He's only cute if he can spell.

I know I'm meant to be a nerd and all, but I can't study all the time. So today I took a few hours out of my homework time to hang out with my glasses-wearing friend, Becky. Despite carrying some of the markings of being a nerd, she is also a bit blonde, which means she must be a slut. This unique combination of attributes means that she is good at stalking hot guys on MySpace. We were checking out the profile of a male acquaintance of hers, and were undecided on whether he was hot or not. After much umming and erring, we finally came to the conclusion that yes, he is kind of hot. What was the deciding factor?

His spelling and grammar, of course.

His photo captions were in impeccable English with apostrophes and full stops where they are meant to be. The only exception that could be taken was in one of his captions, he attempted to use ellipses, but had four dots instead of the conventional three. Still, that's close enough.

One of the most annoying things about the Internet (as much as I love it) is that far too many people who use it just can't write properly. While it can be really funny to laugh at the things that people inadvertently say, nerds will only take others seriously if they can spell. Failing that, they better know the first 50 digits of pi, or be able to say LOL in binary, like i can (010011000100111101001100).