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Justin Bieber Turns Himself Into Toronto Police

This is currently trending according to my Facebook page, and I see why! How did he turn himself into a police officer? That's like magic!

Oh...he turned himself in to the Toronto Police. Because he's an asshole and he assaulted someone. Hm. That's much less magical.

I think I'm about done with this

Being an editor, I deal with stupid people and stupid mistakes all day long. It's kind of my thing. But sometimes it gets to me, like when I have a five-page interview that looks like it was transcribed by a deaf person. Here's my friendly advice to the transcriptionist on this one:

Into

Here's a funny example I came across while editing this week:


If any of our readers have any specific questions they can send them into us.


See the problem? Apparently we're taking our questions and sending them literally inside of these people. Perhaps we are supposed to communicate telepathically? Or perhaps "questions" is some sort of either food or sexual reference that I don't understand? That's all possible, I guess, but it's probably not what they mean. What they're trying to say is: