Comments on: “We don’t want to have an academic in our apartment community.”

By: Oh Rocky!

Oh Rocky! — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:38:32 +0000

Talking of great lovers, yes, I’d like an academic epidemic – to upgrade my satanic mechanic. Thanks.

By: Tah

Tah — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:57:28 +0000

I have a misunderstanding how to get a contract with bedbugs; I admit it. I didn’t even know one could do such a thing.
Also, I do agree that Smarty-pants is a global problem.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:18:48 +0000

I’ve met plenty of people named ‘Garry’.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:39:35 +0000

I see seven. There are a couple of missing commas.

By: wiseass

wiseass — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:43:30 +0000

I thought the first ‘academic’ reference actually stood for ‘endemic’…

By: tangelo

tangelo — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 02:15:56 +0000

The academic-epidemic mistake made me laugh, but I don’t think it harms his credibility. Spelling and grammar just seem to escape some people, and a few mistakes don’t really reflect on his competency as a landlord.

He’s not writing a research paper or putting out an advertisement for his complex; if his tenants have the time to nitpick his spelling in a memo, they have the time to read the damn pamphlet and join him in his preemptive strike against the academic.

By: Mrs. Beasley2

Mrs. Beasley2 — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:09:37 +0000

Remember, there is always “a rat” in “separate.”

By: shwo!

shwo! — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:55:06 +0000

(sadly burns He-Man Grammarians Club card)

By: CLB

CLB — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:32:57 +0000

Let us hope the apartment community is not afflicted by a bed bug academic; because clearly there is a stupid epidemic happening there now, and I think Garry might be the carrier, he is most certainly a host! BTW, LOVE the pic!

By: Neeners

Neeners — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:27:42 +0000

I prefer to keep my bedbugs ignorant, they are easier to control and cheaper to raise. I can’t even afford to put my kids through college on my salary let alone my bedbugs. They will just have to apply for a Pell grant, student loans and work in the summer if they want to be academics that bad like I did. I’m sorry guys… I can’t go in on books either, your on your own.

By: kermit

kermit — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:19:21 +0000

Isabelle, while I would otherwise agree with you, landlords who spend their money and time on bedbug pamphlets instead of spending their money on eradicating the bedbugs are the problem.

When quite hard up, I lived in a furnished boarding house and soon enough bed bugs started to come out. (I had no idea what they were before this and I assumed that I was getting bitten by mosquitoes). The landlord refused to get rid of the mattresses (where the bed bugs were) and just had a guy come and occasionally spray the place. Evidently it was more cost effective to just look like he was doing something, instead of buying new mattresses, not the used ones from the junk shop he was buying. Needless to say, this drove me bananas enough to chuck out the mattresses and sleep on the floor.

By: kermit

kermit — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:11:48 +0000

Dane, maybe he spells it with two ‘r’s on purpose, to let people know he’s ornery and rreally angrry

By: Poltergeist

Poltergeist — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:58:53 +0000

If you’re going to get proactive, at least learn the correct terminology.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:39:02 +0000

Kathryn, that’s what I thought the note meant, too. I didn’t get the mistake until the second “academic”! I thought it was going to be the landlord blaming academics for bringing bedbugs from campus or something.