The car salesmen advised me to get into a more affordable car based off my income, but I really wanted the Range Rover so I went the checkway and drove off the lot with it.
The law states, "Whenever anyone tries to correct another's spelling, grammar, or punctuation online, he invariably screws up his own."
An example of Checkoway's law in action:
A: The woman that sings in the band is great.
B: You mean "The woman _who_ sings in the band is great." Learn some english grammer!!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)