Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:19:04 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Best Dramatic... Not
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> omni at omniphile.com 9/2/2005 3:54:49 PM >>>
>At 02:12 PM 9/2/05 -0400, Michael Walsh wrote:
>>CNN.com reviews "A Sound of Thunder".... oh my
>>
>>It begins:
>>
>>"That sound you hear while watching "A Sound of Thunder" is
>actually
>>audience members thundering toward the exits in an effort to get
>away
>>from this ghastly film."
>>
><http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/02/review.thunder
>/index.html>
>
>Sounds pretty bad...so does this bit from early in the review:
>
>     ..."A Sound of Thunder" has sat on a shelf at Warner Bros. ...
>
>Is it just me, or is there something wrong with the grammar there?
>"has sat"??

How about "squatted on a shelf"....?

mjw