The "Career Couch" column in the November 4 New York Times, written by Eilene Zimmerman, deals with the interruptions of e-mail, and has this innocuous snippet:
Some workers maintain that they can work simultaneously on e-mail and other tasks. But in fact, "our brains aren't able to do two things at one time," said Kathleen Nadeau, a business coach and clinical psychologist who specializes in attention deficit disorder and time management.
At least, it was innocuous until I edited it, and then the second sentence became:
But in fact, "our brains aren't able to do two things at one time," said Kathleen Nadeau, a (a) business coach and (b) clinical psychologist, who specializes in (i) attention deficit disorder and (ii) time management.
When I made that slight emendation, the sentence struck me as hilariously funny, but then, almost anything amuses me.
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