Can't the copy desk be moderately prescriptivist and remove the numbers because they are, in fact, confusing rather than clarifying?

I woke up feeling miserable today, not (just) letharthic, phlegmatic or achey. Full of human misery. What a way to start the day. I'm sure it will only get worse. I can probably make that happen.

The need for lists and ranked lists is indicative of the failure of people as a whole. Not just individuals, but the whole species. Intolerance for ambiguity is a cancer of the will and imagination. It is sad, infuriating and not unexpected that the Sun has taken the lead in this march into self-slavery.

No one mourns the death of a sheep. If anything, they resent it for not being a lamb. Maybe the Sun should change it's motto to Lite for All.

The more you stoop, the more stoopid you get.
– Lionel Tringle

If the decree states they must have numbers, couldn't you just number all of them 1 (or 10 for that matter)?

It's a great idea, but I don't get to do the numbers. EL

Tis very sad that management continues to miss wonderful selling opportunities for the paper. Had they moved to a very narrow width paper, rolled it on a cardboard sleeve, we could unroll it, read the paper , then roll it back up and use it for other purposes at home!

Numbers are technology. Technology enslaves us. People who need numbers want to be numbers. Once you're a number you can't become anymore. Being without becoming makes you non-beings.

We're Number 1!

Poor OMG. Do you think a pink Disney Princess Magic Wand and a Morrissey CD collection might help brighten your day?

Yp, that is an unholy combo! Love it!

EdG,
It would have to be softer paper.

Not so unholy a combo as you might think.

And what's with Latinos going crazy fopr Morrissey. What's not an intuitive leap.
http://www.believermag.com/exclusives/?read=article_veltman

I think I might be beyond Morrissey if that's possible. A good punch in the face would brighten my day. I am afeared that I will take this misery show on the road and subject the italic environs to my serotonin starved synapses. Ah there's always plenty of tourists in Little Italy to badger and then they can tell their friends back home about the mental patient they met in Baltimore.

Regarding Morrisey, perhaps as the Latinos become wealthier, they have reached the threshold on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs whereby they can start feeling sorry for themselves.

Congratulations on your economic success, you have now have the luxury of being sullen and despondent.

No more "Oye Como Va" from now on its "Girlfriend in a Coma" Now that's progress.

Your Latino music reference is about 30 years out of date, but I like your point about sullenness being a luxury good.

30 years out of date but still a great turn of the word. I like it RoCK!

Everything about me is 30 years out of date. Yesterday I was wearing an Adam Smith necktie and a pair of Sperry Top-Siders with no socks.

As to Latin music, it was only through Google that I was able to drop an Oye Como Va reference. The only thing remotely Latin in my music library is a Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass album that's on vinyl.

RoCK - I just read last week that Sperrys are back in style again

The only problem I have with "Oye Como Va" is that I always mentally translate it as "Hear ye, [Perry] Como is going".

Herb Alpert? Yikes. I can't say that I'm up on the latest Latino music either. Elvis Crespo? Ruben Blades? That's kind of dated.

Be who you are RoCK, pop that collar and tie your salmon-colored sweater around your shoulders and order me a Madras too. >8>)

I admit it. I like Herb Alpert. I also like Sergio Mendes and I LOVE Burt Bacharach (especially his old stuff). But I also listen to alternative, rock, soul, blues and opera (sometimes, a little). I even sometimes appreciate some top 40 stuff and like one of Brittany Spears new songs ( I know!). No one can say I'm not open minded though.

Joyce, this one is for you.

Thanks Bucky! Although, that particular song will always be part of Casino Royale (with Peter Sellers) in my mind