If I were* prescient…

Or even, “If I had been…”

But yeah, seriously. National coverage and linkage.

Ha ha! I was just thinking that, too.

Do you really look at ads, though? I find my eye skips over them. I noticed the Evermore ad on I Can Has Cheezburger, and my first thought was “Smart move, high traffic here,” but when I was scrolling past the ads sandwiched between the pictures with no registration of the products in question (and actually mild annoyance because I am so lazy, all that extra scrolling is a chore), I realized the book cover caught my eye only because I recognized it in the first place.

(This is no doubt an oversimplification, but as it was explained to me in my younger years, “was” is for things that are possible, “were” is for things that are impossible. The sticky part for me always seems to be that “possible” is often in the eye of the beholder.)

If I were. My Mom drilled it into my head.

My grandmother and her Girl Scout cronies had a decades-long joke about Hiawatha. They used to type up minutes to their meetings in the rhyme and meter of Hiawatha. She used to putter around the kitchen developing shopping lists in the meter of Hiawatha.

And now Hiawatha rears its bizarre head? I’m going to need copious amounts of liquor to deal with this.

The Susans have it. It’s “If I were” — trust me. I’m an ex-copyeditor.

And yes, if we all had that vision, wouldn’t it have been sweet?

You got it right. And, I totally agree about the Smart Bitches ad. Wish I had one there right about now. While Kerry is probably right that not everyone looks at (or cares about) the ad, if some of the 10 million visitors do then that’s a good use of promo dollars.

You’re right. What’s hard for me, with my knee-jerk tendency to correct, correct, correct, is to remember when it’s dialogue, it has to be the way the character would say it. I’d have a jamoke from Joisey using the proper subjunctive. Heh.