(SIC!)

One of my coworkers just reported a quote from CNN, referring to Michael Xue. ABC (er, Australian Broadcasting Company, not the US's ABC) said:

Xue was captured in the town of Chamblee, Georgia this morning after local Chinese-American residents of an apartment block overpowered him and tied him up with his own trousers.

But CNN said "he was found bound and tied."

Jim was fit to be (bound and) tied.

But, unfortunately for Jim, that collocation is all over the Internet, even though if you think about it it doesn't make much sense. Which was Jim's problem. He even looked over at the tv (he was, of course, at the Giant Wall O' TVs) that had the closed captioning running and was disappointed to see "bound and tied" there, too.

Which led us to wonder how long you'd last if you were doing the CC feed and started putting in (sic) as needed?

Well, we laughed like crazy. Maybe you had to be here. Maybe we are. Crazy, I mean.