Welcome Center
Categories
- *grammar posts (37)
- *Silly stuff (signs, news, pics) (164)
- *writing (36)
- Amazing (8)
- Fun stuff (153)
- Greenwood SC (1)
- Interesting stuff (63)
- Life (101)
- Media (5)
- music (23)
- news/media blogs (3)
- quizzes/polls (5)
- Thoughts (80)
Rob’s Tweets
- RT @gwdcal: Greenwood County Sees Dramatic Growth in Economic Investments greenwoodcalendar.com/greenwood-coun… 11 months ago
- RT @gwdcal: Countybank’s Jimmy Fowler Promoted to Anderson Market Executive greenwoodcalendar.com/countybanks-ji… 11 months ago
- RT @gwdcal: Leaders of the Lakelands: Eric Delgado Named City Administrator in Laurens greenwoodcalendar.com/leaders-of-the… 11 months ago
- RT @gwdcal: Sled Dawg Brewery Coming Soon to Greenwood youtube.com/watch?v=LGNLQF… greenwoodcalendar.com/sled-dawg-brew… 11 months ago
- RT @gwdcal: Emerald Ink and Stiches and Axe Throwing Coming Soon to Uptown Greenwood youtube.com/watch?v=M5nY5_… greenwoodcalendar.com/eis-and-axe/ 11 months ago
*Rob's Quizzes
*Writing blogs
Humor/Witty blogs
- *Paul’s Funky Stuff
- – The Curious Life . . .
- 4ever7
- Amy Oops
- Cutewriting
- Fun & Useless Trivia
- Funny offbeat news
- Kuntham
- Left-Handed Complement
- Me, myself, and JC
- Mindsights
- My Happiness Haven
- Outside my brain again
- Pounding heart
- Random Ramblings
- riffdraft
- Rob\’s Megaphone
- Shadow’s far-out corner
- Sleeping Kitten – Dancing Dog
- Smiling with daisy
- The Best 80s Music
- The Swell Guy
- Write and Picture this
news/media blogs
Rob's deep links post
Rob's research
Rob's Writing posts
Grammar Group
Join the Gang!-
Recent Posts
- Effective Practices For Getting Readers To Return To Your Blog
- A Minute with the Mayor: Greenwoodian attempts World Record for Burpees | Greenwood Calendar
- Zombie’s Out and About in Greenwood
- Media: Big Business or Fourth Estate
- Enjoy popcorn without all that hassle
- Gravity? BUSTED!
- Blogging: Keep ’em coming back for more!
- (no title)
- Dr. Rob Retro Show – Special Edition
- Rob’s Selected Silly Stuff
- When the children cry let them know we tried
- Court takes “Supreme” too literally
- Wok this way
- Do something nice for yourself today
- I’m Ba-ack
Unknown Feed- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
-
-
-
-
Meta
Top Posts
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Just for today, let’s embrace the cliché – word game
A cliché and is an expression that at its birth was both original and clever. But clever expressions spread like wildfire (I couldn’t resist that one!), and over the passage of time such expressions become trite and overused. Readers often see clichés as signs of laziness and/or lack of creativity. http://robsmegaphone.com/2008/02/21/layers-of-revision/
But just for today, let’s embrace the cliché.
Continue reading
News goofs: Know bodie sed copie edatin wuz eazey
News goofs: Know bodie sed copie edatin wuz eazey Continue reading
Posted in *Silly stuff (signs, news, pics)
Tagged copyeditings, errors, funny, headlines, mistakes, news, newspapers, silly
3 Comments
Welcome Lander
The Forum Online , Lander University’s online student newspaper started a new project today called LU BLOG-O-RAMA. I am happy to join my pal Paul Crutcher in welcoming you. Rob’s Megaphone, “where laughter, fun, and writing intersect,” started March 5, … Continue reading
Posted in *Silly stuff (signs, news, pics)
1 Comment
Eight Interesting Words
How many words are in your vocabulary? The average high school graduate is said to know about 10,000 words. The average 4-year college graduate is said to know about 20,000 words. Do you have room for any more words in … Continue reading
Posted in *grammar posts, *writing, Interesting stuff
Tagged interesting, odd, Vocabulary, words
5 Comments
Forget MTV Cribs. Check out LU Cribs
A couple of my students from Lander University borrowed from MTV Cribs and created LU Cribs for our Forum Online student news website. Continue reading
News got you down? Check out these headlines.
: : : : : : : : : : :
My StumbleUpon Page
Doctor Rob's Megaphone 