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Terry wrote
most of this, at the direction of Lance editor Larry Deck. There was
this folk singer (who I'll refer to as Stev* Benete*u because the article
does but I should stress this is in no way an accurate representation of
his name, the folk singer's name might be Roger Taylor for all anyone
knows) who would play at my mother's Second Cup downtown on the weekends.
Stev* Benete*u used to come into Larry's brother's bookstore (South Shore
Books), order these expensive books on acting, and then not pick them up.
He was eventually asked not to patronize South Shore
anymore.
Larry felt
forcing a man to patronize only mall bookstores for the rest of his natural
life was not sufficient punishment. Larry envisioned one night the patrons
of the Second Cup, feeling Stev* Benete*u had butchered "Cinnamon
Girl" once too often, would rise up and give out punishment in kind.
The patrons of the Second Cup would disembowel Stev* Benete*u.
Hmmm typo in
the article. "On the agenda was a discuss of the
recession…" That should probably read "discussion of the
recession". Or maybe this typo was intentional! Yeah yeah! Feature not
a bug. At some point the Globe decided it didn't need so many proof
readers as it now had spell checking software. Lots of mistakes started
appearing in the Globe, mistakes
that would be normally caught by a proof reader but not a spell checker
began appearing. It was all too much for Canada's grammar Hitlers.
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