Making Light:  Open thread 155 ::: March 29, 2011, 08:41 PM

Xopher @747 -- I don't think the word 'as' is missing.  The way it
looks to me, she took the grammatically correct "D&K watched Gino
place more coffees...." and shoved 'hypnotically' in.  She's trying
to modify 'watched', but doesn't know that English doesn't allow an
adverb there.  And of course, she's got hypnotic watching backwards;
if a cobra watches you hypnotically you're the one getting charmed.

Sandy B. @748 -- Thanks.  I had thought of that, but I can't see her
telling her opponents to take their ball home.  After considering it,
I'm beginning to think it's a mistake for 'bull' as in 'logical error'
or 'prattle'.  Perhaps there's an ESL issue; I think 'ball' and 'bull'
are more similar in some other languages.