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Content Dear Editor,<br/> <br/> I was just curious if the billy-goat eating an <span style="font-weight: bold;">ECPHORIZER</span> with Andy Fish on the cover is a political statement from the new editor? I mean, we've had ol' Andy and his fishy friends around for lo! these 28 issues and then Crunch! you let Hank eat him like some poor tuna. It's like <span style="font-style: italic;">Playboy</span> showing a beagle with the Bunny in its mouth, or (horrors!) T<span style="font-style: italic;">he New Yorker</span>'s Eustace Tilley - you know, the man with the high, stiff collar and top hat - being replaced in favor of Caroline Kennedy!<br/> <br/> Please don't sink the Fish! Or I'll forget to run the mailing labels next month!<br/> <br/> <div style="margin-left: 360px;">Tod Wicks <br/> Mailing Label printer<br/> Palo Alto<br/> </div> <br/> <br/> [line width="40%"]Dear Editor,<br/> <br/> I just received issue No. 29 and devoured it - but in a different way from Hank, the "cover goat"!<br/> <br/> I did find a grammatical error, which brings me - as a member-in-good-standing of SOTS¹ - to the point of this letter. On the inside back cover², the <a href="https://www.ecphorizer.com/EPS/site_page.php?issue=43&page=689">note covering contributor Gareth Penn </a>begins with a dangling modifier, the results of which are somewhat humorous.<br/> <br/> The culprit clause modifies not George Towner but Mr. Penn in the sentence, "With the apparent aim of broadening his intellectual horizons, GARETH PENN. . . sent our ex-editor a subscription to Ducks Unlimited..."<br/> <br/> This unintended(?) slip has not detracted from my enjoyment of your fine magazine. <br/> <br/> <div style="margin-left: 360px;">Very Truly Yours,<br/> Willard D. Ross<br/> </div> <br/> <span style="font-style: italic;"> 1.  SOTS = Save Our Tongue Society - An informal group of Mensans and others who debate and attempt to correct improper English usage.  A Google search returned a variety of hits, mainly briefly referencing the group within a Mensa context.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"/> <br style="font-style: italic;"/><span style="font-style: italic;"> 2.  In the original print version of </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Ecphorizer</span><span style="font-style: italic;">, the inside back cover was where the editors listed the current issue's contributors.  With the </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ecphorizer Online</span><span style="font-style: italic;">, these entries are placed in the "About" section of each article.  In the particular instance noted above, I also had a problem with the construction that Willard Ross points out.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"/><br style="font-style: italic;"/> <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">-Tod</span><br style="font-style: italic;"/><span style="font-style: italic;">April 2007</span></div>

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