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"We have received reports that a firearm has been discharged on the 10th floor of 750 building, 3rd Avenue in New York. If you are in a safe location, remain where you are. Get behind a locked door, or hide behind some type of obstruction. Lay down on the floor, and remain as quite as possible. Evacuate the facility only if you deem this safe or necessary." Don't worry, Conde Nasties: that crazy email you all just got? It was just a drill.
But should I still remain quite?
Definitively.
Yes, after you've laid down on the floor.
Hope they proof their magazines better than they do their false alarm notes.
They used to, but all the false-alarm-note copyeditors have been laid (or is it lied?) off.
Hey scrooge, the past participle of "lie" is "lain." But kudos for pointing out the problem; it's widespread. Not too long ago I heard Charlie Rose say, "The treasury secretary says challenges lay ahead." But maybe that's just how they teach people to talk at Duke University.
Hey scrooge, the past participle of "lie" is "lain."
Hey, JD, that was kind of my point!
I see. You weren't correcting the problem you were sort of quoting it.
If you're in the mood to defend readers from further lie/lay problems, please see the WSJ article linked to in "Willi Dorner's Wall Street Dance Project."
This is fun.
A drill?! Then I deem it necessary to evacuate for the day.
And by "evacuate," you mean bowels, right?
That's so much better than the false alerts we get for left-over sandwiches after meetings.