I shoulda been a copy editor

So today, my company asked me to go over our new menu with a "fine-toothed comb." I think they are going to live to regret it. I'm sorry, but regular people -- civilians -- people who have not worked inside a newspaper -- just don't have the same eye for "clean copy."

OMG. This menu that has supposedly been worked-over for months is riddled with errors. Mind you, it is meant to go to the printers tomorrow and my boss just asked me off-hand this afternoon if I would take a look. This thing has missing hyphens and willy-nilly capitalization. Little phrases that pop out of nowhere into the food descriptions and are supposed to sound spontaneous and fun, but really just sound dumb. Wrong spellings like "arrugula." Argh! If my anal self didn't get so much warped satisfaction out of correcting this disaster of a menu, I might actually be angry.

Here is a pdf of my report back to my boss listing the mistakes I found in the 6 pages of this menu, just so one can appreciate the magnitude of the problems without actually having to read the gory details.