. Despite being 33, the former boxer could still be considered to be in the early part of his pro MMA career, and he doesn't carry the extra baggage younger fighters do in terms of building up their profile. Philippou isn't doing this for the fame; fighting is his job, he's good at it, and he's going to keep doing it until he decides it's time to stop. And if you ask him a straight question, you'll get a straight answer, especially when it comes to his day job.
"When they tell you to lose 30 pounds, and you're going to fight in front of 50,000 people, and there will be a few million watching you on TV, and your family, then it's not as fun as you think it's gonna be," he said of the fighting life. "Everybody asks 'are you excited to fight?' And at the beginning I thought there was something wrong with me because I wasn't excited to walk into the cage. And then I sat back and thought about it; what's there to be excited about? They're gonna lock me in a cage, they're gonna let somebody loose, and he's gonna try to get me. When I get away and I'm not broken and I won, yeah, then you get excited and happy. But before, it's like locking you in a cage with a pitbull and they're going to let him loose. Are you excited? Right before, I don't think anyone's excited."
Fans are excited to watch Philippou go to work though, and since arriving in the UFC for a short notice bout with Nick Catone in March of 2011, he's won four of five, including four in a row. Just like that, he's gone from east coast prospect to middleweight contender, and it's been such a whirlwind so far that it hasn't even sunk in for him yet.
"After this fight, I'll sit back and think about what I did, but I'm not done yet," he said. "I have one more in me for this year, and then everything will sink in. Everything happened so fast. I'm just thankful that I'm in the UFC and I'm fighting and I'm winning. I was wondering if I was good enough, and now I go 'maybe I am.'"
He laughs, perhaps knowing that a guy with consecutive UFC wins over Jorge Rivera, Jared Hamman, Court McGee, and Riki Fukuda is more than good enough to keep his place on the sport's toughest roster. But it was a gradual process for him.
"Nobody wants to admit it, but everybody has doubts," said Philippou. "You always think 'am I good enough to compete against these guys? They look so good.' And maybe I was lucky the first time or the second, even the third, and now I realize that maybe I am good. So I think I'm good enough to beat this guy too."
"This guy" is another formerly under the radar contender in Pennsylvania's Boetsch. Sporting a four fight winning streak of his own, including 2012 victories over Yushin Okami and Hector Lombard, the fanbase of "The Barbarian" is rapidly growing, and one of those fans is Philippou, who got on board the bandwagon after Boetsch's come from behind knockout of Okami in February.
"I was in Australia for the fight (against McGee) and I was watching the (UFC 144) show and I was so impressed with that guy," said Philippou of Boetsch. "And he knows, more than anybody else, he was getting his ass beat. Two rounds, he couldn't do anything. And in the third round, I don't know what his coach told him, but he walks in like the Terminator. It was like nothing happened. He didn't look tired and he walked in and knocked Okami out. I was so impressed with that guy. I didn't know I'd have to face him a few months later (Laughs), but it is what it is. I know everybody's tough in the UFC, but I think that guy's a special case. I don't know what you have to do to beat this guy."
He'll find out this weekend in Las Vegas.
"Yeah, I'll find out if he just looks good on TV or if he's the real thing," chuckles Philippou, who should have been done for 2012 if his UFC 154 match with Nick Ring took place, but when Ring got ill on the day of the fight, the New Yorker was left without a fight. Fate intervened shortly thereafter though, when Philippou's teammate Chris Weidman got injured and was forced out of the Boetsch bout at UFC 155. In stepped Costa.
"You get disappointed, because honestly I thought that was a good fight for me," he said of the aborted meeting with Ring. "I felt confident, and walking in, I go 'all right, he's a good fighter,' but I saw a few things that I thought I was going to be able to do in that fight and go five in a row. Everything happens for a reason, and it ended up being a good reason. I'm fighting on the biggest show of the year, main card, Tim Boetsch. Come on, it doesn't get better than that, unless I get my ass kicked."
Philippou laughs again, knowing that he's almost breaking the fighter code by admitting that defeat could be the end result when two well-trained athletes collide in the Octagon. He doesn't care though; he's going to be himself.
"I guess everybody's putting on a mean face," he said. "They say 'I flip the switch' and there's no switch. Everybody's putting on a show for everybody to see because they want to be famous. I don't want to be famous, I want to get paid."


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The Miami Dolphins have suspended a veteran player indefinitely, after he allegedly sent threatening messages that included racial slurs to a younger teammate. The NFL is investigating what is being called a case of hazing and harassment.
Veteran guard Richie Incognito is alleged to have left intimidating messages and texts on the phone of second-year offensive tackle Jonathan Martin, who left the team last week. The Dolphins had not previously provided details to explain Martin's absence.
As for Incognito, "He's done" in Miami, a source tells The Miami Herald. The source continued, "There are procedures in place and everyone wants to be fair. The NFL is involved. But from a club perspective he'll never play another game here."
Martin, a Stanford graduate who was a second-round pick by the Dolphins in the 2012 NFL draft, is the son of two lawyers. He was a classics major at Stanford, according to NPR's Mike Pesca, who adds that Martin also considered Harvard, where he would have been the first ever fourth-generation African-American at the school.
But at the Miami Dolphins' facilities, Martin was called "big weirdo" — a moment from last year's training camp that was chronicled on HBO's Hard KnocksNFL show. Transcripts circulating today show that he was called far worse names more recently, as Incognito reportedly used slurs referring to Martin, who is biracial.
"Martin left Dolphins headquarters [last] Monday when finally reaching his limit with the persistent bullying and teasing from some teammates that has plagued him since joining Miami," reports Fox Sports. The network says Martin left the team after "a group of players stood up and left when he tried joining them for lunch."
After leaving Miami, Martin went home to California to be with his family. According to Fox Sports reporter Mike Garafalo, Martin remained in California today.
"Martin shared texts and voice mails with his parents on Saturday, and turned them over Sunday to the Dolphins and the league, according to sources close to Martin and involved in the investigation," NFL News reports. "The evidence implicates Incognito and, to a lesser extent, Dolphins center Mike Pouncey.
A transcript of a voice mail that has been circulating Monday describes an offensive and expletive-laden message, allegedly from Incognito. It also uses a racial slur and threatens violence. The NFL and Dolphins have heard the voice mail, according to NFL News.
The issue has been a hot topic, as NPR's Mike Pesca tells Melissa Block on Monday's All Things Considered. And the discussion has grown more serious as details have emerged.
"Today, the revelation of these texts and more details about what actually happened changes this [from] a discussion of if a large person can be bullied, to where we are now, which is real harassment, possibly criminal," Mike says.
"The broader issue is hazing in the NFL," Mike says. "Hazing goes on in the NFL much more so than it does in a lot of other institutions."
Mike says that the NFL is a private enterprise where hazing is often seen as harmless — but it generally means "rookies have to carry equipment; sometimes rookies are made to pay very large bills when the veterans go out to eat," he says.
The Miami Herald reports that if Martin was the target of hazing, he wasn't alone.
"Incognito pressured Martin into paying $15,000 for an unofficial team vacation to Las Vegas – a trip that Martin didn't even join," the newspaper says. "One young defensive player, whose privacy the Miami Herald is protecting, is on his way to going broke because he has been unable to say no to the older players, a source said."
As for what punishment the NFL might dole out if the current allegations are proven, Mike says, "The commissioner, Roger Goodell, has leveled heavy fines and heavy suspensions for things that embarrass the league. It's not hard to think that Roger Goodell will act up on this very fiercely."
On Sunday afternoon, the Dolphins said in a statement, "We received notification today from Jonathan's representation about allegations of player misconduct. We are taking these allegations very seriously and plan to review the matter further."
The team said it had contacted the NFL about the allegations.
That message contrasted with the tone of a Dolphins statement issued earlier on Sunday in which the team said, "The notion of bullying is based on speculation and has not been presented to us as a concern from Jonathan or anyone else internally."
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Ghent Functional Programming Group
The "Functional Programming Group Ghent" (GhentFPG) is a friendly group for all people interested in functional programming, with a slight focus on Haskell. We usually organize a meeting every two months. If you're located near Ghent, Belgium, be sure to check us out!
Next meeting
There is no future meeting pinned at this point. We will update this page and send out mail to the appropriate mailing lists when we have some idea. In any case, there will be no meeting during the UGent exam period (end of May to start of July).
Note that future meetings will also take place at the S9 building, on the 'De Sterre' Ghent University campus. The address is Krijgslaan 281, 9000 Ghent. We convene in the S9 building.
Stay informed
- For up-to-date information, join our google group (this is like a mailing list)
- Or follow us on Twitter
- And we can also be reached on IRC using the #ghentfpg channel on freenode.
Previous meetings
May 8 2012 Meeting
There were two interesting talks given during the 12th GhentFPG meeting.
- Tom Schrijvers discussed solutions to the Flemish Programming Contest that took place at April 18, 2012. He showed (pdf) how to nicely use the non-deterministic feature of the List monad and how one can deal with strings swiftly by using trie data structures.
- Jasper Van der Jeugt gave a tutorial on parallelisation in Haskell.
Slides will be put up later.
March 20 2012 Meeting
We had two speakers for the 11th GhentFPG meeting.
- Jasper Van der Jeugt: digestive-functors 0.3
- Jeroen Janssen: the typeclassopedia
We relocated our meeting point to the Ghent University S9 building at 'De Sterre', Krijgslaan 281, Gent.
December 15 2011 Meeting
Problem solving: on this meeting we tried to solve a number of interesting problems in a functional language.
October 4 2011 Meeting
The ninth GhentFPG meeting featured 4 talks. We had one keynote talk and three lightning talks.
- Jurriën Stutterheim - Snaplets: composable and reusable web components. Media:Snaplets-9thGhentFPG.pdf
- Andy Georges - hCole-server. Slides.
- Kenneth Hoste - GA: A genetic algorithm library.
- Jasper Van der Jeugt - WebSockets.
The original announcement can be found here
June 30 2011 Meeting
On the eight GhentFPG Meeting we had one talk. The second talk was cancelled due to the speaker being ill.
- Jasper Van der Jeugt - Techniques and patterns in the Text Library
- Problem solving activity - We tried our brains on the problem D from the 2010 ACM World Finals Programming Contest
Slides will be posted ASAP.
April 26 2011 Meeting
On the seventh GhentFPG Meeting, we had three talks.
- Tom van Cutsem - MapReduce in Erlang
- Tom Schrijvers - How you could have won the VPW 2011 contest with Haskell
- Pieter Audenaert - Functional Geometry and a Graphical Language
Slides etc. can be found in this thread [1].
February 17 2011 Meeting
We had our sixth Ghent FPG Meeting (a problem solving evening) on Thursday, February 17, 2011. More information in this thread.
November 5 2010 Hackathon
We organized BelHac, the first Belgian Haskell Hackathon on November 5 to November 7, 2010. More information can be found on this page.
Hackathon Meeting (Nov. 5 2010)
The fifth meeting was held during the Haskell Hackathon. The theme of the meeting was "Functional Programming in Industry". We had three talks by people who use Functional Programming in their respective companies:
- Duncan Coutts (Well-Typed) - Who talked about Well-Typed and how they make a living writing Haskell code.
- Romain Slootmaekers (Incubaid) - Who talked about how hard it is to get new ideas incorporated into existing companies.
- Don Stewart (Galois) - Who talked about how Galois is succesfully using Haskell for their projects.
October 7 2010 Meeting
Our fourth meeting will be held on October 7, 2010, from 19:00 onward. Same location as the previous meetings: Ghent University Technicum, St.-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, Left Entrance. The program is as follows:
- Stijn Timbermont - Mapping Interpreters onto Runtime Support
- Tom Schrijvers - Dictionaries: Eager or Lazy Type Class Witnesses?
- Dominique Devriese - Grammar Combinators - A new model for shallow parser DSL's
Abstracts of the talks can be found in this google groups message.
June 29 2010 Meeting
Our third meeting will be on June 29, 2010. This is again in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, left entrance. The program will be as follows:
- Pierre Carbonnelle - Declarative programming for Business Logic - a new Open-source project
- Tom Schrijvers - Monadic Constraint Programming
- Wouter Kampmann, Lieven Lemiengre - Lightning Talk on Scala
Abstracts of the talks can be found in this google groups message.
May 13 2010 Meeting
Our second meeting was on May 13, 2010 in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, starting at 19:00. The program was as follows:
- Atze Dijkstra: The Utrecht Haskell Compiler
- Jean-Christophe Mincke: An Introduction To Monads
- Drinks at a local bar
April 1 2010 Meeting (First Meeting)
Our first meeting was on April 1, 2010. This was in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, starting at 19:00. The program was as follows:
- Jeroen Janssen - Welcome and short introduction to FP
- Jasper Van der Jeugt - "BlazeHtml: a blazingly fast Html generator in Haskell"
- Tom Schrijvers - "Functional Pearl: The Monad Zipper"
- Romain Slootmaekers - "Functional Programming at Amplidata : a tentative experience report"
- Anonymous - "An introduction to PHunctional Programming"
- Short discussion on the direction of the Ghent Functional Programming Group


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This is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. Coming up, Pope Benedict XVI surprised the world when he announced his resignation yesterday, so we decided to talk about some of the issues facing the church worldwide and to see if there are any potential papal candidates from the developing world, which is where most Catholics actually live. That's coming up later in the program.
But first, we want to focus on a big event in American politics. President Obama is delivering his first State of the Union address since his reelection. And in the run-up to this speech, there's been a lot of speculation - and, let's face it, unsolicited advice - about what the president should do with this address, the first he will deliver without the burden of having to run for office again.
So we decided to call upon two regular contributors this morning, who both spend a lot of time helping to craft presidential messages. Paul Orzulak joins us in our Washington, D.C. studio. He's a former speechwriter for President Clinton, and he worked with Vice President Al Gore during his presidential bid. He's now founding partner of West Wing Writers.
Ron Christie joined us from our bureau in New York. He's a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush. He's now president of the media and political strategy firm Christie Strategies. Welcome back to you both. Thanks for joining us.
PAUL ORZULAK: Thanks, Michel.
RON CHRISTIE: Thanks, Michel.
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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: The state of our union is getting stronger, and we've come too far to turn back now. As long as I'm president, I will work with anyone in this chamber to build on this momentum. But I intend to fight obstruction with action, and I will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place.
MARTIN: So, Paul, back then that was kind of interpreted as his bring-it-on speech. He had been criticized by a lot of people in his party - particularly progressives - for being too accommodationist. This was the moment in which he seemed to be signaling that that's all done now. Now that he's won reelection, what do you hope he will do?
ORZULAK: If your State of the Union drinking game includes the words jobs or middle class tonight, you're in for a really long night. You know, the president was reportedly surprised that the coverage from his inaugural address was about social issues - immigration, gay rights, guns, climate change. So this shift tonight is full-force back to the economy.
It's a focus back on middle class families from the debt and deficits that we've been talking about here for months. And he's really reestablished on the grounds that he really got reelected and ran on, and I think that's where we're going to see a lot of talk about jobs, long-term growth and getting the economy back strong for everybody.
MARTIN: So, on a policy sense, you think it'll be a lot of focus on the economy. What about tonally?
ORZULAK: Tonally, I hope he does not do what he's done four times before, which is try to bring us together. We've heard that. The other party doesn't really want to play that game right now. What we really need is an honest discussion of the real differences between both parties on these issues, because it plays to his strengths. Congress has a 20 percent approval rating right now. The president was reelected overwhelmingly running on these issues. The more he can articulate the difference in a way that benefits him, the stronger he's going to be the next year.
MARTIN: Ron Christie, what about you?
CHRISTIE: Wow, Paul, I'm really surprised...
MARTIN: As a member of the loyal opposition.
CHRISTIE: Yeah. I'm really surprised to hear you say that. The president wasn't overwhelmingly reelected. He received almost five million votes less this time than he did before. The president is a unifier. He's supposed to bring the country together. This is not supposed to be partisan politics. This is supposed to be the president of the United States giving the state of the country, not giving the state of the Democratic Party.
And to hear you suggest that perhaps he shouldn't be trying to unite us, I think, is wrong. This is America. We are supposed to come together as Americans to solve the vexing issues of the day. And what I hope to hear from the president this evening is how he will work with those in Congress of his own party or the opposition party to reduce the deficit, to strengthen the economy, and to move us forward. That's what we need from our president.
MARTIN: But, wait. Can I just ask Ron Christie about this? Did your - did the president you served, the administration you served do that? I mean, didn't they use their State of the Union address to delineate clear policies, clear points of view?
CHRISTIE: Yes. President Bush, however, never sought to divide people on race, sex, class or gender or economic status. Never. And he used his 2005 State of the Union address after his reelection to talk about entitlement reform, to talk about Social Security, to making sure that all people, regardless of their income or their race or their ethnicity, had to have the opportunity to have a piece of the American Dream. But to have the chance on your first State of the Union after your reelection to try to seek to divide the country, I think, is wrong.
MARTIN: Paul?
ORZULAK: I'm not talking about dividing the country. Let's be honest, Ron. Everybody knows that the president, for four years, has been about unity, to the point where he sounded naive talking about unity with a Congress that clearly didn't want to play along with that. His first State of the Union four years ago talked about post-partisan America and bringing us together and uniting around these big challenges we face. And that message lasted 12 hours, until Senator Mitch McConnell said their main goal was to make sure the president wasn't going to be reelected. And every single Republican voted against any program he put forward to create jobs or reduce the deficit.
Unity has its place. We want to bring the country together, but we have real choices to face here. And I think what the president was successful in doing in the election was to say: Here's their plan. Here's my plan. Which do you like? And he was reelected with a mandate, and he's going to affect that mandate when he goes in.
MARTIN: If you're just joining us, we're talking about President Obama's State of the Union address. We're speaking with former White House speechwriter Paul Orzulak and Republican strategist and former White House communications strategist Ron Christie.
So, Ron, you know, to Paul's point, though, Ron, the president was criticized by - mainly by progressives for giving up too much in negotiations with the GOP in his first term. And it does not appear that that won any Republican support for his agenda.
So what incentive does the president have to pursue this kind of - this goal of bipartisanship now? Why should he?
CHRISTIE: Because you're bigger than the job that you serve. In other words, you're not the president of the Democratic Party. You're the president of the United States, and you're supposed to work on behalf of those who didn't vote for you just the same as you're supposed to work for those who did vote for you.
And he has an obligation. When he started in office, there were 32 million people on food stamps. Now there are 47 million. If you look at the number of people who are either unemployed, underemployed or otherwise out of work, the number has gone up dramatically in his term. So this isn't a question of his seeking to appease the progressive base or the Democratic base. It's what can he do in the most powerful position in the world to work with those in Congress to get America back on track? Because we're clearly not on track.
MARTIN: But just one - briefly, before I turn to Paul, though. But didn't - isn't the first thing that President George W. Bush said upon his reelection, and I quote, "I have earned my political capital, and now I'm going to use it." How is that different?
CHRISTIE: Because President Bush always believed in unifying Americans, and he had political capital that he intended to use. This president waged a campaign seeking to divide people based on race, class, gender and economic status that President George W. Bush never did and would never do.
MARTIN: OK. Paul?
ORZULAK: Well, Ron, I think the American people disagree with that. I mean, the Pew Center came out with a new poll last week that showed that they uniformly believe that your party has been about exactly those kind of tactics over the last four years. To me, the more interesting question is: Which Republican Party are we dealing with?
It's almost like Israel. They can't decide whether to negotiate with Hamas or with the Palestinian authority. You know, we have two responses to the State of the Union tonight. Why two? We have Marco Rubio. We have Rand Paul. We're going to have Ted Nugent in the gallery. Talk about saying incendiary things about the president and the country. So which Republican Party is it that the president is going to partner with over the next four years? Is it the one of Rand Paul, Marco Rubio or is it the Ted Nugent crowd?
MARTIN: Well, to that end, though...
CHRISTIE: Well, I take great offense, Michel.
MARTIN: Well, OK.
CHRISTIE: I take great offense to the Republican Party being characterized as either Hamas or Hezbollah. Sir, those are two terrorist organizations who murder innocent people. The GOP is not murdering people. So I resent your assertion that the GOP is either affiliated with Hamas, Hezbollah or otherwise.
ORZULAK: That's not what I said, Ron. You know that.
CHRISTIE: No, that is exactly what you said.
ORZULAK: No.
CHRISTIE: And I take great offense to it. You should be better than that. Shame.
MARTIN: Well, all right. Paul, to Ron's point, though, some of these people have votes, and the president, doesn't he have to negotiate with people in order to get some of his agenda forward? I mean, he has a majority in the Senate. The Democrats have a majority in the Senate, but they don't control the House. He doesn't have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. So doesn't he have to find some votes with the opposition party, whether they call him names or not?
ORZULAK: Of course he does. And I think a stronger, more principled, feistier president is something that - it's nice to see. You know, for four years, he's extended an olive branch, and the other side has reached out with a flame and set it on fire each time. They have absolutely no interest in finding common ground. So negotiating from a position of strength - the American people clearly support his positions on these issues, and you know, we have to - we need to go forward with bringing the focus back on middle class families, on what families need to succeed and prosper today, and I feel like, that we've gotten too far away from that with all the focus on budgets and deficits and debt limits and sequesters and fiscal cliffs and all the things that dominate conversation here.
CHRISTIE: Let's get it back on the things that matter, and that's what we're going to have the president talk about tonight.
MARTIN: Before we let you go, we have to ask each of you about the rebuttals. Ron, of course we want to ask you about Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio. He has been asked to give his party's response to the speech tonight, and I was just wondering why you think he was chosen and what do you think his job is tonight?
CHRISTIE: I think Senator Rubio is the future of the Republican Party. In order for us to win, politics is about addition and not subtraction. If the Republican Party can't attract younger voters, people of color, women, and people who are gay, we're going to lose, and I think Senator Rubio is a younger, more refreshing voice of the future for the GOP, and I expect what we'll hear him say is, he'll outline a vision of economic security, making sure that we can balance the budget, making sure that we can pay our debts, and also making sure that we have enough money for critical resources here at home, as well as projecting a strong foreign presence abroad.
MARTIN: But what about Paul's point about the divisions within the Republican Party. I mean there's yet another rebuttal to the rebuttal. The Kentucky senator, Rand Paul, is going to give an address, speaking on behalf of the Tea Party, following in the footsteps of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and former presidential candidate Herman Cain, who previously gave those alterative addresses.
Is that a good idea?
CHRISTIE: I don't think it's a good idea. I think it's important to have a Tea Party caucus and to allow people who share the sense that their taxed enough already to have an outlet. But the Republican response should be given by one individual and that individual is Senator Rubio. And I think Rand Paul is going to clutter the message rather than unify the message for the GOP.
MARTIN: Paul, final thought from you on the Rubio pick. Why do you think he was chosen and what do you think is job is?
ORZULAK: I think it's a brilliant choice. I mean he's the most articulate young Republican member of Congress, appeals to Latinos. What we saw in this past election is on immigration, on guns, on climate change, on jobs to a degree, this is a party, Republican Party's on the wrong side of history. They realized that, they realize they need to make a lot of changes in order to be a majority party again, or to not relegate themselves to being a minority party for the next generation.
Marco Rubio is probably the best opportunity they have to restart the conversation, and it's the best decision that they've made all year.
MARTIN: That was Paul Orzulak. He's a former speech writer for President Clinton and he worked with Vice President Al Gore during his presidential bid. He's now founding partner of West Wing Writers. He was with us in Washington, D.C. With us from New York, Republican strategist Ron Christie. He's a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, President George W. Bush and the president of his strategy and communications firm, Christie Strategies. Thank you both so much for joining us.
ORZULAK: Thanks, Michelle.
CHRISTIE: Thanks, Michelle. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The Alot is Better Than You at Everything
780 comments:
1 – 200 of 780 Newer› Newest»- Beta Dad said...
This is really helpful! Thanks, Alot!
- April 13, 2010 at 4:06 PM
- MelodramaMama said...
Ahahahaha. Good grief. It's like you have a creepy window into my brain. (I bet you get many people who try and make you think that they are JUST like you, in an attempt to make you like them more, don't you?).
Thank you for making me cry at least 5 times (no hyperbole) from laughter in the week since I discovered your blog. I think I have maybe 7 posts left to read from last September, and then I will have read the whole thing.
I'm sure you've seen this, but:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe - April 13, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- miss. chief said...
HAHAHAHAHA the 'Alot of beer cans' is so awesome!
- April 13, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- Allie said...
Haha, I liked that alot (obviously referring to the picture with the alot and the baby)!
- April 13, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- khelsaoe said...
You are clearly brilliant.
- April 13, 2010 at 4:08 PM
- mylittlebecky said...
i am in love with an alot. where can i get one of these? do they breed them in japan? can i have one shipped? thanks alot allie! (now you have to do one wearing your pink allie dress!)
- April 13, 2010 at 4:08 PM
- Ashley, the Accidental Olympian said...
And this whole time I thought I was the only one with a pet, alot!
My alot is named Henry.
He's my best friend. - April 13, 2010 at 4:08 PM
- Lupi Evergreen said...
hahahhaa oh this is really sweet, i enjoy your very particular point of view. thanks for sharing it.
greetins from peru!
Lupi - April 13, 2010 at 4:08 PM
- Diane Laney Fitzpatrick said...
You could teach high school English. After this lesson no teenager would ever misuse 'a lot.'You could do other lessons, too, and publish a textbook! Hey, new job idea for you!
- April 13, 2010 at 4:08 PM
- Gnetch said...
I like the emo, Alot. Hahaha.
But I'm not emo. Just saying. - April 13, 2010 at 4:09 PM
I'm expecting a Twitter account called "Alot" to show up and auto-retweet tweets containing "alot." Of course it would use the "I care about this alot" drawing as the icon. I would totally subscribe. It would give me giggles.
- April 13, 2010 at 4:09 PM
- Unknown said...
I can't even put into words how awesome this post is.
I think I love you alot. - April 13, 2010 at 4:10 PM
- Coopie said...
Dare I say it?
I this alot!!!
Also, I mus say that I am a culprit in the "u" department. It is because I'm usually typing from my phone and am lazy and choose to use that shortcut. :P plus, I technically AM only using two fingers (or thumbs, as the case may be)...so I think perhaps I can have amnesty?
I love u alot. - April 13, 2010 at 4:10 PM
- jamie said...
i love the emo kid talking to the Alot.
- April 13, 2010 at 4:11 PM
- April said...
I like this alot. Much better than doing thesis work. Thanks for the distraction!
- April 13, 2010 at 4:11 PM
- Ashley Devon said...
I think this is one of the best posts of yours I've ever read. I feel the same way you do. Loved it!
- April 13, 2010 at 4:12 PM
Hahahaha thank you for saving Alot of my life.
- April 13, 2010 at 4:12 PM
- Kris said...
These posts make me giggle for real every single time.
- April 13, 2010 at 4:12 PM
- Londongirl said...
Yep...this helps clarify a number of things. Thanks. By the way do you know what an "alotabit" is?
Obviously some relation to an alot. I keep running into that too. - April 13, 2010 at 4:14 PM
I once discovered Alot of grammatical errors over the years. I've done Alot of surving the web. Can you imagine how many Alots I've seen and hunted down over the past 10 years or more?
I've got quite Alot of heads on my wall now.
thechurchofalmightyunicorn.blogspot.com - April 13, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- nicolesspirit878 said...
You should do a post on more mythical creatures representing human deficiencies. Your too funny! I like you alot.
- April 13, 2010 at 4:16 PM
as someone who is also grammatically conscious, this will be alot of help when i run into the idiots of the interweb and want to rip out alot of my hairs because of their idiocy. which happens alot.
Ugh, now I just sound stupid.
Anyway, this was awesome and hilarious and I really want an alot now. :) - April 13, 2010 at 4:17 PM
Lol...your a Grammar Nazi =P
- April 13, 2010 at 4:21 PM
- Kalisa said...
When I was in J-school, I had a writing teacher who said, "It isn't a lot unless you can put a house on it." (What?? I went to school in the south.) I don't think I want to live on Alot though. That just seems unnecessarily cruel.
- April 13, 2010 at 4:21 PM
- Danny Infinite said...
I was ranting earlier today about the misuse of "you're" and "your", as well as "there", "their", and "they're". Those are my biggest pet peeves by far. However, "a lot", "alot", and the occasional "allot" definitely annoy me as well. Nicely done. Cheers.
- April 13, 2010 at 4:22 PM
- Ashley said...
Awww.....the Alot drawings might be better than the Spaghattah Nadle. So cute.
- April 13, 2010 at 4:24 PM
How creative! Alots are officially the coolest animals ever. How dare you spell check for underlining Alot!
- April 13, 2010 at 4:25 PM
- CP said...
I had a comment.
Really I did.
Then, "Anonymous" posted "your a Grammar Nazi" and didn't use the correct "you're". Now I am all discombobulated.
Ah, the slow decline of grammar. - April 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM
- Johana Hill said...
You amuse me alot! Hahahahaha
- April 13, 2010 at 4:32 PM
- JustLinda said...
I love your posts a lot.
I also love your posts, Alot. (I mean, if you ever let the Alot make his or her own post, I'm sure I would love it.)
Maybe next you can take on the misuse of LESS and FEWER. I hate that one Alot. (And now I'm picturing a grumpy Alot wearing a sandwich board that says LESS and FEWER.) - April 13, 2010 at 4:33 PM
- Jen said...
As Heather just said, it's like you have a creepy window into my brain. Especially as I only discovered you last night & have been since spamming my friends and my FB feed with links to you. I think you're the best thing EVER.
The fact that your first new post since my happy discovery is about grammar peeves, on the internet, creeps me out because I am a long-established grammar peeves ranter. (Also? I am a hypocritical run-on sentence abuser.) It's a delicious creepy, though. Like your post about spiders. - April 13, 2010 at 4:33 PM
- Alana said...
I'm a professionally trained proofreader, so I notice when people don't know how to write. It takes a great deal of self control for me to not spend hours a day correcting grammar and spelling on YouTube. But now I have fun mental images to make the ignoring of mistakes more fun. Thanks, Allie. Those drawings will make the internet far more tolerable for the literate.
- April 13, 2010 at 4:33 PM
- Raconteur said...
Noone cares what you think.
http://blog.pennlive.com/thrive/2007/12/PeterNoonePicForBlog.jpg - April 13, 2010 at 4:34 PM
- Hi, I'm Natalie. said...
I luv u, Alot.
lol. - April 13, 2010 at 4:34 PM
Unless the eagle has changed the keyboard settings he would also need to do the 'hop shift' for the exclamation marks.
- April 13, 2010 at 4:35 PM
- antoinette jeanine said...
I wanted to tell you funny things about how I'm trying desperately to convince the internet to give me a job as an editor, but I think you broke me. I love the Alot so damn much. If I ever do get that job, I swear to email pictures of sad Alots to bad authors. That is, unless said emailing would cause the copyright beast to come eat me.
Anonymous, if you did that intentionally, you are a bad person and should feel bad about yourself. And if you're just the kind of person who abuses homophones willy-nilly, you should know that I'm working on developing a new internet wherein grammar fascists can proofread everything anyone writes. Coming soon. - April 13, 2010 at 4:35 PM
- Andrea Paterson said...
It's possible that the Alot will save me from becoming clinically insane due to frequent exposure to bad grammar.
- April 13, 2010 at 4:36 PM
....I think I may finally be able to deal with incorrect grammar now. You are so very helpful. Even though I'm sure everyone else that has already posted has said it, thanks, alot. (:
- April 13, 2010 at 4:36 PM
- Rachelle said...
Best post I've read in a fortnight!
I liked it alot. - April 13, 2010 at 4:37 PM
- Lara said...
You are a genius! I love your blog. Thanks!
- April 13, 2010 at 4:43 PM
- Caleb said...
So... now I want to see what a Noone looks like. Especially the one that cares what you think.
By the way, you're amazing; you must make the overall-awesomeness-meter for Montana go up five or six degrees all by yourself.
This is the first time I've commented, but I've been laughing out loud at your posts for almost a week now. Since I don't laugh, this is an accomplishment of no little merit.
The downside is, I have an evil super-villain laugh, and my roommate now wakes up in the wee hours of the morning to me cackling in the dark. =D - April 13, 2010 at 4:44 PM
This post made my day. In fact, I'm feeling alot happier now that I've read it. ;)
- April 13, 2010 at 4:47 PM
- Sam Liu said...
I too am a compulsive grammar freak and I absolutely have to correct people the minute I see an error. I'll let you in on a secret, when I started reading this post and gathered from the first sentence that it was about grammar perfection, I had this thought:
"Aha, here's Allie talking about being grammatically conscientious and she's used "alot" instead of "a lot" in the post title! How embarrassing, I am so going to write a comment to point that out!"
Then I read on and I realised how much of a terrible person and a fool I am. Ahh well...
P.S. This is a wonderful creation you've made here. From now on when I read "alot", my usual frustration shall be transformed into laughter and happy memories. Thank you :D - April 13, 2010 at 4:47 PM
- Louise said...
Cuddly toy Alot from Zazzle?
- April 13, 2010 at 4:48 PM
- N said...
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- April 13, 2010 at 4:53 PM
- N said...
Can you draw a "worthed" next? He's green.
- April 13, 2010 at 4:58 PM
- My Walkabout said...
I love this post....Alot!
- April 13, 2010 at 5:02 PM
- Toria said...
You know what? I think this WILL actually help calm my general rage. Do you have anything good for your/you're. OR EVEN BETTER: it's/its?
www.harshbanter.wordpress.com - April 13, 2010 at 5:05 PM
- Lindsay said...
This is a much nicer explanation of the correct use for the term as oppossed to my Lawyer Friend who likes to shout, "Only f*cking morons write "alot"!"
Hey! There's an idea. In addition to being the Winner of the Internet, maybe you can teach morons. Just something to think about... - April 13, 2010 at 5:08 PM
- Hef said...
Funniest thing I've ever read. I like it, Alot.
- April 13, 2010 at 5:09 PM
- sparkymarky1973 said...
The Alot are even better than the Adipose that were in that doctor who story.....how can I adopt one?
- April 13, 2010 at 5:09 PM
- Pink Lemonade said...
Ha! I love u Alot!
How about "definatly"? Can I get an amen! UGH! People are a lot of stupid or lazy. - April 13, 2010 at 5:12 PM
You complete me - alot. =P Oh, but this is sooo helpful - now anytime I want to kill myself over seeing "alot" or "hey u want 2 c me 2day" I'll either just think of a nice giant fuzzy creature, or pity their lack of digits.
- April 13, 2010 at 5:16 PM
- Siadele said...
Brilliant. I'm going to use that alot.
- April 13, 2010 at 5:19 PM
- Curiosity said...
I don't know if it's just the change in meds and too many emotional mac trucks today, but this made me literally laugh out loud. Multiple times.
(I don't really think it's me. I think it's probably because you're brilliant. Or maybe your brilliant, if he helped) - April 13, 2010 at 5:24 PM
- Tony said...
Alot is adorable! I just wanna hold alot!
- April 13, 2010 at 5:24 PM
- Barbara said...
The alot needs to be on a t-shirt. :)
- April 13, 2010 at 5:25 PM
- Unknown said...
i think u hav alot of issues but u r funny
- April 13, 2010 at 5:28 PM
- Jennifer McLean said...
I'm guessing that you also get frustrated watching those commercial advertising useless products like the Slapchop. I know this because they frustrate ME to no end. Since we have this grammatical correctness fixation in common, I'm assuming you too, are afflicted with the need to vent when some idiot yells that YOU NEED to purchase this machine!!! Who cares that it pulverizes vegetables I already had to chop up finely, using a knife, so I could USE his damn contraption in the first place.
Yep. I'll be in therapy Mondays and Wednesdays, do you want to carpool? - April 13, 2010 at 5:28 PM
- Unknown said...
Could you please help with the "they're their there" dilemma. Well, only a dilemma if you're (not your!) a moron.
- April 13, 2010 at 5:34 PM
- Jennifer McLean said...
I have to re-comment to Raconteur so forgive me. Oh, and plug your ears Allie, I'm going to YELL.
HEY ASSHOLE, raconteur, YA YOU! GO AWAY. WE CARE. WE LIKE HER MORE THAN CHOCOLATE SAUCE ON ICE CREAM. SO, GO SIT ON THAT AND TWIST.
... now back to our regularly scheduled comments. :o) - April 13, 2010 at 5:35 PM
- Mik said...
Amazing xD
- April 13, 2010 at 5:43 PM
- - Jane said...
The Alot, is the cutest thing ever. I want one.
- April 13, 2010 at 5:44 PM
- Homemaker Man said...
That was freakin' adorable.
- April 13, 2010 at 5:47 PM
- merricat said...
I find myself moved to organize an Adopt An Alot organization.
- April 13, 2010 at 5:47 PM
- Unknown said...
Even as a non-native English speaker, I couldn't agree more.
I'm sincerely, if not atypically, thankful for these tips - not to mention the many laughs had while reading.
Keep 'em coming.
/Kris - April 13, 2010 at 5:51 PM
I love those alots, too. Thanks for the awesome button update, as well. I went and it was awesome.
- April 13, 2010 at 5:52 PM
- Kaylin said...
True story, I know someone with only one finger on each hand, AND HE TYPES OUT FULL WORDS. Cuz he isn't a lazy asshole. I like the Alot a lot... I will think of him next time someone commits that grammar folly.
- April 13, 2010 at 5:54 PM
- Hippo Brigade said...
It's a huge pet-peeve when people write "alot"
also when people write "thru"
What the hell is that?
Just because it's on Drive Thru sign at Del Taco, it doesn't make it correct. - April 13, 2010 at 5:56 PM
- Unknown said...
You have no idea how much this is going to help me.
- April 13, 2010 at 6:00 PM
- I'm Katie. said...
*snerk* Your alot is adorable.
- April 13, 2010 at 6:02 PM
- polarbee said...
This post is awesome, and the Google Ad for Grammarly is like some sort of delicious icing. Or whatnot.
Love alot! - April 13, 2010 at 6:04 PM
Oh, sheesh....I am horrible about the "alot" monster. The husband nags me about it constantly, so when he gets home & sees your post about this specific grammatical error, he will rain on my parade...alot. :)
- April 13, 2010 at 6:04 PM
- michfo said...
3 things...
1. my students will love this alot
2. although i also have many grammatical pet peeves, i also have this weird thing about capital letters (i feel as though they make the other letters feel less important), so i tend to avoid them
3. i think many people will agree that the biggest punctuation pain in the ass is the unncessary apostrophe. "the brown's"... what? house? mailbox? ugly sign? - April 13, 2010 at 6:08 PM
- Jules said...
u postd this 4 hrs ago & u already hav 70+ comments. shhh. thats alot of comments!! lol.
I'm just kidding, Allie. I'll type complete words on my comments from now on.
I really loved this one. This kind of stuff doesn't bother me at all, but you made it incredibly funny. Huge kudos! - April 13, 2010 at 6:12 PM
- juskaulani said...
You have a lot of comments, there must be a lot of grammer bugged people. Like me.
- April 13, 2010 at 6:15 PM
- Molly Burke, Queen of Confidence said...
Not if I find you first.
Molly Burke CPCC MSU
Queen of Confidence
"Even before I begin, I am made of win!" - April 13, 2010 at 6:15 PM
- Jack Polito said...
First time on site, I am going to keep this short.
Good job. - April 13, 2010 at 6:22 PM
You've really captured Michael Phelps' nipples and navel with your artwork. Awesome.
- April 13, 2010 at 6:23 PM
Uh, yeah -- what Alana said up there! This proofreader thanks you. A lot!
Alot will get me through many future days on the job. Believe me. :)
PS -- still wanna marry you. (sorry, Boyfriend) ;)
--Suzanne in Texas - April 13, 2010 at 6:25 PM
- A.J. said...
Wow, just stumbled across this and love it. I'm an English teacher and encounter a lot of Alots every day. Thanks for giving me a picture to put to them!
- April 13, 2010 at 6:31 PM
I L to the O the the V to the E the Alot! they are adorable, especially the 'i like this Alot' one. i feel really bad for the pale Alot on 'i like this Alot more'. i love you Alot! you have cute eyes! Haha, i'm not a good speller and my grammar is pathetic, however i do have a slight meltdown when rules i HAVE managed to learnt are broken by others. i can assure you, if i have learnt it, you can learn it. i wanted to go all battle-mode when i read an above comment that stated 'your a grammar natzi'. great post Ali!
- April 13, 2010 at 6:32 PM
- genevieve said...
Please address "fewer" and "less" which are alot misused, alas. (phew.)
- April 13, 2010 at 6:32 PM
- Gina said...
This is hilarious!
- April 13, 2010 at 6:33 PM
- Unknown said...
This is stuck in my head now. Obviously something you care a lot about. And your best drawings so far. Keep going, get better. Advice not an order.
- April 13, 2010 at 6:34 PM
- Chase said...
I love this alot!
- April 13, 2010 at 6:38 PM
- Jan Michael Yu said...
Keep up the funny work. I love this alot. :)
- April 13, 2010 at 6:47 PM
- Zaedah said...
Um... I have been a faithful reader and um... would really like to get my very own Alot. You know, if it's not too much trouble and all.
I would pet it and feed it and love it and and and... - April 13, 2010 at 6:53 PM
- Unknown said...
I wonder if Alot has a friend named Prolly....
- April 13, 2010 at 6:54 PM
I love it when people say something like 'I do that alot.' It makes me think of other things...
- April 13, 2010 at 6:57 PM
- Morgan said...
My friend and I are reading this in class instead of paying attention and now we're laughing....alot.
- April 13, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Ya know what bugs me alot more than that? I would of, I could of, instead of would have, could have. >.<
- April 13, 2010 at 7:05 PM
The Alot is the cutest thing I've ever seen on Blogger (or in my case, Tumblr.) I must write a book about this creature!
- April 13, 2010 at 7:09 PM
- emily said...
Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter and I COMPLETELY share in your disdain for incorrect grammar! My least favorite - even more than 'alot' is when people write things like "your cool". I always feel like asking, "my cool...what?"
- April 13, 2010 at 7:11 PM
- Cait said...
You should license this post to teachers everywhere. I would maybe even pay you if you'd let me use it with my students. Seriously. (Like, $5, but still.) Granted, I teach Latin, so I don't need to yell at them about things like apostrophes or "alot" that often, but it would be an awesome set of illustrations to have around.
ACTUALLY, make a big poster of this and put it in your store. Just give me a discount for sharing such a wonderful idea with you. - April 13, 2010 at 7:21 PM
- Unknown said...
what about...
This is Alot funnier than the other blogs I read! - April 13, 2010 at 7:24 PM
- Lisa said...
im pretty sure u rock n this is alot of awesome. :)
No seriously, I love your writing. - April 13, 2010 at 7:28 PM
- Natalie said...
Ahahahaha! I laughed out loud 394802394 times while reading this post.
- April 13, 2010 at 7:31 PM
- Natalie said...
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- April 13, 2010 at 7:31 PM
- G said...
MY alots are made entirely of kittens. They are Alots of Kittens. Unless Kittens is a place, then they're technically Alots FROM Kittens.
Which gets a little wierd if you see baby kittens giving birth to many alots.
Like, a litter of Alots. - April 13, 2010 at 7:31 PM
- Sparrow said...
You are hilarious. I stumbled across your blog a week or so ago, and my friends and I have been reading and laughing hysterically. Seriously, I've been at the point of hyperventilating. I'm thinking about starting my own blog. Sorry, got to go. GLEE'S ON! OH MY GOD!
- April 13, 2010 at 7:32 PM
- G said...
Oh yeah. Alots of Kittens, where Kittens is a place like "CamAlots," which in itself gets even wierder when you associate "cam" with "naughty webcam."
Then the Alots are not my Alots. At that point, they cross into somethings I'd have to give a credit card number to hang out with. - April 13, 2010 at 7:33 PM
- chloé said...
haha, you are amazing. seriously. i loved this post.
- April 13, 2010 at 7:43 PM
- Steam Me Up, Kid said...
At my elementary school, our spelling book taught us to spell it as one word, "alot". Granted, it WAS the 80's, and it WAS Catholic school. But the book said so, so I grew up and did what the book said, because I'm a good Catholic girl and I follow the rules, despite the fact that using "alot" has caused me to be the victim of ridicule and social ostracism for 20 years. It hurts, Allie, but I do it because the workbook told me to.
- April 13, 2010 at 7:45 PM
- Mrs. Nolte said...
Baby less dangerous. Hahahahhahah! I love you so much!
- April 13, 2010 at 7:46 PM
- MrEff said...
I just imagine that the person typing is on fire and only have a limited amount of time before they lose control of their hands due to the horrific burns, but this is equally amusing.
- April 13, 2010 at 7:48 PM
If you had a plush "Alot" as part of a store on your site you could make ALOT of money.
- April 13, 2010 at 7:55 PM
- Stormy Cruz said...
Oh, my God. This might actually be my favorite post so far.
What can I say? You're a genius. I'd personally begun to suspect that people who comment on YouTube were some underground tribe of grammatically-challenged baffoons that were created to play a cruel joke on humanity.
Rock on, chica. ;) - April 13, 2010 at 8:01 PM
- Mary@Holy Mackerel said...
I too have issues with those who have problems with grammar. I really like your idea. I am going to adopt it, because otherwise, I will probably end up in the fetal position in bed, sucking my thumb and moaning softly.
- April 13, 2010 at 8:03 PM
- Spike said...
Hilarious yet again. I laughed so hard I cried.
- April 13, 2010 at 8:04 PM
ALOT tees?!? Please?
- April 13, 2010 at 8:09 PM
- Julia said...
Thank you for introducing this coping mechanism. I needed it, the internetz sometimes fill me with rage, especially whe it spills out into real life. :(
Do you also have one for common "spelling" errors, like "too/to", "lose/loose", and other things o' that natchah? (sorry, Fat Joe usurps that phrase. I have several words I can't say on my own anymore, and make me look [more] crazy when I interject them into conversation. Carry on.)
Hilarious, but you knew that. Thank you for the Alot, he is now part of my life. <3 - April 13, 2010 at 8:10 PM
My dear, I realize that language and grammar are organic and are allowed to change. However, I feel I have found a kindred spirit in you. So what happened to the "there're". As in "there are." I seen in print all the time "there's three things," when it should read "there're." Even my spell checker tells me this is no longer a word. YEECH!!
- April 13, 2010 at 8:18 PM
- Emma said...
OMG thank you so, so much for this. Online grammar drives me up the wall, but now I just get to picture the adorable Alot instead! :)
- April 13, 2010 at 8:18 PM
- Satan said...
this does make a lot of things better, all of a sudden...
i feel a lot less need to kill half of the internet population, with fire.
see, you make the world a wonderful place. i'm even commenting on blogs...i usually never do that! - April 13, 2010 at 8:23 PM
A part of me is totally fearful of what the world would become if you gained the subconscious ability to change it with your thoughts.
An equally sized part of me thinks it would be hilarious for herds of Alots to suddenly appear.
Another excellent post from an ever superlative blog.
P.S. I woke up my girlfriend due to laughing at the thought of Spaghatta Nadle riding a charging Alot. She finds it less funny but is one of those 'grumpy when woke up at 4am types'. - April 13, 2010 at 8:25 PM
- Kirsten said...
Fucking brilliant!
- April 13, 2010 at 8:26 PM
- Sarah said...
This post is alot of fun.
I want to see alot more, alot of times. - April 13, 2010 at 8:29 PM
- Ireland said...
I want a pet Alot!
- April 13, 2010 at 8:31 PM
The Alot rocks! Go Grammar Police! I cope by purposely using phrases like "less gooder." It's over the top enough that people know I'm joking but is a nice outlet for irritation with the grammatically challenged...
- April 13, 2010 at 8:32 PM
Very funny, Ms. Brosh. It seems your recent fame has piqued the interest of several area trolls. Your posts have not suffered, however, and I recommend the immortal words of Dr. Thompson, "don't take any guff from these swine!"
- April 13, 2010 at 8:37 PM
This is wonderful. You should continue writing funny things on the internet.
- April 13, 2010 at 8:40 PM
- Ben said...
Holy crap. This is AMAZING. I constantly have this problem and you just saved my life (kinda). I love this Alot! :D
- April 13, 2010 at 8:43 PM
- KEVIN :D said...
- April 13, 2010 at 8:48 PM
- Liz S said...
While the internet and texting have clearly joined forces to dumb-ify the world, these are useful defense tactics. (Although they aren't so much defending against the dumb as they are defending the dumb from you, and now countless others, who can now think of cute furry alots when the desire to maul some hapless teenager with their iPhone strikes.)
Teenagers everywhere should thank you for that. - April 13, 2010 at 8:51 PM
- Unknown said...
I want to have an Alot pet, he looks so cuddly and fun..
- April 13, 2010 at 8:55 PM
- Puzzlehead said...
Allie, this is another fine post to your site! I can't believe I'm getting spelling/grammar advice from both your site and The Oatmeal.
I had a similar coping mechanism when reading the word 'alot'. I always pictured an ocelot.
Thanks for all of your hard work, creativity and illustrations! - April 13, 2010 at 9:00 PM
- Janet Dillon Robinson said...
You are incredibly funny, so glad I stumbled upon this blog!! :D
- April 13, 2010 at 9:02 PM
Holy hell, I just died laughing. I'm going to think of that everytime I see the word alot.
PS. The alot is super super cute. - April 13, 2010 at 9:05 PM
- fortress said...
lol this is very funny i like this alot, youre so i cannot stop laffing
/Excuse me, you are too much of a temptress! - April 13, 2010 at 9:19 PM
- ShineForLife said...
Can you make an alot shirt, please?
- April 13, 2010 at 9:19 PM
- Holli said...
Those Alots sure do look alot like Rat Creatures...
- April 13, 2010 at 9:19 PM
- Kelly said...
I can't decide whether I like the MEOW or Michael Phelps and his jazzy swim trunks better.
Absolutely hysterical! - April 13, 2010 at 9:21 PM
ALOT is so cute!
- April 13, 2010 at 9:25 PM
- Erin said...
THIS is why i love you!
- April 13, 2010 at 9:31 PM
- Ben said...
Ohh I LOVE the alot, its so cute!!! And the picture "I care about this alot" is so adorable!!
- April 13, 2010 at 9:34 PM
- email@example.com said...
You just made my day. After hours of reading 400-level fiction stories with poor syntax and uninteresting plots, I needed a little laughter. Thank you for always providing me with a place to go where I don't feel like a grammar nerd (or the only grammar nerd).
- April 13, 2010 at 9:41 PM
- Unknown said...
Ha ha ha ha!!! Awesome! I've taken steps to loosen it up a bit during social interactions because I was always made fun of for not being "black enough", which is basically the "down" peoples' way of saying I should act more "ignant". I'm just not good good at being social and I never know the right thing to say. As stupid as it seems even to me, I sometimes backspace and rewrite things so it looks like I'm not such a nerd.
Random Question #1: How often do your followers' comments piss you off?
Random Question #2: Do you like chocolate cake? - April 13, 2010 at 9:42 PM
- Mom's Place said...
I'm a new follower. Thanks for the laugh! Loved it. I will now be seeing the different Alot's every time I see "alot"!
- April 13, 2010 at 9:43 PM
Wow - such great coping mechanisms! I am so relieved that now I don't have to hit someone over the head (usually the person within my reach who may or may not be completely innocent and extremely confused as to why I'm shouting and hitting them repeatedly in the head) when I come across atrocious internet grammar. I appreciate it! :D
- April 13, 2010 at 9:55 PM
i NEED to own an ALOT plush toy! PLEASEEEEEEEEEE!!!
- April 13, 2010 at 10:01 PM
That was wonderful!
- April 13, 2010 at 10:14 PM
- Caitlin said...
i like this post alot. I like you alot (i tried to do this last sentence "i like u alot".......but I just can't force myself to type "u")
- April 13, 2010 at 10:15 PM
- Kerri Anne said...
I now want an Alot, just so I can name him Lord Percival III. Percy for short.
- April 13, 2010 at 10:17 PM
i use alot, alot. do you hate me? D:
- April 13, 2010 at 10:25 PM
- Unknown said...
I just have to say that the picture of the "I hear that Alot" had me on the floor laughing so hard I cried. Working on a college campus this most likely looked strange to the students passing by the large window into my office. That made my Tuesday quite a bit more interesting!
But seriously, that picture of the Alot fixed my horrible week. Thanks for the great posts! - April 13, 2010 at 10:26 PM
- Sadia Komal said...
Great Thank you
- April 13, 2010 at 10:26 PM
Bumpjon totally digs how Alot also speaks in third person.
- April 13, 2010 at 10:34 PM
I really must relate this story to you as it is extremely relevant!
I was in fifth grade, Mr. Edwards' English class. We were having the very FIRST spelling test of the school year. It was explained to us that we would have to spell ten words and to number our papers appropriately.
The first word was "a lot".
I had a conundrum upon hearing that, my eleven year old self. I knew, rationally, that "a lot" was two words and not one, but at the same time we were specifically instructed that we would be spelling ten words, so by that logic the first word was just that, A word. I had to guess what Mr. Edwards was looking for - and maybe, just maybe I was wrong after all and "a lot" wasn't two words but one word after all?
I wrote:
1. alot
When I got my test back and found it marked wrong I was so angry. Angry that I had been tricked, angry that what we were told and what was expected were clearly two different things, and most distressingly that now Mr. Edwards thought that I thought "a lot" was one word instead of two.
It has bothered me so much that here I sit twenty-four years later and I'm still mad about it. - April 13, 2010 at 10:39 PM
- Jenny Grace said...
I'm super pleased that the eagle uses a Mac.
- April 13, 2010 at 10:39 PM
- lady_mason said...
As with the others above, I am in love with you. So hilarious!!! This will help me manage my internet anger a lot better. I am generally offended by poor spelling & grammar, but this helps... Alot. :D
- April 13, 2010 at 10:42 PM
- V said...
I laughed so hard reading this that my boyfriend kept twisting around and giving me "WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU???" looks. He may not thank you, but I do!
- April 13, 2010 at 10:58 PM
- Vanessa! said...
I'm so glad there is at least one person on the internet who hasn't resorted to text-speak! I love your blog; I hope to see Alot more in the future.
- April 13, 2010 at 11:01 PM
- Unknown said...
I... I think I love you.
- April 13, 2010 at 11:26 PM
- Mark said...
How does the equal type an ! without using shift? Hmm....
- April 13, 2010 at 11:57 PM
- Lindsay said...
You have saved the last shred of my sanity by sharing these coping mechanisms with me. My entire circle of friends thanks you.
- April 13, 2010 at 11:59 PM
- Sarah Maddox said...
LOL! Your eagle and your alot would get along famously with archy, the cockroach poet who couldn't press shift and a letter at the same time. There was a glorious day when his typewriter was left in shift mode and HE GOT TO WRITE CAPITALS FOR A WHILE. ;) You'd love the books!
Thanks for a good laugh.
Sarah - April 14, 2010 at 12:11 AM
You should totally make an alot plushie! I think a lot of people would buy it. I know I would because how could you not want one?
- April 14, 2010 at 12:30 AM
- Nessie God of Thunder said...
I just discovered your blog this week. It has pretty much rendered me completley incapable of productive activity, which would be frightening if I chose to really think about it, fortunately I don't. Over the passed 2 nights I have read 185 posts. Yeah, all of them. I had to use a calculator to add them up since my brain is pretty much dead. Yesterday I went to sleep so late that I missed work this morning. By approximately 7 hours. Is this what you want?!? To get me fired? Do you know who would probably replace me?!?
If you guessed William Shatner you're probably correct. However, this is a price I am willing to pay because this blog is awesome. And according to the transitive property you are awesome. And because I now read your blog...I am now awesome. Which fits pretty well in the "Things-To-Achieve-Before-I-Get-Old-and-Lose-Control-of-My-Bladder" Life Plan - April 14, 2010 at 12:55 AM
Bahahha I'm tweeting this... This is going to change the way I read alot, a lot.
- April 14, 2010 at 1:00 AM
- Eugene Restaurant Blogger said...
I agree, a lot. I have been known to refuse to date men who cannot tell the difference between "your" and "you're," based on that principle alone. It's just unacceptable!
- April 14, 2010 at 1:06 AM
- April 14, 2010 at 2:01 AM
- Kent said...
This blog is so cool...
I'm spreading the word in Norway! - April 14, 2010 at 2:10 AM
huh... to be honest, I completely disagree. I think its interesting how as time changes so does speech and rhetoric. The means to which we communicate and the shear volume of communication that we share these days lends itself to "mistakes" and changes. What I think is even more interesting is the anger and intolerance that arises from these grammatical "errors". I understand that we're taught right and wrong from a very early age but I question the powerful energy that this generates in the wrong direction. What if these people haven't been dealt the fine education that you obviously have? And when it comes down to it, the goal of communication is the transmission of ideas. As long as the message is not misunderstood, than who the fuck cares? I have to wonder whether this type of intolerant mindset carries over to other facets of life... hmmm... scary.
- April 14, 2010 at 2:37 AM
- Batocchio said...
Awesome. "Alot" reminds me of an old occasional Mad magazine series, Horrifying Clichés.
- April 14, 2010 at 2:59 AM
Does the alot feel left out when someone says "you guys"? (Alot is no "guy")
- April 14, 2010 at 3:08 AM
- Paul said...
Absolutely brilliant. No way I'm not going to be able to keep the Alot out of my mind whenever I encounter that improper usage of the phrase.
- April 14, 2010 at 3:20 AM
- Chris W. said...
Yup, this is gonna stick with me through the maddening hours of forum surfing.
- April 14, 2010 at 3:31 AM
- Rhys Wilkins said...
This is brilliant, especially because I thought I was the only grammar pedant on the Internet!
- April 14, 2010 at 3:40 AM
- Harini said...
hahaha! I love alot now :P.
- April 14, 2010 at 4:07 AM
- Ai Lin said...
Ha ha, brilliant xP Alot is really really adorable in a way <3
- April 14, 2010 at 4:22 AM
- Moooooog35 said...
You should totally buy an alot for Miss Nomer.
- April 14, 2010 at 4:26 AM
- Shinxy said...
This is an excellent coping mechanism. Thanks, Alot, for sharing!
- April 14, 2010 at 4:28 AM
- Azundris said...
In other words, some people write the way you draw people? :-D
- April 14, 2010 at 4:31 AM
- Rob said...
Internet should be capitalized.
- April 14, 2010 at 5:04 AM
- Lisa Beeson said...
I imagine him sounding like Ludo from Labyrinth.
- April 14, 2010 at 5:09 AM
- miss tana said...
The alot reminds me of my sister's french bulldog. Except he's not furry... and he doesn't have horns. Do you think the alot could learn how to play polo? I hear yaks do!
- April 14, 2010 at 5:21 AM
- geeker said...
A. Brilliant post - my mum-in-law sent me the link so now I'm going to have to go back through your previous posts to see what other gems you have provided. I love the Alot and want him as a pet. I'm sitting here thinking of the various things an Alot could be made from. The weirdest one I can think of is Alot of people...bleurgh.
B. @SDP - "I have to wonder whether this type of intolerant mindset carries over to other facets of life... hmmm... scary."
Implying bigotry to someone who dislikes poor grammar is scarily close to invoking Godwin's Law. Impatience and frustration with idiocy is vastly different to being intolerant of others for other reasons. The fact that there is SO much *laziness* in online writing is what makes me so mad. People who type U instead of You know the difference, they're just too lazy to write the proper word. People who write Your instead of You're: if they haven't learned the difference, it's probably because they weren't paying attention when it was taught in school - it was in my school but there were loads of students who still got it wrong! Also, it's sheer. Shear is for sheep. - April 14, 2010 at 5:22 AM
I laughed longer and harder than I have in days.
:D - April 14, 2010 at 5:35 AM
- Unknown said...
the alot is way better than a manbearpig. i lurve alot a lot.
- April 14, 2010 at 5:35 AM
- Firebolt said...
This is soooooooo funny..
Loved it to bits..
Cant stop laughing! :D - April 14, 2010 at 5:39 AM
- Ben said...
Please make stuffed toys. Please please please.
- April 14, 2010 at 6:00 AM
- Unknown said...
When i see "Alot", I think of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alot
- April 14, 2010 at 6:02 AM
I'm compulsive with my grammar and punctuations as well. My coworker is ready to slap me for always correcting her english (such a bitchy thing for me to do) and now that I have this stupid new touch screen phone, its really difficult to get everything right. That thing has a mind of its own. And I pride myself on knowing the difference between "its" and "it's." That is all.
- April 14, 2010 at 6:37 AM
- Kimberlyand said...
Holy eff the Alot is cute.
- April 14, 2010 at 6:44 AM
- Kimberlyand said...
Also, I agree with this person:
Lisa Beeson said...
I imagine him sounding like Ludo from Labyrinth.
ME TOO. - April 14, 2010 at 6:45 AM
This just made my day. You've transformed my experience of internet forums for ever.
- April 14, 2010 at 7:03 AM
- Unknown said...
Why aren't you an English teacher? These visual aids would be extremely useful and help alot. ;)
Ok, next blog post idea - please create some funny visual aids for their, they're, there and your, you're. HUGE pet peeve of mine! - April 14, 2010 at 7:17 AM
- Cat said...
I have a new favourite animal! Being high in the ranks of the Grammar Police myself, you've given me something to cope with my post-traumatic stress after reading mangled language. Thank you!
- April 14, 2010 at 7:18 AM
- Brad Keen said...
The Alot would make a great shirt. I would love to order an "I Love you Alot" shirt.
- April 14, 2010 at 7:20 AM
- Meribah said...
Whoa. You have totally changed the way I view grammatical errors! Thanks, alot. :P
- April 14, 2010 at 7:21 AM
This is amazing! I'm going to adopt your view of an Alot so coping might abound!
- April 14, 2010 at 7:27 AM
- unsure of the future said...
Of course you realize that I am now going to have to look through my blog to see if I can find an Alot among my own posts. If I find one, I guess I will be okay with him living there...after all, Alot's are rather cute! Awesome post!
- April 14, 2010 at 7:45 AM
- Li Xingxian said...
I LOVE ALL ALOTS. - April 14, 2010 at 7:57 AM
- Veronica M. D. said...
I wish you could do something magical like this so I wouldn't get mad at the incorrect uses of "your" and "you're."
You are a wonder. An absolute wonder. - April 14, 2010 at 7:58 AM
- Unknown said...
Love this post. I wonder what you think of when people say "irregardless." That one gets me EVERY time.
- April 14, 2010 at 7:59 AM
- Veronica M. D. said...
P.S. I linked you all over the damn place on this one. SMOOCH!
- April 14, 2010 at 8:02 AM
- Unknown said...
Thank you for this post for two reasons.
1. I now can read posts and imagine the wonderful Alot and secretly want one!
2. I have a page full of advice to give my husband to stop him being an internet grammar douche. - April 14, 2010 at 8:02 AM
- Misty said...
The Alot plushie is totally going to be created to decorate my desk and keep me smiling through the work day. Hehehehe.
- April 14, 2010 at 8:07 AM
Thank you for saving my life. It was either become amused with stupidity or give up coffee. And I like coffee. Alot.
- April 14, 2010 at 8:14 AM


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Odessa, Ukraine
To learn more about the city, please see the Wikipedia and Wikitravel articles.
Visa information
Citizens of most European countries do not need a visa to stay in Ukraine for less than 90 days. Check here if in doubt.
Also note that a visa is typically required for work-related visits. Since you may have a hard time explaining to officials that you've come to write software for free, you'd rather not mention this fact.
Getting there
Odessa International Airport (ODS) has daily direct connections from and to Kyiv, Vienna, Istanbul, Warsaw, Prague and Moscow.
Through these it is connected to the most of Europe with just one stop.
Getting around
How to find important places (venue, hotels)
Google map with important places
Check out our accommodation program.
You can also find a hotel yourself at the usual booking sites (e.g. booking.com, hostelworld.com).
Other local information
Some important information about Odessa
A leaflet with important information. Print it before you leave to Odessa.
The official hacking hours are 10am to 8pm on Friday, 9am to 8pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Please come before 11am on Friday. At 11am there will be projects introduction and discussion.
We'll go out for lunch at about 2pm each day. The main choices for lunch are:
- Zharyu-Paryu (Жарю-Парю)
- Uspenskaya, 28 (Успенская, 28)
- A canteen. Relatively cheap — you can have lunch for about 35 UAH (3 EUR).
- Gallo Cafe
- Troitskaya, 26 (Троицкая, 26)
- A bit more expensive. You can have a set meal for 67 UAH (6 EUR) or order from the menu.
Every evening after hacking we go to a pub (this is completely optional, of course).
There also will be a pre-party on Thursday evening, for those of you who arrive in Odessa by Thursday.
Location: Troubadour cafe (Zhukovskogo, 13) (map)
Time: 19.00
See the list of attendees
See the projects page.
IRC, Twitter
The main communication channel during the Hackathon will be our IRC channel: #odhac at Freenode.
#odhac is our Twitter hashtag as well.
Please add links to your photos and blog posts about OdHac here!
Blog posts
Cabal Hacking at OdHac by Dominic Steinitz
For any questions or emergencies, you can always call Roman at +380-66-228-57-80 or send an email to email@example.com.


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Community Development District Meetings
The Board of Supervisors of the Del Webb Bexley Community Development District (the "District") will hold its regular meetings at the Del Webb Bexley Clubhouse, 19265 Del Webb Bexley Blvd., Land O' Lakes, FL 34638
The meetings are open to the public and will be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Florida Law for Community Development Districts.
Pursuant to provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this meeting is asked to advise the District Office at (813) 994-1001, at least 48 hours before the meeting. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the Florida Relay Service at 1(800) 955-8770, who can aid you in contacting the District Office.
A person who decides to appeal any decision made by the Board with respect to any matter considered at the meeting is advised that this same person will need a record of the proceedings and that accordingly, the person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, including the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.
More About the Meetings
The first section of the meeting is called Audience Comments. The Audience Comments portion of the agenda is when individuals may comment on matters that concern the District. Each individual is limited to three (3) minutes for such comment. Neither the Board of Supervisors nor Staff is obligated to provide a response until sufficient time for research or action is warranted. IF THE COMMENT CONCERNS A MAINTENANCE RELATED ITEM, THE ITEM WILL NEED TO BE ADDRESSED BY THE DISTRICT MANAGER OUTSIDE THE CONTEXT OF THIS MEETING.
The second section is called Business Administration. The Business Administration section contains items that require the review and approval of the District Board of Supervisors as a normal course of business.
The third section is called Business Items. The business items section contains items for approval by the District Board of Supervisors that may require discussion, motion and votes on an item-by-item basis. Occasionally, certain items for decision within this section are required by Florida Statute to be held as a Public Hearing. During the Public Hearing portion of the agenda item, each member of the public will be permitted to provide one comment on the issue, prior to the Board of Supervisors' discussion, motion and vote. Agendas can be reviewed by contacting the Manager's office at (813) 994-1001 at least seven days in advance of the scheduled meeting. Requests to place items on the agenda must be submitted in writing with an explanation to the District Manager at least fourteen (14) days prior to the date of the meeting.
The fourth section is called Staff Reports. This section allows the District Manager, Engineer, and Attorney to update the Board of Supervisors on any pending issues that are being researched for Board action.
The final section is called Supervisor Requests. This is the section in which the Supervisors may request Staff to prepare certain items in an effort to meet residential needs.
Public workshop sessions may be advertised and held in an effort to provide informational services. These sessions allow staff or consultants to discuss a policy or business matter in a more informal manner and allow for lengthy presentations prior to scheduling the item for approval. Typically, no motions or votes are made during these sessions.