Several weeks ago, I purchased a daily calendar that displays excerpts from the book Eats, Shoots and Leaves. The book focuses on the importance of being grammatically correct. I loved it because it made me feel sane--like someone else in the world understood the frustration I feel when I find 10 errors in an article on msnbc.com or on the PowerPoint slides of our annual corporate kickoff meeting. (Or, wait, is it kick-off? Or perhaps it's kick off. If you're not sure, just use all three spellings on different slides, and maybe no one but Mandy and her fellow anal coworker will notice that you obviously don't own a dictionary or employ a proofreader.)
P.S. To my corporate employer: I'm also well aware that when used as slang, "to kick off" means "to die." I'm on to you.
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