First assignment for Clevernick

[Clevernick]

Thanks, Rhabbi!

Hey can you be a Rabbi and a Grammar Nazi at the same time? Isn't that a conflict of interest?

Oy vey.

P.S. I shall strive to "omit needless words", as Strunk told White.

"Omit needless words!"
Said Strunk to White.
"You're right,"
Said White,
"That's nice
Advice.
But Strunk,
You're drunk
With words --
Two-thirds
Of those
You chose
For that
Fiat
Would fill
The bill!

Would not
The thought
-- The core --
Be more
Succinct
If shrinked
(Or shrunk)?"

Said Strunk:
"Good grief!
I'm brief
(I thought)
P'raps not ...
Dear me!
Let's see ...
Okay!
Just say
'Write tight!'
No fat
in that!"

"Quite right!"
Said White,
"Er -- I mean 'Quite!'
Or, simply, 'Right!' "

--Maurice Sagoff