Janice Heck

“Rumor had it that Professor Jerkwad had a history of holding classes in bars and using the school's senior class as harvesting grounds for a long string of wives who never seemed to stay married to him past age twenty-eight. Rumor also had it that a few years later he was canned from his job mid some rather unpleasant allegations, but we journalists can't succumb to rumor and conjecture when nonspecific innuendo is so much more titillating.”
― June Casagrande, Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite

“I hope that, by this point, you're feeling a little less intimidated by the meanies, because I've got some bad news: Meanies come in many forms, not just human. They can be not only animal, but also mineral. In rare cases, they can even be vegetable, but we can talk about William F. Buckley some other time.”
― June Casagrande, Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite

“This chapter is dedicated to those other delights of punctuation--exquisite little squiggles, those most delightful dots and dashes, and other tragically under-appreciated tiny tidbits!

Nah. I'm just yankin' your chain.”
― June Casagrande, Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite

“For Whom the Snob Trolls”
― June Casagrande, Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite